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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· 563Goodreads4.09· 5.8K
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyGameLitHaremLitRPG+4

Storm's Apprentice

imperfect-tense

A75/100
In the Antorxian Empire, magical talent can be a curse. Dorian hoped he'd never set eyes on a Reeve — one of Antorx's sorcerer-knights — but as mage scouts they were ruthless, thorough, and impossible to hide from. On the day they arrived in his small village, his quiet life as a scribe's apprentice was over. He would be taken to Windshriek Academy, where harsh conditions and cruel punishments would either turn him into a loyal sorcerer for the Empire, or destroy him. There were no other outcomes, and no magical talent was permitted to foster outside of Antorxian control.
Royal Road4.74· 341
Base BuildingGrimdarkHard MagicHorrorSchoolSecondary World+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

Redemption Arc

Nemobrosus

B74/100
Lord Lucian Villamar left a trail of misery in his wake — the archetypal entitled rich villain of the turn-based strategy RPG War of Four. Now a new soul who enjoyed challenge runs has entered his body at a rather poor time: the start of the game. His relationship with his father is frayed. Powerful figures in the four major nations all want to see him dead. Conspiracies are underway from both political factions and malevolent powers. And Lucian, devoid of talent, is wholly unprepared for the coming calamities. Maybe our protagonist can plot a route to survive this challenge run.
Royal Road4.70· 756Goodreads4.57· 61
Anti-heroBase BuildingGameLitGenius MCIsekaiReincarnation+2

Reality Benders

Michael Atamanov

B74/100
An extraterrestrial civilization makes First Contact with Earth, but humanity dismisses their message — all except for one detail: instructions for accessing a mysterious game of unknown origin. As more players join and realize that in-game events shape reality itself, a countdown timer looms in the background. No one knows what happens when Earth's promised safety period expires. One man, known as Gnat, rises through the ranks to become the Kung of Earth — humanity's representative and defender in a vast galaxy of competing alien powers. He must navigate interstellar politics, space warfare, and humanity's own internal divisions before time runs out.
Goodreads4.38· 2.2K
Base BuildingCompetent MCGameLitLitRPGMilitarySci-fi+1

Midnight Bounties

Cassius, Castor

B74/100
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

Calculating Cultivation

MisterVii

B74/100
Reincarnated into a land of cultivation, Yuan Zhou draws on his Earth knowledge to carve out a reputation as a genius — both as a cultivator and as a businessman. His commercial ideas clash with the stagnant culture of the cultivation world, but his drive for immortality and power is limitless. Refusing to follow conventional limits, he walks a path of defiance, pushing cultivation bounds far beyond what is considered rational.
Royal Road4.34· 2.1K
Base BuildingCultivationGenius MCIsekaiMerchantOverpowered 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

The Fallen World

Playwars aka Alex S. Weber

B73/100
Alexandra Rousseau, an engineer from the European Federation Star Navy, is launched into hyperspace when an FTL jump goes wrong. She wakes in a world of magic and monsters — and when a mysterious Order makes a catastrophic mistake, she is transformed into a dungeon core. The transformation grants her the power to bring back long-lost technology and take revenge on those who wronged her. But first she must survive those who would steal her core, all while keeping her true identity secret from the adventurers delving her dungeon.
Goodreads4.44· 861
Base BuildingCrafting PowerDungeon CoreIsekaiLitRPGMilitary+1

Unchosen Champion

JaceVAmor

B73/100
When mana arrives on Earth, Coop finds himself isolated on a tropical island with one real option to survive: claim a civilization shard and level up. By carefully selecting a class and committing to progression, he grinds thousands of monsters to compete on the system's leaderboards while upgrading his settlement to represent the factionless.
Royal Road4.56· 1.5KGoodreads4.00· 8
Base BuildingLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticStatsSystem Apocalypse+1

Tower of Power

Ivan Kal

B73/100
Morgan used to be a pretty normal guy — college by day, online gaming by night — until he got hit by a car and a man in a wetsuit appeared with an offer: a second chance at life in a world built like the games he loved, with the promise of great power for those who complete the Tower of Power. Dropped into a strange new world where everything wants to eat his face, Morgan stumbles onto two half-elf twins willing to help him get his bearings. Now he just needs to survive long enough to reach the Tower.
Goodreads4.14· 3K
Base BuildingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGStatsTower Climbing+1

Surviving the Succession

umedrop24

B73/100
Kayla is a burned-out college graduate neck-deep in student debt, stuck in a minimum-wage job, and about to be evicted from her apartment. One morning she abruptly wakes up in the body of a short-lived villain from a web novel set in Ancient China. Now Kayla must deal with living in the body of a man while trying to survive as the doomed political rival of the Seventh Prince. Caught in a web of political intrigue and backstabbing amidst a succession struggle between the Imperial Princes, it will take every ounce of wit she has to stay alive.
Royal Road4.68· 1.1K
Base BuildingGenius MCIsekaiLGBTQ+ReincarnationSecondary World+1

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

From Londoner To Lord

Kuzunalis

B72/100
Steven awakens to a nightmare. Transported to a brutal medieval kingdom on a faraway world, he wakes up as Kivamus — the exiled third son of a Duke, now the newly made Baron of a crumbling village called Tiranat. In a bandit-ridden frontier surrounded by untamed forests, survival is a daily battle and resources are scarce. Yet he sees potential where the villagers only see struggle. He dreams of using his knowledge to forge a new future for Tiranat, fueled by industry. But managing a starving village through the coming winter and navigating the cutthroat world of medieval nobility is just the beginning of a very long road.
Royal Road4.12· 2.1KGoodreads4.17· 6
Base BuildingCozyCraftingGenius MCIsekaiMilitary+4

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· 831
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSci-fi+1

Garden of Silk

MadMaxine

B72/100
The power Slate Graystone needs to remain the ducal heir is just out of reach, and he will do anything to get it. Even become a demon. Battling new instincts, ravenous hunger, and struggling to find her place in a world far darker than expected, Slate — now Silk — fights to claim the life she rightfully deserves: one for herself and the mundane folk she was sworn to protect. When Silk learns that the corruption left in the fallen Empire's wake runs far deeper than her own transformation, she must choose between standing by noblesse oblige or tearing the whole system down — and the Sects with it.
Royal Road4.73· 270
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkLGBTQ+Non-human MC+1

The Accidental Champion

Todd Herzman

B72/100
Retired CEO Charles Morris is transported to a medieval fantasy world by a goddess who immediately leaves — she grabbed the wrong person. Stuck with no way home, Charles is restored to his physical prime and stumbles upon the village of Tine, whose people have been waiting centuries for a divine Champion. Using a lifetime of business acumen and a special ability called Topsight — which lets him view and manage the entire village from above — Charles sets out to grow a Level 1 backwater into a prosperous settlement. He has one month to prove himself before the villagers hang him.
Goodreads4.12· 3K
Base BuildingCompetent MCGenius MCIsekaiLitRPGOlder MC+1

FINAL CORE

D.M. Rhodes (Razzmatazz)

B72/100
The senselessness of so much of the world's death and suffering becomes apparent to the dying paladin Isaiah in his final moments. He perishes — and is reborn into a quiet existence as a simple blackbird. But a spell gone awry transforms him instead into a strange, angelic monstrosity that is neither man nor animal. Isaiah, desperate to return to his simple life, sets out to build the tallest tower ever seen — tall enough to reach the reclusive gods in the heavens above, so he can demand they undo the transformation. But the humans below believe he is trying to destroy the world. [Dungeon-Core] [LitRPG] [Base-building]
Royal Road4.53· 1.6KGoodreads4.16· 177
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyDungeon CoreGenius MC+7

The Eagle's Flight

Quill

B72/100
The king is dead; his heir is too young to assume the throne. Jarl Vale wants to become Lord Protector, spurred by his ambitious brother Konstans. Jarl Isarn likewise seeks this power, aided — or thwarted — by the return of his brother, the knight and war hero Athelstan, whose squire Brand hopes to restore his family's fortunes, cost what it may. Through all of this, an enigmatic traveller makes plans with jarls, scribes, and priests for his own purpose. Abroad, powerful forces sense division in the realms of Adalmearc and make their own plans. War is on the horizon.
Royal Road4.71· 437
Base BuildingGenius MCMilitarySecondary WorldSoft Magic

The Fortifier

D.K. Landtroop

B72/100
Surviving the first days of a reality-warping apocalypse, William is a wreck hiding in an attic. The daily acid storms, floating elementals, and bizarre mutated animals are the least of his problems — the apocalypse has rules and a system much like those in video games, and he has no idea how any of it works. Staying alive isn't enough. William will need to bring other survivors together and build a fortification large enough for all of them if he ever wants to strike back at the things that took everyone he loved.
Goodreads4.38· 1.9K
Base BuildingLitRPGPost-apocalypticSystem Apocalypse