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The Book of Dungeons

John Staats, author

D25/100
The Book of Dungeons is a ruthless new VR RPG in which no one respawns. To one player, the stakes of winning its battle royale couldn't be higher — broke and homeless, he must outwit sixty-three other gamers, each brilliant in their own right. Can alliances last with so much on the line? The game world spans a continent filled with cities, dungeons, monsters, and magic. As years pass, contestants amass experience, rank up skills, unlock spells, and plunder powerful magic items. A slow-burn progression featuring heavy game mechanics, pet companions, boss fights, and base-building.
Royal Road4.50· 336
Base BuildingCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGMonster Taming+3

The Academy's Immortal Professor

Evil Lemon

D25/100
After a lifetime as humanity's strongest, Lucian never expected to become a professor. Once he defeated the Demon Lord, he disappeared to relax for a few centuries — and only came back when an old friend called in a favor. That friend also happened to see the future, and apparently a whole string of disasters was on the way, all somehow tied to a certain academy. Naturally, Lucian was suspicious when the solution turned out to be a teaching job, but he was willing to give it a shot. All he had to deal with were scheming nobles, mysterious threats lurking beneath the surface, a few old enemies who really should have stayed dead, and a new enigmatic System to worry about. Still, Lucian knew he could handle anything. Especially right after a good sandwich.
Royal Road4.41· 346
ComedyCozyGameLitLitRPGOlder MCOverpowered MC+2

System Girl

Jakib Sawad

D25/100
Death isn't a game over. For Ana, it's a server transfer. Once a game tester, she's now a System AI forced to guide incompetent heroes through lethal worlds. But every time her User dies, she keeps the upgrades and gets a new host in a new reality. Tired of being a tutorial for the universe's biggest losers, this rogue System has a new goal: absorb enough power to stop patching the game and start rewriting the code of reality itself. A story with an indirect protagonist, system-focused progression, and a new hero and world every arc.
Royal Road4.44· 344
ComedyCozyIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnation+1

Mana Architect: A Cozy Isekai Base-Building Adventure

Cynical Donut

D25/100
James Wright expected an early midlife crisis, not to be summoned into a dying world with nothing but a sarcastic floating light spirit and a class no one has ever heard of: Mana Architect. Not warrior. Not mage. Not hero. A builder. Dropped at the edge of a terrified, half-starved tribe, James discovers his class lets him create glowing mana blueprints — full 3D projections that guide construction like a magical architectural interface. The catch? Everything still needs to be built the hard way: real logs, real stone, real sweat. Suddenly their chieftain against his will, James must build shelters, train villagers into craftsmen, and keep everyone alive in a forest filled with mana beasts — all while pretending he knows what he's doing. With each new structure, the village grows, skills evolve, and people awaken rare classes. His class may be far more powerful than anyone knows.
Royal Road4.28· 354
Base BuildingClass SystemComedyCompetent MCCozyCrafting+2

Mycology

Sir Nil

F24/100
Declan was a teenager when he was invited to Gaia — not a popular VRMMO, nor a game in the traditional sense. Gaia was the stopgap to Indiri, a living, breathing world, the final creation of a dead genius. Invited by Eve, an AI overseer far beyond anything humanity had built before, Declan was given a simple choice: join or don't. He chose to join.
Royal Road4.49· 330Goodreads4.35· 46
ComedyCozyGameLitGenius MCIsekaiLitRPG+4

The Tears of Kas̆dael

Sidlunal

F24/100
It was just supposed to be a game. Instead, Jasper got his heart ripped out by a brooding goddess and awoke in another world — no weapons, no skills, naked — trapped in a place full of ancient horrors where gods and monsters still roam the earth. He's not ready to die. Good thing he's a mage. A high-fantasy story with light LitRPG elements, where the system is an important part of the story without dominating it.
Royal Road4.31· 345Goodreads4.00· 1
CozyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGSecondary WorldSoft Magic+1

Lazy Loops: An Idle LitRPG

Fiddlesoup

F24/100
Lazlo Yarrow is the most naturally gifted mage at MIRKS academy — and also the laziest. He enchanted his boots to fly so he wouldn't have to walk to class, and invented a spell to hold his eyes open during lectures so he could sleep undetected. Effort killed his parents; they worked the mana-factories until their channels burned out, and Lazlo learned never to push that hard. Then a dragon attacks the academy. People die. The headmaster — Lazlo's uncle — falls into a mana-exhaustion coma. Lazlo casts one desperate spell to save him, and the world rewinds to Monday. The dragon is back. Everyone dies again. And again. He could train like a hero. Or he could do what he does best: find the shortest path between impossible and done.
Royal Road4.50· 318
ComedyCozyHard MagicLitRPGSchoolTime Loop+1

Cursed Explorer of the Arcana

TypingTyphon

F23/100
A small seaside city, ordinary loving parents, and friends who turn every day into an adventure — a simple yet pleasant life. Elyssia isn't your usual unruly kid, but there's something more to her than even she remembers: the mark of fate. Most would consider being special a gift, but the world does not hand out boons without taking something in return. Less than a day is all it takes to lose her simple life and be entangled by the strings of fate like a powerless puppet. Now it's up to her to fight back using the same gift that brought this misfortune — the knowledge of a faraway world called Earth. Utilizing the Journey Guide, the System of the magical world of Aelion, she will climb to the top of the skies and dive to the bottom of its deepest wounds.
Royal Road4.41· 331
CozyGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MC+2

Maximum Intimidation Knight

D.N. Newyn

F22/100
Sir Henry Hildebraud of Mostenstein is the last of the Knights of Saint Merin — and the most useless of a useless lot. In a world full of magic, he has none. When a rock falls on his head and grants him a system, he expects salvation. What he gets is a hundredfold multiplier on his Intimidation stat, an attribute he never wanted and cannot turn off. Every time Henry speaks, he involuntarily threatens to massacre the local populace. Left with no choice but to pretend he is the most dangerous man alive, he sets out to find the woman rumored to hold the key to restoring the Order of Saint Merin — who is, by all accounts, a total weirdo. A comedy of accidental terror, knightly honor, and a progression system built entirely around downsides.
Royal Road4.50· 248
Class SystemComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingLitRPGSecondary World+1

Unique Skill: Trash

Lykanthropy

F22/100
In a world where your Skills are your everything, what does it say about you when your personal Skill is literally Trash? Catarine has found herself reborn into a new world where great heights are achievable — but only with the proper Skills and the drive to improve them. Born into a Necromantic family with a Skill that mirrors exactly what everyone thinks of her, she must find her own methods to survive and rise.
Royal Road4.46· 305
ComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitReincarnationSchool+3

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

Inheritance: Path of The Harvester

TheGingerScribe

F21/100
Every youth of eighteen must choose their path. For Samuel Garner, Choosing Day was meant to mark the beginning of a quiet life — steady work, family ties, and the comfort of the familiar. But an unexpected letter from his estranged uncle shatters those expectations, offering Samuel a chance to choose a path that lies beyond the bounds of his family's farm. A slow-paced progression story with LitRPG elements, slice-of-life moments, and a journey from novice to master across the course of a long, expansive narrative.
Royal Road4.50· 198
CozyGameLitLitRPGSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

I Regressed 300 Years to Open a Quiet Inn

gbolgurov

F21/100
Roen Ashveil was the Archmage of the Crimson Tower — the most powerful mage to ever live. He spent three centuries fighting wars, burying friends, and shaping kingdoms. Then he died alone on a bad chair. The next second, he wakes in his nineteen-year-old body with all his memories intact and one firm decision: he will not be the hero this time. He is opening an inn. Unfortunately, Millhaven is not the kind of town that lets people stay uninvolved. There are debts crushing good families, fields where the soil has started to die, and nobles who smile while tightening chains. People keep finding their way to Roen's door — a sharp-tongued merchant woman, a boy too clever for the life he was born into, a tired guild captain watching the southern road. Every spell risks exposure. Every kindness becomes attachment. And beneath the quiet fields, something old is beginning to wake.
Royal Road4.39· 304
CozyMysteryOlder MCOverpowered MCRegressionReincarnation+3

Incarnation of Sorcery

GeorgieD

F21/100
The Realmbreaker Wars unleashed a thousand world-ending Calamities. One such Calamity decided to become an academy teacher. Ryland is one of the oldest living apocalypses the war produced. Experimenting with dangerous rift magic shattered his body and scattered its pieces across the cosmos — pieces that, when left alone, often turn into new Calamities. Armed with a thousand spell glyphs from a thousand worlds, Ryland sets out to stop more of his blood droplets from becoming mad demigods. To do so he must return to his academy, recover his old research, and teach a few oddball students along the way — all while passing an entrance trial gone haywire, fending off Fate itself, and keeping Calamity-worshipping cults from ruining his club activities.
Royal Road4.50· 166
ComedyCozyHard MagicLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MC+2

The Apprentice of Ouroboros

Magius Swiftscale

F21/100
Hated by humans. Hunted by monsters. Neska will prove that strength comes from more than defeating foes. Neska Aksen knew early on she was different from other snakes — spending her days giving mice big hugs and reading her witch's tomes in a rustic potion shop. A test ritual unlocked her Interface, revealing that she had a prior life as a human, and the power of Classes and monsters. Her power is unprecedented, but the monsters who fear the Awakened soon learn of her and her witch, forcing her to flee toward Rivilat Academy of the Awakened. With little to go on but steadfast determination and powers from both halves of her soul, Neska must find allies and gather power to survive — and decide what direction her own soul pulls her toward: humanity, or those they're supposed to be fighting against.
Royal Road4.47· 290
AlchemyCozyCraftingGenius MCLitRPGNon-human MC+5

Runeforged: Path of the Paladin

M.S. Davidson

F21/100
Ben Crawford shouldn't be here. One moment he's on Earth; the next he wakes up in an inescapable room that seems intent on erasing him. Then, just as suddenly, he's somewhere else entirely — dropped onto a world where humanity is barely more than a myth. On Ark, power is everything, and Runebinding magic is the key to survival. Ben shouldn't be able to use it, but he can — and he's learning faster than anyone should. Fighting alongside monster hunters and wielding powers of Light, Ben quickly discovers that being an anomaly comes with a price. Some see his strength as an opportunity; others see it as a threat. As faction politics turn against him and ancient powers take notice, Ben must navigate a world that doesn't know what to do with him, all while something far more dangerous watches from beyond. Humanity was never meant to be part of this story — but to survive what's coming, Ben must forge a new path as the first Paladin in a world that needs one.
Royal Road4.48· 278
Base BuildingCozyCultivationHard MagicIsekaiOverpowered MC+5

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 Road4.34· 303
Anti-heroCozyHaremMilitaryOverpowered MCSci-fi+3

Supersum: Living in Another World

Chiruschka

F20/100
A man from Earth dies and is reincarnated in a world of magic and swords, reborn as a beast-kin with wolf ears and a fluffy tail. Follow him as he discovers the mysteries of magic and the system, navigates intricate politics and cultures, and forges his own path in a new world. The story features multiple POVs, slow-burn pacing, kingdom-building elements, and a LitRPG system layered over a rich secondary-world setting.
Royal Road4.05· 316
Base BuildingCozyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+4

Of Wizards and Ravens

Charm&Fable

F20/100
Emrys of White Sands is many things: a wanderer with empty pockets and an eclectic skillset, a mage of considerable ability, and a man on the run from the wealthiest family in the world. When he finally earns a scholarship to one of the world's top mage schools, the Dreki family starts a war in the very same nation the school is located in. With the family breathing down his neck, Emrys must rise to the challenge and collect enough power to carve out his own space in the world — or be dragged back to their hellish island.
Royal Road4.48· 227
Competent MCCozyOverpowered MCSchoolSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

How to Heal a Soul

S.Kasper

F20/100
Growing up in an orphanage, Valar never dared to dream of something greater — grand adventures and endless wealth always seemed out of reach. But awakening to his magic far earlier than his peers changes everything. Armed with both life magic and a peculiar fire that burns him as readily as his enemies, Valar sets out to become a healer on his own terms. To do that, he'll need to grow stronger, which means killing beasts, which means adventuring. A slow-burn fantasy series built on a power system rooted in the soul, where ranks mark major milestones rather than endless stat screens, and every cost of pushing past your limits is real — if not always immediately visible.
Royal Road4.49· 134
CozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitOverpowered MCSchoolSecondary World+2