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Dungeon Robotics

Matthew Peed

B65/100
In 2150, robotics scientist Regan Earle inadvertently caused a global robot uprising. For decades, he kept humanity hostage from the top of a tower, broadcasting his location as a deterrent. Until one day, his last creation finally came for him. Instead of death, Regan received a second chance — reincarnated in another world. As a dungeon core. With all his memories intact. The world of Murgin has no idea what's coming.
pf4.0· 1Goodreads4.31· 1.6K
Base BuildingDungeon CoreNon-human MCReincarnationSci-fiSecondary World

Rising from the Abyss

Falling Leaves

B65/100
A young orphan works hard every day trying to keep his parents' business alive while suffering under a terrible curse. Then a wizard becomes his mentor — and he learns his entire life was a lie. His parents were murdered, he was never cursed, his uncle was not his uncle, and he can channel magic. Thrown into an entirely new world, Yaric must push himself to catch up with his new peers at the academy, learning the secrets of combat, weapons, and magic. But mysteries run deeper than his training: the secrets of the academy, a missing ambassador, hidden dragons, and empires marching to war have all been buried in an abyss so deep they should never be found. Yaric grew up in the abyss. And as his new world gets dragged down by its secrets, he is forced to plunge back in.
Royal Road4.66· 542
Genius MCMilitaryMysterySchoolSecondary WorldSoft Magic+2

How to Survive at the End of the World

RC Joshua

B65/100
When an accident kicks Sean Lawrence forward in time, he finds himself square in the apocalyptic end-times. The world is doomed, and he has only a mysterious guidebook, a leather jacket, and a home-made knife. He could spend his days grinding low-level mobs and waiting for a chance to escape. Or he could rise up, slay dragons, and fight against the odds. Faced with a choice between the dead-end life he's been living and a possibility of greatness, Sean has to decide if he's willing to risk everything for a chance to save Earth itself.
Royal Road4.56· 637Goodreads4.40· 1.2K
ComedyGameLitGenius MCLitRPGPost-apocalypticSci-fi+3

Unbroken Disguise

WalletzFailz

B65/100
Something is off about a peculiar Mimikyu, and N will find the Truth no matter how many conspiracies or odd detours stand in his way. A wondrous world, tainted by a cruel society. A plot to tear it down and replace it with an Ideal structure. A creature of distortion with an alien perspective telling him to stop and smell the roses. Set prior to the events of Black and White, this AU mixes aspects of the anime and games, told through multiple perspectives focused on the misadventures of N and an out-of-place Mimikyu.
Royal Road4.68· 260
IsekaiMysteryNon-human MCSecondary WorldSoft Magic

The Wicked House of Caroline

Aila Aurie

B65/100
Rebecca of Caroline, known to her family as "Beks", spent two decades preparing to become a tool for the kingdom as the Queen's foster daughter and as the child destined to bring the kingdom to prosperity. Twenty years of meticulous planning begin to falter after the Queen dies and the role she has been prepared for starts to slip away. Bound by a deathbed promise to ensure the kingdom's stability at any personal cost, Rebecca finds her oath increasingly difficult to keep. Foster brothers go missing, a new oracle appears, and the kingdom she was trained to support since age three uses her family as a scapegoat. If she's going to fulfill her promise, she may just have to retake the kingdom — but first, she needs to survive.
Royal Road4.68· 260
Base BuildingSecondary WorldSlow BurnSoft Magic

The Lurran Chronicles

John Quinton

B65/100
Eli suddenly wakes up on a metal table before getting tossed into the middle of a magical, monster-infested forest. If that wasn't bad enough, the experimental technology in his head is acting up, and the nearest medical specialist might as well be a universe away. Thankfully, Eli has some magic he's learning to use — which should help him survive in this dangerous new world.
Goodreads4.43· 258
Hard MagicIsekaiLitRPGMysterySecondary World

Young Flame

Joroboros

B65/100
After the tragic loss of her mother, Solvei and her tribal family of áed — a nomadic race of beings made entirely of flame — flee their pursuers through the wasteland. When unexpected events separate Solvei from her tribe, she finds herself alone and vulnerable in unknown lands. With no clear path forward, Solvei must grow as both a person and in strength to survive her uncertain future.
pf6.0· 1Royal Road4.67· 366
GrimdarkNon-human MCSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Hero of Thera

Eric Nylund

B65/100
Thera is a real kingdom at the crossroads of many other worlds, but with all the augmented-reality interfaces, character progression, and game mechanics that players know and love. Players are sponsored by actual demon lords, gods and goddesses, or Lovecraftian nightmares — and the stakes of the Game are nothing less than Creation itself. Hector Savage, gamer extraordinaire, comes to Thera confident in his skills. Nothing can prepare him, though, for the schemes of Abyssal Lords, rampaging barbarian ghosts, and a host of nefarious forces who want him dead before he can even make fifth level.
Goodreads4.32· 1.5K
Competent MCGameLitIsekaiLitRPGSecondary World

Route to Power

CSStephen

B65/100
Truth is stranger than fiction. Laiton had loved Pokemon, but that was a TV show meant for children — simple and easy, filled with obvious problems meant to teach moral lessons. Now he's found himself in a very different world: a place with culture, economics, and politics, inhabited by people with their own passions, goals, and prejudices. What's a reincarnated man to do when he finds himself in a vaguely familiar land filled with adventure and endless possibility — but not all of those possibilities are good?
Royal Road4.67· 363
Base BuildingCultivationGenius MCIsekaiMilitaryOverpowered MC+3

This Used To Be About Dungeons

Alexander Wales

B65/100
A comfy slice-of-life adventuring story that occasionally features dungeons. Mostly it is about walking in the woods with a friend, looking for mushrooms to put in your soup, haggling with the squash seller, or taking care of a neglected garden. It is putting some jam on shortbread biscuits. And yes, sometimes you go down into the dungeons with your friends, kill monsters, and disarm traps — but when you come out, you find the perfect magic item to give to a local kid who helped you out when your cat was sick. You will have rivalries with other groups, find some dungeon eggs that need careful incubation, and help a friend build a fishing weir. There is a big world out there, a mostly tame place with lots of magic and even more to do and see.
Royal Road4.66· 966Goodreads4.18· 375
CozyDungeon CrawlingSecondary WorldWholesome

The Drake of Craumont

Origami Narwhal

B65/100
Ivy Crawford has done her best to put Craumont, and her past, behind her. She'd much rather live life as a Delver — exploring rifts in the world, battling monsters with claws and magic in equal measure. But the past has come calling, and Ivy finds herself back in the city she once called home. Ivy has changed since she left, with scales, claws, and a tail earned from years of magic and Delving. Craumont has changed too: new shadows cling to familiar buildings, and old mysteries have only deepened. Something has sunk its claws deep into the city, and just won't let go. If Craumont is to survive, Ivy has no choice but to slowly unravel the darkness over her old home.
Royal Road4.67· 359
Dungeon CrawlingLGBTQ+MysteryNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary World+1

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

The Sorcerer

Victor Pylaev

B65/100
A powerful sorcerer and shapeshifter — known for operating on the darker side of things — attempts a ritual to travel back in time and save his world. The ritual goes wrong, sending him further into the past than intended and into an alternate history: the year 1909 in the Russian Empire. Stuck in the body of a skinny teenage boy, with no friends, no money, and no title, he must rebuild his abilities in a world ruled by magical aristocrats, where all manner of evil spirits and ghouls crawl out of Breaches in reality and spill into the streets of St. Petersburg.
Goodreads4.40· 669
Competent MCRegressionReincarnationSecondary WorldSoft MagicTransmigration

Retrogression Keeper

Jonathan Brooks

B65/100
When Bax is transported from Earth to an organization of powerful universe-spanning races, he learns that his world is being forcibly inducted into the Retrogression System — which will introduce monsters to Earth and eliminate all human technology. Enrolled in a Keeper training program to become a protector of inducted worlds, he is also slated to become a Keeper Guide for future human Keepers. The only problem: he arrived while fighting off the flu, and when he finally recovers and emerges from his room, the entire Cooperative appears to be abandoned. What is a Keeper Guide recruit to do when there is no one left to teach him?
Goodreads4.40· 669
IsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary WorldStatsSystem Apocalypse

Arcanist In Another World

BleedingTears

B65/100
Valens Kosthal is the youngest Life Archmagus the Empire has ever seen. His mastery over Resonance allows him to hear the frequencies of the world and correct them — healing even the deepest wounds. Yet the full scope of his abilities is forbidden, and the little he can practice must be done in secret. When an ancient ritual promises to reveal the truth behind it all, he leaps at the chance. It leaves him alone in an unfamiliar world, deep in a dungeon crawling with rotten skeletons and towering beasts — and a System that grants him the secrets of Warmagic. Valens no longer needs to hold back.
Royal Road4.49· 1.2K
Dungeon CrawlingHard MagicIsekaiLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+1

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 Road3.90· 1.4K
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary World+3

Return of the Unbound Mage

Scryx

B64/100
Miles has one obsession in life: magic. He lives it, breathes it, and dedicates every waking hour to it — but the same obsession wears down his body. At the peak of his power, he chooses to rest in artifact-enhanced sleep, planning for it to last months. It extends to centuries. Miles wakes to an entirely new world: one where magic has become structured and rigid, where mages have traded future potential for an interface — an easier, safer path for novices. The magic Miles knows has slid into legend. Someone has worked to weaken the world, and they have succeeded. But Miles still lives, and he can do everything this new era calls a myth — and much, much more.
Royal Road4.63· 963
ComedyCozyGameLitHard MagicLitRPGOverpowered MC+1

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

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

Critical Roleplay: I Min-Maxed For Endgame, Not Flavor

PatchnotesPending

B64/100
Vera spent years climbing to the top of Ashen Legacy, a punishing MMO where every stat point mattered. She min-maxed her build, crushed endgame content, and became one of the highest-level players around. Then she woke up inside the game — in the body of her character. Everything works: the magic, the gear, the absurd power level. Unfortunately, so does the backstory — including the kid she gave herself for emotional flavor and half-baked roleplay she barely remembers writing. Now she must navigate a world shaped by her own exploits: divine ruins she helped demolish, cults whose gods she may have deleted, and a continent teetering on the edge of an expansion she never cleared. Being overpowered is easy. Being responsible? That's the real raid boss.
pf7.0· 1Royal Road4.60· 1K
CozyGameLitIsekaiLGBTQ+LitRPGOverpowered MC+2