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I Tricked a God

Mortykay

D26/100
Born with a soul mutation desired even by the Gods — perfect memory — Kael could recall every word, every book, yet not a single drop of mana. Mockery, beatings, a ruined family, and a desperate deal with the God of Knowledge and Madness condemned him to centuries of slavery in the endless Divine Library. Seven hundred years of torment turned him into a vessel of knowledge. Then hatred — and the stolen Canon of Primordial Void — gave him a chance. Kael escaped back into his fifteen-year-old body, months before tragedy struck. Now he carries not only memory, but the knowledge of countless worlds. His goals: protect his family, hide from the gaze of the Gods, walk the path of power once denied to him — and take revenge against the God who enslaved him.
Royal Road4.41· 366
Anti-heroComedyCultivationGenius MCGrimdarkHarem+9

The God of Death Just Wants to Quit?!

Fallen Pages

D26/100
Nerez no longer remembers the name he had as an ordinary human on Earth. A literal date with the Goddess of Fate condemned him to wander the sea of souls through a thousand different lives. All he wants now is to escape the endless cycle of reincarnation and enjoy one peaceful last life. But just when freedom seemed within reach, he finds himself in the midst of a divine battle royale for a newborn world. Can the nascent god of death find peace and tranquility in immortality, or will his new domain, servants, and ever-troublesome mortals make his life impossible? And the looming shadow of the one who cursed him still lingers — though perhaps the Goddess of Fate had plans of her own all along.
Royal Road4.48· 355
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCraftingGameLitGenius MC+6

Sovereign of Wrath

MadMaxine

D25/100
On the cusp of realizing how to be herself, a young woman's life ends in tragedy. Reborn as a demon, she hopes that answers, revenge, and closure await her at the end of her journey home. Along the way, she will learn the truth behind her death and of the greater conspiracy she may now have the power to stop. After all, Zarenna isn't your typical demon.
Royal Road4.40· 360
Anti-heroGrimdarkLGBTQ+Non-human MCReincarnationSecondary World

Designated Love Interest

Kleo Erili

D25/100
Jacob Williams has only one rule: stay out of trouble. Breaking it once to save a bullied classmate from drowning costs them both their lives. Jacob awakens not as a shining hero, but as Shaelith — a violet-skinned, pointy-eared elven noblewoman and daughter of a ruthless matriarch who rules a house of assassins and mushroom sorcery. For twenty years, Shaelith learns to survive in this underground world of brutal matriarchal scheming. She masters sorcery, survives assassination attempts, and becomes one of the most powerful diplomats of her generation — until she is kidnapped by goblins and rescued by an obnoxiously loud hero obsessed with quests and XP, who has decided she is his designated love interest. Shaelith has absolutely no interest in that. An asymmetrical LitRPG where the protagonist wields wit, magic, and politics rather than an overpowered stat sheet — while the clueless hero's system grows around her.
Royal Road4.52· 159
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyGameLitGrimdarkIsekai+5

Academy of Grinding

TheHaoboSpatula

D25/100
Numbers are everything. In a meritocratic school, 100,000 students from across the galaxy compete to reach the top of the ranks — a competition to become humanity's strongest warrior. The TAG System, designed like an idle mobile game, seems deceptively simple. But someone needs to beat the Most Important Special Exam For The Future Of Humanity — and the path to the top is anything but.
Royal Road4.07· 374
Anti-heroGameLitGenius MCLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+4

Demonic City Builder

Cattacomb

F24/100
He filed 101 support tickets. The System turned him into a demon. Kairon is a system clerk who finally gets his own city charter. He does what any good bureaucrat would: reads the entire Terms of Service, finds a loophole, and exploits it. Unfortunately, doing so calls down a pillar of hellfire that roasts him, his villagers, and everything within a league. Now he's a demon with ten confused imps, a giant tower with a floating eyeball, and a rudimentary system that tears buildings through rends in reality — while a theocratic empire prepares to hunt him down.
Royal Road4.51· 248
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyGenius MCLitRPGNon-human MC+3

Death's Disciple

TT.Reynolds

F23/100
Sometimes it's the villain who has to be the hero. As Dungeons begin to open across Earth, Adam Pierce survives by facing blood, brutality, and murder — and he walks out of the Tutorial as the disciple of Death itself. When it's discovered that these Dungeons are handing immense power to anyone ruthless enough to take it, Adam sees the catastrophe before anyone else: humanity is greedy and weak, and without something to unite the species, it will kill itself. So Adam decides he will unite the world himself, by becoming the Villain of the System Apocalypse. It means he is hated — but humanity thrives while he wades through betrayal and murder. Because something far worse than the Dungeons is on its way, and Earth will need to be ready.
Royal Road4.51· 155Goodreads4.32· 57
Anti-heroDungeon CrawlingLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSystem Apocalypse+1

Magic Breaker

Kernoel77

F22/100
The only thing Snow loves more than magic is taking it apart. When the Tower begins integrating Earth, humanity is granted inherent skills. Snow's [Suppression] can weaken anyone and anything, and combined with an anti-magic class and a near-limitless mana pool, it won't matter how strong, fast, or skilled an enemy is. Before the Tower fully integrates, Snow needs to find four specific people. After that, they will climb — all the way to the top. The arrogant gods watching from the Tower's peak need to be torn from their thrones, and Snow is ready to break them.
Royal Road4.27· 342
Anti-heroLGBTQ+LitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSci-fi+5

Titan Online

Steven Kelliher

F22/100
Karna was just like any other comic book fan, and in Titan Online — the most popular VR MMORPG going — he finally got to live out his cape-donning fantasies. That is, until the game's number one "hero" killed him: a man who serves only himself in a constant grind for money, fame, and adoration. Forced to start from scratch, Karna finds a new mission: bringing balance back to Titan Online. With a strange new power and unlikely allies, he hatches a plan to save the game and get a little revenge. When the heroes can't be trusted, it's up to the villains to save the virtual world.
Goodreads4.14· 474
Anti-heroLitRPGSuperpowersVRMMO

Six Souls

Milc

F22/100
Ray was a professional killer, bound by a code that kept him sharp, careful, and alive. When a mission goes wrong, he awakens in a brutal new world where survival means taking lives and growing stronger with every soul consumed. Among six exiles from Earth, only one can return home — and five must die. Ray needs to get back to settle a score, so the other earthlings are out of luck. Empire-building, conquest, and survival in a Dark Souls-inspired world where the system arrives early and mercy arrives never.
Royal Road4.49· 228
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPG+3

Villainess of Tangled Tragedies

Pope Pug

F21/100
After a late-night drive ended her life, a woman wakes inside the first webnovel she ever mocked. In "Tower of the End," Celestia von Reingarde was nothing more than a petty villainess — a spoiled noble girl remembered only for bullying someone until the hero arrived. One humiliation, and she faded away so the harem could bloom. Except now she has become Celestia. She planned to slip quietly into the background and let the story run its course — until a system warning made that impossible: [Warning! Existence will be erased when Story Relevance reaches 0/100.] Obscurity means death. To survive, Celestia must become relevant.
Royal Road4.34· 324
Anti-heroBase BuildingIsekaiLitRPGSchoolSecondary World+2

Drip-Fed

Funatic

F21/100
A slime randomly falls into existence. Sapient and born with the ability to recreate parts of the things it preys upon, the highly confused drop of primordial soup decides that the only real thing it can do is become the being at the top of the food chain.
Royal Road4.26· 325
Anti-heroGameLitHaremNon-human MCSkill CollectionSoft Magic+1

S.P.E.C.T.O.R

Sweeper

F21/100
Adam was having a great time camping in the woods with his girlfriend until they were suddenly attacked. His girlfriend was shot; he was thrown from a cliff. Unconscious and near death, an android appeared and brought him aboard a spaceship called Spector, which healed him. Now Spector wants him as its operator so they can leave Earth — but first, Adam needs to settle the grudge against those who attacked him. Armed with advanced technology, Adam hunts them down before heading out to explore the universe — all while being forced to livestream to the entire cosmos.
Royal Road4.33· 318
Anti-heroCozyHaremMilitaryOverpowered MCSci-fi+3

Blighted: A Plague Rat's Tale

Notsae

F21/100
Waking up as a reviled vector of plague, a nihilistic, power-hungry sociopath attempts to free themselves from the shackles of mortality and time. In a world racked with war, crime, and unfocused violence — partially fueled by a system that encourages random acts of senseless violence — one little rat seeks to murder his way to the top of the food chain. Betrayal, mass murder, war, a curse from the dead gods, unfettered magical experimentation, slavery, rampaging monsters, and a raging holy war have rendered this world a violent hellhole: perfect for a violent opportunist to thrive in.
Royal Road4.46· 301
Anti-heroGameLitGenius MCGoreGrimdarkHorror+6

Henchman

Carl Stubblefield

F20/100
Gus is a Henchman — content with his mid-level role on an orbiting space base and under no illusions about the dangers of getting too ambitious around Supervillain bosses. His father pulled strings to land him the job. Then the base is destroyed and Gus is hurled toward the planet below, surviving only because of a damaged escape pod and the sudden awakening of his own latent powers. Stranded on a deserted island and inexplicably hunted, Gus has to stop being a minion and start being the master of his own story. As some would say — he's no longer just a Henchman. He might be a Villain now.
Goodreads4.03· 464
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedySci-fiSuperpowersWeak to Strong

This Necromancer Raised Civilization Instead Of The Dead

Bimbanana

F20/100
In a world of magic and dragons, humanity's greatest hope is the Summoned Heroes. The Church of the Goddess, the only institution capable of performing the summoning ritual, made a catalogue — different tiers, different classes, different budgets. Because even the poor deserve their own personal hero. Unfortunately, one budget-conscious kingdom got Theo: a professional séance scammer and a necromancer who couldn't control the dead. So they threw him away. What no one knows is that Theo can summon the dead — but his System only lets him call souls from Earth. From Archimedes to Nikola Tesla, Julius Caesar to George Patton, Leonardo da Vinci to Steve Jobs. Men who shaped civilizations, now answering to a scammer. A kingdom forged from Earth's greatest minds to devour other kingdoms — and perhaps even the Goddess herself. There is just one problem: right next door lies the Demon Kingdom, and it has been waiting.
Royal Road4.48· 184
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCraftingGameLitGenius MC+11

Demonic Conqueror

KamikazePotato

F20/100
Simon wants change. Reform. Revolution. He'd do anything to achieve it. His opportunity comes when a god visits Earth, calling for a champion to be sent to the dying world of Valtia — seeking a paragon of true heroism. Instead, they get Simon, who fools the god into transmigrating him over. On Earth, he lacked the power and influence to change things. Here, he may be starting weak — but he's got plenty of room to grow stronger. Simon is going to rescue the people of Valtia and save their world. Whether they want him to or not.
pf8.0· 1Royal Road4.47· 266
Anti-heroIsekaiLitRPGSecondary WorldTransmigrationWeak to Strong

Goth Mommy, Bone Daddy: Life's a lich, Then you die

ReignyDaze

F19/100
Modivar, the last light of salvation, had done it. He reached max level and saved the world. All it cost him was everything he had ever known and loved. Now he is cursed — he broke his oath, and that oath is killing him. So instead of living out his days as a hero, he chose to go as far away as possible and spend whatever time he has left as nothing more than a simple potion seller. He found a village with no name, no buildings that weren't run down. At his wit's end, at the end of his life, he didn't expect to find Belladonna. He didn't expect to find love. He didn't expect to find a reason to live on beyond death. What started as a prank gone horribly wrong turned into a love story that would last an unlifetime.
Royal Road4.26· 304
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyCraftingNon-human MC+4

Manaless Mage

FailedWriter101

F18/100
What would you do if every kill gave you ten times more EXP than it should? How fast would you grow compared to others? When the Apocalypse descends, humans are given a game-like System to fight back. It grants them supernatural Classes and summons them to the Land of Origins — a brutal world where they must hunt monsters, grow stronger, and evolve their Classes to protect humanity from ever-growing threats. Ren awakens the Mage Class and with it inherits a legendary legacy long dormant within him. But completing his First Class Evolution means surviving a deadly zone filled with undiscovered monsters and stopping an alien invasion that could bring about the end of humanity.
Royal Road4.38· 283
Anti-heroGameLitIsekaiLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+5

Revenant's Revenge

Andrew Karevik

F17/100
A nobleman killed a peasant without a second thought just to test a new blade. The injustice was so immense that the victim's soul could not pass on — and so he returned as a Revenant, bound to a dark deity and able to grow his powers by accumulating Discordance shards. His goal: build an Undead Kingdom and make Eris Lanyer suffer every indignity he endured in life before destroying him entirely.
Goodreads4.12· 297
Anti-heroBase BuildingGrimdarkNon-human MCSecondary WorldSummoning+1