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The Fractured Tower

EmergencyComplaints

B65/100
Sorin Atharel was already a legend. After forty years of calculated risks, dead companions, and spent fortunes, he was ready to take the final step to immortality at the top of his tower. Instead, his soul space was stripped bare, all his abilities ripped away, and his anima drained to nothing. He wakes at the bottom of a different tower, surrounded by strangers in a strange city — his entire life reset. With only a mysterious tile mosaic as a clue, Sorin must navigate his new reality. If he wants answers to what was done to him, there is only one path forward: he must climb again.
Royal Road4.55· 1.1K
Anti-heroCompetent MCGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+6

Tower Climber

Jakob Tanner

B65/100
All Max wants is to become a climber and search for his long-lost sister. But citizens aren't allowed near the mysterious and magical tower — and Max is paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair, which makes entry seem doubly impossible. Then one night everything changes. Max gains an ultra-rare ability and a chance to train and climb the tower. But each floor contains vast worlds and deadly magical monsters, and plenty of other climbers won't blink at removing anyone who stands in their way.
Goodreads4.21· 1.7K
LitRPGSkill CollectionStatsTower ClimbingWeak to Strong

The Way of Etherforging

RJ Shoke

B65/100
The Intergalactic Imperium invoked their right of Eminent Domain to appropriate Earth for a highway — and the planet burned. Cedrick Jonkheer, left with nothing but a sarcastic AI and some superpowers, watched his world end and hid himself at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. "Etherforging," his AI called it: taking the same power that destroyed the world and making it his own. Advance. Grow stronger. Forge himself into someone who could survive a mad universe.
Goodreads4.39· 837
LitRPGPost-apocalypticSci-fiSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

Paragon of Skills

VengefulBirch

B65/100
Jacob Cloud is sixteen, a miner's son, and he knows his fate: die young, broke, and anonymous in the town that feeds silver ore to richer cities and spits out its sons in pine boxes. He dreams of becoming a Knight — but that takes gold, rare Skills, and connections he will never have. Then the mine floor gives out beneath him. Jacob falls — not to his death, but onto a Rainbow-ranked Skill Crystal, something so rare people kill over it. He doesn't get a weapon or a healing Skill. He gets The Grimoire Extraordinaire — a support Skill that can only show him the flaws in any other Skill or item. No instant power. No glory. But Jacob isn't an idiot. He grinds, he experiments, and he uses the Grimoire to optimize the basics. In five days trapped underground, he boosts his skills to levels nobles would envy — and when he claws his way out, he's ready to quit the mines for good.
Royal Road3.91· 1.4K
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary World+3

Too Stubborn to Die

B. F. Huups, Sir Bedivere the Mad

B64/100
Fear of death never stopped Aaron from doing something dangerous. Now actual death can't either. Aaron was always a daredevil — motorcycles, cave diving, bungee jumping, skydiving. When his entire universe gets pulled into a System-managed multiverse, he happens to be skydiving, so instead of a peaceful introduction he goes splat and instantly dies. A goddess takes pity and resurrects him, but the only place she can send him is the Shadow Trials — a special dimension designed for the prodigies of each new universe. Stuck in the Shadow Trials starting from level 1, Aaron has one saving grace: he revives every time he dies. And he's going to abuse that as much as he can.
Goodreads4.40· 647
LitRPGOverpowered MCSystem ApocalypseTime LoopWeak to Strong

Mythran's Master Of All - Continued

Bokuboy

B64/100
Seventeen-year-old Ren Haddon hasn't had an easy life. His drug addict parents used him as a lab rat and left him almost crippled for life. After they were caught, he went on to spend his life in the hospital — under constant care, the white walls of his room were all he knew. That changed the day his name was drawn from millions of others to receive a one-of-a-kind class in the new virtual world game called F.L.O.W. — Fantasy Life Online World. These are his adventures.
Royal Road3.82· 1.4K
CozyHaremLitRPGVRMMOWeak to Strong

Orphan

Guy Incognito

B64/100
Potential is everything within the Vitrian Empire — and a provincial orphan boy is about to prove he has more of it than anyone. Found in the ruins of the Old City, the orphan Alarion is taken in by Assessor Elena, who bends the rule of law to adopt him into the House of Hunger. To earn his place, he must learn the ways of his new House, endure a grueling training regime, and battle deadly fiends — all while scraping together enough strength before those who hate what he represents finally close in. After all, potential unrealized is no power at all.
Royal Road4.59· 1K
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSci-fi+3

The Alchemist

Roman Romanovich

B64/100
What if you were born into a world where a game arrived thousands of years before you — and you were among the survivors of the bloody struggle that followed? Tailyn Vlashich is a young nobody far removed from those grander concerns. All he cares about is making his way through a harsh world where the emperor, powerful enemies, and an impartial god hold sway — a god that demands all things be done in accordance with its divine will. Follow Tailyn as he discovers his talent for alchemy and navigates a world that seems determined to test him at every turn.
Goodreads4.20· 1.7K
AlchemyGenius MCLitRPGSchoolSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Path to Prosperity

HideousGrain

B64/100
Percy is a poor child with nothing to his name — no power, no family, only an old mentor who soon dies and leaves him truly alone. But everything changes when he gains access to mana and manifests an [Ego]: a rare ability that lets him consume what he owns and reforge the ordinary into the extraordinary. A wooden shovel can transform into a weapon of legend; a tattered coat into something impenetrable. He claws his way from poverty to power, but the higher he climbs, the darker the world becomes. Powerful Adventurers vanish without a trace, and Percy is pulled straight into the heart of the mystery.
Goodreads4.42· 286
Class SystemCraftingCrafting PowerLitRPGMysteryWeak to Strong

The Resonance Cycle

Aaron Renfroe

B64/100
The magical world of Volar is dying. To save themselves and their followers, the native gods have instituted a plan to transform Earth mortals into anchors for their powers. Ty, along with thousands of other humans, is summoned through portals and given one mission: choose a god and power up as fast as possible. A fast-paced portal fantasy adventure set in both our world and Volar, with demons, dragons, dungeons, and unexpected plot twists at every turn.
Goodreads4.38· 1.2K
Dungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGSecondary WorldStatsSystem Apocalypse+1

Shieldwall Academy

M. Zaugg

B64/100
Pax is a cunning street rat without a class, surviving in a city constantly threatened by monstrous beast waves. He's dedicated to keeping his crew safe and fed — especially since his family vanished without a trace. When his best friend is captured, Pax risks everything on the eve of the Awakening. Caught and thrust into the Astan Empire's war machine, he must adapt to survive the empire's elite mage academy while struggling to harness forbidden magic surging within him. Ancient secrets and long-lost spells are at stake — and corrupt leaders will stop at nothing to snuff out any hint of rebellion.
Goodreads4.39· 791
Base BuildingClass SystemLitRPGMonster TamingSchoolWeak to Strong

Words of Power

Shami Stovall

B64/100
In the Tze Empire, spirits and demons rule the wilds, but Ring Warlocks control civilization. For Rimon, the son of a courtesan and the lowest in society, Ring Warlocks seem like gods — each with their own magic drawn from Titans, doing whatever they please regardless of how it affects the prefectures they rule. When a chance encounter places one of the ancient and powerful rings in Rimon's hands, everything changes. Suddenly he is no longer at the fringes of power — he is a Ring Warlock granted his own territory. Determined to make his prefecture thrive, he must contend with jealous rivals, demons seeking his ring, and forces he cannot yet name.
Goodreads4.41· 384
Base BuildingCompetent MCHard MagicSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Drone Rising

Kyle Johnson

B64/100
In the far future, humanity has expanded into the stars. In the Collective, energy is limitless, communication is nearly instantaneous, and even death has been vanquished — Citizens are reborn after each death. Benning Kidd is a Drone, the lowest class of humanity, existing without memory, purpose, or self-awareness. An accident changes everything, and Benning becomes the first Drone in history to become a Citizen. Uniquely talented and unscrupulously driven, she chooses a path of battle and glory. But her existence is a threat to those in power, and forces move against her from the moment she steps out of the respawn chamber. Her only chance of survival is to be stronger, smarter, and more cunning than those who stand in her way.
Goodreads4.40· 595
Competent MCLitRPGNon-human MCSci-fiStatsWeak to Strong

Adventures on Terra

R.A. Mejia

B64/100
Armon Ellington — an orphan, gamer, and RPG geek — dies after a seventy-two-hour gaming marathon. Instead of an afterlife, he's transported to Terra, a new world governed by rules eerily similar to the games he loves. On Terra he can be a warrior, mage, or crafter. But more than power, Armon wants friends and family — the things he never had on Earth.
Goodreads3.98· 2.1K
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGWeak to Strong

Transcending Dreams

S. C. King

B64/100
For William, dreaming about waking up in a cultivation world quickly spiraled into a nightmare. Bound by captors with dark intentions, he watched innocent lives taken before a passing cultivator saved him on a whim. But freedom didn't mean safety. Now William must navigate the treacherous terrain and society of a cultivation world — one where the System has gamified the path to power, and where the locals have a new name for him: Wei Liang.
Goodreads4.40· 584
CultivationGameLitIsekaiLitRPGSchoolStats+1

Land of the Elementals

Aaron Oster

B64/100
Life is cruel — Arbor learns this the hard way when everything he loves is taken from him in a single night. Left alive by the men who butchered his family, Arbor has two options: give up and perish, or rise up and fight to take back the life he's lost. To do that, he must leave behind the only home he's ever known and venture into a world far more dangerous than he could ever have imagined — a world filled with magic, monsters, and mythic beasts powerful enough to destroy entire nations.
pf6.0· 1Goodreads4.40· 575
GoreGrimdarkSecondary WorldSkill CollectionWeak to Strong

The Way

Mike Ignatov

B64/100
A raging fire devoured the world of the Ancients. Where great cities once stood, there is nothing but ruins swallowed by sand. In this wasteland, strength is the only currency that matters. A young man who enjoyed his childhood without paying attention to the world around him pays a devastating price for that ignorance. Cast out and humiliated, forced to look into the eyes of the man who took everything from him, he resolves to become one of the strong — to avenge his father's death and bleed dry the bastard who destroyed his family.
Goodreads4.39· 725
GrimdarkLitRPGSchoolSecondary WorldWeak to StrongWuxia

Omen of a Bluebell

Syly

B64/100
Gaining access to the System — that's the only goal Emilia has had for years. The death of her family left her scarred and broken, but her future still has a chance at being rewritten. She just needs the strength to overcome her past once and for all. After years of failure, her final opportunity is slipping away. One last delve into the Tunnels, sponsored by a questionable backer and fueled by desperation. Emilia never imagined that succeeding would be the easy part. Ancient powers begin to stir. Forgotten evils awaken. The System itself changes in ways nobody fully understands. And somewhere amidst the chaos, powerful forces begin searching for the one responsible — leaving Emilia scrambling through a new life she never had time to prepare for.
Royal Road4.68· 214
Dungeon CrawlingLGBTQ+LitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary World+3

Evil Eye: Hexcaller

LuckyFrey

B63/100
In a broken world once ruled by almighty Mage Kings, the chosen of the gods are all that hold against total annihilation. Harald Horste — naïve, humiliated, broken, and penniless — inadvertently changes his fate with a single act of spite, finding himself drawn into a life of conflict. Demon cultists, savage monsters, and entities of the abyss threaten the lands of men from the remnants of a long-dead empire. To survive, Harald must attend the academy of Ashmere, nursing the pain of a lifetime of mistreatment while navigating scheming nobles and undead horrors.
Royal Road4.56· 1K
CozyGrimdarkLitRPGSchoolSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

System Reset: Forged in Nightmare

Elessar44

B63/100
Alex Smith had many regrets: a dead-end job, an estranged sister, friends who had left him behind. Then the apocalypse happened and fantasy became reality — except Alex's reality did not change. After surviving the Apocalypse for 15 years, his life came to an end with a betrayal. But when fate sends him back to the very beginning, Alex is faced with a choice. He will not hold back this time.
Royal Road4.52· 1.1K
CraftingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+5