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The Realms

C.M. Carney

A75/100
Betrayed by those closest to him, ex-spy Finn Caldwell thought he'd escaped his life of violence and deception. When a frantic message from his estranged sister draws him into the Realms — a strange game-like world of magic and wonder — Finn is forced to embrace his deadly skills once more. Armed with a mysterious artifact known as a Godhead, Finn becomes the warrior-mage Gryph. To save his sister, he must first escape a sentient dungeon by defeating its master, the Barrow King.
Goodreads4.26· 2.9K
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGSkill CollectionStats

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

In Clawed Grasp

Seth Richter

B74/100
Five years in the prime of his life, wasted. Just as Cayden was about to gain his freedom, everything changed — he found himself in a new world without explanation, a world of magic and limitless possibilities. Orc, elf, ogre — hundreds of possible races. Blacksmith, fighter, rogue — thousands of possible classes, each with tens of thousands of possible skills. Reborn into a new world, Cayden will choose a path entirely his own, forging himself into something powerful enough to protect himself and the ones he loves. A LitRPG following Cayden from infancy as he learns the rules behind the system governing this world — and then pushes them as far as they can go.
Goodreads4.44· 1.1K
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGSchoolStats+1

Apocalypse: Regression

Charles Dean, R.A. Mejia

B74/100
As humanity faces extinction, the last three survivors on Earth create a final chance for the hero to travel back in time and stop the apocalypse. But before she can enter the chronomancer portal, both the hero and the portal's creator are killed — leaving only the weak assistant to carry on their dream. Nick must travel back, right the wrongs done to him, and prepare the world for the catastrophe he knows is coming — in this regression LitRPG of dungeon-diving, leveling stats, and racing against the end of the world.
Goodreads4.38· 2.2K
Dungeon CrawlingLitRPGRegressionStatsSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

Crystal Shards Online

Rick Scott

B74/100
Ryan's life sucks. His brother is a jerk, his mom is sick, and his legs are next to useless thanks to a neurological disorder. In a post-nuclear world where what's left of humanity lives underground, the only escape is the massive VR world of Crystal Shards Online — but even there, Ryan can't play a combat class, so he works as a miner barely scraping by. When Ryan discovers an item that grants the ability to dodge any attack, he has the chance to become one of the game world's most elite players: a Dodge Tank. To save his mom's life, Ryan will have to overcome his disability and level his way to the top — but the real-world consequences reach far further than he ever imagined.
Goodreads4.27· 2.7K
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGPost-apocalypticStatsVRMMO+1

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

Rune Seeker

J.M. Clarke (U Juggernaut)

B74/100
Hiral is the Everfail — the weakest person on the flying island of Fallen Reach. He trains harder than any warrior and studies longer than any scholar, but while all his people channel solar magic through tattoos on their bodies, Hiral cannot. Despite enormous energy within him, his hard work counts for nothing. Until it isn't. In a moment of danger, Hiral unlocks an achievement with a single instruction: access a Dungeon to receive a class-specific reward. It is his first — and maybe last — chance at real power. The only problem is that all dungeons lie in the wilderness below the flying islands, in a place no one has survived.
Royal Road4.56· 1.6K
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingHard MagicLitRPGSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Broker

TheBroker

B74/100
The opening of Pandora's Box changed the world, giving rise to an age of superhumans and monsters. Yet mankind was not safe from its own hubris, and in the end, it destroyed itself. It's the end of the world — but Sonya Chernovna has been given a chance for a redo. Armed with her memories of the world to come and a deep hatred of the society that rose out of Pandora's Light, Sonya sets out to change the future. Even if it means becoming the most heinous villain that ever lived.
Royal Road4.57· 1.5K
Dungeon CrawlingGrimdarkOverpowered MCRegressionSci-fiSuperpowers+4

Hell Hound Evolution

Winter Knights

B74/100
She's a puppy. She's a girl. And she's going to evolve. Waking up one day in a litter of puppies, her human life a fading memory, she quickly falls into the flow of things — playing and hunting with her pack, taking naps, and leveling up. With five siblings who all have unique powers, a protective Dog Mom and three-headed Cerberus Dad, nothing seemed like it could go wrong. That is, until human hunters attack her family and kidnap her brothers and sisters. Now alone in a harsher world, she won't give up — she'll continue to level and evolve, and become powerful enough to take revenge and get her family back.
Royal Road4.70· 684
Anti-heroCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitGrimdarkIsekai+9

Nobody Saves the Princess

JacksonWrites

B73/100
Princess Lillia Ashvalin was supposed to inherit a throne, not fight a giant bug for the right to wear its skin as a dress. After five years under her murderous aunt's rule, the worst part was supposed to be politics. Sadly, her aunt had her thrown into the bowels of an SSS-Class Dungeon. Now our princess has fallen into a world — and a genre — she was never meant for. Armed with a dead knight's sword she cannot equip and a class nobody has ever heard of, Lillia must fight her way through spooky monsters, elite bosses, deadly traps, and other deeply unaristocratic problems. Down here, all the knights are dead. Down here, nobody saves the princess.
Royal Road4.73· 331
Class SystemComedyDungeon CrawlingLitRPGSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

VRMMO: Nerf The Archer!

Laszz

B73/100
Max is a regular guy who only enjoys games when they're a genuine challenge — he always plays on the hardest difficulty. When the first-ever full-dive VRRPG launched, he scraped together his savings to play it, and spent four years grinding on the hardest setting with the crappiest capsule available. Now the sequel is out — and it's multiplayer. Gifted a new capsule by his uncle and sister, Max is finally ready to see how his skills fare against other players.
Royal Road4.69· 844
Dungeon CrawlingGenius MCLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MCSecondary World+1

Ben's Damn Adventure: The Prince Has No Pants

saltywaters

B73/100
All life on Earth has been stolen away by The System, transported to another world at the behest of a distant galactic empire that lived in terror of humanity's potential. Ben was a normal, slightly above-average man on the verge of his first real vacation. Now he must contend with danger and mystery in a world of monsters, magic, and treasure — armed with nothing but his wits and the special item granted to him by The System.
Royal Road4.57· 1.5K
ComedyDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MC+2

Stonehaven League

Carrie Summers

B73/100
Devon Walker has one chance to turn her life around, and Relic Online is it. Hired as a salaried player to push the game's creator AI to its limits, she logs in expecting an adventure — and instead spawns in a ruined jungle city wearing nothing but a cloth tunic, with no skills and pocket lint in her inventory. Devon's task: drive the AI to its creative limits while building a settlement in a hostile game world. What begins as a job becomes a fight for survival — and something more — as the game's competing AIs wage a war with stakes that extend far beyond the virtual world.
Goodreads4.23· 2.7K
Base BuildingCompetent MCDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGVRMMO

A Dream of Wings & Flame

Cocop (Cale Plamann)

B73/100
Kobolds cower at the bottom of the food chain, forced to eke out a meager existence in the most wretched of caves. Most have made peace with their lot — eating scraps and hiding from predators, delaying the inevitable. But not Samazzar. Sam is different from other kobold pups. The blood of dragons pumps through his veins, and he isn't willing to settle for mere survival. Whether by claw, magic, or cunning, one day he will soar above the plains — predator rather than prey. Nothing, be it the mockery of his tribe, the hazards of the deep caves, or the almost insurmountable difficulty of evolving his bloodline, is going to stop him.
Royal Road4.62· 764Goodreads4.45· 623
ComedyDungeon CrawlingNon-human MCSecondary WorldSkill CollectionWeak to Strong+1

Duskbound

D. E. Sherman

B73/100
Monsters don't fear the dark. They fear Velik. Changed by a childhood encounter he still struggles to understand, Velik is now faster and deadlier than any ordinary human — armed with a unique class built for one purpose: hunting monsters. For ten years he has braved the frontier alone, growing stronger with every kill. But the monsters are coming faster and stronger, and he is losing ground. When a guild hunter arrives and seems more interested in Velik than in the monsters he was hired to kill, Velik is forced to venture deeper into the woods — where what he finds is not just a nest but a secret that could explain what happened to him ten years ago. Something in the dark remembers him, and it has been waiting.
Goodreads4.42· 1.5K
Class SystemCompetent MCDungeon CrawlingLitRPGMysterySecondary World+1

I Ran Away To Evil: Book 3 - A Cozy LitRPG RomCom

Mystic Neptune

B73/100
When she woke up in her favorite otome video game, she wasn't expecting to open the eyes of Gerda the NPC troll. Five long years of leveling up, dungeon delving, and treasure hunting — all to give everyone the happily ever after her favorite characters deserved. Season two is closing, and the final season is almost upon her. There are dragons in her future, and something even more terrifying: a lot of walking. Julian van Slyke has been guarding the border to the Untamed Ice Fields since his father died protecting their home twenty years ago. He is determined to conquer the dungeon his father couldn't — but now his home is threatened by Blackfog spies, and he keeps tripping on Gerda no matter where he turns.
Royal Road4.69· 732
ComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+2

I'm Not the Hero

SourpatchHero

B72/100
When a terrible accident catapults best friends Daniel and Orrin into an RPG-like world, Daniel is classified as a Hero while Orrin is relegated to the fantasy equivalent of dead weight. In a realm populated with lethal, inescapable foes, sticking together matters more than ever. Soon Orrin discovers he has powers no one has encountered before — and finds himself growing far beyond his role as sidekick into something that surprises even him.
Goodreads4.30· 2.2K
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Level One Zombie

Matthew-McKay

B72/100
Frank isn't exactly a model citizen. He's also not here to save Earth — he just wants his favorite curse word back. Too bad the World Dungeon drops him in as a zombie with a level cap of 1 and a profanity filter that turns every F-bomb into "frank." Earth has been repossessed and rebranded by a megacorp called DungeonCore. The prize is ownership of the planet, and this season is Hardcore Mode: death means getting stuck in his Lair until the next expansion, losing everything. Humanity gets a head start, but deep-pocketed aliens are lining up to buy in. To make matters worse, hero classes went to the NPCs while actual players got saddled with monster classes. Frank spawns as a lowly zombie with only stubbornness, handyman's grit, and an accidental Universe First achievement that lets him build a class of his own. He's not a hero — he's not even technically alive. But he might be petty enough to move mountains for the sake of one four-letter word.
Royal Road4.74· 215
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingHorror+6

Paths of Akashic

Bainin

B72/100
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· 571Goodreads4.47· 830
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSci-fi+1