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Level Up

Dan Sugralinov

B70/100
At thirty years old, Phil is an unemployed gamer struggling to make ends meet. On the day his wife dumps him, he receives a mysterious piece of wetware — a game interface implanted in his brain that allows him to see the world through the eyes of an RPG player. Now that Phil can see his real-life stats, they're far below average. But real-life stats can be leveled up just like virtual ones. As Phil begins to improve himself guided by his own conscience, he must also find out who implanted the mysterious game in his brain — and how he's supposed to deal with an apparently omnipotent unknown force.
Goodreads4.21· 2.3K
GameLitLitRPGStatsUrban FantasyWeak to Strong

Bone Knight

Tim Paulson

B70/100
Max's coworkers treat him like garbage and his manager is a fool. It might be worth it if he made any money, but he doesn't. Confronted out of the blue by a cackling demonic entity from another world, Max doesn't take it seriously — so when he's yanked into that world by his bones, he's given every disadvantage the demon can dish out. When Max finds he's fallen into an old RPG game his dad played on the NES in the 90s, he's immediately given two quests: find the imprisoned girl with the green eyes, and survive. He's not sure which one's worse.
Goodreads4.44· 510
ComedyGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGStatsWeak to Strong

Underkeeper

Hankthemoose

B70/100
Bernt might have graduated from the Mage Academy, but not everyone has the money or connections to launch a prestigious career as a mage. A few years later, Bernt finds himself working for City Maintenance as an Underkeeper among the other rejects of Halfbridge's magery. But hey, it's a stable job. With the help of his unlicensed, unregistered soul-devouring demonic familiar, he'll save enough to launch his career as an adventurer — just as soon as he can afford some proper gear. If only there were a faster way. Adventure, it turns out, has a habit of finding him first.
Royal Road4.67· 885Goodreads4.33· 704
Class SystemCompetent MCDungeon CrawlingGenius MCHard MagicSecondary World+2

The Gods Game

Rohan M. Vider

B70/100
A game played between gods — where the playing field is the world itself and the pieces are living beings. Accidentally summoned from Earth to the world of Myelad, Kyran becomes embroiled in a thousand-year war between the gods. Trapped in Crota, an abandoned city haunted by the undead and infested with monsters, Kyran must use his wits and magic alone to become a Player that even the gods would learn to fear.
Goodreads4.29· 2K
GameLitGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

System Misinterpret

Ryan DeBruyn

B70/100
An Apocalypse changed human biology and granted new powers, but came with no instructions — so everyone created their own. Born over a century after "The Rise," Jeff scavenges with his tyrannical mother for survival, banned from cultivating freely. His one objective is to join the immortal rankers climbing the Northern Tower. On the day of his escape, a guild attack throws him through a dungeon portal that hasn't been used in nearly a hundred years. In pursuit of his ultimate goal, Jeff must navigate mountains of misinformation, choose between Church, guild, or going it alone, while predators come from every direction.
Goodreads4.42· 845
CultivationDungeon CrawlingLitRPGSystem ApocalypseTower ClimbingWeak to Strong

Flesh Eater: Demon Evolution

grisaille

B70/100
Reincarnating as a demonic lump of flesh would probably be a nasty shock to most people, but Pyre has always been good at rolling with the punches. Sure, something is blocking her soul and most of her memories, and the world she was reincarnated into is barely surviving off the blood of dead titans — but she is not worried. She is just here to level, devour, and get stronger. All of that has got nothing to do with her. Until it does.
Royal Road4.68· 657
Anti-heroLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MCReincarnationSecondary World+2

Qi=MC^2)

Krazekode

B70/100
Lu Jie woke up in a world filled with scheming sects, arrogant young masters, and the mad chase for the immortal heavens. He wanted none of it, and soon finds himself beaten bloody in a spar he didn't remember and treated as less than worthless. But his plan to escape the sect is interrupted by an old Alchemist's pills that heal him within moments. These medicines ignite the flame of curiosity to learn true magic in him, rekindling his love of discovery. Lu Jie sets out to study the immutable truths hidden within the world, and soon finds an all-new path of cultivation that could take him to the very top. Time to make some drugs... err... "alchemy pills."
Goodreads4.25· 2.1K
AlchemyCultivationMonster TamingWeak to Strong

Ascension of the Primalist

NB.Dravenlord

B70/100
Seth was just a commoner from the outskirts, someone who could only dream of the Wielders' world — a realm of Ranks, attributes, and spells forever beyond his reach. Until the day he awakened as a Primalist. To escape a life of misery, Seth enrolls in one of the nation's elite academies, only to find himself stepping into a society rotting with injustice. Equality of chances is a lie; power is inherited, not earned. Fortunately, his new class feeds on danger rather than privilege: the riskier the hunt, the greater the gain. To rise, Seth must abandon caution and seek fights where survival is never guaranteed — and become the strongest predator the wild has ever seen.
Royal Road4.63· 1.1K
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGMonster TamingOverpowered MCSchool+2

Absolute Mastery: From Servant to Sovereign

XKarnation

B69/100
He was the world's richest man — islands, armies, a fortune that could buy nations. Then he died and woke up in the brutal Star River Sect as a lowly servant with no Spirit Root, the cultivation world's equivalent of a death sentence. He is destined to be cannon fodder, or worse, a test subject for the sect's alchemy experiments. But fate left him one parting gift: a System called Absolute Mastery, where every repetition increases proficiency, ignoring talent and bottlenecks entirely. While geniuses meditate for years to gain a sliver of power, Kael just has to grind. They call him trash. He calls them XP.
Goodreads4.42· 810
CultivationHard MagicLitRPGReincarnationTransmigrationWeak to Strong

Apocalypse Cultivation

Blaise Corvin

B69/100
Post-Apocalypse America is unrecognizable. Jake survives as the leader of a scavenging adventuring team — a former mage who now follows the strange path of cultivation, taught to him by a mysterious traveler. As far as he knows, he is one of the only people on Earth with this power. Events will unfold that change Jake's life forever. He might even lose his very humanity while trying to do the right thing — but in return, perhaps he will grasp a second chance to save himself and others, to correct the past. He is about to be caught up in something much greater than himself. Will he be consumed by the machinations of greater powers? No matter how terrible the odds, Jake doesn't give up.
Goodreads4.40· 1.6K
CultivationGameLitLitRPGPost-apocalypticSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

Reincarnated in a Shounen Manga

CasualBear

B69/100
Power of friendship? Getting stronger when enraged? A powerful monster sealed inside you by your father? That wasn't me. I was the arrogant youngster who got punched in the first panels of the shounen manga I was reading. I wouldn't have even remembered his name — if I wasn't stuck in his body.
Royal Road4.57· 1.3K
ComedyGenius MCIsekaiMysteryReincarnationSatire+5

The Broken Knife

SilverSidhe

B69/100
Kaz is a kobold, just trying to survive, grow, and protect his tribe. His efforts are about to become complicated: dragons are nesting in a cave nearby, and humans are seeking an ancient secret in his mountain with potentially deadly consequences. Join Kaz as he discovers what magic and cultivation are, gets up close and personal with a dragon of his own, and delves deep into the mountain to find secrets — and a freedom he never dared to hope for.
Royal Road4.68· 616
CultivationDungeon CrawlingNon-human MCSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

The Eternal Assassin

Wizardly Dude

B69/100
Summoned to another world by an ancient lich, Asher — a mortician's apprentice — finds himself held captive by the dead. Deciding not to stay, he uses his newfound dimensional abilities to escape, stealing centuries' worth of illegal magical experimentation on his way out. In a world where resurrection magic makes death a mere suggestion for the upper class, Asher discovers his stolen power can ensure anything that dies by his hand stays dead permanently. A lot of very powerful people find this upsetting — an ancient cabal of liches, a noble order of truthseekers, and the kingdom's assassin's guild all want that power for themselves. Most won't stop until they have it, unless Asher can get to them first.
Royal Road4.51· 1.4K
Anti-heroCozyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MC+3

Saltworld: An Apocalypse LitRPG

Dissonance

B69/100
August 18, 2018. Earth is at peace. Then the sun explodes, and the world changes forever. Sen Salazar, a third-year student in Dubai, is thrust into a world where only monsters are found aplenty. Resources are dwindling, survivors are scarce, and safety is nowhere to be found. Combined with an otherworldly system designed to bring out humanity's hidden potential, Sen has watched enough movies to know what to do: survive. He just has to figure out how to stop himself from turning into one of the monsters first.
Royal Road4.66· 1.1KGoodreads4.40· 5
CozyLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy+1

Elsewhere

Jack Fields

B69/100
Andy "Duke" Ellington was an exceptional fighter pilot who always pushed too hard — until the end finally came for him. Then he was Elsewhere: a completely different world where magic and stats were his new reality, with no support and only a marginal clue. Imprisoned Archmages, corrupt rulers, mysterious forces from beyond, and ancient dungeons all want a piece of him. He's happy to take them all on — and show everyone what happens when you mess with the Duke.
Goodreads4.45· 303
Base BuildingCompetent MCDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiSci-fi+2

Ashen Realm

S.D. McKittrick

B69/100
All Ole wanted was to become an adventurer like his brother and build a life with his childhood sweetheart. That dream shatters on his birthday when his unique skill is revealed and he is betrayed by the man who raised him, left for dead in the Ashen Realm — a dangerous world of portals and monsters that prey on humanity. With only a broken knife and scraps of food, Ole must fight to survive and unlock skills that shouldn't be possible. As he struggles, he discovers that the Ashen Realm is far more than humanity believes — deepening mysteries and a hidden world unfold around him. His goals are simple: return to his world, and kill the man who betrayed him.
Goodreads4.31· 1.8K
GrimdarkMonster TamingSecondary WorldSkill CollectionWeak to Strong

Path of Dragons

Nicholas Searcy

B69/100
Elijah Hart is dying — wracked by cancer and weakened by chemotherapy. When the mysterious World Tree extends its branches to Earth, his Seattle-bound flight crashes into the Pacific Ocean and a game-like system takes hold, reshaping humanity's future. Waking up on an island in the Pacific Northwest, Elijah finds himself suddenly gifted with magical powers and an innate connection to the natural world as a Druid — wielding Ethera and able to take on the forms of powerful beasts. The influx of magic has rendered most technology useless and thrown humankind back into a preindustrial age. With each trial he faces, Elijah becomes healthier, stronger, and more powerful. But will it be enough to save himself, let alone the world?
Goodreads4.42· 753
IsekaiLitRPGMonster TamingPost-apocalypticSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

Soulship

Nathan Thompson

B69/100
Jasper Cloud is the final non-person on Earth — the orphan son of the last two executed citizens in the Global Republic, struggling to survive in a world where old knowledge is now illegal. When a new light appears in the night sky, his only friend suddenly becomes a young woman with the power to undo the current reign of tyranny. But hidden enemies are already waiting for her and the living starship empowering her. Jasper slips through the cracks of their trap, empowered as well. If he is careful, he can refine his newfound strength, repair the damaged ship, and rescue the woman now determined to tear down the corrupt Republic with her bare hands.
Goodreads4.40· 1.4K
Base BuildingCompetent MCHard MagicSci-fiSecondary WorldSoft Magic+1

Echoes of the Tribulation

Carl Dehal

B69/100
The year is 1329, and the Horns of the Apocalypse are about to sound. In a small Scottish town, a young boy begins a journey from carpenter's apprentice to one of the most powerful forces in the Host of the Heavens. A path of adversity lies before him, spanning from the Scottish Borders to the Spanish Reconquista, the Holy Land, and realms beyond. His ascension is an unceasing trial where one misstep may condemn his soul — facing mythical beasts, hordes of demons, and fell beings created by the System for the Tribulation of Mankind. Will he live by the Words of God, be guided by his own intent, or will other forces claim him for their own ends?
Royal Road4.69· 392
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingGrimdarkLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MC+4

Master Hunter K

From Hell

B69/100
Without warning, humanity in its entirety was suddenly moved to another dimension. This new world, for all its gifts of wondrous abilities, was a stadium — a deadly arena of unimaginable scale. Every man, woman, and child was given a weapon and ordered to fight. Only two options existed: complete the many trials ahead, or perish. Billions of lives were extinguished in mere moments. But even within this abyss of despair, one small ray of hope existed: if even one person could complete every raid, humanity would be redeemed and restored. No save points, no revives, no retries. Within this marathon of death, one man becomes aware of an exception to the rules.
Goodreads4.32· 1.8K
IsekaiLitRPGRegressionStatsWeak to Strong