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73 series

Nigmus Online

Noah Barnett

D28/100
Nigmus Online is the first MMORPG to use consumer virtual-dive technology — and it comes with no manual. Players begin as level-zero commoners with only the barest knowledge of the interface. Everything else is up to them. Liam stumbles into the game and discovers a hidden class: the Undead Necromancer. Across the country, Kathrine suffers from a paralyzing disease and joins an experimental program that gives her a new kind of life inside the game. Meanwhile, a disturbing spike in suicides among young adults in Russia and China points to something deeply wrong beneath the surface of Nigmus Online.
Goodreads4.16· 553
GrimdarkLitRPGMysterySkill CollectionSummoningVRMMO

Death's Mantle

Harmon Cooper

D27/100
Lucian North has been dying for over a year from a rare heart condition — and when Death finally arrives, Lucian pulls a gun on the Grim Reaper. When demons swarm in pursuit of Death, Lucian fights them off, and for his trouble is awarded Death's Mantle: a transfer to a spiritual realm where he is suddenly powerful, able to conjure weapons from nothing and develop game-like mechanics to manage his new role. But Lucian has a problem. He can't communicate with the living, and his brother is scheduled to die. Only Lucian can stop it.
Goodreads4.13· 556
GameLitGrimdarkSummoningSuperpowersTransmigrationUrban Fantasy

Advent of the Apocalypse

D. Pidge, V.A. Lewis

D26/100
The apocalypse is here. Giant fireblasts tear across the earth as the Gates of Hell are ripped open — in an instant, billions are killed and human technology becomes worthless. Those who died in the initial blast are reincarnated as undead monsters. Massive fiery pits swallow every major city. Demonic creatures make all realms of Earth their home. But all hope is not lost. The Angels left a parting gift before their defeat: a System that bestows humanity the power to fight back. With it, Jaco will master his Druid Class and do whatever it takes not only to survive the end of the world, but to thrive.
Goodreads4.14· 533
Class SystemGrimdarkLitRPGPost-apocalypticSummoningSystem Apocalypse

Frostworld

Blake Arthur Peel

D25/100
On Frostworld, only the strong survive. Jarl Beckström dreams of becoming a great warrior, but he was born lowborn — classless, unable to level up — and lives the mundane life of a poor mud-farmer beneath the privileged battleborn and fireborn. When the Clan Lord's son disappears, Jarl seizes the chance to prove himself a hero. But dark things stir in the frozen wilderness: a star has fallen and the dead have begun to rise. While clanholds clash in eternal conflict, only an ambitious mud-farmer and his domineering sister can shed light on the true enemy — the monstrous undead draugr.
Goodreads4.19· 321
Class SystemLitRPGSecondary WorldStatsSummoningWeak to Strong

Underpowered Howard

John L. Monk

F24/100
Deep within Heroes of Mythian — a game world where retirees exchange their physical bodies for an eternity of adventure — Howard learns a terrible secret: the game is glitched and it's killing its mightiest players permanently. Desperate to save his friends and countless innocents, he hatches a plan to fix things. He'll start again as a level 0 necromancer and exploit his way to power, using his deep knowledge of game mechanics. With luck, his game-breaking exploits will alert Mythian's admins that something is wrong — but the game's creators, uncaring at best and sadistic at worst, might simply delete him for exposing their mistakes.
Goodreads4.09· 519
ComedyGenius MCLitRPGOlder MCSummoningVRMMO

Unique Skill: Trash

Lykanthropy

F22/100
In a world where your Skills are your everything, what does it say about you when your personal Skill is literally Trash? Catarine has found herself reborn into a new world where great heights are achievable — but only with the proper Skills and the drive to improve them. Born into a Necromantic family with a Skill that mirrors exactly what everyone thinks of her, she must find her own methods to survive and rise.
Royal Road4.46· 305
ComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitReincarnationSchool+3

Revenant's Revenge

Andrew Karevik

F18/100
A nobleman killed a peasant without a second thought just to test a new blade. The injustice was so immense that the victim's soul could not pass on — and so he returned as a Revenant, bound to a dark deity and able to grow his powers by accumulating Discordance shards. His goal: build an Undead Kingdom and make Eris Lanyer suffer every indignity he endured in life before destroying him entirely.
Goodreads4.14· 294
Anti-heroBase BuildingGrimdarkNon-human MCSecondary WorldSummoning+1

This Necromancer Raised Civilization Instead Of The Dead

Bimbanana

F18/100
In a world of magic and dragons, humanity's greatest hope is the Summoned Heroes. The Church of the Goddess, the only institution capable of performing the summoning ritual, made a catalogue — different tiers, different classes, different budgets. Because even the poor deserve their own personal hero. Unfortunately, one budget-conscious kingdom got Theo: a professional séance scammer and a necromancer who couldn't control the dead. So they threw him away. What no one knows is that Theo can summon the dead — but his System only lets him call souls from Earth. From Archimedes to Nikola Tesla, Julius Caesar to George Patton, Leonardo da Vinci to Steve Jobs. Men who shaped civilizations, now answering to a scammer. A kingdom forged from Earth's greatest minds to devour other kingdoms — and perhaps even the Goddess herself. There is just one problem: right next door lies the Demon Kingdom, and it has been waiting.
Royal Road4.47· 155
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCraftingGameLitGenius MC+11

The Archmage Who Turned the Lich King Into a Saintess

Rivalen

F14/100
The world already ended once. Three hundred years in the future, the Lich King Serivhal destroyed civilization and nearly ascended to godhood. The only one who could stop him was the Archmage Liria Yggdris — so she rewound time, determined to kill him before he becomes the Lord of Undeath. Unfortunately, the young Serivhal turns out to be a starving orphan, a walking necromantic disaster, and absolutely convinced that Liria is a divine savior sent to rescue him. Now the future Lich King follows her everywhere, calling her Big Sister and trying very hard to be good. Liria wanted to stop the apocalypse. Instead, she ended up raising the Lich King — and somehow, the future Lord of Undeath became a Saintess.
Royal Road4.42· 131
Base BuildingComedyLGBTQ+LitRPGOverpowered MCRegression+3

DarkRE: Shadows of Nekrom

SOMBRAcorpDT

F11/100
Tristessa Irandell is a young woman with no memories of her past, summoned into the world of Nekrom without explanation — and immediately killed. But Death is not the end for her. The mysterious God of Chaos granted her a unique Divine ability: [Death and Resurrection], capable of bending the fabric of space and time to bring her back to life. Now every death, every inch of pain, every scrap of information carries forward into the next loop. A never-ending spiral of fear, violence, and divine power. A path Tristessa must traverse to uncover the dark truths behind her lost memories and the tragedies bringing Nekrom to the brink of collapse — under the hands of the terrible Shadow Queen.
Royal Road4.38· 100
GrimdarkHorrorIsekaiLGBTQ+LitRPGPost-apocalyptic+7

Fifth Era Apocalypse

Ryan Rimmel

F7/100
Five friends gather for their usual game night, but when they use a strange new die they are instantly transported to a fantasy world where all gaming ideas can come true. Together, the party must join forces to deal with the vile Necrolord, whose plans threaten not only this world but Earth as well. Should be easy for a team of lifelong gamers — but when gaming and real life collide, there are situations that can't be anticipated.
Goodreads3.90· 309
ComedyIsekaiLitRPGSecondary WorldSummoning

The Broken Arcanist

Aleth08

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The guild ruled Thorin ineligible. The crystal confirmed it. With no path through the official system, his only option is an illegal branding — and affinities so weak that brute force is never on the table. Every fight is a calculation. Every mistake costs time he doesn't have. With his cousins Clay and Quin at his back, Thorin learns to weaponise broken power through planning, restraint, and hard decisions. He doesn't just want to survive. He wants control — and to reclaim what his name once stood for, whatever it takes. A cultivation-LitRPG blend inspired by Warlock of the Magus World and Reverend Insanity.
Royal Road4.39· 91
Anti-heroClass SystemCultivationGenius MCLitRPGOverpowered MC+4

Nothing but Bones

John Carrarn

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Millennia after the last humans fled the galaxy, only the dead remain. In this vast, desolate wasteland, Solus awakens with no memories and no personality, cast into a dangerous world ruled by undead. He must learn fast to keep his new existence — for he is far from alone. A post-apocalyptic sci-fi LitRPG following an undead protagonist navigating a world where the absence of life has caused undead energy to surge.
Goodreads4.16· 138
GrimdarkLitRPGNon-human MCPost-apocalypticSci-fiSummoning