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The Order of Architects

Oleg Sapphire

B71/100
Theodore the Babylonian was once the greatest Earth Mage in his world — head of the Order of Architects, two thousand years old, and finally ready to retire. In the course of his long life, however, he had accumulated too many enemies, and they ensured his retirement was fatal. His death was not final. Reborn in a strange new world with all his memories and experience but none of his power, he must climb back to the top — before this world is consumed by the beasts of the Shadow Plane.
Goodreads4.40· 1.8K
Base BuildingCompetent MCCraftingIsekaiOlder MCReincarnation+1

Nobody Saves the Princess

JacksonWrites

B71/100
Princess Lillia Ashvalin was supposed to inherit a throne, not fight a giant bug for the right to wear its skin as a dress. After five years under her murderous aunt's rule, the worst part was supposed to be politics. Sadly, her aunt had her thrown into the bowels of an SSS-Class Dungeon. Now our princess has fallen into a world — and a genre — she was never meant for. Armed with a dead knight's sword she cannot equip and a class nobody has ever heard of, Lillia must fight her way through spooky monsters, elite bosses, deadly traps, and other deeply unaristocratic problems. Down here, all the knights are dead. Down here, nobody saves the princess.
Royal Road4.70· 395
Class SystemComedyDungeon CrawlingLitRPGSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Lord Valevsky: Last of the Line

Vasily Mahanenko

B71/100
Maximilian is the last of the noble Valevsky lineage. His family was executed on the orders of the powerful Duke Odoevsky, who coveted their lands. Maximilian escaped death but not punishment — condemned to serve as a suicide soldier on the front lines against the dark god Skron's mutated creatures. With nothing left but his honor and a thirst for revenge, Maximilian vows to claw his way out of this sentence and reclaim his birthright. First, he has to survive training.
Goodreads4.41· 1.2K
Anti-heroGrimdarkLitRPGSecondary WorldStatsWeak to Strong

A Beginner's Guide to Napping, Sunbathing, and Slaughtering Your Prey

TigerCannon

B71/100
Fang is a simple cat. He likes napping in the sun, having his belly scratched for precisely 17.329 seconds, and hunting defenseless wildlife. He does not like being called Chairman Meow, and he certainly does not like being punted between dimensions. Fang is having a Very Bad Day. Mysterious blue boxes have appeared out of thin air, and the world around him is stranger than any cat should have to endure. This is a slice-of-life story: Fang is a cat soul in a cat body, and that is not going to change. There is no epic tale here — only a cat doing cat things in an interesting setting, with light game elements mostly present for flavor. Nature is cruel, and cats are crueler than most.
Royal Road4.63· 1.2KGoodreads2.50· 2
Anti-heroComedyCozyGameLitIsekaiLitRPG+3

Weeaboo's Unfortunate Isekai: The Necromancer's Gacha

Warby Picus

B71/100
Getting isekai'd into a gameworld full of waifus was supposed to be the dream. Unfortunately, the mysterious black-robed figure who did the summoning grabbed the wrong guy, and now the protagonist faces waves of monsters intent on terrible things. The game turns out to be a gacha, which means desperately earning money to pull summons, building fortifications, furnishing a tower, and gearing up — all while grappling with the existential horror of gacha economics. The necromancers who built this game are going to pay. A base-building, summoner-focused isekai with no harem, featuring tower defense mechanics and dark humor.
Royal Road4.67· 932
Base BuildingComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MC+4

Spire Dweller

Stephabeni

B71/100
In a world where cultivators wield qi to warp reality and a vast wilderness teems with deadly spirit beasts, mortals find even the first floor of the World Spire punishing. When Samantha unexpectedly receives a quest to become a cultivator from the mysterious System, she seizes the opportunity. But she soon discovers that in the fearsome landscape of cultivators, a single misstep could have dire consequences — for herself and for her spirit bond, a Lunar Hare named Silas. With her loved ones' safety on the line and her options narrowing, Samantha must either master the cultivators' dangerous games or brave the deadly upper floors of the tower, from which no one has ever been heard from again. She always knew that joining the ranks of cultivators would be grueling — but she never guessed that leaving her mortality behind would be the easy part.
Royal Road4.57· 1.4K
CultivationGameLitLitRPGMonster TamingSecondary WorldTower Climbing+1

Oathbreaker: A Dark Fantasy Web Serial

SovWrites

B71/100
Alken is the Headsman of Seydis — an executioner tasked by the divine powers of his homeland to hunt traitors and warmongers in a war-afflicted land haunted by demons and the restless dead. Once a paladin, this role ill suits him. Torn between principle, knightly oaths, and a tangled web of loyalties, Alken seeks an elusive redemption through penance of blood. His lonely journey through a broken land of time-weary elves and brooding demigods grows increasingly strange and personal.
Royal Road4.70· 385
Anti-heroGrimdarkHorrorMysteryOlder MCSecondary World+2

AQUILA

nyctophilus

B71/100
At twenty-one, everyone manifests a symbiont — a creature invisible to all but its host that shapes their destiny. Conrada "Conrad" Dorrien harbors a dangerous secret: she alone can see everyone's symbionts. Revealing her gift could trigger a buyout of her contract, separating her from family and placing her at the mercy of ruthless corporations. As manifestation approaches, Conrada hopes to follow her father into academia. But her extraordinary connection to the symbionts means she's destined for anything but easy obscurity. A single word — Classified — and she becomes the latest acquisition of Aquila Operations, a boutique corporate consulting firm known for unorthodox methods and a reputation for always getting the job done. A low-fantasy dystopian corporate-feudalism story with grey characters, a queer-normative setting, and a slow-burn romance.
Royal Road4.61· 258Goodreads3.98· 4K
Genius MCGrimdarkLGBTQ+Post-apocalypticSci-fiSecondary World+2

Underdog

Alexey Osadchuk

B71/100
Eric was born in a world governed by the Great System, completely nulled — level zero, no characteristics points, kept alive only by tiny base reserves of life and energy. When his parents die in a mining accident on his fourteenth birthday, the bank takes their house and Eric is left with no choice but to work off the remaining debt in the Dungeons of the Crooked Mountains. Despite being treated as a freak and outcast his entire life, Eric discovers that his affliction — the very thing that makes the System's normal paths unavailable to him — may be a hidden advantage. The story of a nulled boy's struggle to survive, and to rise.
Goodreads4.26· 2.2K
Dungeon CrawlingLitRPGMonster TamingSecondary WorldSkill CollectionStats+1

The Runic Artist

Ellake

B71/100
Where there is a Rune, there is a way. Nate is a kid from Sydney, Australia whose free time is devoted to his one true love — art, graffiti specifically. That is, until his hobby catapults him into a new world filled with danger and magic. Finding himself alone in a forest that is clearly not on Earth, he must learn to navigate this new world and the System that governs it. Armed with nothing but his trusty penknife and a Legendary Class, Nate will fend for his life — conquering dungeons, discovering runes, and being drawn into battles against enemies he didn't even know he had, all while making new friends along the way. Torn between returning to his old life and the friends he left behind, or making a new home in a world filled with magic, he will have to decide where his heart truly lies.
Royal Road4.58· 1.3K
CozyDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary World+3

Tethered

TurkeyBlock

B70/100
Noah Fel was a [Ritualist] for the Collegium. As a professor, his daily routine consisted largely of grading papers, writing apprentice recommendations, and ensuring that his students didn't blow themselves up. Truly, a rewarding job. Now, displaced from his home in the aftermath of a ritual gone wrong, Fel finds himself on an inadvertent fantasy world adventure — with lands to travel, people to meet, and more than a few close calls with death.
Royal Road4.62· 574Goodreads3.55· 2.9K
ComedyGameLitIsekaiSecondary WorldSoft Magic

Shadow Clone Sorcery

JPwrites

B70/100
Lukas Zaun has been a thief, an assassin, a spy, an ambassador, the herald of a dragon god, and a demon lord's enforcer — and he did it all sitting on the beach, watching the waves, enjoying a cup of tea. That's the advantage of having clones. Now he wants to become an archmage and try his hand at godhood. It means starting from scratch in a new body on a new world — but that's no problem for someone who can live multiple days while others toil through one.
Royal Road4.64· 1.2K
ComedyCompetent MCIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary World+1

Underkeeper

Hankthemoose

B70/100
Bernt might have graduated from the Mage Academy, but not everyone has the money or connections to launch a prestigious career as a mage. A few years later, Bernt finds himself working for City Maintenance as an Underkeeper among the other rejects of Halfbridge's magery. But hey, it's a stable job. With the help of his unlicensed, unregistered soul-devouring demonic familiar, he'll save enough to launch his career as an adventurer — just as soon as he can afford some proper gear. If only there were a faster way. Adventure, it turns out, has a habit of finding him first.
pf6.0· 1Royal Road4.67· 891Goodreads4.32· 721
Class SystemCompetent MCDungeon CrawlingGenius MCHard MagicSecondary World+2

The Dragon's Wrath

Brent Roth

B70/100
A VRMMORPG that offered escape, adventure, and a second chance. When Brent Roth suffered a workplace accident that left him immobile, he discovered The Dragon's Wrath — a virtual reality game offering everything he lacked in real life. Inside, as Sigurd, he builds more than just a character. Across three volumes, he carves out a kingdom in the North, wages war, and finds himself mired in a conflict far beyond his control — one man attempting to change the fate of thousands.
Goodreads4.23· 2.3K
Base BuildingLitRPGMilitarySecondary WorldStatsVRMMO

Wearing Power Armor to a Magic School

Jcb112

B70/100
In the year 3047, humanity sends a second candidate through an interdimensional portal to a world of wizards and sorcery — this time properly equipped. The magical realm known as The Nexus demands a college-age candidate enroll in a magical academy to prove their worth. Emma Booker is a 19-year-old ROTC candidate chosen for the task. Mana proves deadly to the human body, so she must navigate everything from ancient conspiracies to noble politics while sealed inside a suit of power armor. Armed with a sidearm, laser cannon, railgun, and an AI co-pilot, Emma must balance strength and diplomacy to survive her first year at the Transgracian Academy for the Magical Arts.
pf7.0· 1Royal Road4.57· 1.3K
Competent MCHard MagicIsekaiOverpowered MCSchoolSci-fi+1

Living Ice

Dmitry Sheleg

B70/100
A stark and forbidding parallel world where humanity survived an ancient demon invasion thanks to mages who founded the aristocratic families that became the world's guardians. To one such family was born Ivan, a boy with no control over his magical energy — a flaw that cost him his life. An old mage's willing sacrifice returned a soul to the boy's body. It just wasn't the same soul. Now the outsider soul inhabiting Ivan's body must navigate a world where aristocratic bloodlines with magical abilities hold all power, learn to kill demons, and survive the trials necessary to become a true master of the Morozov bloodline.
Goodreads4.42· 801
IsekaiSchoolSecondary WorldTransmigrationWeak to Strong

Lost In Translation

Dissonance

B70/100
If you're one to travel the roads, you may have heard of me — the Skystrider who walked with the wind, the Voiceless man of song without speech, the Tutor who taught the Lion of Summer how to fight, the Traveler who has walked all roads of the earth. I have spoken languages lost to time, sung to the earth, outwitted Demons, and danced with the Fae. My songs have been heard by lords of wind and ash, and my steps have echoed in the bellies of gargantuan beasts. People have branded me a myth. But I'm no legend. I'm just the bard stupid enough to poke the real ones with a stick.
Royal Road4.67· 843
Competent MCCozySecondary WorldSoft Magic

WORLDSEED

Philetus

B70/100
After a first life on Earth that fell short in almost every way, the protagonist awakens as a child in a new world — determined to make the most of his second chance. Equipped with several unique skills and hard-won insight into how this world operates, he sets out to unravel its mysteries, push his limits, and rise above them. A medium-stakes story of gradual progression, magical discovery, exploration, and monster taming as a reincarnated boy makes his way in a world full of secrets.
Royal Road4.31· 1.7K
CozyIsekaiLitRPGMonster TamingReincarnationSecondary World+2

The Dungeon of Stories

John Stovall

B70/100
Will is the newest dungeon born into the world — and he is a rank higher than any dungeon that preceded him. Born alongside seven others in a small area due to a magical disaster caused by the Voidbringers, Will faces an immediate threat: they have returned, and they can corrupt dungeons. With the aid of his dungeon fairy Amber and an adventuring party led by Gar Adamant — displaced prince of the kingdom the Voidbringers destroyed — Will must grow his dungeon, build up a nearby town, and fend off enemies on every side.
Goodreads4.44· 455
Base BuildingDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingSecondary World

Crimson Eternal

WolfShine

B70/100
Death is an inevitability for all — except Aria. In a world locked in war, with most continents already wiped out before a Great Treaty banned strategic-level weaponry, Aria Crimson finds herself lost. Treated as a weapon by the military since childhood, she has almost forgotten what it was like not to be at war. When a System screen appears before every person on the planet, humanity gains classes, levels, and new powers — just as invaders from another world declare war to claim the planet for themselves. After ten years of fighting, Aria finally has a way out. One that involves even more fighting. As the only True Immortal in the universe, dubbed by the System as Death itself, she must figure out what that means for her future.
Royal Road4.43· 1.6K
ComedyGameLitLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+2