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Ten Thousand Tragedies

NMR-3

B60/100
Death is the greatest teacher, and 721 has a lot of learning to do. The Martial Arts Alliance stands at the precipice of defeat as war threatens to consume the world — its sects and great families rotten at the core. As a slave soldier of the Red Dawn Sect, 721 is not allowed a name, feelings, or thoughts. His death is not a tragedy, only a statistic. But death isn't the end for him: every time he dies, he wakes up again 24 hours before it happened. With only a vague memory of who he once was, he will rise to the highest peaks — his road paved with his own bones.
Royal Road4.65· 437
CultivationGrimdarkMilitaryMysteryPost-apocalypticTime Loop+3

Keeper of Totality

Infinityphoenix

B60/100
The death of the Hero reset the timeline — not what Lucy had intended when she made that last soul attack while dying. Returned to Earth, she attempts the obvious: use her knowledge of the future to dominate the System's five realms. Except things go wrong immediately. A Shard of Totality is now lodged in her eye, her Status is broken, and the Hero remembers everything — and has his own agenda involving her other identity, Adrianna Riftmire. She may be doomed. But as a master of soul magic and former Archmage, she is far from defenseless. This might just be her best chance to permanently defeat the Hero of Light, whose powers distort destiny to ensure his success.
Royal Road4.64· 598
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationIsekaiLitRPGMystery+5

100th Run: A Regressor's LitRPG Adventure

Flossindune

C58/100
The world devolved into chaos as a game-like system reduced the population to a series of statistics and screens. Confusion reigned as everyone struggled to survive in this new reality — everyone but one man. Anthony Franklin had a secret: he had lived through this exact series of events ninety-nine times in a row. Drawing on centuries of accumulated knowledge — every play, shortcut, and strategy — he must save as many lives as possible. He will contend with vicious boss monsters, elude the ever-watching eyes of the system administrators, and guard his back from scheming players with their own agendas. With every individual carrying their own goals, dreams, and fears, shepherding them won't be easy. Win or lose, his 100th run will be his last.
Royal Road4.52· 901
GameLitGenius MCLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticRegression+4

The Young Master in the Shadows

AkaIchi

C57/100
He has returned to the past, and this time he will play the role of the young master properly — using every resource his family commands to his advantage, manipulating events from the shadows, and protecting those he failed to save before. A slice-of-life cultivation story about a schemer weaving influence and control across an entire world, with a large harem.
Royal Road4.08· 990
Anti-heroComedyCozyGameLitGenius MCHarem+10

Blessed Time

Cale Plamann

C56/100
On Karell, you are either blessed by the gods with a unique power and the ability to gain experience and levels — or you are forgotten. Micah Silver was chosen for greatness, but his mythic blessing only lets him travel into the past by sacrificing his class, wealth, and levels. It's a psychological burden he's reluctant to shoulder. But fate has a way of forcing you to face your destiny. Armed with talents for enchanting and summoning, Micah must retrace his steps over and over, growing stronger in a potentially futile effort to prevent tragedy and protect his family.
Goodreads4.11· 1.3K
CraftingLitRPGRegressionSecondary WorldSummoningTime Loop+1

Mark of Time: A LitRPG Timeloop

Krazekode

C55/100
Jennifer was ready to enter Lienmont's Mage Academy — the place she'd been aspiring to reach for years. What she hadn't expected was to be dragged into the city's dungeon, where a trial of life and death left a Mark seared onto not just her body, but her very soul. When she escaped, she found her city in flames, monstrous invaders slaughtering everyone — including her. When Jennifer closed her eyes, she was certain her life had taken an unfair and tragic turn. But then she opened them, and none of it had ever happened. The only proof she hadn't gone mad was the Mark on her hand, burning with an inner fire. In a trial of gods where eight Marks compete to find unseen treasures, a ninth has appeared: one with the power to revert time.
Royal Road4.62· 628
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGMysterySchoolSecondary World+1

The Mage of Shimmer Mountain

Adam Sampson

C52/100
Hugo's new lease on life starts out well — a trip up the mountain grants him the chance to be a mage. But then the train he is on explodes. Unknown magic flings him back in time, and he avoids the explosion. While unraveling the mystery of this unexpected second chance, his new gifts lead him to the magic academy. There he faces noble students who resent his presence, teachers who expect him to already know everything, and literal monsters that want him dead. Can he forge allies in a place where he's hated? Can he master the magic the academy demands — and survive long enough to discover the secret of his second chance?
Goodreads4.31· 863
Crafting PowerLitRPGRegressionSchoolTime LoopWeak to Strong

The Apocalypse Grinder

Adventuresse

C52/100
Ronan Steele was in a meeting when the apocalypse struck. Now he must defeat hordes of goblins to complete a system tutorial and make it back to an Earth that has been merged with three other planets — a world now overrun by mutated beasts and dangerous invaders. Ronan carries one advantage no one else has: when he dies, he wakes at the start of the tutorial again, keeping his skills and earning an XP boost each time. The further he goes, the more his heritage grows. Driven by a single goal — to bring down the system that forced this tragedy on his world — Ronan grinds through an endless apocalypse, life after life.
Royal Road4.12· 839
CultivationGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticStats+3

Dao of the World Walker

MylanWrites

C52/100
Chen Yang died once and was reborn as a helpless infant in a world ruled not by science but by cultivation, where enlightenment shapes reality and the Dao governs all things. His death and rebirth also awakened a strange ability: the power to travel between worlds — not as a conqueror or hero, but as an observer and learner. Rather than chasing power through violence, Chen Yang walks a rare path: scholar first, cultivating understanding through crafting, quiet contemplation, and deep exploration of each realm he visits. Every world offers new truths that shape his growing comprehension of existence itself.
Royal Road4.54· 716
CozyCraftingCultivationIsekaiLitRPGReincarnation+3

Days of Future Past

John Van Stry

C52/100
Paul has been having one of the worst days of his life — and then his instructor gets drafted by a mystical goddess to help save a world. Paul is not supposed to be there at all, but that changes nothing. He is now on a one-way trip, forced to help a man who despises him, at the mercy of the world's greatest trickster.
Goodreads4.33· 519
IsekaiPost-apocalypticSoft MagicTime LoopWeak to Strong

Desolada

lkal92

C51/100
For millennia, the demon lords known as the Goetia enslaved humanity, until a group of mortals called the Archons received divine blessings of power and overthrew them. Under their dominion mankind flourished, though the war in the shadows never ended. A thousand years later, sixteen-year-old Leones' family is executed for the crime of heresy — burned to death for questioning whether the Archon of Flames is truly divine. After manifesting the power to control time, Leones survives and embarks on an uncertain journey for power and revenge. But to overcome a god, he may need help — and along the way he will discover the truth behind the demon lords, time, and reality itself.
Royal Road4.58· 668
Anti-heroGrimdarkHorrorSecondary WorldSoft MagicTime Loop+1

Player 0.4

Alek Aundra

C48/100
The battle against the Kobar Empire was utterly lost, and as Luca lay dying a strange blue screen appeared: he had the aptitude to be a Player, and if he accepted, the game would reset. He accepted — and the reset went wrong, leaving him as only a partial player: Active Players: 0.4. Luca is neither clever nor strong. He will die. A lot. But with enough resets, he'll learn and grow. A slow-burning, character-driven story about an underdog using time-loop deaths to inch toward something better.
Royal Road4.56· 623
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyGameLitGenius MCLitRPG+4

Reincarnated into a Time-Loop Dungeon as a LVL100 Catgirl Chef!

Mad Sadie

D44/100
A diary account of being reincarnated as a catgirl NPC in a dungeon. There are loops. There are marble races. There are other catgirls. There is also ice cream.
Royal Road4.59· 379Goodreads3.70· 37
ComedyCozyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingNon-human MCReincarnation+1

Shadows Over Arcadia

Zacheas

D44/100
The unwanted second prince of a powerful but corrupt kingdom sets out on a dangerous path of vengeance. Under the protection and guidance of his demonic maid, Prince Ren Drakemore works to covertly gain power, influence, and allies — all in service of eventually killing his own father, brother, and anyone else who stands in his way. Initially driven by a desire to right his kingdom's evils, Ren will increasingly struggle to maintain his own humanity as he grows in power. Whether he becomes the hero who saves them all or the monster that consumes them remains to be seen.
Royal Road4.60· 231
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyCraftingGenius MCGrimdark+8

Renewal: A Daughter of Fate

JaffaJessie ( J.L.Rabone )

D43/100
Death has a funny way of finding Lynette Heversham. After three lifetimes filled with pain, anger, and misplaced emotions, she wakes yet again as her younger self — cursed to re-live as the Crazy Cerue Lady. Can she survive her fourth time around, or will her past as a villainess come back to haunt her? As the unwanted adopted daughter in a dangerous household, she must unlock the power of her core to fight back against summoners and demonic beasts who wish her dead. With guidance from the gods and a slow-burning cultivation system entwined with LitRPG mechanics, she navigates country politics and the monsters threatening the Zopan Empire — determined to finally change her fate.
Royal Road4.53· 567
CultivationGameLitLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MCRegression+7

Somebody Stop Her

Vitaly S Alexius

D43/100
In the sleepy town of Saint Mary, the Kilborne superhero family's new neighbors are more than just odd — they're supervillains. School would be a breeze for Martin Kilborne if it weren't for Alexa Terranova, his raygun-toting classmate who recruited him as her minion. Martin becomes quickly tangled in Alexa's supervillain plots: stealing an ice cream van, destroying the Superstate, and bewildering time-travel escapades leaping between his Earth and a dead world 400 years in the future. His life transforms from mundane to madcap — an ever-accelerating train ride with no brakes, packed with adventure, dark comedy, and post-apocalyptic cosmic horror.
Royal Road4.59· 298
Anti-heroComedyGameLitGenius MCLitRPGPost-apocalyptic+4

The Agartha Loop

RavensDagger

D41/100
They asked Amber to become a magical girl three times. She refused. That only made her more interesting. The fourth time, she asked them. The Agartha Loop follows a time-looping protagonist navigating magical girl shenanigans, existential horror, interlinked magical systems, conspiracies, and mysteries — with a cast of LGBTQ+ characters across the spectrum of usefulness.
Royal Road4.58· 349Goodreads4.28· 244
Competent MCCozyHorrorIsekaiLGBTQ+Mystery+7

Lost Loop: Timeloop Litrpg

vVip3rzzz

D37/100
One day, the world changed — undergoing a terrifying and fascinating transformation at the chime of timers set in motion eons ago. Unfortunately, James finds himself stuck in the day before that change, caught in an endless loop and desperately trying to find a way out through his own skill and its preposterous use. Time prisons have their upsides, but living out the same day over and over is getting old. Looming questions about what the System is and why it needs him may change James forever — for better or for worse. What will happen to the future when James escapes the present? Is he ready to join the universe? Is the universe ready for him?
Royal Road4.56· 419
GameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCStatsSystem ApocalypseTime Loop+1

Dear Spellbook

TK523

D34/100
Tal is a sorcerer masquerading as a wizard — not an adventurer, just someone searching for answers about his parents' mysterious deaths. Monsters and foes seem to show up wherever he goes anyway. When the same day begins repeating itself over and over, Tal is the only one aware of the resets. Stuck in a remote forest town with a perpetual hangover and no allies who remember yesterday, he must unravel the mystery alone. His previously useless Spellbook is starting to exhibit very strange abilities — and they might be just what he needs to escape this temporal prison.
Royal Road4.54· 412
ComedyMysterySecondary WorldSoft MagicTime Loop

Respawn Condition: Trash Mob

D.M. Rhodes (Razzmatazz)

D33/100
Every time it dies, it respawns as the weakest monster on the lowest floor of the dungeon. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of lives — every one remembered, every death felt. But unlike the other monsters trapped in the endless slaughter beneath an unbeatable hero party, this nameless soul keeps its memories. And with memory comes something dangerous: the will to escape. After countless reincarnations, it finds something no monster was ever meant to see — a hidden passage leading upward. To reach it, the soul must climb from the bottom up, mastering new bodies, exploiting glitches in the dungeon's rules, and outsmarting heroes who have never lost. Something in the dungeon wants it to stay. Something in the darkness is watching. The longer it climbs, the more it begins to question what the dungeon truly is — and what it is becoming.
Royal Road4.21· 462
Anti-heroCozyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MC+12