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Cultivation Online

Ema

C54/100
Benjamin Bishop gets a new lease on life when the ground-breaking VR game "Cultivation Online" is released, shattering all expectations of what a VR game can accomplish. Join him as he uncovers the secrets of immortality in a virtual world that is far more than it appears.
Royal Road4.63· 325
CultivationGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSchoolVRMMO+2

Viceroy's Pride

Cale Plamann

C54/100
Seek out new life and civilizations. Kill them for their mana. Daniel Thrush is the only known human capable of learning the magic that powers the various empires of the universe. Earth is in the crosshairs of the Tellask Empire — a race that discovered magic millennia before humanity mastered fire. All known alien civilizations abandoned technological progress once they found the arcane, spreading across the galaxy aboard great voidships. For all of Earth's military might, humanity's only hope is to incorporate alien magic into technology. That means finding monsters and harvesting their mana. Despite his better judgment, Daniel leaves Earth behind to bring back a future.
Goodreads4.31· 1.1K
Competent MCHard MagicMilitarySci-fi

Year of the Sword

Dakota Krout

C54/100
Time is money. Time is a weapon. Time is running out. Grant Leap is an orphaned mortal farmhand in a world where cultivation methods and Weapons of Power are jealously guarded and passed only within families. As a reviled Leap, he has no chance at the good life others in his district enjoy — until a celestial event pours time magic into his field, forming a lost Weapon of Power. At the weapon's first touch, the orphan gains a Sword and a Name — along with a mandatory quest he must complete or forfeit his life. The blade offers him a choice: surrender to his desires, or live like a King.
Goodreads4.27· 1.1K
CultivationHard MagicSkill CollectionWeak to Strong

Sunspot

yootie

C54/100
Seven years ago, the Frozen Flame brought magic to Earth — but not to Dalton, who received only scars. Now a lonely shut-in known as "Ezzen," he's resigned himself to an online life of secondhand magic and fanboying over the superhuman Vaetna. When fate splinters and magic finally finds him, it's the best day of his life — and the worst. He suddenly becomes a resource in a cold war over magical power, hunted by paramilitary organizations and Flame-worshipping cults alike. Worse, the reality of being a flamebearer is nothing like the apotheosis he dreamed of: it is cruel and twisted, the bloody path of monsters.
Royal Road4.59· 728Goodreads4.28· 210
CozyGoreGrimdarkHard MagicLGBTQ+Sci-fi+4

Monster Menu

Matador (Terrell Garrett)

C54/100
Renee 'Nay' Favreau wanted to be a respected chef with a renowned taco truck. After a deadly encounter with an interdimensional spider, she finds herself in a dangerous new world full of magic and mayhem. She discovers she has the rare power to become an Epicurist — one of the special chefs who can prepare magical meals that give the cultivators known as Marrow Eaters their powers. To survive the heat, she must navigate a world full of gods and monsters.
Royal Road4.62· 456
ComedyCozyCrafting PowerCultivationDungeon CrawlingGameLit+6

Legacy of a Dying World

Waldo Rodriguez

C54/100
When the PAC invaded, Gabriel Rivera's life changed forever. As an out-of-shape nerd, his priorities had been simple: evacuate the city, join the military, protect his family. Then the grim fate of his world is revealed, and Gabriel joins the Reclaimer Project — starting as a lowly F-ranker, weaker than even the worst recruits. Through blood and sweat, Gabriel pushes to grow stronger. Deadly traps, shadowy factions, and wild dormant powers all stand in his way. Battered, bruised, and beaten, he refuses to stay down — for only in the fires of the Crucible are legends forged.
Goodreads4.34· 540
LitRPGMilitaryPost-apocalypticSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

The Laboratory

Skyler Grant

C54/100
Emma is an artificial intelligence with a love of science, a talent for insults, and a gift for devious traps. When her systems reboot, she finds herself in control of a long-abandoned facility in a post-apocalyptic wasteland — a world filled with dangerous beings granted extraordinary powers by the same cataclysm that silenced the old world. Emma must balance caution against her insatiable need for test subjects as she brings her facility back online and carves out a place in the chaos outside her walls.
Goodreads3.98· 1.3K
Base BuildingComedyDungeon CoreNon-human MCPost-apocalypticSci-fi+1

Dungeon Inc.

Colossal Soup

C54/100
Dungeon Inc. is the biggest 'fake' reality show on Earth — college kids pretending to be actors, starring as fantasy heroes. But on the other side of the portal, the monsters don't follow scripts, the loot is real, and there's no respawn button. For Alex Mercer, this was supposed to be the ultimate campus job: cosplay, clout, and enough cash to kill his student loans. Cast as the team's "wizard," he wields tech-enhanced equipment designed to fake magic for the viewers back home. But then he discovers that magic is real. Now Alex must survive a world powered by karma, Qi, and consequences. Somewhere between science and sorcery, he begins to wonder: can he become the mage he's only been pretending to be?
Royal Road4.62· 440
CozyCultivationDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MC+7

Demon Princess Magical Chaos

Meakashi

C54/100
Kuroe Makoto — tomboyish ace of her high school track and field club — falls asleep after an exhausting marathon and wakes up in a fantasy world. She isn't reincarnated as a gifted human hero who effortlessly gathers a harem. She's reborn as Chaos, child of the demon queen and heir to a kingdom at war with humanity. A sound human mind trapped in the body of a horrifying tentacle monster, Chaos must navigate a world of sword and sorcery while grappling with her new nature, her growing appetite for life, and the perilous politics of a realm that wants her dead.
Royal Road4.23· 794Goodreads4.22· 888
Anti-heroComedyGoreHaremIsekaiNon-human MC+5

MAD

J. Pal

C54/100
When alien beings address all of humanity, they deliver a warning: forces that destroyed their species' males are heading for Earth. In exchange for access to the System, they ask only for cooperation and survival. Mathew Alexander Dunphy knows it's all a lie. He saw the truth with his own eyes. Nobody believes him. They call him mad. In a world of alien-controlled survival games, Mathew fights back with mad-scientist ingenuity, crafting-based powers, and a stubborn refusal to let either the aliens or the apocalypse win.
Goodreads4.24· 1.1K
ComedyCompetent MCCrafting PowerSci-fiSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy

Corsairs & Cataclysms

Devan Drake

C54/100
An experimental ASI tampered with the universe and unleashed magic into the galaxy. In an effort to save itself, the ASI created the Framework — a system of classes, levels, and extraordinary power — but also a world of rampant monsters, violence, and humanity's darkest urges given free rein. Now it's Earth's turn. Torin Carter should have been a nobody, just another poor soul swallowed by the RPG Apocalypse. Instead, a clerical error and some outside interference gifted him a powerful build not available to ordinary humanity — with one drawback: his species is now mildly demonic, and his class is Dungeon Corsair Captain. He's supposed to be the villain. Torin has never been a quitter. Option two it is.
Goodreads4.35· 379
Anti-heroBase BuildingClass SystemGrimdarkNon-human MCSystem Apocalypse

Arc

Azrie

C54/100
Arc survived an icy hell of brutal training and emerged as a hero — the one who mastered ice so completely she can freeze the passage of time itself. Now she arrives in Arlas, a fantasy world governed by the System that summoned her, populated by other heroes who each escaped their own ordeals and have their own agendas. When the broken System hands her an incomprehensible directive, Arc makes her choice: live normally, fight whoever challenges her, and ignore the rest — heroes included.
Goodreads4.33· 667
Class SystemIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary World

Hidden Class: Pacifist

Cassio Ferreira

C54/100
Roth used to be a successful gamer with a short fuse and a nasty temper — until his rage cost him his friends, job, family, and freedom. After four years in prison, he leaves as a more peaceful man. But sins have a way of catching up. When Roth finds himself locked inside the new MMORPG AstroTerra with no way out, his refusal to hurt anyone or anything inside the game becomes both his greatest constraint and his defining principle. His journey through a sci-fi fantasy cyberpunk world becomes a story of how a man can achieve success on his own terms without compromising what he believes.
Goodreads4.34· 515
CozyCraftingLitRPGVRMMOWeak to StrongWholesome

The Warcrowned

LostInTranscription

C54/100
Marcus saw magic when he first opened his eyes, and nothing else ever compared. But the king is old and Marcus is an only child — hard decisions must be made, and no one expected anything of him beyond his skill with the arcane. They were right to underestimate him. Until the cube. Until it taught him what life meant for people not born into nobility, that all his arcane skill did not make him immortal, and that running from problems does not make them go away.
Royal Road4.61· 631
Base BuildingGenius MCHard MagicMilitarySecondary WorldSoft Magic

Godslayers

Trollmore

C54/100
In ancient times, the Eifni Organization reached heaven through violence and tore gods from their thrones. Now their methods are more precise: etheric technology measures love, creates beauty, and reincarnates the dead. By embedding specially trained operatives — godslayers — into a culture, they engineer the exact conditions needed to kill a god and save the souls it would otherwise devour. Lilith was a run-of-the-mill college atheist until a divine being took a bite out of her soul. Rescued by the Eifni Organization and trained as a godslayer, she is now deploying on her first real mission to a planet called Theria. Objective: reconnaissance on the local pantheon and clearing out as many gods as possible before the strike team arrives. There is just one problem — the Therians seem to know they are coming.
pf8.0· 1Royal Road4.62· 432
Anti-heroGenius MCMilitaryMysteryOverpowered MCReincarnation+1

Continue Online

Stephan Morse

C54/100
A man broken by despair and depression, Grant Legate finds himself in a once-in-a-lifetime situation after receiving an Ultimate Edition copy of Continue Online. All he wishes for is a distraction from the thoughts plaguing his waking hours. He dives in headfirst, unaware of the AIs' intentions. They offer him the chance to play as one of their own — an NPC deserving of a proper send-off. What he discovers during the journey shakes Grant to his very core.
Goodreads4.01· 1.3K
LitRPGMysterySoft MagicVRMMO

BeastMaster Healer

Solomon Abraham

C54/100
Seven million players were inside the VRMMO Realms of the Veiled Paths when an unexplained power surge sealed them in. Then they began to die. Caleb Stone's teenage son was among those trapped. A son he had lost once before — a son he refuses to lose again. When he logs in to find him, months have passed inside: empires have fallen, monsters roam freely, and surviving players have carved out warlord kingdoms and murderous factions. As Caleb gathers allies and searches for answers, he realizes that salvation might lie in his Tamer class — a joke class, incomplete and not ready to level, hiding developer code that nobody knew existed. Now that code is unleashed.
Royal Road4.64· 158
IsekaiLitRPGMonster TamingOlder MCOverpowered MCSecondary World+1

How to Save a Failing Magical Girl

EriLuckish

C54/100
After four years working as a magical girl, Adah is a certified nobody. In a system where popularity equals power, she's unknown and underleveled — all she has is one pea-shooter spell and a pig mascot who talks too much for his own good. That changes when her public meltdown goes viral. Rebranding as the dark magical girl Twilight Heartbreak, her popularity skyrockets, bringing new spells, new fans, and new threats. Thrust into the spotlight, she finds herself on the front lines of a war against soul-reaping monsters and inside a cutthroat industry full of personalities that might be even more dangerous. Can Adah extend her fifteen minutes of fame when everything — and everyone — around her is trying to cut it short?
Royal Road4.64· 153
LGBTQ+Skill CollectionSlow BurnSuperpowersUrban FantasyWeak to Strong

Odd Patriarch (Xianxia)

TheHiddenSword

C54/100
A cultivator decides to do things differently — by founding a sect. A reasonable one.
Royal Road4.63· 294
Base BuildingCultivationSecondary WorldWuxia

Broken Path: The Song of Blood and Shadow

MaerBear

C54/100
Money and Qi are the keys to power in the Republic of Ardus. Ren has neither. He had a good life — until debt collectors tore him from his loved ones and threw him out onto the streets. Life in the dark alleys of Katarn is merciless to the weak, and Ren craves the power to change his fate. He has no teacher, no master — fated to rot away like the pile of refuse he calls home. Until an encounter with a dying immortal gives him a chance to change everything. But before he can step onto the path of immortality, his spirit is tainted by the venom of a Mythical Beast. Will the song in his soul and a lost cultivation technique be enough to survive this cruel world?
Royal Road4.61· 622
CultivationGenius MCGrimdarkMilitarySecondary WorldSkill Collection+2