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A Mythical Journey To Remember

CasualBear

C58/100
Heracles, Achilles, Odysseus — these heroes roamed the world and had their names etched into myth. Our protagonist is just a reincarnated guy who wanted to modernize the ancient world enough to enjoy his life. Who would want to be a Hero when their stories always ended in tragedy?
Royal Road4.65· 282
GameLitGenius MCLitRPGReincarnationSecondary World

Dungeon Inc.

Colossal Soup

C58/100
Dungeon Inc. is the biggest 'fake' reality show on Earth — college kids pretending to be actors, starring as fantasy heroes. But on the other side of the portal, the monsters don't follow scripts, the loot is real, and there's no respawn button. For Alex Mercer, this was supposed to be the ultimate campus job: cosplay, clout, and enough cash to kill his student loans. Cast as the team's "wizard," he wields tech-enhanced equipment designed to fake magic for the viewers back home. But then he discovers that magic is real. Now Alex must survive a world powered by karma, Qi, and consequences. Somewhere between science and sorcery, he begins to wonder: can he become the mage he's only been pretending to be?
Royal Road4.64· 429
CozyCultivationDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MC+7

Respawn

Arthur Stone

C58/100
You are no one. Level zero. Empty of mind and memory — your past stripped by the inscrutable System. A long, difficult road lies between you and remembering who you are, punctuated by one death after another. In the world of S.T.Y.X., information is your only resource, but those with experience rarely care about your plight — and some make it their mission to kill you. Your life counter ticks lower with every death, and no one knows what happens when it reaches zero. The luckiest players are the cheaters. Perhaps cheating is the only way to win.
Goodreads4.35· 872
GrimdarkLitRPGLoner MCMysterySkill CollectionStats

Monarch

Extra27

C58/100
Rayne was a bastard — the only son of the fallen Duke Frayser, cast aside to die in an army that hated him for being alive. Then a soul from Earth took over his body. With the common class of a Soldier, a Lineage Quest to complete, and a unique trait for stealing skills, he must grow strong enough to survive a gritty world. Fighting goblins, trolls, and necromancers, he works to earn reputation and prestige in a kingdom that branded his bloodline as traitors — with kingdom building waiting in later volumes.
Royal Road4.47· 949
Base BuildingCultivationDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGMilitary+3

Respec On Death

Godric

C58/100
Fifteen years after Earth was forced into the Sarlenac Games, over half of the population is gone, culled by the System without mercy. Each year, thousands of Gates open to hostile worlds — fail to clear them in time, and ten percent of Earth's population dies. Specialist Jimmy Novak is a low-level combat medic with nothing to his name but scars, sarcasm, and a refusal to quit. When a routine Gate spirals into catastrophe, Jimmy makes a choice the System never accounted for, and something older than the System takes notice. [Skill Activated: Respec on Death.] With each death, Jimmy changes — new class, new build, new tools for survival. But the cost is steep, and the enemy is no longer just monsters. The System is watching. The gods are stirring. And Jimmy Novak is becoming something far more dangerous.
Royal Road4.45· 965
Class SystemCozyGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGMilitary+4

War Aeternus

Charles Dean, Joshua Swayne

C58/100
Lee is a quiet office worker who leads a life of solitude, comfort, and routine — until a drunken god shows up and whisks him off to another world, demanding he serve as a pawn in a game between the gods. Trapped in a world full of danger, magic, and creatures he's never imagined outside of fairy tales, Lee has to figure out how to stay alive long enough to make it back home.
Goodreads4.17· 1.4K
Competent MCHard MagicIsekaiLitRPGSecondary World

Greyblood

Daniel Prince

C58/100
Lugor is a Half-Orc, and in his world, that's a very dangerous thing to be. He dreams of becoming an Adventurer, slaying monsters and delving into dungeons — but one cut to his skin could reveal his secret. He's forced to spend his days in his small village, keeping his head down. When a monster attack turns his world upside down, Lugor seeks training at the Adventurer Academy, where he must contend against an arrogant mage determined to see him fail. With a steadfast Dwarven Elementalist and a sarcastic Dark-Elf Necromancer at his side, Lugor sets out to prove that being Half-Orc doesn't mean he can't be a hero.
Goodreads4.22· 1.3K
Dungeon CrawlingLitRPGNon-human MCSchoolStatsWeak to Strong

The Magpie and The Archmage

AmberAtlas

C58/100
Liora is a little thief who enjoys collecting shiny things like any self-respecting magpie. But one day she stumbles upon the shiny that changes her life forever — Archmage Renir, trapped inside a beautiful gemstone. After that, they are pursued by mages, forcing Liora to fight, learn skills, and evolve in order to grow stronger. All so that one day, she could free Renir from his prison.
Royal Road4.60· 812
ComedyGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnation+3

Kittypunk

RavensDagger

C58/100
She was the world's greatest assassin — a silent threat, the cause of a hundred mysterious deaths, all to feed her cats and pay her rent. And then she died. The last thing she expected was to be reborn as a harmless kitten in the hands of a very strange girl. Now tasked with mentoring the girl in the arts of assassination, Caroline Daniels (now known as the fearsome Queen Violence Von Ragamuffin) has to figure out how to mother an idiot while weighing as much as half a loaf of soggy bread. A lighthearted cyberpunk romp featuring cat shenanigans, found family, a soft progression system, and naps.
Royal Road4.64· 415
ComedyCozyLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnationSci-fi

Phantom Server

Ros Per

C58/100
As the years start running out, you often find that life has left you completely alone. This is what has happened to one military veteran who has lived through many of history's flash points. In order to inject some color into his final days, the former soldier signs a contract with a company that has developed a fully immersive virtual world. Project Alpha Rome is a multi-level city plagued by endless wars between humans and mutants. Under the nickname Volper, the veteran sets out on his path alone — and thanks to his attentive, reflective approach, he begins spotting things other players have missed, raising deeper questions about the true purpose of the project.
Goodreads4.02· 1.5K
LitRPGMysteryOlder MCPost-apocalypticSci-fiVRMMO

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· 905
GameLitGenius MCLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticRegression+4

Fayroll

Andrey Vasilyev

C58/100
Journalist Harriton is assigned to write articles on the virtual world of Fayroll and its developers. He grudgingly accepts — and soon finds himself enthralled by the fantasy world and its quests. As 'Hagen the Warrior', he enters a world where the thirst for success and legendary items spills into reality, and high-stakes bets are made on virtual characters. As Harriton's decisions in-game begin affecting his real life, he is drawn into the attention of powerful players and Moscow elite with a devouring interest in Fayroll's outcome — and discovers that this fantastic world conceals many dangers.
Goodreads4.18· 1.4K
ComedyCompetent MCGameLitLitRPGMysteryVRMMO

Humanity's #1 Fan

Illiriel

C58/100
When the apocalypse comes, Ashtoreth betrays Hell to fight for humanity. She was always too optimistic, too energetic, too nice — never fit in with the other archfiends. She was supposed to study humanity to help destroy it; instead, she fell in love with it. But as she tears through the tutorial recruiting allies to her cause, she quickly realizes something strange: the humans don't trust her. Sure, her main ability is [Consume Heart] and her class is [Bloodfire Annihilator], but that doesn't make her evil — it just means every enemy drops an extra health potion! It may take some work, but Ashtoreth is optimistic the humans will come around. After all, she has an important secret to tell them: Hell is afraid of humanity.
Royal Road4.63· 592
Anti-heroComedyGameLitLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MC+3

Hoqalo: The Broken System

MarekSusicky

C58/100
Dash's great-grandfather was one of the Fifteen who saved humanity during the System Apocalypse, founding the corporations that now rule the solar system. That legacy should have been his — until his father was destroyed by corpo politics, leaving Dash with nothing but a single building on Earth 2.0. When Dash nearly dies, a broken System manifests: barely functional, stripped to the bones, but carrying the tinkerer's trait Hoqalo — letting him forge gear that punches far above its tier. The more he digs into why his System came out wrong, the more it looks like sabotage. Someone with corporate reach wanted the Kallum bloodline to stay down. With his hands, his tools, and friends willing to go to corpo hell and back, Dash sets out to steal his future back — with interest.
Royal Road4.65· 270
Anti-heroCraftingLitRPGMysterySci-fiSystem Apocalypse+1

Arena

Holly Jennings

C58/100
Kali Ling competes in the RAGE tournaments—the Virtual Gaming League's elite competition where the world's best gamers fight to the digital death on national TV. The pain is real, even if the weapons are digital, and every bloody kill is broadcast to millions. Chosen as the first female captain in RAGE history, Kali is at the top of her game—until a teammate overdoses. Now she must confront what the tournament actually is, because the VGL hides dark secrets, and the only way to change the rules is to fight from the inside.
Goodreads3.74· 1.6K
Competent MCGrimdarkLitRPGSci-fiVRMMO

The Illusionist

D.J. Bodden, James A. Hunter

C58/100
Alan Campbell thought he had landed his dream job working on a revolutionary VRMMORPG with Osmark Technologies — until the project was canceled. He has one weekend to dive into an untested world full of intrigue, violence, and corruption to prove that Viridian Gate Online works. But the AIs running the game have their own plans for his soul. Set a year before the events of Viridian Gate Online: Cataclysm, this series takes readers back to when VGO was just a game — or so it seemed.
Goodreads4.36· 645
Competent MCLitRPGSecondary WorldVRMMO

Accidental Healer

Avyck3721

C57/100
Layton just wanted a weekend alone in the wilderness. Instead he woke up in a nightmare. Earth has been inducted into a multiversal system, and survival is no longer guaranteed. Forced into a brutal wave dungeon with no warning, no tutorial, and no gear, Layton accidentally locks himself into the weakest class — Healer. That's when things start feeling off. He's leveling far too fast, and his so-called support class feels anything but weak. His only ally is a too-intelligent, bloodthirsty predator that might be more than just an animal. Something is wrong with this system. Layton just has to survive long enough to figure out what.
Royal Road4.41· 952
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+2

World Tree Apocalypse: A Pilot In Another World LitRPG

D.M. Rhodes (Razzmatazz)

C57/100
When a nameless pilot breaks through a dimensional rift, he and his experimental fighter-plane become the only things standing between a dying world and the monstrous army marching to destroy the last World Tree and its keeper. A man trained to hunt in the skies above barren ash-lands must now become the last protector of the perfect garden below. A soldier with as much blood on his hands as engine grease must find a way to live alongside a peaceful forest dryad — the tree's sole caretaker — as the invasion waves grow stronger with each passing cycle. As one nation after another falls, a transmigrated war pilot flying an experimental combat aircraft may be the only hope left for the world's many races, the sacred tree, and the peace-loving dryad who tends it.
Royal Road4.63· 550
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MC+7

Hundred Kingdoms

Michael R. Miller

C57/100
Jack Kross only wanted to play the game. Now he's fighting for his life. When a mysterious hacker takes control of Hundred Kingdoms, Jack is trapped inside the fantasy VR world along with millions of other players — but in a worse predicament than most. He's cornered in the very tower the terrorists have seized as their base, the only free player left within its walls, while in the real world his body lies in a sweltering room with no relief coming. Playing a low-level profession-based Scavenger class, Jack must craft gear, set traps, and forge uneasy alliances with a deadly dungeon master and an AI he can't fully trust — racing against time to save himself and the millions of players held hostage.
Goodreads4.18· 1.4K
Class SystemCraftingDungeon CrawlingLitRPGVRMMO

Common Clay

WanderingLeaf

C57/100
Clay has always lived in a world of heroes and monsters. From childhood he trained — body, speed, and courage — all in hopes of receiving a Class that would grant him the power to protect the people he cares about. Then, on the day of his Choosing, the gods give him nothing. As every one of his friends sets out to become a hero, Clay is told he is a [Commoner], suited for farm labor and nothing more. He decides to fight the monsters anyway. Armed with his wits and little else, Clay sets out to show everyone what a [Commoner] can really do.
Royal Road4.60· 789
Class SystemCompetent MCDungeon CrawlingLitRPGSecondary WorldWeak to Strong