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The Chronicles of William Wilde

Davis Ashura

D31/100
William Wilde is a seventeen-year-old orphan who wants nothing more than to survive high school, endure the cafeteria food, and deal with the bullies. When a captivating new presence named Serena Paradiso enters his life, William learns that his friends have been keeping secrets about his heritage — secrets that a man named Kohl Obsidian, who murdered William's family, also knows. Destined to master the magic in his veins, William never wanted to be a hero. But someone is coming for him, and the life of an 1980s teenager has never been so deadly.
Goodreads4.16· 598
SchoolSecondary WorldSoft MagicUrban FantasyWeak to Strong

Arcane Innovator

CosmicQuill

D31/100
After an unfortunate death on Earth, Darian is reincarnated into a harsh medieval-like world. Life as a poor villager offers little — until he discovers that magic is real and that he too can cast it. From that day on, all he can think about is becoming a mage. To change his station he must carefully navigate a dangerous world with his newfound powers, risking everything in pursuit of his dream. When the rules won't let him win, he's willing to make his own.
Royal Road4.03· 437
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyIsekaiReincarnationSecondary World+2

Deadly Persuasion

FreeID

D31/100
Isekai'd into a mysterious Victorian town, Levi finds himself in a weak child's body amid deep darkness, ravenous monsters, and a murderous cult of devil worshippers seeking to summon mythical beasts from the Graveyard of the Gods. Fortunately, he possesses the rare talent of an Arch-Magus. Armed with deadly magical words and traps, he is ready to incite riots, gain classes, and level up to survive everything that threatens his precious new life. In this world, power comes from absorbing Ingredients — each holding its own paths and classes — and every week the Krag opens, offering an entrance to the Graveyard of the Gods where relics, power, and Ingredients wait to be plundered, protected by terrifying monsters.
Royal Road4.48· 392Goodreads3.74· 209
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+4

Edge Cases

Silver Linings

D30/100
In the Prime Kingdoms, the system dominates everything — dictating strength, skills, and power, and spawning dungeons filled with monsters. But every system has its limits, and it is about to push four oddball adventurers to theirs. There is Derivan, an enchanted suit of armor in an existential crisis; Misa, a tanklike half-orc who loves exploiting the system but misses her family; Vex, an anxious lizardkin wizard who has run away from his; and Sev, a cleric who would rather have tea with his god than worship him. When a simple quest goes off the rails and a mysterious dungeon linked to each of them appears, they discover that something is deeply wrong with the Prime Kingdoms. The system is malfunctioning. The world itself is falling apart. Their only hope is trust, shared secrets, and perhaps a bit of healthy communication.
Goodreads4.22· 393
CozyDungeon CrawlingLitRPGNon-human MCSecondary WorldSkill Collection+1

Chronicles of Sir Crabby

Boe Hagen, Ryan Rimmel

D30/100
A prank by a young girl changes the fate of a humble crab forever. Wrenched from his peaceful life at the beach and thrust into sapience, Sir Crabby finds himself in a world filled with creatures both mundane and magical — a world where Evil lurks beneath the waves. Join Sir Crabby as he travels beneath the ocean, discovering power, adventuring forth, and searching for his young friend as he is thrust into the Eternal Conflict of Arthos.
Goodreads4.00· 633
ComedyDungeon CrawlingNon-human MCSecondary WorldSoft Magic

Defying Divinity

Jamey Sultan

D30/100
James has no idea why he was ripped from his life as a paramedic and transported to a strange new world with rules like those of a video game. But he knows he must adapt quickly — ending up in a spider's belly was never on his to-do list. With only a vague quest, a mysterious brand, and promises of help from a cantankerous old lady, James must level up into the warrior this dangerous world so desperately needs.
Goodreads4.04· 620
Class SystemIsekaiLitRPGSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

The Adept Archives

Darren Hultberg Jr.

D30/100
In the realm of Eon, strength is the rule of law. Adepts — powerful cultivators who wield mystic spirit energy — battle for control of ancient relics imbued with the power of gods. At night, darkbeasts born of a mysterious fog called the veil hoard those same relics in their dungeons and destroy any adept who ventures too close. When portals begin pulling warriors from other worlds into Eon's brutal battlegrounds, one police officer from Earth finds himself fighting to survive — and discovers he may have the spirit needed to shake the realm to its core. As Roy rises through the ranks of rogue adepts in the outlaw city of Shadowreach, dark forces move to tear everything apart.
Goodreads4.00· 629
CultivationDungeon CrawlingGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGSecondary World+2

Monster Empire

Michael-Scott Earle

D30/100
Ken Jewell is building an empire one monster wife at a time. Each union produces half-human, half-monster children with powerful magical abilities, and Ken's growing clan is destined for greatness — just as long as he can keep enemies at bay and his pregnant monster wives from slaughtering everyone within ten miles. A harem fantasy of family, monsters, and empire-building in a world where bounty hunters, orc armies, and ambitious dukes all want a piece of what Ken is building.
Goodreads4.09· 602
Base BuildingComedyGoreHaremMonster TamingSecondary World+1

The Soulstealer's War

kwerte

D30/100
A college student from Earth wakes up in the body of a Duplicate — an artificial soldier built from a template and deployed to hold the line against orc hordes threatening a crumbling empire. As an Atoning, he must serve on the front lines to pay off the "theft" of the soul he now inhabits. Survival is a luxury for Dupes. He is up against orcs, mutated monsters, and battalion members who want to put a knife in his back. But there is a slim chance to become more than just cannon fodder — to build something from the rot, and turn his name into a legend through skill-merging and earned progression.
Royal Road4.48· 384
Base BuildingCozyGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGMilitary+5

System Cultivator: Righteous Young Master in an Unworthy World

RAIDBOSS

D30/100
He was born to rule the world — a prince, a prodigy, a once-in-centuries talent destined to usher in a new era of prosperity. Instead, at a young age, his foundation was shattered, his cultivation destroyed, and his path to immortality severed. Exiled to a barren backwater without qi, he learned to live as mortals do — for today, not for a future that might never be. Brick by brick, with the help of his countrymen, he built a new and better world. Then, buried beneath an ancient desert, he discovered a legacy capable of granting him god-like power — hidden precisely where no cultivator would think to look. Now he must decide: retake his throne and fix his father's broken empire from within, or destroy it.
Royal Road4.55· 104
Base BuildingCultivationGenius MCLitRPGRegressionSecondary World+1

The Ghost of the Wastes

JCAnderson2025

D29/100
The Wastes do not create heroes. They create survivors. Cale Arcanus vanished ten years ago when a transport was lost beyond the borders of civilization. Presumed dead, his name became a footnote in a tragedy the Dominion preferred to forget. But the Wastes did not kill him — they forged him. In a land where mana turns feral, monsters replace law, and mercy gets you buried, Cale survived by mastering older methods of power: methods that do not fit neatly into cores, rankings, or institutions. Now he has returned. Arclight Academy wants to classify him, noble houses want to control him, and military and political powers want to decide whether he is an asset or a threat. They are already too late. Behind a quiet demeanor and a worn mask, Cale walks back into a world that no longer recognizes him — and one that will soon learn what it means to provoke something forged outside its rules.
Royal Road4.01· 417Goodreads4.82· 17
Base BuildingCompetent MCHaremLoner MCMilitaryOverpowered MC+6

Otherworldly Anarchist

Dreamer's Riot

D29/100
No gods, no kings, no masters — that was Annie's mantra, until she woke up as someone else, somewhere else: a child in a completely new realm. Reborn in the body of seven-year-old Lillith, she must conceal her adult intellect and knowledge of biology, math, and physics from the unsuspecting family around her. In this new world she's expected to obey her parents, worship a god, and respect a monarchy — none of which she's willing to do. When she discovers that mages hold real power in this society, Lillith begins teaching herself magic and hatching bold plans to change the realm for the better. Her scheme is dangerous, and she'll need to decide carefully who to trust and what she can accomplish with self-taught magic. The plan is bold, brash, and possibly impossible — but Lillith is willing to try, danger be damned.
Goodreads4.22· 317
IsekaiLGBTQ+ReincarnationSecondary WorldSoft MagicWeak to Strong

Guild Core

TJ Reynolds

D29/100
Kai was the least likely young man to ascend — raised on a potato farm, beginning his adventurer career with empty pockets. A foolish act of bravery unlocks hidden power within him. Rhona is a battle-scarred soldier seeking atonement for a bloody past. And Bancroft is an Earth Core who has just awakened, eager to rebuild his dungeon. Together, the three form the Guild Core — a small band of friends determined to restore the world to an age of dragons, heroes, and honor.
Goodreads4.11· 582
Base BuildingDungeon CoreGameLitLitRPGSecondary World

The Sworn Sword

Miles Hunter

D29/100
Kidnapped and forced into a game-world controlled by System-wielding elves, a nameless prisoner is assigned the bottom-tier Farmer class. But while his strength and stamina climb, something forbidden is growing too — magic, in a world where casting spells means execution. His display reads Assassin. The System knows Mage. Every spell he casts brings him closer to detection, and if they discover what he really is, he's dead. But if he can stay hidden long enough to master what's inside him, he might do more than survive.
Goodreads4.22· 310
Anti-heroClass SystemLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill CollectionWeak to Strong

Dungeon Tour Guide

Aaron Shih

D29/100
Lucas used to delve dungeons. Now he has to run one. After dying in a freak explosion, divine intervention brings him back as part dungeon core — but his old body is bound to the dungeon, and the strangeness of what he thought was his final act only keeps growing. When he sees rookie adventurers entering his dungeon, Lucas decides to help them survive and complete their quests. After all, adventuring is a process — and someone needs to guide the newcomers.
Goodreads4.04· 592
Dungeon CoreLitRPGNon-human MCSecondary WorldWholesome

Tale of an Ordinary Cultivator

Sweating Cloud

D29/100
An ordinary cultivator — that was the best way to describe Zhao Yunxiao. Be it in strength or talent, he had always been in the middle of the pack, neither excelling nor falling behind. And he didn't think badly of it. Some people were destined to become stars in the skies; some were born to be rocks on the ground. Both were necessary to maintain balance. As someone ordinary, Zhao Yunxiao did his best to live his ordinary life to the fullest — careful, meticulous, understanding everything fully before acting, knowing his limits, dreaming only of freedom. But one day he realized something seemed amiss. Perhaps even the rocks on the ground had their chance to shine under the right circumstances.
Royal Road4.42· 384
CultivationSecondary WorldTragedyWeak to Strong

Reroll Saga: I Brought Sarcasm To A Sword Fight

Runewriter

D29/100
Hal Miller wanted comfort, not chaos. Now he's trapped in a world where plumbing is myth, toothbrushes are sorcery, and nobles are parasites in fancy shoes. With a sarcastic AI in his head and a head full of modern logic, Hal is about to break every rule this world has. Armed with stubborn ingenuity and a talent for making things explode in instructive ways, he sets out to drag an entire medieval society into a new era — one scientific-magic experiment at a time.
Royal Road4.26· 399
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyCraftingGenius MC+5

Hunter Or Huntress

Tigra21

D28/100
An engineer sick of life was given an opportunity to do more, to be more, to change a world forever. Stepping into a world of wonder, he found dragons crossing the skies between floating islands, and green glowing sanctuaries from the cold dark depths below where winged people live their lives in peace — at least some of the time. Follow Tom's adventure as he attempts to make a home for himself amongst the clouds and fights to defend it from all manner of terrors from without and within.
Royal Road4.51· 363
CozyIsekaiSci-fiSecondary WorldSoft Magic

War Priest

Andrew Karevik

D28/100
Arik Dacre never thought he'd become the reincarnation of the War Priest, nor did he think he'd befriend an irritable water spirit or a mysterious master illusionist. But destiny can be funny like that. Drawing on recently translated ninja and samurai texts to build its combat and chi system, this Japanese mythology-inspired cultivation epic follows a chi healer forced to learn to use his power in new and frightening ways.
Goodreads4.20· 422
CultivationHard MagicReincarnationSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

The Academy

kzzh

D28/100
From rags to liches. A street-rat will claw her way to the top of the Academy. Orphaned in the war, Lina has survived two years on the streets by her wits and picking pockets. She targets a black-robed wizard and lifts a bone-white slab from him — and something ancient and dead feels her do it. The wizard tracks her down and drags her north to the Academy. No one has ever connected with the artifact before. Talent like hers can't be allowed to go to waste. Now Lina has to survive snide teachers, entitled students, and a necromancy curriculum she is months behind on. The problem is that the deathless thing she woke up isn't done with her either. And it has been waiting a very long time.
Royal Road4.54· 154
GrimdarkLGBTQ+SchoolSecondary WorldSummoningWeak to Strong