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Path of the Berserker

Rick Scott

S85/100
When cultivators came to Earth they destroyed human civilization in a matter of hours. Armies fell, cities burned, and the moon turned red and filled the world with monsters. Now, over a decade later, what is left of humanity slaves under the heels of Qi-infused masters. One man wants none of it. Sick of serving and determined to make the cultivators pay, he is found by a fearsome goddess who shows him a different path — one that does not rely on Qi. Through blood, sweat, and pain, he will fight to take back the planet and free humanity, or die trying. That is the Path of a Berserker.
Royal Road4.50· 768Goodreads4.52· 2.8K
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationMilitaryPost-apocalypticSci-fi+3

Blood & Fur

Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

A84/100
A new emperor rules each year in Yohuachanca. Only the most delicious food graces his palate, the realm's most beautiful women fill his harem, his palace dazzles the mind — and at the year's end, he is sacrificed to the Nightlords under the light of the Scarlet Moon. Iztac is a pisspoor orphan and this year's emperor. A sacrifice bound for the altar. But the vampires have made a mistake: Iztac is a sorcerer whose soul can journey into the secret underworld to plunder the spells of the dead. There, in the darkness, hides the power to drag the Nightlords off their throne. He has a year to find it — or perish for good. He may not be the first emperor, but he will be the last.
Royal Road4.75· 1.5K
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkMilitarySecondary World+1

Sylver Seeker

Kennit Kenway

A84/100
After fulfilling the duty all arch necromancers are tasked with, Sylver Sezari was not expecting to ever wake up again. But he did. Crawling his way back into the land of the living, he finds himself in a strange land, a strange time, and with a strange floating screen in front of his new face. Either through plan or chance, he's alive again — and planning to enjoy himself to his heart's content. A LitRPG story with equal parts humor and dark sorcery, deep worldbuilding, and unforgettable characters.
Royal Road4.50· 4.5KGoodreads4.29· 1.7K
Anti-heroComedyGoreLitRPGReincarnationSecondary World+1

Gunsoul

Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

A84/100
Marauders shot Yuan in the head and buried him in a ditch. They thought it would be enough to put him down. They were wrong. Rising from the dead by the will of the Gun — demigod of revenge and firearms — Yuan has one goal: track down his murderers across the Unmade World and slaughter every last one of them. With the bullet-core stuck in his skull marking him as a Gunsoul, he can finally teach these arrogant cultivators a lesson they'll never forget. But revenge isn't easily claimed. To carve out a path through the wasteland, Yuan must face power-hungry sects, nuclear cultivators, and weapon-gods. No one will bury him again.
Royal Road4.77· 921
Anti-heroCultivationGrimdarkPost-apocalypticSci-fiWuxia

Systema Delenda Est

InadvisablyCompelled

A84/100
When the System came to Earth, technology failed, monsters appeared, and billions died as humans were inducted into game-like physics. Unfortunately for the System, not all humans were on Earth. Cato is an ordinary postbiological citizen — disgusted enough by the System's excesses to go through one of the portals and spread himself into the broader System just as Earth is completely freed. He has no magic, but he has the technology and knowledge of a civilization reaching toward the second rank of the Kardashev scale. He may have to operate under the System's limitations, but he certainly doesn't have to play by its rules. His goal is simple: remove the System entirely.
Royal Road4.75· 1.4K
Anti-heroGenius MCLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+2

The Bad Guys

Eric Ugland

A84/100
Yesterday Ben was a small-time criminal fleecing New York's upper class. Today he has a new face, a new name, and a new world to navigate. He thinks he might be able to use his skills in disarmament and deception to help people this time around. Maybe. Watching a medieval city guard fend off a ten-meter sentient slime blob crawling up from the sewers makes him reconsider his life choices. Tomorrow he needs to rescue a girl, steal a crown, join a guild, and — most importantly — convince an innkeeper to make a decent bacon and cheese omelette.
Goodreads4.41· 3.9K
Anti-heroComedyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGSecondary World+1

REND

Temple

A83/100
Erind Hartwell is a dutiful daughter, law student, film enthusiast — and psychopath. She's relatively normal, even in a world where superhumans battle eldritch horrors that transform people into monsters. Viewing life as a movie, she has always wanted to be the main character. That wish is granted unexpectedly: on the brink of death, impaled by a spike, an otherworldly entity offers her powers. Becoming a monster isn't exactly the heroic origin she imagined — but she didn't have much choice, and she can probably make it work. Follow an endearing psychopath through the chaos of a battle between superhumans, hi-tech government agents, monsters, mutants, and wannabe heroes for Earth and the future of humanity.
Royal Road4.76· 916
Anti-heroComedyHorrorOverpowered MCSecondary WorldSuperpowers+2

Super Genetics

Sean Dunning

A83/100
The heroes Terry Fairway once idolized have turned against him. His grandfather — a ruthless S-ranked necromancer — rules Wichita from a throne while the people starve. Vampires stalk the streets unchecked, feeding on the innocent without fear of reprisal. Terry always believed his family were the good guys, but Wichita is not a city of heroes or villains — it is a city of power. Determined to drive out the vampires, feed the hungry, and one day challenge his grandfather, Terry sets out to seize power for himself. Even in the deepest darkness, a single light can spark a revolution — and Terry is ready to burn bright, or burn it all to the ground trying.
Goodreads4.52· 534
Anti-heroSummoningSuperpowersUrban FantasyWeak to Strong

Assassinate Wonderwind

Matizu

A83/100
Aiden lives in Wonderwind, the world's biggest VRMMO. He dropped out of college, ditched real life, and invested everything into a career as a cold, calculated virtual assassin targeting the richest players in the top-500 leaderboard — every kill executed to perfection. Until his headset glitches mid-mission. One lag spike later, rent's due and his landlord is about to kick him to the curb. Aiden realizes his next job might be his last. He logs into a high-level area severely underleveled with trash gear, prepared for one final assassination — and then he didn't expect to fall for his target.
Royal Road4.80· 478
Anti-heroCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGLoner MC+4

Metaworld HopeCore

Wutosama

A83/100
The year is 2032, and AI slop has won. Far from creating utopia, society has fractured into bots and culture wars. Enter Lana Zacanissian, corporate superstar and prophet of profits — creator of the largest IP aggregate marketplace in the world. After fleecing billions out of their life savings, she is judged by her coworkers and victims and tossed into Santa Monica Bay. When Lana opens her eyes again, she is in the body of a girl-child she does not recognize. A system message tells her she has unjustly ended another's Karmic Causality and usurped countless others through her boundless greed. She must live again to atone for her sins — or sink into eternal oblivion.
Royal Road4.82· 370
Anti-heroComedyCozyLitRPGReincarnationSystem Apocalypse+1

The Doorverse Chronicles

Kyle Johnson

A83/100
John Gilliam, the Faceless Man, is one of the world's premier assassins—legendary, never failed. When a job goes wrong, he discovers an entire universe beyond what he knows: the Doorverse, where magic and monsters exist and his lethal skills are frail shadows of the powers that be. Now John is an Inquisitor, tasked with traveling the Doorverse and righting the balance on each world he finds. Every world is unique, and he must learn to survive anew each time he steps through a door.
Goodreads4.57· 267
Anti-heroCompetent MCGameLitIsekaiLitRPGSecondary World

Between Beast And Buddha: A Drunken Monkey's Journey to Immortality

Turniper

A83/100
Orange-crest is a monkey with simple desires: warm summer days lazing with his siblings, sampling the variety of fruit and grubs Mount Yuelu provides. Unlike his brothers, he is endlessly curious — and no subject arouses that curiosity more than the mysteries of fermentation. One fateful night, he finds himself enjoying an experimental brew far more potent than usual. Daoist Scouring Medicine is a man disgraced, caught between his uncompromising vision for pill refining and the politics of a world that discards its ideals the moment they stand in the way of profit. He wanders the slopes of an unfamiliar mountain, hitting the gourd harder than any self-respecting daoist should. From a pair of poorly considered drunken decisions, a sequence of events is set into motion that will one day shake the very heavens.
Royal Road4.81· 409
AlchemyAnti-heroComedyCultivationNon-human MCWuxia

Wraithwood Botanist

Little Lynx

A83/100
Mira is determined to be a botanist — no matter how dangerous or violent it may become. Upon entering the multiverse, she made two requests: a botany class to further her research, and to be dropped off in an isolated forest far from the violent god-rearing System. She was granted both — but not in the way she expected. The System abandoned her in a hellishly dangerous forest where she earned a rare class that excels at killing things.
Royal Road4.57· 2.2KGoodreads4.40· 1.5K
Anti-heroClass SystemIsekaiLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill Collection+1

Nightmare Realm Summoner

Actus

A83/100
When the system warned the world it was coming a week in advance, Alex couldn't have been more excited. In college for a degree he didn't care about to get a job he didn't want, the promise of a world where magic and challenge awaited — even at the potential cost of death — was the best news he could have imagined. He wasn't ready for his only friend to shove him through a portal into hell the moment the apocalypse started. Instead of hunting rabbits and farming wolves, Alex finds himself stranded in a warped world where even the bugs are stronger than he is. Even with a summoner class that gains the powers of its monsters, most people would have died. Alex didn't get the memo. Where others saw certain death, he found opportunity.
Royal Road4.51· 1.7KGoodreads4.48· 2.3K
Anti-heroGameLitIsekaiLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+2

Orochimama

WhoaMama

A83/100
By cruel trick of the fates — or just the apathy of an uncaring universe — a modern soul awakens as Orochimaru shortly after he has possessed a woman as his new host. Now they must find a way to turn a hoard of sycophants and psychopaths into something that will not only keep them from an early grave, but reshape it into a genuine force for change in a messed-up world.
Royal Road4.75· 1K
Anti-heroComedyGenius MCLGBTQ+MysteryReincarnation+1

A Young Girl's War Between the Stars

sinereal

A83/100
Tanya von Degurechaff meets a violent end as the Great War draws to a close. Being X, growing bored with his chew toy, flings her soul out of his system entirely. Tanya wakes in a new universe — a galaxy far, far away — and must start over once again. It's a long way to the top, if you want to retire early.
Royal Road4.73· 1.8K
Anti-heroGenius MCMilitaryReincarnationSci-fi

The Cabin Is Always Hungry

HoppyCobalt

A83/100
When Mark Castle died at the hands of a cult, he was reincarnated and forced to become a dungeon core — making his domain a lonely cabin in the woods. With newfound powers, he begins his revenge on the people who murdered him, drawing on the tropes and monster manuals of his favorite horror films. His rule is simple: lure unwitting victims into the cabin, kill them off one by one, and feed his core with their souls. Anyone lucky enough to survive until dawn earns treasure — and their lives. But as Mark feeds and grows, those who hunger for his unique power begin to take notice, and the danger he faces becomes far greater than he imagined.
Royal Road4.73· 1.8K
Anti-heroDungeon CoreGameLitGoreGrimdarkHorror+6

The Perfect Run: Bad Runs

Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

A82/100
An anthology and companion piece to The Perfect Run, exploring roads not taken. What if Quicksave had become a Psycho? What if Len Sabino had taken the Violet Elixir rather than the Blue? What if Jasmine had remembered? What if Ryan had gained a different power, or fallen in love with someone else? The Ultimate One guides readers through these alternate histories — moments where a single choice reshapes everything.
Royal Road4.82· 326
Anti-heroPost-apocalypticSci-fiSuperpowersTime LoopUrban Fantasy

The Devil of Cintra

Ekological Chimera

A82/100
After her second death, Tanya von Degurechaff finds herself reincarnated once more — this time in a world of monsters and magic. Discovered by Aretuza's recruiters at a young age, she graduates from the prestigious academy in record time and secures herself a comfortable position in one of the Continent's most influential kingdoms. She is ready, at last, for some peace and quiet. Unfortunately, her job does not stay comfortable for long.
Royal Road4.80· 400
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCMilitaryOverpowered MCReincarnation+2

Nowhere Stars

Anemone

A82/100
Liadain, a girl born terminally ill, has only ever wanted to live — forever, if at all possible. Instead, shortly after her thirteenth birthday, she is consigned to spend her last months in hospice care. Until the night she encounters a monster more terrifying than death, and her savior offers her a chance at her impossible dream. A chance to become a Keeper — one of the chosen children whose magic serves as humanity's sole defense against Harbingers, living nightmares that devour dreams, passions, and souls. Those who consume enough Harbingers grow into something more than human, able to change themselves in nearly any way they wish. So Liadain throws herself into this new life, hoping against hope to save herself. But magic is foremost an expression of the soul. Shaped by her cold bitterness, her power grants dominion over sickness, death, and ill-fate — forcing her to wield the very things she hates most as weapons. And as she delves deeper into the minds of Harbingers, she can't help but wonder if their hunger is really so different from her own.
Royal Road4.75· 849Goodreads4.20· 50
Anti-heroGrimdarkHorrorSecondary WorldSoft MagicTragedy+1