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System Lost: My Own Best Friend

DarkTechnomancer

A76/100
Allison is a normal girl who enjoys spending time with her friends and just generally enjoying college life. So when she wakes up in a strange underground complex full of candles, weird creatures, and no memory of how she ended up there, it's safe to say she's a little out of her element. She has no survival skills, no ability to fight, and no clue what the weird words and numbers floating around in her head are supposed to mean. It seems like a hopeless situation until she finds an unlikely ally — another version of herself, with different knowledge, skills, and personality. Together, they might have a chance of making it out alive. The catch: they still share the same body.
Royal Road4.71· 754
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+2

A Dearth of Choice (Dungeon Core)

Grim Tide

A76/100
A young dungeon core forms next to a lovely village full of lovely people who would probably understand its plight — if only it had a mouth with which to speak. Instead, everything goes horribly, terribly wrong. This is the story of a village, a dungeon, and a core's desperate desire to provide light, laughter, and life. It tries to choose talents and perks that bolster its life-mana alignment every time. So how did it end up with an undead army and insane boosts to death-aligned mana? How did everything go so wrong?
Royal Road4.71· 744
ComedyDungeon CoreGameLitLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnation+3

An Unborn Hero

Cathfach

A76/100
The tale of a reincarnated magical girl lover, excited about finally living out her dreams of slaying evil with the powers of love and friendship. Unfortunately, a truck-wielding goddess interpreted her request to return her memories immediately after reincarnation rather too literally — meaning it'll be a long time before the frilly dress fits, and the demons don't seem to want to wait. Also in contention: the embryo of a hero facing the egg of a demon lord in a battle with serious mobility issues on both sides. And two new parents growing progressively more confused at the weird happenings around them. An absurdist LitRPG comedy in which an unborn hero speedruns the plot so efficiently it may all be over before she gets around to being born.
Royal Road4.70· 971Goodreads4.31· 13
ComedyGameLitIsekaiLGBTQ+LitRPGReincarnation+2

Double-Blind: A Modern LITRPG

Eligos

A76/100
Choosing a college when your family is struggling can be difficult, but it isn't supposed to be world-ending. Then a meteor falls, and Matt's home city is locked down by a mysterious dome. Corporations race to monopolize new untapped resources, and people are suddenly developing powers via a system with borderline sinister intentions. In the chaos, Matt sticks to what he knows: stay out of the spotlight, grind, and survive. But he'll be dragged into the dark whether he likes it or not — where the price of failure is death, and the prize for winning is beyond his wildest dreams.
Royal Road4.53· 2K
Anti-heroDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGMysterySecondary World+3

Sword Art Online: Progressive Light Novels

Reki Kawahara

A76/100
One month has passed since Akihiko Kayaba's deadly game began, and the body count continues to rise. Two thousand players are already dead. Kirito and Asuna are two very different people, but they both desire to fight alone. Nonetheless, they find themselves drawn together to face challenges from both within and without. Given that the entire virtual world they now live in has been created as a deathtrap, the surviving players of Sword Art Online are growing desperate — and desperation makes them dangerous to loners like Kirito and Asuna. As it becomes clear that solitude equals suicide, will the two be able to overcome their differences to find the strength to believe in each other, and in so doing survive? A retelling of the Sword Art Online saga that starts at the very first level of the deadly world of Aincrad.
Goodreads4.31· 2.8K
GameLitGrimdarkLitRPGSlow BurnVRMMO

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· 838Goodreads4.44· 953
Anti-heroBase BuildingGameLitGrimdarkHorrorIsekai+5

Inexorable Chaos

Cliff Hanger

A76/100
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

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

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

All the Dust that Falls

Zaifyr

A75/100
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· 1.7KGoodreads4.33· 441
ComedyCozyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+2

Discount Dan

Shadow Alley Press

A75/100
All Dan wants is to find a way home. He'd settle for a beer, a bite to eat, and a place to sleep off his hangover. But Dan has accidentally noclipped into the Backrooms — a bizarre, extra-dimensional world cobbled together from twisted carnivals, abandoned shopping malls, janky laundromats, and condemned asylums, overrun with horrific nightmare creatures known as Dwellers. No one ever gets out. If Dan wants to survive the week, he'll 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. He's also being hunted. The Flayed Monarch of the 999th floor has marked him for death, and no one walks away from the Skinless Court with their hide intact.
Royal Road4.70· 795
ComedyGameLitGrimdarkHorrorIsekaiLitRPG+4

The Great Core's Paradox

Zendran

A75/100
Paradox is a tiny snake with great potential — the sole creation of the Great Core, hidden away in a small corner of the World Dungeon. Together, he and the Great Core hid from the horrors outside. Then the Coreless found them and tried to steal his creator away. With no other option, Paradox swallowed the Great Core. Only then did he begin to become what he was always meant to be. The Endless Cycle began — and with it, the story of a little snake zealot and his journey to greatness.
Royal Road4.56· 1.6KGoodreads4.39· 430
Dungeon CoreGameLitLitRPGNon-human MCSecondary WorldTime Loop+1

This Quest is Bullshit

Nixia

A75/100
The Questing Stones have come to Nowherested, and Evelia Greene is finally ready to receive her life's quest. Perhaps she'll be a great warrior, a wealthy merchant, or a brilliant mage. Perhaps her quest is simply to live a quiet life honing a craft. Or perhaps the Stones will grant her the legendary mission of popping over to the next village to pick up a loaf of bread. Either way, adventure is out there, and Eve is determined to have one.
Royal Road4.47· 2.1K
Class SystemComedyGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary World

Blessed by Death: An Archmage's Second Life

euterpe

A75/100
Levi was once the servant of Death itself, spending years eliminating arcane threats to the world. His final task carried a terrible cost, and he retired to a life of solitude — until Death returns not to reap his soul, but to offer a blessing: reincarnation into another world where no one knows his name. Levi accepts, only to awaken in the body of a disgraced noble son, disinherited and on the verge of expulsion from the Institute of Ascension. Death apparently left some things out. He's fine with that. Let the nobles sneer. He's an archmage — so long as he has his magic, he can take on anything. He's been gifted a whole new life, and this time, he intends to live it as an adventure.
Royal Road4.59· 1.6K
ComedyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnation+2

Cultivation System: Elder Edition

beddedOtaku

A75/100
One moment of bad luck, and a modern man wakes up in the body of an Elder in a world of cultivation — with a reputation so terrible that even the best PR team on Earth couldn't rehabilitate it. Of course there's a system: one that allows him to create any martial art he can imagine, provided he has enough Creation Points. And his first disciple just happens to be a reincarnated monster from ten thousand years ago with an incurable poison he can cure with a custom creation. To earn Creation Points he must raise disciples, and to raise disciples he must first rehabilitate an image built entirely on infamy. These really are some crappy starting circumstances.
Royal Road4.63· 1.5K
ComedyCozyCultivationGameLitGenius MCIsekai+5

Dawn of the Void: a LitRPG Apocalypse

pwtucker

A75/100
Tragedy had reduced James to a nobody — washed up and homeless in New York City, certain his life was over. Then a message appeared in his vision: the 60,000-year countdown had ended, and Nemesis 1 had been released. As the world falls apart, as billions die, as society collapses and all hope seems lost, James discovers a powerful truth: he was wrong to think himself a nobody. With the dawn of the Void, he'll become the most important person to have ever lived.
Royal Road4.52· 1.9K
GameLitGrimdarkHorrorLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MC+4

Royal Blood

Argentorum

A75/100
A worthless prince with a useless Blessing in a world where deep running waters threaten to pull even the most experienced warriors under. Lucky for him, he's always been a good swimmer.
Royal Road4.55· 563Goodreads4.08· 5.9K
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyGameLitHaremLitRPG+4

A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World

Acaswell

A75/100
When Alice Verianna went to sleep, she was just another teenager from the Denver suburbs. She woke up in a magical alternate dimension inhabited by monsters and governed by a mysterious System — where people resemble RPG characters and everyone has access to their own status screens. Grappling with the System isn't Alice's only challenge. An underground organization called the Society of Starry Eyes has taken a particular interest in other dimensions. If they find out about Alice, they will stop at nothing to extract the secrets of her world by force. Now Alice must pursue her scientific endeavors, learn to harness the magic around her, and uncover the Society's ultimate intentions — and how she ended up here — before it's too late.
Royal Road4.56· 1.7KGoodreads4.20· 1.3K
GameLitGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGMysterySchool+1

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

Midnight Bounties

Cassius, Castor

A75/100
Stuck with a shoddy nightclub after a job gone wrong, Frank has to figure out how to rebuild something he never even wanted. That's just the first of his problems. In Sankta Varath, the greatest city in the Steelheart Kingdom, he'll have to party with orcs, barter with gnomes, drink with dwarves, and make shady deals with the city's underworld — all while managing a staff that includes a drow bartender, a religious zealot waitress, an ogre bouncer with a sleeping problem, and an orc dancer. Frank isn't a manager, has zero people skills, and even fewer connections. A cursed sub-class and a game system that actively screws him round out his advantages.
Goodreads4.48· 259
Base BuildingComedyGameLitLitRPGMerchantSecondary World