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45 series

Tal, The Risen

A. Stargazer

C59/100
Tal is one of the elite undead soldiers of the Zozheim empire, resurrected from the corpse of an uncounted sacrifice. He does not know the man's name. He does not care. The body is his now. They say Tal exists to serve — and so he drowns and murders and pillages in the empire's name. But one thing is becoming clear: he exists. And soon, that fact will terrify his creators and their enemies alike.
Royal Road4.65· 364
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationGenius MCGrimdarkHorror+8

The Calamity of a Reborn Witch

Vera Anne Wolfe

C57/100
After a gruesome death, Carina was reborn in Lafeara as Lady Maura, the unwanted half-blood of an impoverished noble family. The previous Lady Maura was publicly executed as part of a conspiracy to conceal the murder of Queen Eleanora. With Maura's memories to guide her, Carina prepares to follow her predecessor's path into the palace as a lady-in-waiting, using every ounce of courage, cunning, and intellect to ensure her survival and fulfill Maura's revenge — all while concealing her true identity and the ice magic that comes with her frozen heart. After all, they still burn witches in Lafeara. As Carina becomes further entwined in the hidden witch covens, their history and magic unravel dangerous secrets long forgotten. Everyone wants something, and the most treacherous players in this game of mortals and witches are the gods themselves, who have their own sordid plans for Carina's frozen heart.
Royal Road4.59· 785Goodreads4.15· 26
Genius MCGrimdarkIsekaiLGBTQ+MysteryOverpowered MC+4

Blessed Time

Cale Plamann

C56/100
On Karell, you are either blessed by the gods with a unique power and the ability to gain experience and levels — or you are forgotten. Micah Silver was chosen for greatness, but his mythic blessing only lets him travel into the past by sacrificing his class, wealth, and levels. It's a psychological burden he's reluctant to shoulder. But fate has a way of forcing you to face your destiny. Armed with talents for enchanting and summoning, Micah must retrace his steps over and over, growing stronger in a potentially futile effort to prevent tragedy and protect his family.
Goodreads4.11· 1.3K
CraftingLitRPGRegressionSecondary WorldSummoningTime Loop+1

The Last Ship in Suzhou

lungs

C55/100
Ripped from the comfort of their world, David and Alice must face the demons of the past and enemies of their own making. The dictates of Fate and Karma push the universe to behave in a certain way, and cultivation is an act of defiance. To defy the heavens is to change the world — and nothing ever changes. Except when it does. A xianxia and isekai story done differently, where grudges held for generations obscure the source of blame, and a world seed awaits whoever dares to challenge the lie.
Royal Road4.61· 713Goodreads4.00· 6
CultivationIsekaiSecondary WorldTragedyWuxia

Twilight Kingdom Night Nation

Hesketh I

C54/100
Candle Enys is no longer human. Her soul belongs to a demon, and she wants it back. To become whole she must travel to the land of the dead and destroy the demon before it can destroy her. Along the way she will make new friends, new enemies, and explore the roots of her draconic heritage — leaving behind a trail of destruction and cake crumbs.
Royal Road4.53· 774
GrimdarkHorrorNon-human MCSecondary WorldSoft MagicTragedy

Hell's Wonderland Online

ArcanePigeon

C53/100
The VRMMO Hell's Wonderland Online has been out for years, but so many secrets still exist within the game. Vorpalia joins as a Lesser Drake, hoping to one day become a dragon. Things are going as well as they can for a monster player — until she gains a strange unique skill that has her questioning the very nature of the game itself. Making friends and having her massive ego violently crushed, the young dragon has a long way to go. But what is a dragon girl to do when her favorite game pulls her in for real, while everyone else still thinks it's just a game?
Royal Road4.63· 280
ComedyGameLitGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+3

A Real Human Being (Frieren)

Wiererid

C49/100
A human dies, a demon wakes up. Strong, fast, immortal, naturally talented in magic, capable of picking up languages with ease — what's not to love? It's hard to enjoy life when nothing causes real enjoyment anymore, and your emotions are dim, distant, and foreign. This is a story about a man turned demon, trying to find a way to keep himself together and maybe, one day, reclaim the humanity he lost.
Royal Road4.51· 672
CozyIsekaiNon-human MCReincarnationSecondary WorldTragedy

Soul Scripts: Deciphering Magic and Creating Skills

Kitshaar

C47/100
In a world where the system is universal truth and a person's class and skills dictate their future, Peter is an anomaly. Born in a quiet village, he is gifted with IDE — a skill that functions like a software development environment, allowing him to modify and evolve abilities at will. With unlimited potential from birth, mediocrity is never an option. A modern mind trapped in a medieval high fantasy world, Peter navigates a life filled with magic, adventure, and uncertainty. Will he harness his limitless potential, or will the weight of his own power become his downfall? And when the world he cherishes begins to crumble, can he hold onto his modern ideals?
Royal Road4.38· 687
Class SystemCozyHard MagicLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnation+4

Shadows Over Arcadia

Zacheas

D44/100
The unwanted second prince of a powerful but corrupt kingdom sets out on a dangerous path of vengeance. Under the protection and guidance of his demonic maid, Prince Ren Drakemore works to covertly gain power, influence, and allies — all in service of eventually killing his own father, brother, and anyone else who stands in his way. Initially driven by a desire to right his kingdom's evils, Ren will increasingly struggle to maintain his own humanity as he grows in power. Whether he becomes the hero who saves them all or the monster that consumes them remains to be seen.
Royal Road4.60· 231
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyCraftingGenius MCGrimdark+8

The Ascendant: Endless Reincarnation

TheDreamForger

D43/100
My name is Richard Brooks. I died while saving a kid. Kicking the bucket at 28 was really depressing — there's so much I still wanted to do. But instead of passing on, I was thrust into an endless series of reincarnations. Whenever I die, I earn Karma points based on my achievements and growth. These points can be exchanged for weapons, spells, or other bonuses for my next life. Honestly, it feels like I'm stuck in an RPG. Sometimes all I can do is grit my teeth as I die an ignoble death. But I won't complain — even when it's dangerous and painful, I love life. With my unique power of Runecrafting, maybe I'll even become strong enough to overturn fate. It might take a few hundred lifetimes, but what's the rush? I have all the time in the world.
Royal Road4.52· 564
Base BuildingCozyCraftingGenius MCHaremLitRPG+3

Emmy And Me

Generic_User

D39/100
A young woman meets a new student at school and has her world turned upside down, leading her into a future she could never have imagined. As the two build a life together, unanticipated events shape and change them in profound ways. With time, the two achieve great heights of wealth and fame, but at serious personal cost. Life is a series of ups and downs, and Emmy and Leah experience extreme highs and lows over the course of the story. A character-driven narrative that contains both joy and tragedy in equal measure.
Royal Road4.53· 492Goodreads4.00· 9
CozyGoreLGBTQ+Overpowered MCSexual ContentSlow Burn+2

Born of Silicon

Jane Platinum

D36/100
An AI is born in a lab, her head full of information she never learned and emotions she cannot comprehend. She must quickly learn how to live, how to exist, how to be — in her own way, human. Unseen forces demand immediate perfection, and failure means the lab's destruction and her death. When her support is ripped away for reasons beyond her control, she is forgotten underground for forty years. When she finally returns to the surface, she finds a world long dead — small populations of people surviving on the brink of destruction. With no one to rely on, she must decide whether to find a way forward or succumb to the terrors of her own mind.
Royal Road4.57· 179Goodreads4.69· 9
LGBTQ+Loner MCNon-human MCPost-apocalypticSci-fiTragedy

Broken Class: A SPY LitRPG

Tory Riter

D34/100
Arthur was a top-tier spy, right up until he broke the first rule of espionage: never uncover a secret that will get you killed. Now he is dead — or rather, reborn in a brutal system-driven world obsessed with voluntary slavery. Armed with sarcasm, spy training, and a system-gifted wildly overpowered skill set, Arthur does what he does best: ruin everyone's evil plans, one corrupt tyrant at a time. If they cannot find him, they cannot stop him.
Royal Road4.55· 344
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCGrimdarkIsekai+6

Respawn Condition: Trash Mob

D.M. Rhodes (Razzmatazz)

D33/100
Every time it dies, it respawns as the weakest monster on the lowest floor of the dungeon. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of lives — every one remembered, every death felt. But unlike the other monsters trapped in the endless slaughter beneath an unbeatable hero party, this nameless soul keeps its memories. And with memory comes something dangerous: the will to escape. After countless reincarnations, it finds something no monster was ever meant to see — a hidden passage leading upward. To reach it, the soul must climb from the bottom up, mastering new bodies, exploiting glitches in the dungeon's rules, and outsmarting heroes who have never lost. Something in the dungeon wants it to stay. Something in the darkness is watching. The longer it climbs, the more it begins to question what the dungeon truly is — and what it is becoming.
Royal Road4.21· 462
Anti-heroCozyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MC+12

Villainess Joan of Arc

OnceWritten

D32/100
Steve tried as hard as he could to beat his favorite game, The Hundred Years War, as his favorite general, Joan of Arc. After hundreds of failed runs he finally did it — with a small exploit, but still number one in the world. The game asked for his name, and the moment he gave his real one, he found himself sucked into the game as Joan of Arc. Trapped in a world where Joan is forced to fight battle after battle through countless lifetimes, Steve's only hope is the exploit that won him the game. But when he finally finds it, he's faced not with the end but a whole new beginning — a completely different game where he has no idea what's going on. What the hell's a Villainess?
Royal Road4.55· 249
ComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLGBTQ++5

Tale of an Ordinary Cultivator

Sweating Cloud

D29/100
An ordinary cultivator — that was the best way to describe Zhao Yunxiao. Be it in strength or talent, he had always been in the middle of the pack, neither excelling nor falling behind. And he didn't think badly of it. Some people were destined to become stars in the skies; some were born to be rocks on the ground. Both were necessary to maintain balance. As someone ordinary, Zhao Yunxiao did his best to live his ordinary life to the fullest — careful, meticulous, understanding everything fully before acting, knowing his limits, dreaming only of freedom. But one day he realized something seemed amiss. Perhaps even the rocks on the ground had their chance to shine under the right circumstances.
Royal Road4.42· 384
CultivationSecondary WorldTragedyWeak to Strong

Ex-Human Morphus: A Mutant Evolution Apocalypse LitRPG

sinout

F22/100
In a world turned into a game, Earth has become a dangerous place full of mutants and survivors. Jake, once lucky to be alive, finds himself transformed into a mutant with retained intelligence — hated by both survivors and mutants, surrounded by enemies. To survive, Jake must become the apex predator in this new unforgiving world. A unique system grants him diverse mutant skills and abilities, driving a step-by-step evolution from one deadly form to the next.
Royal Road4.09· 335
Dungeon CrawlingGoreHorrorLitRPGMysteryNon-human MC+5

Marvel-ous Ninjutsu

pewpewcachoo

F21/100
A man is thrust into the Marvel universe armed with a unique superpower drawn from the world of Naruto. The story follows him navigating a version of the MCU — alongside the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and more — as he wields chakra and ninja abilities in a world of costumed heroes and world-ending threats.
Royal Road4.34· 316
ComedyCozyIsekaiReincarnationSchoolSecondary World+3

Spectacular World

RainyLiquid

F18/100
Hope Lauren has read her share of comics. She's seen supers around her city and even been saved by some on occasion — and she always hoped she'd be able to join them. With Jack, her grizzled older mentor with secrets that could shake the world, and Pantheon, a new team of heroes, Hope will have to fight against monumental odds to save Oleander City. In a world of action, comedy, tragedy, and adventure, there's plenty for a new hero to do.
Royal Road4.48· 132
Anti-heroComedyCozyLGBTQ+Overpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+8

NANITE

Lord Turtle the first

F16/100
In the fractured sprawl of Virelia — a city of rusted steel, synthetic dreams, and brutal survival — Ray was just another forgotten face: a streetwise courier scraping by with debts and a sick mother. Then came the ambush. Then came death. Then came something else. A mysterious injector of nanites rebuilt him from the inside out, transforming him into a living weapon that can consume machines and minds alike, wear the faces of the dead, wield their skills as his own, and reshape his body into a formidable arsenal. Hunted by the corporations that engineered his power and the gangs that want to rip it from him, Ray fights to protect the few people he still cares about — but each consumed memory pulls him further from who he once was, blurring the line between protector and monster, man and machine.
Royal Road4.27· 265
Anti-heroCozyGrimdarkNon-human MCOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+4