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Second Life as a Soldier

Soldier_of_Avalon

B73/100
He died a nobody. Now he's reborn in a body beaten and left for dead — no family, no food, no future. In the Kingdom of Avalon, strength isn't just respected, it's survival. Power is ranked by Tiers, magic is earned through blood and elemental affinity, and those without talent are nothing more than fodder for war. Edward has neither noble blood nor rare talent. What he does have is an iron will, a sharp mind, and the stubborn refusal to stay down. Desperate for food, shelter, and a second chance, he enlists in the Royal Army, trading the uncertainty of the streets for the grueling discipline of military life. The road ahead is long and unforgiving — but with each step, Edward edges closer to something greater: growth, purpose, and perhaps a place in a kingdom that would rather see him buried than crowned.
Royal Road4.58· 1.5K
Base BuildingGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGMilitaryReincarnation+3

Wolfman Warlock

Dakota Krout, James Hunter

B73/100
Recent college grad Sam King expected a backpacking trip across Europe as a graduation present. Instead he gets a three-month stint in an ultimate immersive gaming experience. As a lifelong geek and outsider, it sounds like a dream — until he discovers the Mage's College has a very different definition of fun, one involving blisteringly strict regulations, aristocratic hierarchy, and a pay-to-play attitude. After crossing the College, Sam finds himself on the run with a back-talking book that is far more than it seems, wielding a class no one has ever heard of. Navigating deadly college politics and a looming war with the barbaric Wolfmen, he just might find the adventure he was looking for.
Goodreads4.29· 2.4K
Class SystemCompetent MCGameLitLitRPGSchoolVRMMO

Depthless Hunger

Cognosticon

B73/100
Kai is the hardest-working warrior of his generation — and the unluckiest. In a world where most people receive magical skills, classes, or cultivation, Kai has nothing but his wits and his strength. His only choice is to forge a new path against fate, no matter where it leads. Savage monsters pour endlessly from the wasteland, threatening the survival of civilization itself. They say human strength alone isn't enough, that only those gifted with destined powers have a chance of making a difference. Kai is hungry to fight in that war — to be someone who matters. That hunger will take him across a world stranger and more terrible than he could possibly have imagined.
Royal Road4.48· 1.8K
CultivationGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary WorldStats+2

Keiran

EmergencyComplaints

B73/100
Keiran of the Night Vale has staved off death for two thousand years, but even he's reached his limits. His body is old and failing. While the flesh fails, his mind and magic remain as sharp as ever, and he bends his prodigious talents toward reincarnating into a fresh, young body. He awakens in a wasteland where mana has become a scarce resource, hoarded by those in power — and without mana, he's no longer a mage. With each passing week he regains more of his old strength, but standing in his way is a cult-like nightly mana tithing, a governor with secrets of his own, and an unforgiving desert full of monsters. Keiran didn't become an archmage by accident, and he's willing to use every dirty trick he knows to claw his way back.
Royal Road4.53· 1.6K
Anti-heroCozyGenius MCOverpowered MCReincarnationSecondary World+2

The Eagle's Flight

Quill

B73/100
The king is dead; his heir is too young to assume the throne. Jarl Vale wants to become Lord Protector, spurred by his ambitious brother Konstans. Jarl Isarn likewise seeks this power, aided — or thwarted — by the return of his brother, the knight and war hero Athelstan, whose squire Brand hopes to restore his family's fortunes, cost what it may. Through all of this, an enigmatic traveller makes plans with jarls, scribes, and priests for his own purpose. Abroad, powerful forces sense division in the realms of Adalmearc and make their own plans. War is on the horizon.
Royal Road4.71· 438
Base BuildingGenius MCMilitarySecondary WorldSoft Magic

Alone Once More

Neviara

B73/100
College is supposed to be an exciting time to meet new friends and make lifelong connections. For Kaitlyn, talking to people has always been hard enough — let alone romance. Getting transported into a dating sim seems like the perfect opportunity to change that. But even here, affection is not easily earned. Beset by grueling classes, stinging loss, and her own faults, Kaitlyn's hopes for change slowly give way to a fear that she'll never escape the endlessly repeating semester. Anything is possible with enough practice. It's much easier to make a good impression the tenth time around.
Royal Road4.72· 359Goodreads4.75· 4
ComedyCozyGenius MCIsekaiSchoolSlow Burn+1

Ivil Antagonist

RavensDagger

B73/100
Ivil Antagonist has everything a woman could want: power enough to blot out suns and turn worlds to molten hells, a fleet of warships, and the fear of an entire space-faring nation. But she is quietly growing tired of being at the top. There is no lonelier place than the summit, especially when you have killed all of the competition. And so Ivil takes a great risk, asking a powerful oracle one simple question: where can I find true love? A Warhammer 40K-inspired romantic comedy featuring an overpowered villain protagonist, space pirates, and quite a lot of cute stuff.
Royal Road4.68· 965
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyHaremLGBTQ++5

The Center for Dungeon Management, Book 1: Gate Crashers

marshalcarper

B73/100
In the United States, the Center for Dungeon Management (CDM) handles everything related to gates: licensing crawlers, enforcing harvester safety standards, and prosecuting gate crashers — people who enter dungeons without licenses. Dorion wants to join a guild or crawl team, but to do that he needs levels. Since he can't afford a crawler license or gate fees, he signs on with the Pittsburgh branch of the CDM. By day he's a cog in the machine of dungeon bureaucracy; by night he volunteers to cull unclaimed gates. When his little sister appears on his doorstep, his goal of becoming a professional crawler turns from ambition into necessity — he needs the money and stability to give her the life he never had. A grounded, working-class take on the dungeon-gate story: slow progression, meaningful stats, and a protagonist with a clipboard and an overflowing inbox.
Royal Road4.68· 959
Dungeon CrawlingLitRPGSecondary WorldStatsSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy+1

Melody of Mana

Wandering Agent

B73/100
A young woman from Earth dies and is reincarnated as the daughter of a poor farming family in the kingdom of Bergond. Born with an unusual gift for bardic magic — able to mend wounds and heal the sick through mana — she must navigate a world of dark lords, dungeons, uncaring nobles, and endless war. With only her wits, her magic, and knowledge from a previous life, she strives to survive and protect those she loves in an unfair and uncaring world.
Royal Road4.46· 1.8KGoodreads4.27· 764
IsekaiReincarnationSchoolSecondary WorldSoft MagicWeak to Strong

Paths of Akashic

Bainin

B73/100
As the universe merges into the multiverse, its inhabitants are thrust into a trial designed to prepare them for sweeping changes that will redefine existence itself. Alistair's life is turned upside down when he is abruptly separated from his friends and family and cast into the trial alongside everyone else in his universe. Stranded on a trial world, he must fight to survive — delving dungeons, hunting great beasts, and navigating diverse Trial Worlds. Along the way he finds an unexpected ally: Riseth, a fierce demoness with whom he shares a powerful soul resonance. Together they face the trial, forge bonds, and grow stronger as they uncover what the future holds for their universe.
Royal Road4.53· 572Goodreads4.47· 846
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSci-fi+1

Street Cultivation

Sarah Lin

B73/100
pf7.0· 1Goodreads4.12· 3.1K

Fantasia

unice5656

B73/100
Arwyn has just bought Fantasia, the first fantasy-based VRMMORPG with 99% realism that you can play while you sleep. In the game, she becomes Fey, a moon elf starting in the magical Elvenwood. Join her — and her snarky narrator who likes to interject sarcastic comments in parentheses — on her exciting, often hilarious adventures inside a magical world full of every fantasy creature you've ever encountered, and a few you haven't. Oh, and there's something strange about the NPCs in this game. See if you can figure it out before Fey does.
Royal Road4.58· 1.6KGoodreads4.14· 1.1K
ComedyCozyGameLitLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+1

Dungeon of Knowledge

timewalk

B73/100
Aliandra Amariel loved magic, dedicating her academic years to the study of runes and spells. Like most Fae, her destiny seemed clear — until the day of her Class Trial, when the Blind Lich unleashed an undead apocalypse on her home, the fabled underground city of Dal'mohra, triggering a cataclysm that forever reshaped the world. Saved by her mother's legendary time-stasis spell, Ali wakes thousands of years into a dark future. Everything she knew is gone, buried under a mountain and transformed into a twisted dungeon by the malevolent will of the Lich. Now Ali must master battling monsters and braving corruption while the Lich hunts her unique magic. As her advancement slowly reveals the horrifying truth of the Class she chose to survive, she must decide: falter into the eternal servitude of undeath, or rise against all odds and cast him down.
Royal Road4.58· 1.5K
Class SystemDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingGenius MCGrimdarkLitRPG+4

Limitless Seas

Dean Henegar

B73/100
Retired Navy captain Craig Larson is offered a chance at a new life, and chooses the body of a half-man, half-serpent creature called a naga. He must fight to secure a place for himself in this new world against pirates, thieves, and terrors of the deep — all seeking to end his new life before it truly begins. Larson is not easily deterred. He will call upon a loyal crew and decades of knowledge from his previous life, standing ready with steel and spell to cut down all who oppose him as he seeks to conquer the Limitless Seas.
Goodreads4.45· 512
Competent MCIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCOlder MCSecondary World

The Exorcist Doctor

Maradina

B73/100
Gael Halloway is a brilliant but unlicensed doctor practicing medicine in the slums of a city smothered by toxic mist. Magic parasites turn people into monsters, and the upper-city barons hoard all the symbiotic systems and bioarcanic weapons, leaving the lower city to fend for itself. When a parasite-hunting exorcist stumbles onto his doorstep—half-dead and missing a partner to link with her symbiotic system—Gael sees his chance to make a difference. Limb-worshipping gangs, mad plague doctors, and flesh-hungry ghoul cults stand in his way, but he intends to rid his district of the wretched parasites, upgrade his clinic, and carve out a sanctuary in a city that has long forgotten the taste of fresh air.
Royal Road4.72· 349
Competent MCGrimdarkHard MagicLitRPGMysterySecondary World

Dork Tower

RavensDagger

B73/100
When an accident causes the early death of two young women, one is chosen to become a hero, a saviour, and a servant of the God of Heroes. This is not her story. This is the story of Valeria, whose soul clung to her friend's and was dragged into a new world where her wandering spirit was claimed by the Goddess of Darkness. One who doesn't belong grows to become the servant of the Dark Goddess — a servant, definitely not a daughter, who will usher in a new age of despair and disgust. The only problem is, she's really bad at the whole "evil" thing. Not that she's unwilling to do her best to please her adoptive mom, the Dark Goddess Luciana.
Royal Road4.65· 1.3KGoodreads4.11· 198
Anti-heroComedyCozyCultivationHaremIsekai+4

Loopshard

Dosei

B73/100
Adam is no one special — just an accountant standing in line at a bakery one early Saturday morning. Unfortunately, fate has other plans when the black cubes show up before he can get his pastries. The cubes are the heralds and guides of the Trials of Defiance, and they've decided that Adam, along with every other able-bodied human adult, is to become a Player in their game. Humanity's future is at stake, and it's all but inevitable that Adam is going to die. Despite everything, he overcomes the first Stage and attains some measure of power — then discovers a way to kill the black cube following him around. The only problem is that killing the cube takes him down with it. Oh, and it also gives him the power to go back in time when he dies. A roguelite-inspired GameLit with infrequent time loops, a weak-to-strong protagonist, and huge build variety across Relics, Weapon Types, Divine Boons, and meta upgrades.
Royal Road4.59· 1.4K
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGPost-apocalypticSkill Collection+3

Codename: Freedom

Apollos Thorne

B73/100
With war on the horizon, the government must accelerate their super soldier program. They have developed a new Virtual Reality system — the perfect tool to find and train recruits outside the military. Against all odds, Lucius, a semipro gamer raised by an AI companion named Destiny, is selected to participate in Codename: Freedom, a VRMMO with one key feature the developers neglect to mention: 100% pain, no dampeners. Thrown into the game with barely any time to orient themselves, Lucius and the other participants find their entire player city under attack. With the world watching live, Lucius faces an opportunity to build a following and impress sponsors — if he can survive long enough. This is far from just another game.
Goodreads4.37· 2.1K
GameLitLitRPGMilitaryStatsVRMMOWeak to Strong

I Became a [Biologist] in a Fantasy World!

Innate_Lymphoid_Cell

B73/100
A disillusioned researcher is summoned to a fantasy world of magic, dragons, and mythical beasts — only to learn the summoning was a mistake, and the Hero who was coincidentally pulled through alongside him is the one they actually needed. With no revenge subplot, no hidden trap, and compensation paid for the error, he is finally free to do exactly what he always wanted: experiment for the joy of it. With his new class as a [Biologist], none of this world's mysteries will go unexplored — not even if the Demon Lord himself comes knocking.
Royal Road4.64· 1.3K
Class SystemComedyGenius MCHard MagicIsekaiSecondary World

An Elf in Skyrim

Azureblade

B73/100
In the far north of Skyrim, legends and armies are set to collide. Brother fights brother in a bloody civil war, creatures of the night hunt in the shadows, and dragons fill the sky for the first time in an age. In this time of turbulent events, a single Bosmer elf finds herself drawn north, chasing after the shadows of her past.
Royal Road4.74· 211
IsekaiMilitaryNon-human MCReincarnationSecondary WorldTransmigration