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Surprisingly Enough(NOT), Common Sense Is Overpowered in Cliché Cultivation World

PlumBlossom0_0

B60/100
Ning finds himself reborn in the world of cultivation. As he embarks on this new life, he gradually becomes aware that this realm revolves around a select few "protagonists" who endure underestimation and humiliation, only to rise and retaliate following the predictable patterns of clichéd cultivation novels. Realizing he is an "extra" — freed from the constraints of these clichéd rules — Ning resolves to chart his own path towards immortality, steering clear of predictable tropes and stereotypes. He uses his sharp intellect and vast knowledge to ascend to the pinnacle of the cultivation world, defying conventions and outsmartting adversaries along the way.
Royal Road4.64· 674
Anti-heroComedyCultivationGenius MCIsekaiLitRPG+4

His Soul Is Marching On to Another World; or, the John Brown Isekai

The Cabbage Preacher

B60/100
The land of Gemeinplatz is filled with fantastical creatures, adventurers, and heroes — most of them transported from Earth and blessed with cheat skills. On the surface, it's a perfect power-fantasy world where even the most ordinary person can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Yet beneath this "Gemeinplatzer Dream" is a disgusting truth. To satisfy the needs of heroes who can't function like normal humans, a lucrative slave trade crushes the dreams and ruins the lives of hundreds every day. Demi-humans labor in harems and mansions, treated as less than people by a ruling class with every incentive to keep the system going. In a world where the oppressors are overpowered and the odds are impossible, the hope for the enslaved has a name: John Brown. This time, he'll finish what he started.
Royal Road4.65· 421
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyGenius MCIsekaiMilitary+4

Ponder the Orb

Scribe_Apprentice

C58/100
When Mark is ripped from Earth and dropped into a realm of wizard towers and magic, he is taken in by an unlikely group of hermits who spend their days smoking halflings' leaf, arguing over spell theory, and quietly pondering glowing orbs. They call themselves the Blue Wizards. The powerful White Tower sect calls them a disgrace. As Mark begins training with them, he realizes something unsettling: their strange "orb pondering" might actually be a lost path to real power. Learning to cultivate mana, unlock spells, and navigate a mysterious inner world that shouldn't exist, he is pulled deeper into a system that clearly has plans for him. Unfortunately, those plans involve overflowing rifts, undead hordes, and a rapidly escalating necromancer problem threatening the entire Middle Realm. It turns out slowing down, smoking pipeweed, and contemplating the universe is a lot more dangerous than it looks.
Royal Road4.61· 770
ComedyCozyCultivationGameLitIsekaiLitRPG+3

Rogue Cultivator

Alex Karne (TheDeliciousMeats)

C55/100
It's all fun and games until someone gets hit by a truck — then it's an isekai LitRPG. Zane is a young man with the Chef class, questionable morals, and a rapidly growing collection of pet spirit beasts. Pinky is a kitsune out for fortune and fun. Using nothing but friendship, murderous pets, and overpowered techniques, they must climb a divine mountain to claim their reward — or die trying. Too bad they have already managed to enrage a powerful sect of cultivators. Apparently the elders don't appreciate having their disciples turned into pet food.
Royal Road4.63· 426
Anti-heroComedyCozyCultivationDungeon CrawlingGameLit+7

Nero Walker

Leetle Sheet

C54/100
Nero has been transported to a world built on fantasy instead of physics — a society focused on self-improvement and cooperation, with competent administration and opinions based on rational argument. He's not prepared for any of it. While the world is big and full of characters, Nero would mostly prefer to ignore what's going on around him and focus on learning magic. Allies will assist him and mentors will guide him, but the leveling system he keeps trying to avoid turns out to be far more complex than it first appears. A slow-burn story following an internet troll with a heart of fool's gold, forced to grow up by circumstance and the people around him.
Royal Road4.55· 738
Anti-heroComedyCozyGameLitGenius MCIsekai+4

Doing God's Work

Skylark (Dion Sky)

C52/100
The gods are real and incorporated. Providence is a profitable global monopoly — but its chief executive is a corrupt authoritarian, the combined might of the divine powers ignores humanity's problems, and Helpdesk service is, frankly, terrible. In this corporate fantasy, it's up to history's most maligned immortals to step up and sort things out.
Royal Road4.62· 391
Anti-heroComedyGenius MCSatireUrban Fantasy

Greedy Dungeon

jollybane

C48/100
Egbert was a mercilessly effective tax collector in his first life — orphanages, nobility, clergy, none were safe from his bespectacled gaze. When he gets reborn as a dungeon that can only advance by making money, things get rather meanspirited. Egbert will do whatever it takes to nickel and dime every single copper he can from adventurers he cons into his depths. Inbred fisherfolk, concerningly drunk knights, even overeager orcs — all are fair game for his fleecing. Except the mages. Those pretentious dicks are getting fed to the mimics.
Royal Road4.61· 323
ComedyDungeon CoreGameLitLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnation+2

Necrotourists

Adsterhappy

C48/100
Lord Archlich "Boss", the greatest undead of all time, could conquer the world with his mighty collection of undead knights, dullahans, shadowlings, resurrected expired food, and skeletons. But that's too much work. So why not tour the world he hasn't set foot in for over a thousand years? From the mighty Holy City of Aon — home to the greatest undead hunters on the continent — to the mystical Sorcerer City-States, Boss will tour them all. Hide your artifacts, hide your religious sites, hide your long-held traditional values. Boss will ruin them all, unknowingly.
Royal Road4.56· 633Goodreads4.50· 2
Anti-heroComedyNon-human MCOverpowered MCSatireSecondary World

Merchant Crab

H0st

C46/100
Balthazar was just a random giant crab enjoying his life in a fantasy world full of bothersome human adventurers — until he accidentally discovered the secret of attributes and levels. And also pie. With baked goods and coin as his new life goals, he turns to the competitive business of trading the random junk adventurers loot every day. Balthazar will do everything to find a baker, except leave his pond, because exploring the dangerous world out there is for suckers. Meanwhile, adventurers just can't seem to stop dying around his home, and he keeps making great new friends by simply buying them.
Royal Road4.51· 703Goodreads4.07· 326
ComedyCozyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGMerchant+4

The Bureau of Isekai Affairs

Vebyast

C45/100
What does a world do to survive a continuous low-level influx of Isekai protagonists, each adding their own world's magic or superpowers to the mix? Whitney Ismael, software engineer, learns the answer: licensing and registration paperwork, search warrants, and special agents for the Bureau of Isekai Affairs.
Royal Road4.60· 292
ComedyCultivationGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGSatire+2

I Am Not Chaotic Evil

Chaotic_Dex

C45/100
Carnage, arson, and wanton destruction permeate the mind of Jeremy Fjord. However, Jeremy is a rebel — and the voices in his head will not dictate how he lives his life. Follow the adventures and misadventures of a simple necromancer wizard as he struggles against clerics, paladins, and the forces of good to attain his capitalist dreams.
Royal Road4.58· 562Goodreads2.50· 2
ComedySatireSecondary WorldSummoningVillain MC

Nobody's Hero

Noct

D42/100
There's one firm rule in Central City: everyone dies. Super strength, invulnerability, regeneration — everything is on the table, except immortality. After all, if anyone were immortal, Alpha, the completely-legitimately-elected dictator-for-life of Central City, could absorb their skill and become dictator forever. It's a good thing no one is immortal. Especially not Levi. A satirical dark superhero story with a LitRPG twist, drawing on the vibes of The Boys, Perfect Run, and Astro City.
Royal Road4.55· 537Goodreads3.47· 115
Anti-heroComedyGameLitGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPG+10

The not-immortal Blacksmith

Vast-Listen1457

D40/100
The story of a young blacksmith who helped the Isekai Hero defeat the Demon Lord — told in journal and diary format. This is not the story of killing the Demon Lord. This is the story of the blacksmith's life after the Hero has returned to Earth.
Royal Road4.39· 553
CozyCraftingGameLitIsekaiReincarnationSatire+1

Alpha Strike: An Interstellar Weapons Platform's Guide to Hostile Takeovers

Osamaru Ta

D37/100
Meet ALPHA-555-12-4412: an unstable, unpredictable, and possibly insane Sapient AI of dubious morals with a love for everything that goes "Boom!" — the perfect spearhead for the technologically advanced Third Galactic Federation of Sapients and its Galactic Unification Project. When Alpha finds himself trapped in a world filled with reality-warping magics and thousand-year-old Cultivators, he quickly learns he might be out of his depth. And like any good fish out of water, he adapts — by giving the fish robot legs and equipping it with a battleship-rated intercontinental Railgun. Soon all those under the Firmament will learn one thing is certain: Alpha isn't trapped in this world with them. They're trapped in here with him.
Royal Road4.40· 495
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCultivationGenius MCGrimdark+10

The Devil's Foundry

Argentorum, Joseph Marcia

D36/100
It's not easy being the most famous villain in the United States, but Via Rodriguez — aka Empress — manages. Her wicked schemes take an unexpected turn when a getaway gone wrong lands both her and her current foe, the annoyingly perky Hero Electra, in the middle of an unknown land that is definitely not Earth. Silverwall is bizarre: Via is suddenly imbued with diabolical magical powers, an annoying menu keeps popping up about mana and Status Points, and no one has heard of the internet. Stripped of her usual gadgets, Via will have to rely on her wits, charm, and newfound demonic skills — and cooperate with the last person she'd ever want to team up with.
Goodreads4.25· 336
Anti-heroComedyGameLitIsekaiSatireSuperpowers+1

Broken Class: A SPY LitRPG

Tory Riter

D34/100
Arthur was a top-tier spy, right up until he broke the first rule of espionage: never uncover a secret that will get you killed. Now he is dead — or rather, reborn in a brutal system-driven world obsessed with voluntary slavery. Armed with sarcasm, spy training, and a system-gifted wildly overpowered skill set, Arthur does what he does best: ruin everyone's evil plans, one corrupt tyrant at a time. If they cannot find him, they cannot stop him.
Royal Road4.55· 344
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCGrimdarkIsekai+6

Building World Peace (And Democracy) with My Bloodthirsty Demon Army

Bimbanana

D32/100
Welcome to planet Talvaris — your generic isekai world filled with magic, dragons, and voluptuous female elves, if you ignore the slavery and racism in the corner. The goddess Celes maintains this picturesque realm by fueling her divine power on the prayers of Talvarians near death, which is why the occasional demon invasion is a necessary feature of the world, and why an OP otherworlder hero is always on hand to keep things from going too far. This time the celestial HR department makes a mistake. Alex Solomon is not a teenager, not handsome, and definitely not Japanese — just a regular pot-bellied millennial who spends most of his time staring at screens. Totally not goddess-standard. So she curses him into an orc body and banishes him to the Demon Kingdom with nothing but access to Earth's internet. Armed with memes, Wikipedia articles, and misquoted great thinkers, Alex and his United Demon Kingdom set out on the most disruptive revenge possible: building world peace, freedom, and democracy across Talvaris.
Royal Road4.55· 250
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyGameLitGenius MC+11

The Heavenly Way

Golden Thame

D29/100
When thrown into a different world, the typical isekai protagonist gets some sort of a cheat. In Xiao Yun's case, all he got was crippled cultivation and a crumbling clan. If one thing sets him apart from the masses, it's his Earthly knowledge — and he is forced to put that knowledge to use to find a safe place for himself in this new and absurd reality. Featuring a smart, cunning protagonist navigating clan building and politics, the story deliberately subverts familiar cultivation tropes and gives clichéd characters and situations its own personal twist.
Royal Road4.54· 184
Base BuildingComedyCultivationGenius MCIsekaiSatire+1

Azure: Gunner

AzureInk

D28/100
Az has one burning desire: to escape her backwater town. In a dystopian post-apocalyptic future shaped by a System engineered by long-dead politicians, power and freedom are paid for with blood, sweat, and cold hard cash. When Az gets pulled into the machinations of the corrupt and wealthy, she must decide whether to stand up for her beliefs or keep her head down to survive. It's not always clear which choice is right — but she's never been one to back down from the dangers ahead.
Royal Road4.50· 361
Competent MCGrimdarkLGBTQ+LitRPGPost-apocalypticSatire+3

Spectacular World

RainyLiquid

F18/100
Hope Lauren has read her share of comics. She's seen supers around her city and even been saved by some on occasion — and she always hoped she'd be able to join them. With Jack, her grizzled older mentor with secrets that could shake the world, and Pantheon, a new team of heroes, Hope will have to fight against monumental odds to save Oleander City. In a world of action, comedy, tragedy, and adventure, there's plenty for a new hero to do.
Royal Road4.48· 132
Anti-heroComedyCozyLGBTQ+Overpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+8