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Dungeon Planet: The Healer Always Leaves Alive

six-perihelion

A76/100
When a world falls through the false vacuum of its native universe, it ends up in the Spiral — an endless twisting helix of planets, stars, and civilizations, where a thousand different fundamental rules mix and blend to form the patchwork cosmos of the Weave. In the Spiral, magic and technology co-exist, freely used by traders, adventurers, and plunderers to make their fortunes. Miles is a human refugee, fresh from an Earth that has recently fallen into the Spiral. Unlike most of his peers, he's chosen to pursue a specialization in magic, and has just taken his first step on a journey that will take him to the highest and lowest points in his strange new universe.
Royal Road4.71· 815
CozyDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGSci-fiSkill Collection

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

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

Cultivation is Creation

Kynan

A76/100
Ke Yin has a problem — several, actually. He's really Kane from Earth, stuck in a cultivation world where people don't just split mountains with a sword strike but build entire universes inside their souls. He has a system with a snarky spiritual assistant that lets him possess the recently deceased across dimensions. And the elders at the Azure Peak Sect are asking why his soul realm contains both demonic cultivation and holy arts. Must be a natural talent. Kane's main cultivation method is plant-based, tied to World Trees, and will eventually allow him to create his own lifeforms within his soul realm. A weak-to-strong story spanning multiple realms, with light LitRPG elements and time loop threads woven throughout.
Royal Road4.43· 2.3KGoodreads4.00· 6
ComedyCozyCultivationIsekaiLitRPGReincarnation+4

All the Dust that Falls

Zaifyr

A76/100
Some seek power. Some seek justice. Others seek to root out the filth lurking in the darkest of corners. Spot was summoned from his comfortable charging pad and familiar floors to a world of magic and intrigue. After the flight of his new patrons, he is left to care for a filthy castle. During his quest to keep this new home clean, he will face demons, foreign armies, and the dreaded stairs. All those who stand before him will be swept away. Those who follow his spotless trail will find enlightenment, purity, and a world on its knees.
Royal Road4.61· 1.7KGoodreads4.35· 425
ComedyCozyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+2

Dungeon Diver: Stealing A Monster's Power

KaeNovels

A75/100
Jay has grown up in a world where dungeons, monsters, and leveling systems are a cultural norm. At twenty, he awakens a Skill that allows him to steal the abilities of monsters — where others are locked into a fixed skill set, he grows stronger after every battle. Follow Jay's journey as he learns more about his unique situation in a world that has grown blind to the real dangers of modern-day dungeon diving.
Royal Road3.60· 3.2KGoodreads4.50· 2
Anti-heroCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCIsekai+7

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

Villager Three

Kruos

A75/100
Kira Hawthorne was just another teenage girl until the day a 'god' told the world their 'realm' was getting assimilated — they had lost some war no one on Earth even knew about. A System is installed on the whim of a very old and capricious god. Kira immediately gets trapped in a pocket dimension, and emerges to find a once familiar world turned foreign — and very hostile.
Royal Road4.56· 1.7K
CozyLitRPGOverpowered MCSchoolSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy+1

The Shining Wyrm

Nighzmarquls

A75/100
The story of Jewel — a dutiful daughter, a kind lady to the people in her village, and an enthusiastic bather. She loves her home in the rural barony of Rochford. She loves her brother and parents. Jewel would be happy to be everything a baron's child should be. Unfortunately, she is also a dragon.
Royal Road4.72· 548
CozyMilitaryNon-human MCOverpowered MCSci-fiSecondary World+1

Smith to the Small Gods

Max Vale

A75/100
Everyone knows that true Legends never die — but they do occasionally retire. After decades of bashing, slashing, and executing his way to becoming the highest-ranking Barbarian in the world, Orin Ironfinger is tired. Victorious and feared the world over, all he wants now is to embark on his long-held dream: a quiet life as a small-town blacksmith. But the Small Gods — the ones only the locals know about, who give happy blessings and small boons of favor — have other plans. What happens when the world's most terrifying Barbarian disappears and gains the favor of the gods? And how will Orin keep his true identity hidden in the charming seaside hamlet of Havenhold?
Goodreads4.47· 461
Competent MCCozyLitRPGOlder MCWholesome

The Consequences of Meeting a Dragon

Rynn the Tired

A75/100
Sixteen-year-old Thenio Iterune has a simple plan: work hard, do well in school, become a qualified wizard, and make his parents proud. Unfortunately, his magic power is increasingly difficult to control, leading to accidents that threaten his spot at the Kafron Royal Academy of Magic. When he discovers the source — an extremely rare and unstable magic affinity — the stakes rise from expulsion to survival. Enter Iggy, a tiny black dragon with a remarkable nose for magic, and his genius enchanter partner Ariom, who take an interest in keeping the chronically explosive boy alive. That's before demons get added to the mix.
Royal Road4.73· 400
CozyMysteryReincarnationSchoolSecondary WorldSoft Magic

Small-Town Crafter

Tom Watts

A75/100
Lewis comes from a family that doesn't regard him much, so he sets out on his own into the world, intent on securing an apprenticeship in an interesting profession. What he doesn't expect is to find himself studying artificery — the mystical craft of adding magical effects to everyday objects — in the sunlit village of Sunhampton. Sunhampton is a sleepy little crafter's village of cobbled streets, cozy taverns, and pleasant bakeries. Under an old artificery master, Lewis begins his new life as an apprentice, crafting swords with self-sharpening blades, self-spicing cooking pots, and clocks that can read the future. It'll be hard work — perhaps even dangerous — but with mentors to guide him and friends to help him, Lewis is determined to become the best artificer in the land.
Goodreads4.40· 2.1K
CozyCraftingLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill CollectionStats

Wizard's Tower

Allanther

A75/100
For more than a hundred and fifty years, Nemon Fargus has served the Kingdom of Sena. Through four Kings and a Queen, two wars, a rebellion, a magic school founded and taught, and countless beast waves and dungeon breaks. Now the one close friend he had left has passed. He's done with their politics and economics. The short, busy lives of humans are more burden than benefit on the weary soul of this half-elf. He wants a refuge — a place truly his own, away from cities, markets, wars, and eager students. He's seeking the peaceful life of a wizard in his tower, studying magic to advance his spellcraft. We'll see if that happens.
Royal Road4.51· 1.9KGoodreads4.15· 1.2K
Base BuildingCozyGameLitNon-human MCOlder MCSecondary World+2

Dungeon Tour Guide: A Dungeon Core LitRPG

Slifer274

A75/100
Lucas used to delve dungeons. Now, he has to run one. After Lucas dies during a freak explosion, divine intervention brings him back to life with the power to control a new dungeon — but his old body remains bound to it. When he sees rookie adventurers entering his domain, he decides to help them survive and complete their quests. After all, adventuring is a process, and someone needs to guide the rookies.
Royal Road4.53· 1.8K
CozyDungeon CoreIsekaiLitRPGReincarnationSecondary World

Dungeon Wreckers

Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

A75/100
For Matthew "Wormhole" Maruki, blowing up Dungeons is more than a job—it is a pleasure. The year is 2024: monsters are everywhere, and mysterious Dungeons eat people. It is Matthew's secret part-time job to stamp them out like weeds before they grow big enough to overwhelm reality, something he and his team have grown explosively good at between school life and the occasional cosmic disaster. But the war against the Dungeons is unending, and unknown to Matthew himself, he might hold the key to mankind's ultimate victory—if only he could remember it.
Royal Road4.75· 262
ComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingOverpowered MCSchoolSci-fi+2

Mythshaper

Eon R. Solara

A75/100
Reborn into a world shaped by ashen storms, brutal blizzards, and sword-wielding sorcerers, Arilyn must forge his own path. Magic is abundant, spread far and wide by the realm-spanning Grand Spell — and even in the frail body of a newborn, Arilyn earns attributes, points, and power through stubborn hard work. Yet not everything is as bright as it seems. Legends walk the land, and the Blight Lords are hell-bent on resurrecting the Old God. None of this should have mattered to someone living on the fringe of the empire — until strange rumblings rise from the heart of the Candor Mountains.
Royal Road4.59· 1.5K
CozyCraftingDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGMystery+5

The Daily Grind

argusthecat

B74/100
A terminally bored IT guy finds a sub-dimension in the back stairwell of his office building. It escalates from there.
Royal Road4.45· 2K
ComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingLitRPGUrban Fantasy

To Face The Sun

fuwami

B74/100
Kayden Sterling has spent years traveling the world chasing thrills and knowledge, but persistent letters from the Unovan government ultimately see him returning home for the first time in two decades. He convinces himself it's going to be a short vacation. It's not. Bugs are much stronger than people think. They don't just live or survive — they thrive wherever they go.
Royal Road4.77· 114
Competent MCCozy

Apocalypse Parenting

300YearOldMagician

B74/100
A few minutes ago, Meghan Moretti's biggest concern was getting the kids' athletic clothes washed in time for practice. Now, Earth has been forced into participating in high-stakes intergalactic reality television. All electrical wiring has been slagged, combustibles neutralized, and evil space rodents are appearing on the front lawn. Like any parent, Meghan's first instinct is to keep her young kids safely away from the monsters. But an odd stroke of luck brings her advanced information about this dangerous game — including the fact that her kids will have to fight too. What's a mom to do?
Royal Road4.69· 600Goodreads4.38· 1.2K
Competent MCCozyLitRPGPost-apocalypticSci-fiSystem Apocalypse+1