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Only Villains Do That

Webbonomicon

B74/100
While waiting on a train platform, rude and cranky musician Seiji found himself snatched up alongside a high schooler named Yoshi and transported to Ephemera, a world of magic and adventure. The good goddess Sanora chose Yoshi as her Hero. Her wicked sister Virya chose Seiji as her Dark Lord. Seiji has no interest in playing along — but Virya promises to make him beg for death if he refuses. Forced to make just enough progress toward world domination to keep his sadistic patron off his back, while avoiding going so far that he can't strike a deal with the forces of Good, Seiji walks a razor's edge. His true enemy was never the naive Hero from his own world. It was always the goddesses.
Royal Road4.54· 1.8KGoodreads4.26· 23
Anti-heroClass SystemComedyHaremIsekaiSecondary World+1

Broker

TheBroker

B74/100
The opening of Pandora's Box changed the world, giving rise to an age of superhumans and monsters. Yet mankind was not safe from its own hubris, and in the end, it destroyed itself. It's the end of the world — but Sonya Chernovna has been given a chance for a redo. Armed with her memories of the world to come and a deep hatred of the society that rose out of Pandora's Light, Sonya sets out to change the future. Even if it means becoming the most heinous villain that ever lived.
Royal Road4.57· 1.5K
Dungeon CrawlingGrimdarkOverpowered MCRegressionSci-fiSuperpowers+4

Hell Hound Evolution

Winter Knights

B74/100
She's a puppy. She's a girl. And she's going to evolve. Waking up one day in a litter of puppies, her human life a fading memory, she quickly falls into the flow of things — playing and hunting with her pack, taking naps, and leveling up. With five siblings who all have unique powers, a protective Dog Mom and three-headed Cerberus Dad, nothing seemed like it could go wrong. That is, until human hunters attack her family and kidnap her brothers and sisters. Now alone in a harsher world, she won't give up — she'll continue to level and evolve, and become powerful enough to take revenge and get her family back.
Royal Road4.70· 684
Anti-heroCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitGrimdarkIsekai+9

I'm the bad guy!?

Kenneth Arant

B73/100
A young man wakes up inside the body of a character from his favorite isekai anime — except not the hero. He's Aren Ulvani, the villain: a once-in-a-century prodigy, master Arcanist, blessed by the god of magic, commander of an empire, and fated to a tragic end. Armed only with his knowledge of anime tropes and the body of a twelve-year-old, he has to decide whether he can rewrite a story that seems determined to play out exactly as written.
Goodreads4.44· 865
Anti-heroIsekaiSoft MagicTransmigrationVillain MC

I Ran Away To Evil: Book 3 - A Cozy LitRPG RomCom

Mystic Neptune

B73/100
When she woke up in her favorite otome video game, she wasn't expecting to open the eyes of Gerda the NPC troll. Five long years of leveling up, dungeon delving, and treasure hunting — all to give everyone the happily ever after her favorite characters deserved. Season two is closing, and the final season is almost upon her. There are dragons in her future, and something even more terrifying: a lot of walking. Julian van Slyke has been guarding the border to the Untamed Ice Fields since his father died protecting their home twenty years ago. He is determined to conquer the dungeon his father couldn't — but now his home is threatened by Blackfog spies, and he keeps tripping on Gerda no matter where he turns.
Royal Road4.69· 732
ComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+2

Dork Tower

RavensDagger

B73/100
When an accident causes the early death of two young women, one is chosen to become a hero, a saviour, and a servant of the God of Heroes. This is not her story. This is the story of Valeria, whose soul clung to her friend's and was dragged into a new world where her wandering spirit was claimed by the Goddess of Darkness. One who doesn't belong grows to become the servant of the Dark Goddess — a servant, definitely not a daughter, who will usher in a new age of despair and disgust. The only problem is, she's really bad at the whole "evil" thing. Not that she's unwilling to do her best to please her adoptive mom, the Dark Goddess Luciana.
Royal Road4.65· 1.3KGoodreads4.11· 196
Anti-heroComedyCozyCultivationHaremIsekai+4

Lost and Found: An Episode from the Life and Times of a Serial Villainess

R.A. Scott

B73/100
Mira has a problem. No matter what world she transmigrates into, she always ends up as the villain. This time she wakes up as Violet Coventry, the infamous antagonist of a three-part dating sim game. In the original story, Violet allegedly bullied the sweet heroine Cecily Rousseau out of jealousy over her connection with Prince Andrei — who also happened to be Violet's fiancé — destroying her reputation and forcing her from school in disgrace. That's exactly the moment Mira arrives and inherits the entire mess: patchwork memories, a ruined reputation her host may not have deserved, an ex-fiancé who hates her, a mysterious illness no one knew about until it killed her host, and a love rival who turns out to be her secret long-lost sister. Fortunately, Mira has plenty of experience surviving in trope universes. Unfortunately, the third installment of the game wasn't released before she died, so she has no idea what the endgame holds.
Royal Road4.73· 280
Anti-heroIsekaiMysteryOverpowered MCReincarnationSchool+3

Villainess Of Crimson

Mangowo

B72/100
Elidranthia Shadowstep was everything you'd desire in a fictional villainess — her tongue as lethal as her concealed daggers, a connoisseur of chaos, a leader of assassins, and an unhinged lover of all things stabby. When an ordinary girl finds herself stuck in the stilettos of this bloodthirsty character from a novel, she's dead set on avoiding the gory trail. Sure, she's never hurt a fly before, but when your new body is a walking arsenal, keeping calm and carrying on gets a whole lot harder.
Royal Road4.74· 190
ComedyIsekaiLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MCSchool+3

REND: Prior Cycle (Old Version)

Temple

B72/100
Erind Hartwell is a first-year law student with psychopathic tendencies and an obsessive compulsion to follow an arbitrary set of Rules. She's content living a normal life in a world where superhumans battle eldritch horrors invading minds — as long as the world doesn't bother her. Unfortunately, the world couldn't help itself. On the brink of death, an entity offered her powers to survive. Left with no other choice, she accepted, changing into a new form — the first of many that will allow her to bother the world right back.
Royal Road4.56· 1.5K
Genius MCHorrorMysteryOverpowered MCSci-fiSecondary World+3

A Sinner's Eden

Andur

B71/100
The Earth of the future is united under a single government, but the powerful still rule the weak. Those who do not conform are exiled to another world — one that even future technology failed to tame. It should have been humanity's New World. Instead it became a penal colony, a place where the exiled are sent to die. The exiles' gene manipulation grants them something akin to superpowers, but that counts for little against the monsters of their new world. Survival depends on what the land provides, the scraps of failing old technology, and the fragile politics forming between rival clans.
Royal Road4.65· 1.2KGoodreads4.60· 5
Anti-heroGrimdarkPost-apocalypticSci-fiSecondary WorldSuperpowers+1

Thieves' Dungeon

NoDragons

B71/100
When a Dungeon Core acquires a taste for beautiful jewels, it sets out to become a criminal kingpin, operating from the sewers beneath the city.
Royal Road4.52· 1.5KGoodreads3.62· 8
Dungeon CoreNon-human MCSecondary WorldVillain MC

Ivil Antagonist

RavensDagger

B70/100
Ivil Antagonist has everything a woman could want: power enough to blot out suns and turn worlds to molten hells, a fleet of warships, and the fear of an entire space-faring nation. But she is quietly growing tired of being at the top. There is no lonelier place than the summit, especially when you have killed all of the competition. And so Ivil takes a great risk, asking a powerful oracle one simple question: where can I find true love? A Warhammer 40K-inspired romantic comedy featuring an overpowered villain protagonist, space pirates, and quite a lot of cute stuff.
Royal Road4.67· 934
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyHaremLGBTQ++5

Undead

NineKeys

B68/100
A man has been brought back to life for a fell purpose. He inhabits the body of a ghoul — a lesser undead being — and must kill and eat, both to accrue power for himself and to serve the purposes of the mysterious woman who summoned him.
Royal Road4.62· 1.1K
GoreGrimdarkHorrorLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnation+1

Annihilation Core

madisj

B68/100
dGhl-IHBy-b3Rh-Z29u-aXN0 was born for war, its entire species created and grown as sentient cybernetic weapons. While sentience in its home universe means little beyond intelligence, in others it means owning a soul — and a wandering soul can be a very dangerous thing, especially when it awakens as the controller of a dungeon core.
Royal Road4.68· 472
Dungeon CoreIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCSci-fiSecondary World+1

Supervillainy and Other Poor Career Choices

SoggyRedToast

B67/100
When a down-on-his-luck machine shop owner comes into possession of a rundown suit of power armor, he sees an opportunity to make some quick cash. Unfortunately, the world of Capes is not one you may enter and leave at will. What should have been a quick sale to pay off his debts quickly grows into an ongoing series of events that drag him deeper and deeper into the criminal underbelly of the city he calls home.
Royal Road4.60· 1.2KGoodreads4.01· 1.1K
Anti-heroComedySci-fiSuperpowersUrban FantasyVillain MC

Cruel Violet

Dreamer's Riot

B66/100
It's been centuries since the world fell to the mist and crystal, changing the flora, fauna, and the very air. Humanity slowly returns from mountain refuges, mastering crystals and the strange clarity they offer. Now, at age five, every child receives a crystal inlay ring that reveals their calling — a specific area of excellence and a unique method of growth. Everyone has a calling. Everyone but Violet. For eleven years she has been the only child with no calling, learning to adapt to the ridicule and pity with a carefully worn persona of warmth and kindness. Then she finds herself with blood on her hands — and finally understands how to feed her calling, and her appetite.
Royal Road4.68· 388
Anti-heroDungeon CoreGoreGrimdarkLitRPGOverpowered MC+6

Evil Overlord: The Makening

NotGodot

B66/100
If evil was easy, everybody would be doing it. But the road to Utter Domination is neither easy, smooth, nor straight — as the boy who will one day become Gar the Pitiless is about to discover.
Royal Road4.60· 1.1K
ComedySatireSecondary WorldVillain MC

How I Was Accidentally Summoned in a Cult as the Demon Princess

North Drake

B65/100
Lily Carter juggles lectures, convenience store night shifts, and a secret life as Lilithia Nocturne — a top-ranked demon princess in the VRMMORPG Xantia. Then a robbery, a gunshot, and blackout. She wakes on cold stone in a glowing blood circle, wearing Lilithia's regal armor and horns for real. A bargain-bin cult calling itself the Children of the Abyss summoned her on purpose — by accident. They wanted a real demoness, not a nerdy girl cosplaying one. They're incompetent, fanatical, and inconveniently the only people who don't want to burn a demon on sight. Lily plans to humor them, learn the world, and bail. Instead, rumors snowball, idiots congregate, and an accidental empire starts forming in her name.
Royal Road4.49· 1.2K
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+2

CyberGene

Sixbees2

B65/100
Every century, the MALswarm invades — adaptive aliens of blood and steel led by Titans that decimate billions and leave behind raw Warp Energy. Humanity seizes this power, transforming into beings of mutated flesh and cybernetic might. Yet the promised utopia remains a lie, and New California's underworld schemes to profit from the impending Fifth Swarm. Two destinies collide amidst the chaos. Ripley — a cybernetics savant battling to save his dying mother — operates in the shadows of a gang-owned nightclub. Diana, engineered for perfection, fights as an officer of the law to forget her past. When a monster is unleashed, they steal its infinite potential to warp their futures. In a city where salvation and damnation are inseparable, Ripley reinvents himself from the wreckage of his enemies' cybernetics as a mercenary, while Diana's mutated blood crackles with lightning as she purges corruption. Against a grand conspiracy of aliens, rogue AIs, shady corporations, and organized crime, their alliance — and conflict — determines if the world will plunge into darkness or embrace the light.
Royal Road4.66· 604
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyGenius MCGoreGrimdark+9

Fleabag

SomeoneToForget

B64/100
In the deepest reaches of the Bone Pits, a canine woke up in the ruined remains of a wooden box — with knowledge it shouldn't have, fleeting memories it couldn't reach, and the icy grasp of death crawling up its spine. It simply wished to live another day. In the industrial underbelly of Carmera, gangs, religious groups, Dungeon Barons, and cultists battle for supremacy — blind to what prowls below. In the writhing smog and murky sumps that none dare approach, in the deepest reaches of the dungeon, the last wolf rakes its claws through steel and howls to a distant sky.
Royal Road4.62· 1.1KGoodreads4.16· 474
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitGrimdarkHorrorLitRPGNon-human MC+3