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The Forerunner Initiative

Draith

B68/100
Dragons, catgirls, guns, magic, and the ability to stop time — what more could a modern woman want? Well, if her past would stay locked away back on Earth, that'd be nice. And there's that one other thing: finding a way home before the world ends. But that's the last step in a five-year plan. The first? To play with magic.
Goodreads4.42· 691
ComedyDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLGBTQ+Secondary WorldSkill Collection+2

Hive Minds Give Good Hugs

Thundamoo

B68/100
A modern young woman gets stranded on an alien planet and transformed into an amalgam of human and something more. With no way home and all the survival skills of an average upper-middle-class shut-in, she must learn how to help herself — figuratively and very, very literally. Evelyn, meet Evelyn. You're going to do great things together.
Royal Road4.55· 1.2KGoodreads4.37· 416
IsekaiLGBTQ+Non-human MCOverpowered MCSchoolSci-fi+1

Cursed Relic Collector

Maradina

B67/100
For thousands of years, magic has been obtained through trades with the gods: sacrifice magic materials upon their sacred altars, and the gods offer relics in return. But this world of powerful relics has always been far out of reach for Dain, a simple trinket merchant — until masked cultists try to sacrifice him to the gods. Vowing revenge, Dain commits the ultimate taboo: creating his own altar. Only, he accidentally creates one for a god who shouldn't exist — a god that will only trade him cursed relics. Dain will scour the world, hunt magic beasts, and barter their remains for greater and darker relics as he digs deeper into the ancient schemes behind the cultists who tried to destroy him.
Royal Road4.69· 301
GrimdarkHard MagicLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MCSecondary World+2

Engine of Reincarnation

Philetus

B66/100
Everyone dies, but I get to live again. And again. And again. When I died, my soul followed the usual cycle of reincarnation — until I was caught by higher-dimensional pirates. Fortunately I was saved, and along the way I picked up a special skill that made me immune to the usual memory loss between lives, letting me carry stats and skills from each life into the next. So what's a guy to do when he's reborn as a baby in a new world? Learn the local magic, navigate how his System works, and pick up skills to help him survive and thrive — in this life and all the lives that follow. Maybe along the way find some meaning in it all, setting goals across the vast multiverse. A slow-burn, slice-of-life serial reincarnation LitRPG about the journey of living through multiple isekai fantasies.
Royal Road4.58· 1.1K
CozyIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnationSkill Collection+1

The Way Ahead

NorskDaedalus

B66/100
Edwin never really felt many connections to other people, but as a physics student, that was fine. He was content to peel back the mysteries of the universe — though modern-day research was too well-trodden for any single enthusiast to make real headway. That doesn't apply to other worlds. Not ones where magic and Skills run rampant, where well-defined roles and Classes dominate society with little room for novel experimentation. That kind of world would be perfect for an overeager, newly-minted Alchemist to make his mark. A slice-of-life progression fantasy following someone trying to find his place in a world that doesn't know what to do with him. Expect lots of science, lots of alchemy, a few sarcastic quips from the System, and plenty of exploration.
Royal Road4.23· 1.9KGoodreads3.73· 468
AlchemyCraftingGameLitGenius MCIsekaiLitRPG+3

Main Character Hides His Strength

Road Warrior

B65/100
Sungchul Kim reached the pinnacle of power — then failed to stop the first of five prophesied Calamities because he couldn't wield magic. Branded the Enemy of the World, he must now travel in disguise among the weakest people in the Other World: newly arrived humans from Earth, the very group most likely to expose him. His goal is to steal the knowledge of magic from those who hate him most, before the Calamities destroy everything — not out of heroism, but because of a promise he made long ago.
Goodreads4.20· 1.8K
Competent MCGrimdarkIsekaiOverpowered MCSkill CollectionTransmigration

Demon Card Enforcer

Tharsult

B65/100
It's Drop Night, the one night every decade when the gods hand out cards to a lucky few. If you get a deck, you're a deckbearer capable of great feats — such as controlling frightening monsters. Wolfe, top enforcer for the Grimm family mob, has already been overlooked on two previous Drop Nights. People of his ilk seldom receive cards, as the gods tend to favor those who follow divine mandates. Against all odds, though, Wolfe does receive a deck at midnight — including a rare card everyone would kill to have. With the rival street gang the Cobras fielding six deckbearers and cutting into the Grimm family's trade, someone has to do the dirty work. And it isn't going to be the spoiled children of Big Man Grimm.
Royal Road4.66· 629
Anti-heroGoreGrimdarkLitRPGProfanitySkill Collection+1

Irwin's Journey - The Cardsmith

Carrarn

B65/100
The young, sickly Irwin has seen nothing but bad luck in his short life. When his brother returns with a magical card for him, his luck is about to change — but not necessarily for the better. Irwin is sent off with a group of youths to placate a group of sorcerers, armed with only a strange utility card granted by his brother and a prayer to stay alive long enough. A card-gathering story with crafting that grows increasingly central as the series progresses. Slow-paced, starts dark, with a weak-to-strong arc.
Royal Road4.60· 1K
CraftingGameLitGrimdarkIsekaiPost-apocalypticSecondary World+2

Tower Climber

Jakob Tanner

B65/100
All Max wants is to become a climber and search for his long-lost sister. But citizens aren't allowed near the mysterious and magical tower — and Max is paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair, which makes entry seem doubly impossible. Then one night everything changes. Max gains an ultra-rare ability and a chance to train and climb the tower. But each floor contains vast worlds and deadly magical monsters, and plenty of other climbers won't blink at removing anyone who stands in their way.
Goodreads4.21· 1.7K
LitRPGSkill CollectionStatsTower ClimbingWeak to Strong

Wishlist Wizard: The Rise of the Zero Hero

marshalcarper

B65/100
Wayne appeared in the summoning chambers for Chosen Heroes. While getting isekaied was good news, he was fifty years off the usual cycle — his body didn't become superhuman, and his system access was glitched. He could open menus, but his only clickable option was to view his unimpressive stats, and another called Christmas List was greyed out entirely. Four years into living his second quiet life, he happens upon a strange artifact from Earth: a single page from the 1990 Electronics Boutique Christmas Catalog. His once-inactive ability gives him the power to add skills and abilities to his system by ripping them from the games listed in the catalog. With a second lease on his second life, Wayne sets out with his best friend Fergus to collect more catalog pages — combining abilities from wildly different game systems and trying not to repeat the mistakes of his past.
Royal Road4.68· 281
ComedyDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOlder MC+1

An Ideal World for a Sociopath

Colin Parker, Oleg Sapphire

B64/100
A system arrives on Earth, and half of humanity dies and becomes zombies while the other half must try to survive. For Varg — a sociopath with no ties and no regrets — this brutal new world feels almost tailor-made. Following Varg across a system-driven apocalypse, the series sends him through zombie-infested cities, alien worlds, interdimensional challenges, and encounters with gods, vampires, elves, and worse. Each new threat is another test the system is all too happy to provide.
Goodreads4.39· 888
Anti-heroIsekaiLitRPGPost-apocalypticSkill CollectionStats+1

Explorer of Edregon

Wizardly Dude

B64/100
The universe is dying, and humanity has a backup plan: colonize a world that defies all logic. Vin went from dirt-poor vagabond to one of humanity's first colonists in the blink of an eye — and when given the chance to choose a class, he just can't resist becoming an Explorer. In a patchwork world of impossible magic, deadly monsters, and powerful artifacts, it's Vin's job to go out and discover the rules of this new world they need to survive on. If only the System wasn't already threatening to kill him.
Royal Road4.56· 1.1K
Class SystemCozyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MC+2

The Cursed Legion: Iron Throne Series

Zer0n1gh7s

B64/100
Rome fights an endless war against the greenskinned. Maximilian, an orphan, is caught stealing a Class Shard to activate his Patron Inheritance — but he stowed away a Skill Shard too. Thrown into a Cursed Legion and hurled to the frontlines of a massive war, Max must learn how to use his Patron Inheritance to improve and merge Skill Shards, forging himself into the greatest legend ever to wear the maroon and silver.
Royal Road4.68· 252
Base BuildingClass SystemGameLitGenius MCLitRPGMilitary+6

Paragon of Skills

VengefulBirch

B64/100
Jacob Cloud is sixteen, a miner's son, and he knows his fate: die young, broke, and anonymous in the town that feeds silver ore to richer cities and spits out its sons in pine boxes. He dreams of becoming a Knight — but that takes gold, rare Skills, and connections he will never have. Then the mine floor gives out beneath him. Jacob falls — not to his death, but onto a Rainbow-ranked Skill Crystal, something so rare people kill over it. He doesn't get a weapon or a healing Skill. He gets The Grimoire Extraordinaire — a support Skill that can only show him the flaws in any other Skill or item. No instant power. No glory. But Jacob isn't an idiot. He grinds, he experiments, and he uses the Grimoire to optimize the basics. In five days trapped underground, he boosts his skills to levels nobles would envy — and when he claws his way out, he's ready to quit the mines for good.
Royal Road3.93· 1.3K
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary World+3

Land of the Elementals

Aaron Oster

B64/100
Life is cruel — Arbor learns this the hard way when everything he loves is taken from him in a single night. Left alive by the men who butchered his family, Arbor has two options: give up and perish, or rise up and fight to take back the life he's lost. To do that, he must leave behind the only home he's ever known and venture into a world far more dangerous than he could ever have imagined — a world filled with magic, monsters, and mythic beasts powerful enough to destroy entire nations.
Goodreads4.40· 575
GoreGrimdarkSecondary WorldSkill CollectionWeak to Strong

Fate's Anvil

Scott Browder

B64/100
Morgan Mackenzie had a very bad day. First at work, then at home — and then her bathtub fell through a portal to another world, with her in it. Now she is stranded thousands of miles from any civilization, armed with nothing but the bathtub and a lace puffball scrubby. She did learn magic, so that is sorta nice. Now if only she could find some clothes.
Goodreads4.30· 1.5K
ComedyCompetent MCHard MagicIsekaiSecondary WorldSkill Collection

Madness Re-Incarnate

Travis Bagwell

B63/100
Nyx was born Hollow — an empty vessel in a world of spirits, normally a death sentence. Somehow he survived. In a previous life he did something reckless: he threw his memories into the Flow from which all spirits return, sending himself a message across the boundary of death. Now those memories have found him. A different kind of reincarnation story — one that isn't easy — featuring a slow burn to power, a gradual system introduction, a loot-based skill modification system, and a cast of deeply strange companions.
Goodreads4.39· 708
LitRPGReincarnationSecondary WorldSkill CollectionSoft Magic

Vae Victis

Ivan Kal

B63/100
When alternate Earth is subsumed into a new reality comprising many worlds, Marianna Rojas — a young vampire who was sold to a cartel as a child — is chosen as one of thirty Exemplars to experience the new world ahead of everyone else. Accompanied by a tiny dragon named Saia, Marianna works to master the mysterious Mask and the skills it unlocks. She has one month to explore this strange new realm before she's sent back to a freshly integrated Earth to help with its transition — and every faction there seems to want her blood.
Goodreads4.41· 319
GrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCSkill CollectionSystem Apocalypse

Arcane Pathfinder

Mashton XX, Mashton XY

B62/100
Samantha, a young attorney, is transported to an alternate reality in her sleep — a world governed by an all-powerful System with mechanics similar to the fantasy games she played back on Earth. After a brutal introduction to her new reality, Sam is granted a class explicitly curated by the enigmatic System. Equal parts artist, survivor, explorer, and battle junkie, her only limitation is her lack of knowledge about her new magical powers — a limitation she is rapidly overcoming. Follow Sam's adventures as she explores and battles her way across the fantastic and deadly world of Hallista.
Goodreads4.39· 624
IsekaiLitRPGSci-fiSkill CollectionTransmigrationWeak to Strong

The Undying Immortal System

Greg Tolley

B62/100
A weak soul must not cultivate. Madness consumes the weak of mind. Eternal servitude awaits the weak of heart. Su Fang arrives in a realm of cultivation unprepared — no skills, no knowledge, and no backing. His blessing from the Heavenly Dao isn't power over the elements or mastery of profound arts — it's repetition. Every time he dies, he returns to the moment of his arrival. He uses each reset to grind skills, refine his inner essence, and empower his soul using only the memories of countless failures. Yet the world is ruthless, and time alone won't be enough. Every reset washes away not only his mistakes, but his triumphs. In a land where even the strong perish, his fate is clear: he's an immortal destined to die. Over and over.
Goodreads4.38· 844
CultivationLitRPGSkill CollectionTime LoopWeak to Strong