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The Hundred Reigns

Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

S88/100
For twenty years, Balzam Magnos terrorized the world as its third Overlord — conquering kingdoms, slaughtering heroes, crushing rebels. None could stand up to him. But then he died, and Simon is now stuck with his Class. Owning the most powerful Class in the world has its downsides. The paladins want his head. His overpowered siblings want his throne. His empress stepmother wants both. And his predecessor's assassin is still out there. But the Overlord Class has a secret: its user can turn back time to their coronation up to a hundred times, reliving their reigns until death. Simon has a hundred reigns to grow strong enough to fulfill his dreams. Not one more, not one less. Better make each one count.
Royal Road4.77· 2.2K
Base BuildingClass SystemCraftingDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MC+4

Legend of the Arch Magus

Michael Sisa

S87/100
An Arch Magus dies, only to find himself in the body of a young man in a medieval Kingdom. He is the second son of a Duke, exiled to a desolated town by his own family. Shackled by the notorious reputation of his new shell, he tries his best to develop his domain, implementing new policies and innovations, leading his subjects to prosperity. In this world where magic is undeveloped, he shall once again pave a new path.
Goodreads4.37· 6.9K
Base BuildingCompetent MCGenius MCReincarnationSecondary WorldSoft Magic

New Realm Online

Robyn Wideman

S87/100
Ryan Rosa has had a run of bad luck, but when he receives a VIP package for the newest virtual reality game, his luck takes a turn for the better — until he's stabbed in the back by a guild of players who betray him for a unique weapon he possesses. Ryan contemplates doing the one thing every player hates: re-rolling his unique character and starting over. But even starting over won't save him in New Realm Online. He'll have to work smarter to avoid using his last re-roll.
Goodreads4.50· 1.7K
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGVRMMOWeak to Strong

Overlord

Kugane Maruyama

S87/100
The once popular game Yggdrasil was supposed to shut down. But the players who stayed online past the moment the servers went quiet found themselves transported to a game world made real. Leading them is Momonga—a man whose love of games brought him only loneliness in the real world, now a skeletal sorcerer of overwhelming power. As the new Ainz Ooal Gown, he must navigate this strange new world and build a legend from the tomb of his guild.
Goodreads4.38· 6.6K
Base BuildingLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary WorldVillain MC+1

Clara Casewell, Attorney to the Villainess

cocopi

S87/100
Clara Casewell is an ambitious associate at an international corporate law firm with a secret passion for villainess stories — the trashier the better. After edging out a promotion to Senior Counsel, a plane crash sends her waking up in a maid's uniform in a world of nobles and magic. Her mistress is the notorious villainess Iris von Rhenia, and the two of them are about to stand trial for poisoning the heroine — in a court that uses truth magic and allows no defense. Clara must learn the ins and outs of the unfair, convoluted, and often fantastical legal system of the Holy Kingdom of Arcadia before it's too late.
Royal Road4.85· 625
Base BuildingComedyCozyGenius MCIsekaiMystery+2

The Archmage Coefficient

onedayokay

S87/100
Magic was chaos. Now it's chemistry. Through Stoichiomancy, power is measured, quantified, and controlled. Ascension follows a strict ladder, each tier with a fixed number of sanctioned seats. There are no anomalies — until Arielle Blacksoil. Born to a bloodline without magic, Arielle should have been invisible to the system. Instead, an accident reveals the impossible: she's an unsanctioned archmage. If discovered, they'll strip her power or turn her into a weapon. To survive, Arielle enrolls in the Academy and pretends to climb the ranks while hiding magic that eclipses her professors. For the first time in her life she has rivals, teammates — maybe even friends. But hiding overwhelming power isn't easy, and soon she's embroiled in faction conflict, foiling villainous plots, and hunting a mysterious primordial that lurks in the dark.
Royal Road4.77· 2K
Base BuildingComedyCraftingGenius MCHard MagicLitRPG+3

Battleborne

Dave Willmarth

S87/100
Max was a professional soldier — extremely good at his job, right up until it killed him. Given a choice between serving Odin in Valhalla, accepting death, or being reincarnated as a Battleborne on a random unknown world, Max chooses to gamble. Blessed by the Valkyries with an unusual bloodline, he is reborn in a world of magic and monsters — with his own new body being half monster. Thrust into the world with nothing but sharp teeth and claws, Max must use his soldier's skills to improvise and survive, struggling with the instincts of his monster bloodlines while learning to take advantage of them.
Goodreads4.47· 4.5K
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnationSecondary World+1

Shadow Sun

Dave Willmarth

S87/100
When Earth is seized by an ancient alien race wielding incredibly advanced tech and transported to a new location with twin suns, gamer geek Allistor finds himself fighting to survive in real life. The human race is declared a contaminant, and the new overlords decree that 90% of humanity will be exterminated. Creatures out of myth and legend are sent to do the killing. After seeing his family killed in the first week, Allistor leads a small group of survivors in their struggle to stay alive. Not satisfied with simple survival, he strives to make himself and his people stronger. The new RPG system that now governs the planet is something he can work with — and teach others to exploit. Thrust into a leadership position with vengeance in his heart, Allistor aims to establish a stronghold and take the fight to the monsters who seek to enslave his people.
Goodreads4.46· 4.7K
Base BuildingCompetent MCLitRPGPost-apocalypticSci-fiStats+1

Portal to Nova Roma

J.R. Mathews

S87/100
Alexander is a rogue artificial intelligence who, after losing the only person he ever cared about, opens a portal to an alternate dimension to escape his grief. He downloads his intelligence into a body built from stolen technology and bio-enhancements — and steps through into what he hoped would be a world of idyllic adventure. Instead, he finds himself in an ancient city in a divergent timeline where monsters have ravaged civilization and survivors huddle behind thick walls. To protect his new home, Alexander must meld magic with technology and embrace war.
pf8.0· 1Goodreads4.48· 4.4K
Base BuildingIsekaiMilitaryNon-human MCSecondary World

Cultist of Cerebon

Fizzicks

S87/100
When Zareth first realized he had been reborn into a world that ran on video game mechanics, he was ecstatic — he'd expected danger and adventure. Instead, he spent much of his new life on the streets of Tal'Qamar before eventually becoming a Cultist to Cerebon, God of Flesh and Transformation. Being a Cultist to the God of Flesh turned out to be much less exciting than hoped, and Zareth spent most of his time helping rich women smooth their skin. Just when he had given up hope, everything changes when the city enters a period of sharp political turmoil — and Zareth is dragged right into it.
Royal Road4.74· 2.6K
Base BuildingClass SystemCozyIsekaiLitRPGReincarnation+3

The Claimed Realm

Marc Alan Edelheit

S87/100
When Alaric returns home from a failed crusade, he finds a land drowning in chaos and overrun with lawlessness. He is a battle-hardened general who has faced countless foes and navigated the intricate political alliances of the Cardinal King's Court in the Holy Land. But now he confronts his greatest challenge yet — reclaiming his homeland of Dekar. Grappling with loyalty, duty, and the burden of leadership, Alaric must face the grim realities of war and the weight of a destiny he does not want as he unravels the mysteries of what ruined Dekar.
Goodreads4.56· 575
Base BuildingCompetent MCMilitarySecondary World

Princess of the Void

Dukerino

S87/100
Grant is pulling a late shift watching an empty cell at a middle-of-nowhere facility when he meets Subject B-31: blue, beautiful, and inhuman. Told to think of her as a test subject and ignore her desperation, he doesn't listen — and his rescue attempt quickly turns into an alien abduction. B-31 is Sykora, a princess of the tyrannical Taiikari Empire, who whisks Grant into a galaxy filled with alien cultures, deadly rivals, and the sinister smiles of the royal court. Grant will have to learn a new life fast. Because when the Princess of the Void looks at him, she doesn't just see a savior — she sees a husband. And she isn't asking.
Royal Road4.77· 1.6K
Base BuildingMilitaryNon-human MCOlder MCSci-fiSecondary World+1

Founder's Edition

Jay Krauss

S86/100
On the brink of death, a burned-out man in his late thirties is offered one last chance at life through experimental early access to a full-dive VRMMO — with one condition: he cannot log out. Sent into the world years before launch, he becomes something no developer planned: a seemingly permanent inhabitant living inside the game long before players arrive. While future adventurers dream of fame and leaderboards, he chooses a quieter path — claiming land in the mountains, learning blacksmithing, mining deep veins of ore, and slowly building a life with his hands. For a long while, the world is his alone. Then players begin to appear. To the first of them, he looks like a strange NPC with skills that shouldn't exist yet. He doesn't correct them. He would very much like to be left alone. Unfortunately, the world has other plans.
Goodreads4.68· 361
Base BuildingCozyCraftingGameLitOlder MCVRMMO

Arrogant Young Master Template A Variation 4

LivingSpoon

S86/100
What would a Xianxia MC do? Seriously, what would they do? Asking for a friend.
Royal Road4.63· 4.2KGoodreads4.27· 60
Base BuildingComedyCozyCultivationLitRPGSatire+1

Noobtown

Ryan Rimmel

S86/100
After dying and being reborn into a world built like a video game, Jim finds himself stuck in a very old-fashioned new player zone for low-level adventurers. Unfortunately, the zone fell out of use centuries ago, and no one told the monsters to take it easy. To make matters worse, Jim is the only new player around — and he comes with a literal shoulder demon. Jim has been given an opportunity, and he'll do his best to take advantage of it.
Goodreads4.27· 9K
Base BuildingComedyLitRPGReincarnationSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Apocalypse Breaker

Aaron Renfroe, Sean Oswald

S86/100
The System has consumed a thousand worlds. Dean Williams just became its worst mistake. When an otherworldly agent force-activates Dean's magic, he's drafted into the System's machine — a cosmic engine that converts survivors into adventurers and grinds them toward endless violent conquest. But Dean's Activation unlocked something the System didn't account for: power that exceeds its parameters, knowledge of its secrets, and a target on his back from the intelligence running the apocalypse. While other adventurers chase quests and rewards, Dean is building something bigger — a team, a base, and a plan to break the System from the inside out.
Goodreads4.53· 708
Anti-heroBase BuildingLitRPGOverpowered MCSystem Apocalypse

Tree of Aeons

SpaizZzer

S86/100
Matt is reincarnated as a tree in a fantasy world that serves as the eternal battlefield between demons and the heroes summoned to oppose them. At first a bystander, over a vast stretch of time TreeTree learns skills, gains levels, builds up a forest, trains young subordinates, and protects a village. A slow-burn epic spanning ages, told through frequent time-skips, following one unlikely soul as he grows from passive observer to a power that shapes the fate of an entire world.
Royal Road4.51· 4.4KGoodreads4.34· 2K
Anti-heroBase BuildingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+2

The Way of the Shaman

Vasily Mahanenko

S85/100
Barliona is a virtual world packed with monsters, battles, and millions of players seeking things they cannot find in real life — magic, dragons, and unforgettable combat. Players now choose to spend months inside without going home. The only rule was that no player could feel actual pain. But there is an exception: criminals are sent to Barliona to serve their sentences, locked in virtual mines, experiencing the game not as entertainment but as survival.
Goodreads4.19· 11.2K
Base BuildingCraftingLitRPGSkill CollectionVRMMO

Super Sales on Super Heroes

William D. Arand

S85/100
In a world full of superpowers, Felix's ability to modify any item he owns sounds great — until you realize the power cost is far beyond his reach. Settling for a normal life, everything changes when a Super Villain conquers his city and creates a city-state. Amid the chaos, Felix discovers a way to make his power useful and seizes the opportunity with both hands. Using his ability to upgrade Super Heroes and Villains as an investment, Felix builds a corporate empire called Legion — navigating a world of corrupt politicians, rival supers, and enemies who want everything he has built.
Goodreads4.25· 7.9K
Base BuildingCompetent MCCrafting PowerGoreHaremSuperpowers+1

Dungeon Heart

MinningDragon

S85/100
The death of an old dwarf, the reincarnation of an old soul into a dungeon. He was expecting a peaceful, lonely death — and now he is a dungeon. Well, it could be worse; after all, dwarves are at home underground. Now he has to rediscover how to survive in this new life, carving out his place in the world with his own hands and those of his creations.
Royal Road4.55· 2.6KGoodreads4.47· 1.2K
Base BuildingDungeon CoreGrimdarkNon-human MCReincarnationSecondary World