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FINAL CORE

D.M. Rhodes (Razzmatazz)

B72/100
The senselessness of so much of the world's death and suffering becomes apparent to the dying paladin Isaiah in his final moments. He perishes — and is reborn into a quiet existence as a simple blackbird. But a spell gone awry transforms him instead into a strange, angelic monstrosity that is neither man nor animal. Isaiah, desperate to return to his simple life, sets out to build the tallest tower ever seen — tall enough to reach the reclusive gods in the heavens above, so he can demand they undo the transformation. But the humans below believe he is trying to destroy the world. [Dungeon-Core] [LitRPG] [Base-building]
Royal Road4.53· 1.6KGoodreads4.16· 178
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyDungeon CoreGenius MC+7

Duskbound

D. E. Sherman

B72/100
Monsters don't fear the dark. They fear Velik. Changed by a childhood encounter he still struggles to understand, Velik is now faster and deadlier than any ordinary human — armed with a unique class built for one purpose: hunting monsters. For ten years he has braved the frontier alone, growing stronger with every kill. But the monsters are coming faster and stronger, and he is losing ground. When a guild hunter arrives and seems more interested in Velik than in the monsters he was hired to kill, Velik is forced to venture deeper into the woods — where what he finds is not just a nest but a secret that could explain what happened to him ten years ago. Something in the dark remembers him, and it has been waiting.
Goodreads4.41· 1.6K
Class SystemCompetent MCDungeon CrawlingLitRPGMysterySecondary World+1

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

Trailblazers & Lunatics

HP Low

B72/100
Upon reaching the age of nine, dozens of children across the Growing World regain the memories of their previous lives on Earth and must come to terms with their new situations. Doro, discovering that his new world's access to magic has stunted the development of empirical science, sets out to quietly spark an industrial revolution — recruiting older crafters and researchers while letting others take the credit. Emi, on the other hand, was reborn alone in a strange forest in the body of an owl, and has a rather different set of priorities: recovering a pair of arms, reuniting with old friends, and funding her endeavors by passing off Earth's music as her own. They are far from alone. The natural disaster that claimed their former lives took many of their fellow university students with them, each carrying their own dreams and baggage into the Growing World. Watch as they take their first steps, gradually reshaping their new home — and being reshaped by it in return.
Royal Road4.74· 167
ComedyCozyCultivationIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+2

Mimic & Me

Cassius Lange, Ryan Tang

B72/100
Betrayed and left for dead by a group of slaving nobles, a down-on-his-luck scout named Liem is rescued in the most unexpected way: a gelatinous, gluttonous mimic fuses with him, enhancing his body and turning him into a half-man, half-mimic monstrosity. Now possessing capabilities far beyond anything seen before on Basania, Liem must contend with his new bodymate's insatiable hunger for cake and human flesh — and with the slaving empire that still wants him dead.
Goodreads4.27· 2.3K
GrimdarkLitRPGNon-human MCSecondary WorldSkill CollectionWeak to Strong

Redemption Arc

Nemobrosus

B72/100
Lord Lucian Villamar left a trail of misery in his wake — the archetypal entitled rich villain of the turn-based strategy RPG War of Four. Now a new soul who enjoyed challenge runs has entered his body at a rather poor time: the start of the game. His relationship with his father is frayed. Powerful figures in the four major nations all want to see him dead. Conspiracies are underway from both political factions and malevolent powers. And Lucian, devoid of talent, is wholly unprepared for the coming calamities. Maybe our protagonist can plot a route to survive this challenge run.
Royal Road4.68· 773Goodreads4.59· 68
Anti-heroBase BuildingGameLitGenius MCIsekaiReincarnation+2

Isekai Terry

Eric Dontigney

B72/100
Destiny called — and Terry hung up. Introverted computer programmer Terry Williams' life is not exciting, and he is A-OK with that. So the last thing he expects on a hiking trail is for Truck-kun to vehicular-homicide him straight into another world. When he wakes up with a head full of new information and people calling him the hero, he promptly flees destiny — dodging noble plots, avoiding a vengeful church, and being stalked by a monster. Terry's read enough isekai to know the hero gig is reserved for the most masochistic of suckers. The only question is whether he can manipulate the tropes well enough to survive.
pf2.0· 1Goodreads4.45· 417
Anti-heroComedyIsekaiLoner MCSatireSecondary World

Surviving the Succession

umedrop24

B72/100
Kayla is a burned-out college graduate neck-deep in student debt, stuck in a minimum-wage job, and about to be evicted from her apartment. One morning she abruptly wakes up in the body of a short-lived villain from a web novel set in Ancient China. Now Kayla must deal with living in the body of a man while trying to survive as the doomed political rival of the Seventh Prince. Caught in a web of political intrigue and backstabbing amidst a succession struggle between the Imperial Princes, it will take every ounce of wit she has to stay alive.
Royal Road4.67· 1.1K
Base BuildingGenius MCIsekaiLGBTQ+ReincarnationSecondary World+1

The Last Human

PSHoffman

B72/100
Thousands of years ago, humankind was destroyed — but the xenos still worship them as gods. Now alien civilizations build cities among humanity's majestic ruins, and one Empire has learned to harness forgotten human technology to dominate the distant worlds. Eolh is a jaded avian thief raised in the underbelly of a city full of winged xenos. He fought the Empire when it first arrived, but the resistance died long ago. He trusts no one and looks out only for himself. When an unusual heist takes a deadly turn, Eolh must bargain with an android carrying an impossible secret — one that could shake the foundations of the universe.
Royal Road4.58· 554Goodreads3.64· 3.9K
Anti-heroGenius MCIsekaiLoner MCNon-human MCOverpowered MC+4

The Bound Dungeon

wires12

B72/100
Pan was an ordinary boy practicing to become a mage's apprentice, living at home and working for his parents — until the day a rogue necromancer attacked his family, killed them, and kidnapped Pan for his affinity for magic. In a bizarre ritual, Pan's consciousness is transferred into a dungeon stone and bound to serve the necromancer, forced to create an army of skeletons. Now Pan must find a way to escape the mage's magical clutches — and if he can manage that, simply survive.
Royal Road4.59· 1.4K
Dungeon CoreGenius MCGrimdarkLitRPGNon-human MCSecondary World

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

The Dragon Heir

Mangowo

B71/100
Jade was born wrong — a magicless half-beastkin in a world ruled by power. After a failed elven ritual traps her in a monster-filled dungeon, restraint stops mattering. She wakes up with scales, wings, and a body that grows stronger with every kill. The hunt feels good. Almost too good. The only catch is that she's becoming a dragon in mind and body. To escape, Jade must climb the dungeon's food chain by indulging the instincts she spent her life suppressing — or die as prey. Humanity is optional. Survival isn't.
Royal Road4.49· 1.6KGoodreads3.29· 102
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyDungeon CrawlingLitRPGMystery+6

Garden of Silk

MadMaxine

B71/100
The power Slate Graystone needs to remain the ducal heir is just out of reach, and he will do anything to get it. Even become a demon. Battling new instincts, ravenous hunger, and struggling to find her place in a world far darker than expected, Slate — now Silk — fights to claim the life she rightfully deserves: one for herself and the mundane folk she was sworn to protect. When Silk learns that the corruption left in the fallen Empire's wake runs far deeper than her own transformation, she must choose between standing by noblesse oblige or tearing the whole system down — and the Sects with it.
Royal Road4.72· 280
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkLGBTQ+Non-human MC+1

Shrubley, the Monster Adventurer

James T. Callum, K.H. Sohmer

B71/100
Born the weakest of all monsters and forbidden from joining the Adventurers Guild, Shrubley is treated as an outcast worth less than dirt. But with Curiosity essence bound to his spirit, he is intelligent, determined, and certain that monsters can be heroes too. Against all odds, he discovers a loophole—but with a deadly catch. To ever be accepted as a true adventurer, he must challenge an otherworldly realm threatening to consume everything, accompanied by a tiny slime, an undead skeleton mage, and a koblin.
Goodreads4.43· 791
Class SystemComedyLitRPGNon-human MCSecondary WorldWeak to Strong+1

Draka

AvaritiaBona

B71/100
A single slip is all it takes. But the consequences of falling from a rock wall are usually broken bones — not waking up in the body of a dragon. When a young bouldering instructor finds herself transported to a strange new world inside a powerful, black-scaled frame, she'll have to rethink all the rules. Adopting the name Draka, the newly minted dragoness begins to explore the forests, mountains, and villages surrounding the city of Karakan. To not only survive but thrive, she must spread her wings, discover the joys of growing her hoard, and learn to handle the seductively draconic voice encouraging her to find violent means to any ends — while overcoming her intimidating shape to form alliances with the human adventurers she meets.
Goodreads4.45· 376
CozyIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCSecondary WorldSoft Magic

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

World Tree Online

M.A. Carlson

B71/100
In the future, androids have taken over most jobs, leaving humans with little to do. Enter World Tree Online, a fully immersive virtual reality experience. Join Byron in his first thirty days of non-stop fantasy adventure in the cursed province of Hurlig Ridge — a land filled with monsters, mysteries, murderers, and treasure. The people of the province have been tormented for centuries by a pack of voracious wolves. Now, with the arrival of adventurers, dark forces have begun to stir, accelerating their dark plans. Can Byron unravel the mystery of this curse before it's too late?
Goodreads4.44· 552
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitMysterySecondary WorldVRMMO

Blood Eagle

Quill

B71/100
They took his tongue, and with it his song and his sorcery. They threw him to the lions, expecting him to die. Mauled, mutilated, and bereft of magic, Arn survives. A prisoner in Aquila, the northern skald has lost all his powers. But a felled tree can regrow, a destroyed house can be rebuilt, and a broken man can be made whole. The method is forbidden magic, and the price is life's blood. With each death by his hand, Arn will claw his powers back — little by little — aided unwittingly by his new masters, who have only one use for him: the arena.
Royal Road4.68· 699Goodreads3.57· 30
Anti-heroGoreGrimdarkSecondary WorldSoft MagicWeak to Strong

Vampire and the Dayspring Star

Matoi

B71/100
A party of four set out to destroy the wicked Exaltare, ruler of the Vampires: the Stardust Champion Mizar, a virtuous priest, a retired knight, and a lady Wizard whose wisdom and knowledge proved invaluable. Yet just before they stormed the palace, misfortune befell them — and the Exaltare's lair would not permit two to face its master. Instead of the death he expected, what awaited the surviving hero was mercy, a new role, and a cruel twist of fate as his new life began — as the Exaltare's daughter.
Royal Road4.70· 408
Base BuildingGrimdarkLGBTQ+Non-human MCOverpowered MCReincarnation+3

Undersea Reincarnation

calcroissant

B71/100
Henry was a freshly graduated marine biologist about to make the discovery of a lifetime when he was struck by lightning. Thankfully, that wasn't the end for him — he woke up alive, healthy, and with tentacles. Follow Henry, a small Trickster Octopus trying to survive in a vast and unfamiliar ocean. He must navigate dangerous and mysterious waters, contend with magic-enhanced marine life, and find civilization — all while armed only with his wits, the ability to temporarily copy skills, and the tools of a bored and forgotten System.
Royal Road4.66· 1.1K
ComedyIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnationSecondary World+2