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Summoned! To an RPG World

Oisin Muldowney

F19/100
How well would you cope after being summoned to rule a kingdom in an RPG? Sean de Courcy is a gamer with a maxed-out warrior build on a popular MMORPG. When the desperate rulers of a declining kingdom need a warrior to lead them to triumph over their enemies, their summoning spell picks Sean. Their world obeys the rules of an RPG — so although Sean has no real-world fighting experience, he is exactly the person they need to manage the kingdom, level up its people, and lead their armies to victory.
Goodreads4.14· 309
Base BuildingClass SystemIsekaiLitRPGMilitarySecondary World

Transmigrated Into a Cultivation World? Good Thing I Can Read Minds! [Xianxia Parody]

VingadorVVX

F19/100
Transmigrated into a world full of immortal-seeking cultivators with a broken dantian, Feng Fan discovers his unique cheat: mind-reading. Armed with that ability, a sentient brick, and the knowledge of countless xianxia plots burned into his mind, he's determined to reach immortality. With his brain long fried by brain-rot plots, no young master or ancient clan can stop his rise.
Royal Road4.12· 309
Base BuildingComedyCultivationSatireSecondary WorldTransmigration

Unbowed: He Who Defies Fate

Winged Sage

F18/100
Slay monsters. Harvest their souls. Survive the brutal world. In a world where Dragon-riders rule the sky and magic grants infinite possibilities, Lucas was captured by the Central Empire and branded a trespasser, forced into military service. He soon discovered he had Inherited a game-like system, along with a powerful skill — Soul Reaper — and a unique resonance with the dragons above. With a burning desire to find his way back to Earth and no intention of dying in someone else's war, Lucas joins the Unbowed — the monster hunters of this world. Armed with nothing but an unrelenting will and a mysterious system, he will hunt monsters, grind experience, and grow strong enough to track down whoever dragged him here.
Royal Road4.47· 168
Base BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGMilitary+4

Technomancer: ReGenesis

earldennison

F18/100
A particle physicist with an eidetic memory is reincarnated into a world where magic is real. Born into the Empire's upper nobility, Ezra Blackfyre quickly learns that power isn't earned by talent alone — it's negotiated through bloodlines, oaths, and brutal politics. As his family is pulled into rising conflicts and assassination games, Ezra must grow stronger fast without becoming a pawn. Armed with modern scientific knowledge and relentless curiosity, he approaches magic like physics — testing, refining, and weaponizing it. To survive, he will build technology, forge new methods of combat, and reshape his domain from the ground up while the Empire's great houses close in around him.
Royal Road4.29· 290
Base BuildingCozyGenius MCIsekaiMilitaryReincarnation+2

Genesis Online

Adam Horne

F17/100
Kevin was a young man enjoying college life when a car jumped the curb and left him unable to walk. Slipping into depression, he was convinced by his best friend to play Genesis Online — a game where a revolutionary AI controls the world and adapts to players' actions. Lured by the prospect of earning real money, Kevin soon runs afoul of a player determined to control as much of Genesis as possible, and must recruit other disenfranchised players to stop him.
Goodreads4.00· 425
Base BuildingGameLitLitRPGVRMMO

Noble Blood - A Vampire Reincarnation Story

Not Me Either

F17/100
A disgraced noble son — shunned by his family and sent to the middle of nowhere, unable to cure the circumstances of his birth — made a desperate choice: consorting with demons and participating in a ritual at the urging of his only friend. It killed him. Now someone else is occupying his body. The ritual had an unintended side effect: it turned the body into a vampire. The new inhabitant must navigate survival (no daytime strolls, no starving, no hunters), political intrigue, and the immediate problem of explaining the ritual — all while keeping their soul intact and slowly building a circle of allies who know the truth.
Royal Road4.46· 161
Base BuildingIsekaiNon-human MCReincarnationSecondary WorldSoft Magic+2

Revenant's Revenge

Andrew Karevik

F17/100
A nobleman killed a peasant without a second thought just to test a new blade. The injustice was so immense that the victim's soul could not pass on — and so he returned as a Revenant, bound to a dark deity and able to grow his powers by accumulating Discordance shards. His goal: build an Undead Kingdom and make Eris Lanyer suffer every indignity he endured in life before destroying him entirely.
Goodreads4.12· 297
Anti-heroBase BuildingGrimdarkNon-human MCSecondary WorldSummoning+1

The Fantasy World of Dorbin

Chad Opo

F16/100
Frank was having the best day of his life when an explosion hurled him through an unformed portal. Lost in the void, a chance encounter drops him into Dorbin — a violent world of ruthless cutthroats, hideous monsters, and a Creator-designed system of kiosks for trading and quest rewards. With no way home and no place for the weak, Frank must earn his survival. He chooses to become an arena manager — a dominus of the pits.
Goodreads4.10· 337
Base BuildingGoreGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGOlder MC

Reincarnated as a Castle!

Bluebery

F16/100
A webnovel author dies and reincarnates in another world — as a castle. Armed with a Magic Castle System and starting abilities like Door Manipulation and Self-Repair, the non-human protagonist must accumulate Castle Points and expand its domain. What follows is a kingdom-building adventure featuring equipment crafting, quest creation, farming, summoning, mining, follower leveling, monster taming, and large-scale war — all viewed from the unique perspective of a living fortress.
Royal Road3.97· 287
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyCraftingDungeon Core+6

Invasion

D.I. Freed

F16/100
The rising tide of technological unemployment has left millions with only one option: Barliona, the government-backed virtual world. Brody West is one such person — a professional project manager with thirty years of experience who refuses to lose heart. With a clear goal and a structured plan, Brody enters Barliona determined to thrive where others flounder. But building a clan and making it successful are two different things, and powerful rivals aren't about to welcome another competitor into their territory.
Goodreads4.11· 312
Base BuildingLitRPGOlder MCVRMMOWeak to Strong

Corebound

M.J. Markgraf

F15/100
One case of mistaken identity lands Jacob at the center of a silent power struggle nearly a thousand years in the making. Abducted by a malfunctioning alien AI that believed he was someone else, Jacob wakes up trapped aboard a failing alien starship with no way home. The ship is broken, his life is on the line, and survival means working himself to exhaustion just to keep the lights on. The AI, Melody, still follows directives from an empire that abandoned it long ago — directives that drive them toward a forgotten station at the edge of known space, where Jacob finally has the tools to attempt real repairs. A misunderstanding at an alien outpost places him on the radar of a mercenary company, and he learns he was not the only human to run afoul of Melody. As Jacob struggles to hold everything together, his station becomes the focal point of another species' fight for freedom — a conflict he wants nothing to do with.
Royal Road4.41· 238
Anti-heroBase BuildingCompetent MCMysterySci-fiSoft Magic

Practicing Death

Runewriter

F15/100
What does it mean to learn from your own death? Seventeen was supposed to die in a frozen granary-fort. Instead, a forgotten spirit pulls him back. Every death sends him to the same starting line with a little more knowledge, a little more skill, and a growing weight of visions he does not understand. The System inside him offers no guidance — its skills surface under pressure, and the things he sees in death do not fade. They accumulate. To survive, Seventeen must turn every death into information, outthink the men who own him, protect the few people worth saving, and uncover why the world around him is beginning to twist. What starts as a brutal struggle to escape a granary-fort grows into something far larger: border wars, hidden orders, and old powers moving in the dark.
Royal Road4.42· 176
Base BuildingCultivationGenius MCGrimdarkLitRPGMilitary+5

The Protectorate

SKBwrites

F15/100
When the Systems hit Earth, Ben was alone in the mountains. After becoming the first human to clear a dungeon, he faced a choice: seize power for himself alone, or build a future for his family, friends, and community. He chose the latter. Now a former lumberjack still recovering from a life-changing accident, Ben must transform a remote logging camp into a thriving city powered by dungeons and home to millions. He must lead, fight, and become one of the strongest on Earth — not for glory, but to protect everyone who depends on him.
Royal Road4.40· 249
Base BuildingCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCLitRPG+5

Arcane Steel

Jakib Sawad

F15/100
A fatal accident should have been his end. For an orphaned computer scientist, it was a new beginning. Reincarnated as Alarion Wight, heir to a powerful duchy, he finally has a family to protect in a world of magic and dragons. Armed with a super-intelligent AI from his old life, Alarion sees magic not as a mystery but as a system to be hacked — enchanted metals as resources for a revolution. He builds a shield of Arcane Steel around those he loves. When betrayal shatters his world and tears his family from him, the shield is reforged into a sword. From powered armor that can challenge dragons to energy blades that execute kings, Alarion will burn a legend into the fabric of this world — but in his quest for vengeance, he risks becoming the very monster he set out to destroy.
Royal Road4.37· 261
Base BuildingComedyCozyDungeon CoreGenius MCGrimdark+4

The Ultimate Weapon at Royal Academy

Blanch

F14/100
Hope Ruthford is Cardinal Mage 9XA, a sorceress scientifically engineered as a vessel of pure destruction, built to win wars for the Kingdom of Calidea. But when peace comes, weapons are needed no more. Dispatched to the prestigious Academy of Belmesion to learn what it means to be a normal mage, Hope finds that peacetime is in many ways more complicated than war. Tangled in a web of political scheming and conflicting interests, she must find allies she can trust and reach greater heights as a mage. A story about exploring the universe, human nature, and the possibilities of magic — where even the great can become greater through connections and cooperation.
Royal Road4.32· 264
Anti-heroBase BuildingCompetent MCGenius MCHard MagicOverpowered MC+2

The Archmage Who Turned the Lich King Into a Saintess

Rivalen

F14/100
The world already ended once. Three hundred years in the future, the Lich King Serivhal destroyed civilization and nearly ascended to godhood. The only one who could stop him was the Archmage Liria Yggdris — so she rewound time, determined to kill him before he becomes the Lord of Undeath. Unfortunately, the young Serivhal turns out to be a starving orphan, a walking necromantic disaster, and absolutely convinced that Liria is a divine savior sent to rescue him. Now the future Lich King follows her everywhere, calling her Big Sister and trying very hard to be good. Liria wanted to stop the apocalypse. Instead, she ended up raising the Lich King — and somehow, the future Lord of Undeath became a Saintess.
Royal Road4.41· 143
Base BuildingComedyLGBTQ+LitRPGOverpowered MCRegression+3

League of Losers

Michael Atamanov

F14/100
When Andrei discovers his girlfriend has cheated on him, he is offered an unexpected choice: a quick death, or a new life in a world he knows nothing about. He chooses life — and sets off with his pet ginger cat into a primeval world fraught with danger. The trouble is, who is whose pet becomes entirely unclear. Andrei's consciousness is split between both creatures, and the little cat gets a far greater share of intelligence and wit than his hulking master. What does a weak little kitty do — abandon the clumsy human, or protect him in the hope of one day returning to his proper body?
Goodreads4.06· 349
Base BuildingComedyIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCStats

Game of Kingdoms

USSExplorer

F14/100
A former UK special operator is reborn in Westeros, carrying knowledge of the future and a set of unique gifts. Reborn during Robert's Rebellion, he must navigate a timeline he knows is destined to spiral into war and catastrophe — but his very presence is already causing ripples. With a lite RPG-style system and carefully limited extra powers, he works to manage his position and survive what's coming, one calculated move at a time.
Royal Road4.33· 256
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCHaremMilitaryOverpowered MC+2

Spells VS Shells

Aleks_Kotov

F13/100
The protagonist never imagined that a gaming match would end with him waking up in a medieval world as an extremely weak mage. There's grimdark all around — arrogant nobility, monsters, and an impossible mission. But if you have the gift to shape metal and the knowledge to build a musket, the French Revolution might already be on the horizon. The Kingdom of Steel is rotting from within. Gluttonous nobles tear it apart, rebellions brew in the rear, and powerful neighbors wait for the perfect moment to intervene. Armed with forbidden knowledge and metal magic, the protagonist intends to claim what's his — and rewrite the world from scratch. Technology versus magic, tactical spells versus artillery shells.
Royal Road4.18· 257
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkHaremIsekai+3

The Exchange Teacher

shoemilk

F12/100
Centuries after collapse, humanity is rebuilding. Basque, a renowned hunter-turned-teacher, arrives at a city-state as an ambassador expecting to observe classes for six months. Days before school starts, his mission changes: he must teach — for five years. His class is filled with legally required, unwanted commoners in a school built for nobility. The administration wants him gone, his coworkers find hazing the new teacher more entertaining than actual teaching, and the retention rate is a body count. Balancing his mandate to observe, his directive to teach, and his personal imperative that every student survive puts Basque at odds with a school where the teaching methods leave him horrified. Book 1 examines how an insider and an outsider experience a rigid authoritarian society differently, told through two main points of view, with found-family elements and a romance subplot woven throughout.
Royal Road4.35· 223
Base BuildingCompetent MCGameLitLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MC+3