pf
Filters
Status
Power system
Setting
Progression
Protagonist
Tone
Relationships
Content warnings
Drugs
Gore
Profanity
Sexual Content
Clear all filters

Browse

403 series

Kingdom of Iron: Tyrant's Fall

WanderingLeaf

F10/100
They say a good man cannot make a good king — but what if he isn't given a choice? Matthew Irons, a night security guard with two degrees and a dead-end life, stops a murder by force and is dragged onto the throne of a kingdom in another world. It's no fairy tale: he'll be ruling over would-be warlords, traitors, and slavers. The threats from his supposed allies are bad enough without the invasions, assassins, and — worst of all — bad city planning. Still, even as he fights to survive in a world full of danger, Matt is determined to drag his new kingdom into a new age, one where kings and despots are no longer needed — no matter who he has to fight to make it happen.
Royal Road4.12· 224
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCIsekaiMilitarySecondary World

Savage Utopia

Elliot Moors

F10/100
The Concord system was designed to give the worst criminals a second chance — ten peaceful Professions to guide the souls who arrive in Faerlon after death toward productive, harmonious lives under a goddess's wise guidance. It did not go as planned. An assassin anti-hero and a buff tomboy brawler navigate a world where a system built for peace is being exploited for brutal combat. Gritty action and tactical fights unfold across a slow-burn story with in-depth worldbuilding and a childhood-friend romance.
Royal Road4.36· 100
Anti-heroGenius MCGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGReincarnation+1

Rebirth of the Max-Level Vampire Sovereign

Amonzy

F9/100
For four years, Mark dominated Tower Defense: Age of Blood as the Max-Level Vampire Sovereign — level 500, master of the Crimson Ziggurat, ruler of an army of monstrous servants. Then the game ended. He woke up sitting on the throne. The fortress is real. The system still exists. His servants kneel before him as though nothing has changed. But a thousand years have passed, and the world beyond the Crimson Ziggurat no longer follows the rules he remembers. With an unknown world stretching beyond his desert stronghold, Mark must explore, adapt, and reclaim dominance in a reality that has moved on without him.
Royal Road4.33· 143
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyGameLitIsekai+5

The Lamp That No Longer Shines: A LitRPG Action Comedy

Broken_Bulb

F9/100
I was a game designer. Now I'm a Witch. Witches don't cast spells by candlelight and pray to the moon — they audit gods and harvest planets for fuel. They settle academic disputes at gunpoint, and the loser writes her rebuttal from the afterlife. Their idea of mercy is turning your civilization into a battery instead of fertilizer. The problem is, I'm the only one who arrived at this civilization with a corporate mindset. Everyone else is an immortal, overpowered genius who treats reality like a personal sandbox. Nobody here has needed documentation — or anyone like me — in two thousand years. I am trying, very politely, to bring version control to a species that considers chaos a design philosophy. But here's the thing about these arrogant, violent, impossible women: if I ever fall, they will burn a galaxy to bring me home. And for the first time in two lifetimes, that means something.
Royal Road4.31· 167
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyGameLitGenius MC+9

Eat Them All

Of Rantings and Ramblings

F9/100
Reggie was not an important person — quite the opposite. He was the town lunatic, hated by all and less than an afterthought to the elves ruling over his people. That changed when he was killed to keep a secret, and his death didn't stick. Returning from the grave as a vampire, he scrambles to stay fed and alive while making sense of his new place in the world. But the fear of dying again quickly becomes secondary. It will take all of Reggie's will to maintain his humanity in a world that already thinks he's lost it.
Royal Road4.32· 145
Anti-heroBase BuildingGrimdarkLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MC+4

Apocalypse Me

Noct

F8/100
He doesn't want to destroy the world. Problem is, he's an Apocalypse. Zeke and his friends are enjoying the city when suddenly, all of the apocalypses begin at once. Lucky — or unlucky — enough to be chosen as one of them himself, Zeke sets off to Devour his way to the top. It wouldn't be so bad, but his best friend is out to kill him, that rock has a gun, and everything has gone to hell. An LitRPG apocalypse that balances action, comedy, and pure chaos.
Goodreads4.00· 288
Anti-heroComedyLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSystem Apocalypse

World Apocalypse Dungeon Calamity

Andrew O'Kelley

F8/100
The end of humanity was marked by the appearance of the World Dungeon and the System of power it provided. No one gained more power than the tyrant known as the Black Seraph, the Angel of Genocide — who survived at the expense of the rest of humanity and completed the dungeon upon reaching the Altar of the End. A hollow victory. Cursed by the spirit of the dungeon for his ruthlessness, Seraph's power was sealed away and he was cast into the past, reincarnated into the body of his child-like self. Now forbidden from hoarding power and charged with ensuring humanity's survival, he must find a new path — and learn there's more to power than being a tyrant.
Goodreads3.99· 310
Anti-heroDungeon CrawlingLitRPGRegressionReincarnationSystem Apocalypse+1

Mimicmage

Lemur_Leylamin

F7/100
Lilieth Lasvenn, the twelfth member of the hero's party, was betrayed and murdered by the heroes themselves. Young, timid, and meek, she was an apprentice priestess who filled the ranks with little distinction — her only notable trait a perfect memory. When that very same party betrays and kills her, an inexplicable revival gives Lilieth something she didn't have before: an undying body and the ability to absorb the memories of others and copy their spells. She swears revenge, but to kill a hero is no simple task. As Lilieth learns to fight with her newfound abilities and grows stronger, she begins to realize the world is hiding secrets — buried memories that should never have been unearthed.
Royal Road4.29· 104
Anti-heroGoreGrimdarkLitRPGMysterySecondary World+2

Rule of Cool

Matthew Siege

F7/100
Raze is a lowly Gearblin chained to the quest-giver desk at the only arcade in town — a Non-Participating Citizen who can't see her stats or make opposed rolls against Heroes. The old-timers swear it didn't used to be like this, that their troubles only began once RNGesus went AFK a thousand years ago, leaving questionably-blessed Heroes to conquer everything without consequence. Raze is not about to let a millennium of injustice cramp her style. When a frustratingly optimistic dreamer talks her into using the Konami Code as a map to scale a suitably forbidden fortress, everything changes at the top. What follows is Raze and her mismatched crew doing their damnedest to burn the old ways down, squaring off against thousands of noob Heroes in epic, mechanized carnage.
Goodreads3.76· 313
Anti-heroComedyGameLitLitRPGNon-human MCSatire

The Winter Wizard II: Preparation

Eternal_Winter

F7/100
After returning to Gaia, Ethan must gather allies and levels to become as strong as possible. A war is approaching on the horizon — one that will encompass the entire world and shake the foundations of newly integrated humanity. Will he overcome his own weaknesses and become the leader he is destined to be, or will he fail and become just a small footnote in the grand scheme of the multiverse? For now there is just one thing he can do: get ready. Because Gaia now enters the time of preparation. Equipped with powerful ice magic and horrendous plagues, Ethan fights to forge a faction capable of surviving the coming conflict — in a merciless world where the strong survive and the weak perish.
Royal Road4.04· 186
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkHorrorLitRPG+3

World of Karik

Anton Emelianov

F6/100
Vasily survived a life-or-death game arranged by a mysterious creature — but instead of returning to Earth, he finds himself in another world alongside others who passed the same deadly test. Some survived through force, others through cunning. The one thing they have in common: none of them are good people. Karik operates like a game — leveling, resurrection, growing power — but if you trust the wrong person, the death is permanent. Vasily must conceal a dangerous secret while navigating a world built entirely on deception.
Goodreads3.88· 301
Anti-heroGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGSecondary World

Extra's Mantle: Wait, What Do You Mean I Shouldn't Exist?!

NekoSama#9999

F6/100
In the beloved novel "Mantle of Gods," four chosen heroes are destined to save the world — and fail spectacularly, leaving reality to burn in eternal darkness. As a reader of that story, transmigrating into it as Jin Winters, a nameless extra not even mentioned in the text, was already bad enough. Landing in Vienna — one of four cities slated for annihilation in the opening act — made it worse. Armed with meta-knowledge and a cancer survivor's stubborn refusal to die quietly, Jin awakens the mysterious "Mantle of Harvest," a power system the protagonists never fully understood. But knowledge only matters if you live long enough to use it. Ninety-one days until the veil falls. Ninety-one days to grow strong enough to change a fate written in blood.
Royal Road4.15· 168
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCultivationDungeon CrawlingGameLit+15

Immortal Druid

Alfir2

F6/100
A gamer wakes up in a fantasy world inhabiting the body of his max-level Druid from an online game — only to find this new world is nothing like the genre he expected. Flying swords, qi beams, and arrogant young masters litter the landscape, a far cry from the cozy woodland retreat he had planned. He figured he could ignore all of it: vibe in the woods, pursue the Dao of Camping, mind his own business. But this isekai world is neither cozy nor forgiving, and sometimes the greatest enemy turns out to be oneself.
Royal Road3.90· 172
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyCultivationGameLit+6

Adonis Rebirth

Deckhard Davis

F5/100
Nathan Attis dies and, as a veteran, is given a second chance at existence inside the fantasy VR game Adonis Rebirth. But something goes wrong during the transition: his consciousness is loaded not into a player character, but into a beast who lives in the bowels of a mountain—the end-boss of a limited-edition quest. Hero players are already on their way to kill him. Nathan must master his monster's abilities, make unlikely allies, and find a way to reverse what happened before he is hunted down.
Goodreads3.46· 304
Anti-heroLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnationVRMMO

I Became My Vampire Witch Character

KurayamiWN

F5/100
Ella was a delusional woman — or so everyone thought. She spent her days grinding in her favorite MMO, chugging energy drinks, and building the strongest character possible on the off chance she ever got isekai'd. Well, maybe she wasn't so delusional after all. One fateful day, she drank one energy drink too many and died of a heart attack — only to wake up as her witchpire character in the game world she had spent years preparing for.
Royal Road4.25· 101
Anti-heroComedyCozyGameLitIsekaiLGBTQ++4

The Last Warrior of Unigaea

Harmon Cooper

F5/100
Oric Rune is a Player Killer with nothing left to lose, driven by a singular need to avenge the villagers of Ducat — slaughtered before his eyes by the Drachma Killers. But with the Rune Lands encroaching on Unigaea's southern cities and something catastrophic brewing in the sky, Oric must choose between personal vengeance and becoming the hero destiny demands. Joining him on the journey are a giant Tagvornin wolf, a mute Solar Mage, and a cunning illusionist named Sam Raid.
Goodreads3.92· 275
Anti-heroGrimdarkLitRPGMonster TamingVRMMO

Cultivating Redemption

DC Zhen

F5/100
He was a demigod chasing immortality until a curse shattered everything. Yu Di was born to ascend — cultivation was his life. Now, every time he uses Qi, he loses levels. Permanently. Broken and powerless, Yu Di retreats from the world until his ex-lover drops off a surprise: their three-year-old daughter. With no power left to chase, Yu Di devotes himself to raising Yu Lin — teaching her, protecting her, finding peace in fatherhood. Until the local Immortal sect threatens to take her. They want him to join, or they'll burn the village to the ground. Yu Di agrees. For her. Then a voice echoes in his mind: Curse Unlocked: 0.3% Lifted.
Royal Road4.14· 162
Anti-heroCultivationSecondary WorldTragedyWeak to Strong

Fallen Mage Regressor

Lemonoid

F5/100
Death makes exceptions for all the wrong people. Malfrasius wasn't trying to destroy the world — even as everyone called him a Dark Lord, he fought to save them. The Heroine didn't believe him, and his life ended with a blade between his ribs. When he woke up six years in the past on his way to magic school, he resolved to do things the right way and without attracting attention. But the butterfly effect has a funny sense of humor. His clumsy changes to the timeline have landed him in a team with two members of the Heroine's party, the academy's top prodigy suspects he is her equal despite his F-grade core, and his loyal maid is growing suspicious of his sudden personality shift. Malfrasius wasn't trying to destroy the world. It's just a shame the world seems so intent on destroying him.
Royal Road4.22· 121
Anti-heroCozyCraftingMysteryOverpowered MCRegression+4

We are Void

Herald Of Chaos

F3/100
Humanity flees through a wormhole to escape a dying Earth, only to find themselves trapped in the Sanctuary — a reality with simple rules: kill monsters, gain levels, survive. But Zyrus Wymar knows better after regressing on an abandoned Earth. A universe-spanning alien invasion has persisted for eons, and the Eternals ruling the Sanctuary are merely wardens of a galactic fodder-manufacturing plant. To slay them and atone for his regrets, Zyrus abandons his human form, embraces a bloodline that evolves through carnage, and forges his own power by cultivating Void laws drawn from quantum theory. His ambition does not stop at revenge. A war rages to claim the origin of the universe itself, and Zyrus will erase anything in existence to reach it.
Royal Road4.15· 140
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationDungeon CrawlingGenius MCIsekai+10

The Broken Arcanist

Aleth08

?
The guild ruled Thorin ineligible. The crystal confirmed it. With no path through the official system, his only option is an illegal branding — and affinities so weak that brute force is never on the table. Every fight is a calculation. Every mistake costs time he doesn't have. With his cousins Clay and Quin at his back, Thorin learns to weaponise broken power through planning, restraint, and hard decisions. He doesn't just want to survive. He wants control — and to reclaim what his name once stood for, whatever it takes. A cultivation-LitRPG blend inspired by Warlock of the Magus World and Reverend Insanity.
Royal Road4.39· 91
Anti-heroClass SystemCultivationGenius MCLitRPGOverpowered MC+4