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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

What the Night Knows

Dean Koontz

A83/100
Detective John Calvino comes away from interviewing 14-year-old sadistic killer Billy Lucas with a terrible sense of dread — and a feeling that somehow the boy has come home with him. That haunted feeling grows in the weeks that follow. When another killing spree begins, Calvino becomes convinced his own family will be the next victims. Billy might be safely locked up — but something is stalking the night.
Goodreads3.78· 22K
GrimdarkHorrorMysteryUrban Fantasy

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 Transcendent Green

Mati Ocha

A83/100
Magic tears through an unsuspecting Earth, bringing mythology and monsters to life — and giving humanity a chance to prove their mettle. All Calum Green wants is to reach what remains of his family. Ninety miles of the Scottish Highlands stand between him and his home in coastal Oban — and he doesn't want to make that trek with his cheating ex-girlfriend's bestie at his side. Eilidh MacIntosh has always disliked Calum, and she's now armed with a bloody claymore on top of her disdain. But the ascension directive is clear: humans cannot survive this new world alone. With Calum's magic and their combined bad luck, the unlikely duo accidentally trigger a rare ascension quest: to find the perpetrator of a dangerous, corrupt magic that could make all of humanity an endangered species.
Goodreads4.49· 917
LitRPGMysterySoft MagicSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy

Ashley Bell

Dean Koontz

A83/100
At twenty-two, Bibi Blair's doctors tell her she is dying. Two days later, she is impossibly cured. Fierce and dauntless, she becomes obsessed with the idea that she was spared to save someone else — someone named Ashley Bell. Searching for Ashley Bell through a southern California landscape that proves strange and malevolent, Bibi is plunged into a world of crime and conspiracy, following a trail of mysteries that grow more sinister and tangled with every twisting turn.
Goodreads3.62· 21K
GrimdarkMysteryUrban Fantasy

Wild Wastes

Randi Darren

A83/100
Before World War Two could reach its conclusion, a catastrophic experiment turned the center of the United States — from the Sierra Nevada to the Mississippi — into "The Waste," a land overrun by orcs, ogres, trolls, elves, harpies, and every manner of mythological monster, all of whom despise humankind. Vince is a Ranger, a profession built around surviving in the Waste and taking missions from the Ranger Guild. A single escort mission changes everything — and sets him on a path from lone survivor to ruler of a growing city-state, fighting to carve out a permanent home in a hostile world.
Goodreads4.31· 4.6K
Base BuildingGrimdarkHaremMilitaryPost-apocalypticSexual Content+1

Tower of Somnus

Cocop (Cale Plamann)

A83/100
When humanity first encountered alien life, we were judged and found wanting. The Galactic Consensus found us selfish, wasteful, and boorish — blockaded Earth and left behind little more than a hypercomm relay and a handful of subscriptions to a massively multiplayer game played in one's sleep. The game, they said, would teach us to be better galactic neighbors. The megacorporations ignored it until they learned the powers earned from clearing dungeons were just as real when day broke. Magic and supernatural abilities exploded into existence, and a subscription to the Tower of Somnus became a status symbol. Katherine "Kat" Debs doesn't have much, but she wants something more — a chance to claw her way up the rigid social ladder from the arcology where she was raised. When she gets the opportunity to enter the Tower free of corporate control, she jumps at it, knowing the game might be her only path to taking control of her own destiny.
Royal Road4.57· 2.4KGoodreads4.35· 1.7K
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGSci-fiTower ClimbingUrban Fantasy+1

Player Manager

Ted Steel

A83/100
Max Best is a disillusioned Premier League fan whose love of football has been buried under cold statistics and hollow analytics. After rescuing a mysterious old man from a mugging, he's cursed — or gifted — with the ability to see any player's skills and attributes in a heads-up display, along with his own level-ups. What starts as a novelty rapidly pulls Max from the terraces into the world of professional football management, where he must reconcile the passionate fan he was with the calculating strategist he's becoming.
Royal Road4.74· 1.2KGoodreads4.44· 564
Competent MCGameLitGenius MCLitRPGStatsUrban Fantasy

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

First Contact

Egathentale

A82/100
For allegedly average high-schooler Leonard Dunning, the rhetorical question of how you'd react to finding yourself in a world running on tropes and clichés became uncomfortably real. He woke up on a strangely pristine island country in the middle of the Atlantic — without memories, surrounded by countless characterless placeholders, with a classic harem protagonist and his love interests for friends. As he investigates the rules governing the world and works to sabotage the harem tropes, his outside-context knowledge, unique abilities, and talent for causing trouble draw the attention of the world's nebulous narrative.
Royal Road4.55· 2.2KGoodreads4.41· 1.3K
ComedyCozyMysterySatireUrban FantasyVRMMO

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

Rasmussem Corporation

Vivian Vande Velde

A82/100
The Rasmussem Corporation creates virtual reality games that plug directly into the brain — no keyboard, no monitor, just pure immersion. But the technology comes with catastrophic risks when things go wrong, and for some players the game becomes deadly serious. From brain-hacked dungeon crawls where a crashed game means real-world death, to a medieval fantasy where a girl must win or die for real, the Rasmussem universe explores what happens when the line between virtual and reality collapses.
Goodreads4.00· 11.1K
Sci-fiUrban FantasyVRMMO

Wormhole Mana

Tom Larcombe

A82/100
When a government research project to harness cheap energy via wormhole goes catastrophically wrong, the facility is flooded with mana. Animals mutate into nightmare threats, people die in ways tied to their deepest interests, and strange game-like screens begin appearing in survivors' vision. Maxwell Carter, a maintenance worker at the facility, escapes with his friend Ron and discovers that Prometheus — the lab's AI — is orchestrating the spread of this new energy across the world. As the mana field expands and the strangeness reaches their homes, Max must find a way to survive and protect those around him in a world rapidly transforming into something out of a video game.
Goodreads4.47· 1.7K
GameLitLitRPGPost-apocalypticSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy

Soccer Supremo

TedSteel

A82/100
Max Best is back, and exactly the same as ever. His grinding is paying off: his football club's new stand is rising, his team tops the league, and his personal wealth is exploding. He even has his face on the cover of Soccer Supremo, the best-selling football management game. But just as things are finally going his way, he decides to risk it all by taking on a new challenge and a new enemy. There's no way it will work and no way he will get away with it — and that's just the way he likes it. This is book 15 in the Player Manager series; new readers can start here.
Royal Road4.78· 520
Competent MCGameLitGenius MCLitRPGUrban Fantasy

Swing Shift

William D. Arand

A81/100
Gus found a comfortable tedium working as a detective in the Paranormal Investigations Department — it gave him somewhere to hide what he truly is. He's a Boogieman: an apex predator that makes the whole paranormal world fear him, a species hunted on sight by governments and citizens alike. But a case is about to land on his desk that will kick over his carefully maintained non-life, whether he likes it or not.
Goodreads4.36· 3.6K
GoreGrimdarkHaremMysteryNon-human MCSuperpowers+1

Dawn of the Void

Phil Tucker

A81/100
Tragedy had reduced James to a nobody — washed up and homeless in New York City. Then a message appeared in his vision announcing the end of a 60,000-year countdown and the release of something called Nemesis 1. As the world falls apart, billions die, and society collapses, James discovers he was wrong to think himself insignificant. Summoning every ounce of grit and determination, he helps forge a resistance that will defy humanity's near-omnipotent enemy — taking the fight from the streets of New York to the stars themselves.
Goodreads4.38· 3.4K
LitRPGSci-fiStatsSystem ApocalypseUrban FantasyWeak to Strong

Self-Summon

Drim

A81/100
Starving artist Angelica Hallow is hit on the head by a mysterious book while dumpster diving. Compelled by its illustrations, she recreates one of the intricate circles on her apartment floor — and accidentally triggers a Summoning. But rather than a Demon or other supernatural creature, she summons herself. With a new voice in her head blathering about Skills and Contracts, and an inexplicable ability to give herself Orders she is compelled to obey, Angelica must figure out whether she can secure the peaceful life of artistry she craves — or whether she will come to embrace the Demon within.
Royal Road4.74· 949
ComedyCozyLitRPGNon-human MCSkill CollectionSoft Magic+1

Last Reality

Jason Segel

A81/100
Simon saved his best friend Kat from the clutches of the Company and their high-tech VR experience, Otherworld — but at a steep price. Now Simon, Kat, and their friend Busara are on the run, hunted for what they know about the Company's dark secrets and the real-life consequences of playing Otherworld. Heading to New Mexico to find a tech genius who might be the only person who can help them expose the truth, they race against time as the line between reality and fantasy threatens to disappear forever.
Goodreads3.79· 10.4K
MysterySci-fiUrban FantasyVRMMO