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Kairos

Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

A78/100
It has been centuries since mortals unlocked the secrets of the Fate System and overthrew Mount Olympus. The old gods are dead, and their thrones are empty. Kairos, a young pirate with the ability to speak with animals, has one ambition: to ascend as the newest deity of a flooded world. But divine power is not given — it is taken. Now Kairos must sail the endless sea, tame fearsome monsters, and conquer new lands. The challenges are many, but he will face them all. For Kairos is a cunning [Rogue] indeed.
Royal Road4.67· 1.6KGoodreads4.33· 545
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCLitRPGMonster TamingOverpowered MC+1

Discount Dan's Backroom Bargains

James Hunter

A78/100
Dan has accidentally 'noclipped' into the Backrooms — a bizarro extra-dimensional world cobbled together from twisted carnivals, abandoned shopping malls, janky laundromats, and condemned insane asylums, overrun with horrific nightmare creatures known as the Dwellers. No one ever gets out. If Dan wants to survive the week, he's going to need to harness the strange game-like magic of the Backrooms, make some very sketchy allies, and carve out a little safe haven to call his own — and fast, because the Flayed Monarch of the 999th floor has marked him for death.
Goodreads4.32· 3K
Base BuildingComedyDungeon CrawlingGrimdarkHorrorLitRPG

Beware the Trickster

Mangowo

A78/100
Life was perfect: naps in sunbeams, stolen snacks, and expertly timed accidents to torment her favorite human. So when licking a strangely alluring gemstone suddenly flooded her fuzzy head with memories of her former human existence, Clover — now a fox — simply filed it under "things to not give a damn about" and went back to napping. Fate had other plans. When the curtain of her pampered ignorance was ripped aside, revealing a world steeped in ancient horrors, eldritch hungers, and flesh-warping occult progression, she reacted with remarkable calm. Because the real horror was anything threatening her nap-snack-torment equilibrium. Now this newly enlightened vulpine has a simple goal: get stronger — not for glory, but purely to achieve peace through overwhelming power.
Royal Road4.73· 639
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyGenius MCGrimdarkHorror+6

Dropship Cultivation - Dao of Delivery

JollyJupiter

A78/100
Lee Song always dreamt of becoming a proud cultivator — roaming the plains on horseback, fighting villains, righting wrongs. But during his initiation ritual, a terrible mishap brings him face to face with something even more frightening than an Eldritch Great One: a Canadian. With his plans for a life of righteous fame in jeopardy, Song must find his way in a world that isn't quite what he expected. New friends, new places, new food — and a new destiny, apparently in mail delivery. A cozy coming-of-age cultivation story blended with Lovecraftian themes, set in a world local to the protagonist.
Royal Road4.79· 195
Base BuildingComedyCozyCultivationIsekaiSecondary World+2

The World

Jason Cheek

A78/100
Jason and his friends are working to move their entire guild to Pro-Gamer status in FIVRMMORPG, a revolutionary new video game introducing immersive technology unlike anything experienced before. Choosing a Nightmare start to get ahead of the wave of new players, Jason finds himself alone in the wilds tasked with saving a group of refugees from goblin invaders. Jason is swept up in the adventure as he struggles to build a home for his guildmates and the NPCs he's saved. He quickly discovers that marauding goblins are the least of his concerns.
Goodreads4.39· 2.6K
Base BuildingClass SystemGameLitLitRPGMilitaryVRMMO

Song of the Gift-Giver

Selkie

A77/100
When Merlin sundered the world to separate the magical from the mundane, he made a small mistake: he copied every mundane body but not their souls. That night, they rose as undead — and the world has never known peace since. Camelot is now an institution for teaching fine young wixen about magic, and it is not a safe place to learn. Felix has never held a wand or cast a spell — until Paracelsus, the Immortal Alchemist, breaks into his home to tell him he's a wizard. Meanwhile, Erik Morsin, groomed to be the next Duke of Ireland, is a member of the most hated family in King Arthur's nation. Four other students round out a group whose lives will intertwine at Camelot — though only five can bond as a coven. A mild LitRPG set in a magic school, planned across eight books.
Royal Road4.75· 378
Base BuildingCozyGrimdarkHard MagicIsekaiLitRPG+5

Dreamer's Throne

WildCard

A76/100
When Garrett comes to after a close brush with death, he's in a new world — missing an arm and paralyzed from the waist down. The brutal gang lord whose floor he's crashing on wants him gone, and only a plucky young woman and his own wits stand between him and a cold death in the streets. Armed with a system that grants experience for exploring this new world, Garrett is determined to survive by any means necessary — even if it means becoming a villain. But the city is far from what it seems. Terrifying creatures lurk around every corner, immune to conventional weapons, and a strange lucid Dream world keeps bleeding into reality. When it does, Garrett realizes the hostile gangs around him are the least of his worries.
Royal Road4.68· 837Goodreads4.45· 923
Anti-heroBase BuildingGameLitGrimdarkHorrorIsekai+5

Dead Tired

RavensDagger

A76/100
In the distant past, there lived Harold — the mightiest lich of all, a master of arcane sciences, and a challenger of gods. After reaching the pinnacle of his power and finding it surprisingly bland, he waged a cataclysmic war against the gods and then took a nap. An incredibly long nap. He wakes to a world he barely recognizes. No more swords and sorcery, but a universe buzzing with cultivation, celestial sects, and far too many pretentious dialogues about the path to godhood. Harold has one ambition: to slide back into his uninterrupted eternal slumber. But the cacophony of quarreling sects and smug martial artists seems determined to keep him awake. No aspiring deity, no grandiose sect, and certainly no self-righteous martial artist is going to rob him of his beauty sleep.
Royal Road4.51· 1.6KGoodreads4.20· 3.1K
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCultivationLitRPGNon-human MC+5

I Built This City

ThePudding

A76/100
Ellen is a young adventurer with a unique problem: she duplicates every time she dies. And she dies a lot. All she wanted was to follow in her legendary grandfather's footsteps and become the greatest adventurer who ever lived. Instead she has to dodge government tax audits, endure unrelenting System notification spam, and wrangle a dungeon core bent on making her life as miserable as possible. But if she can just learn to work with herself — all of herself — it'll be fine. Probably.
Royal Road4.73· 518
Base BuildingComedyCozyDungeon CoreLitRPGSkill Collection

Godclads

OstensibleMammal

A76/100
The gods were the enemy — slavers who chained humanity. With dreams of paradise, humanity slaughtered them and stole their powers, opening the path to ascend. Instead, they nearly destroyed the world. Vast hive cities now serve as the final bastions against a crumbling reality, and within the greatest of them, New Vultun, ascenders wage war to determine the very laws of existence. Avo was born a weapon — a slave to his instincts and his masters, made to burn New Vultun to ashes. Everything changes when he gains immortality and becomes heir to an impossible legacy. To free the world from its chains, he must ascend the megacity and challenge the tyrants who usurped the gods.
Royal Road4.66· 1.4K
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkLitRPGMilitary+6

One Was Worthy

Materia-Blade

A76/100
A young girl is thrust into leadership as her competence, talent, charisma, and nature prove to be the foundation her people need — even if her own country disagrees. As far back as she can remember, there was another girl in her dreams. When she slept, she saw someone else's life. When she woke, that girl's skills were there in her menus. By nine she could read a language no one else knew. By twelve, she knew numbers no one had taught her. When she was sixteen, she watched her die. A progression story of crafting, kingdom building, political maneuvering, and war — following a charismatic MC's rise from peasant to ruler.
Royal Road4.71· 780
Base BuildingCozyCraftingGameLitGenius MCIsekai+5

Mirror World

Alexey Osadchuk

A76/100
Mirror World promises adventure, castles, and kingdoms to anyone who dares enter its virtual realm of sword and sorcery. Oleg isn't interested in any of that. He's here to grind — endlessly, methodically, in the recesses of the game's mines. His goal has nothing to do with glory: his six-year-old daughter needs a heart transplant, and the clock is ticking. In a game built for heroes, Oleg is just a man trying to save his child's life.
Goodreads4.20· 3.3K
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingLitRPGMerchantSecondary WorldVRMMO

A Sect Elder's Journey

Fizzicks

A76/100
Mo Duan didn't enjoy being taken from his life and waking up in another world. Especially when that world was populated by violent kung-fu wizards and he woke up in another person's body. Sure, it was nice that the person whose body he took over was fairly powerful — but it didn't help that they had so many dangerous secrets. Mo Duan must navigate his life as an Elder of the Verdant Valleys Sect, trying his hardest to avoid being killed due to the decisions of his body's previous owner.
Royal Road4.70· 983
Base BuildingCompetent MCCultivationIsekaiReincarnationTransmigration

Horizon of War

Hanne

A76/100
The thousand-year-old Imperium is crumbling, and war looms on the horizon — bringing with it both brutalities and splendor. Caught in the midst of this chaos is Lansius, an office worker and veteran MMO player who has been transformed into a medieval peasant. With no wealth, no status, and no magical abilities, armed only with his foundational knowledge of the art of war, Lansius must endure and thrive in a realistic medieval fantasy realm. Follow him as he moves from one occupation to another — surviving turbulent times and slowly ascending from common foot soldier toward the ruling class.
Royal Road4.56· 1.8K
Base BuildingCompetent MCCozyGenius MCIsekaiMilitary+2

Castle Kingside

Gennon Asche

A76/100
A puzzling encounter leaves Dimitry a beggar with a strange emblem on his wrist. Around him, people suffer as ruthless organizations, opportunistic nobles, and an overly pious church vie for power in a medieval land under constant siege by stone monstrosities rampaging from the coasts. Can a kindhearted surgeon aid this ailing world with modern knowledge, resourcefulness, and magic? Or will rival powers crush him first? The story starts brutally grim and transitions into technology uplift with a focus on science, magitech, and town building.
Royal Road4.66· 1.4KGoodreads3.81· 37
Base BuildingCompetent MCGrimdarkHard MagicIsekaiMystery+3

Light Online

Tom Larcombe

A76/100
Eddie Hunter is broke and desperate when he stumbles across an ad looking for people to farm currency in long-term immersion in the game Light Online. Once hired, he enters as soon as he can — but illicit research on the pods he and the other farmers are using gets forcefully shut down, altering the code in a way that prevents everyone from logging out. Stuck in-game, Eddie tries to earn real money while becoming entangled deeper in the game and with the people he meets there. When he discovers a side of Light Online that previous players never considered, he knows he has to find a way to stay.
Goodreads4.33· 2.6K
Base BuildingCompetent MCLitRPGMerchantVRMMO

Inexorable Chaos

Cliff Hanger

A75/100
Gods are lazy. After a few hundred millennia they learned to delegate, and so the Heroes were born — useful pawns to handle the messy business of saving worlds. Quasi Eludo has been a Hero. He did the whole save-the-world routine, came home, and decided it wasn't enough. So he sold his services back to the Gods: Quasi Eludo, Hero for Hire. After countless subjective centuries on the job, an odd God arrives with a unique request — destroy a world, minimum payment several million dollars on completion. Quasi sees no reason to refuse.
Royal Road4.38· 2.4K
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLit+12

Trinity of Magic

Elara

A75/100
Zeke was born into obscurity at the very bottom of a world where magic defines worth. The gap between his low birth and true mastery seems unbridgeable. Yet he refuses to accept his place — even as the path ahead is littered with those who tried and failed before him. A slow-burn progression fantasy built on a hard magic system grounded in solid principles rather than game-like point allocation. Power here is earned through understanding, not shortcuts.
Royal Road4.35· 2.4K
Base BuildingCozyCultivationDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MC+7

My Big Goblin Space Program

ScottWarren

A75/100
Engineer, double amputee, and now astronaut for NuEarth LLC — Chris is about to complete his life-long dream of being the first man to moonwalk on prosthetics. At least until his rocket explodes on launch. Instead of death, he finds himself in a new world and a new body: three feet tall, covered in blue fur, and with the ability to command the absolute loyalty of any goblin he meets. The one familiar element to this new planet is that it's got a moon — a big one, with forests and seas. Chris sees no reason why death and reincarnation should get in the way of his goal. Armed with an expanding army of fanatical followers and a dubious self-propagating Goblin Tech Tree, he'll stop at nothing to jump-start the Apollo program. But he was brought to this world for a reason, and not everyone is content to leave the goblin king to his own devices.
Royal Road4.69· 1.1K
Base BuildingComedyGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+4

The Greystone Chronicles

Dave Willmarth

A75/100
In the latter half of the 21st century, Alexander and his guild play Io Online — the world's largest VRMMORPG — for both fun and income. While completing a rare "First Kill" dungeon, they discover that demons have returned to the realm for the first time in ages. Given the chance to test a new immersion system that makes casting faster, movement more fluid, and magic itself different, the friends must give up their high-level characters and start over at level one. They quickly run afoul of a player-killer guild, and the conflict escalates until in-game actions begin to have real-world consequences.
Goodreads4.43· 1.6K
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGMilitaryVRMMO