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Dungeon of Knowledge

timewalk

B72/100
Aliandra Amariel loved magic, dedicating her academic years to the study of runes and spells. Like most Fae, her destiny seemed clear — until the day of her Class Trial, when the Blind Lich unleashed an undead apocalypse on her home, the fabled underground city of Dal'mohra, triggering a cataclysm that forever reshaped the world. Saved by her mother's legendary time-stasis spell, Ali wakes thousands of years into a dark future. Everything she knew is gone, buried under a mountain and transformed into a twisted dungeon by the malevolent will of the Lich. Now Ali must master battling monsters and braving corruption while the Lich hunts her unique magic. As her advancement slowly reveals the horrifying truth of the Class she chose to survive, she must decide: falter into the eternal servitude of undeath, or rise against all odds and cast him down.
Royal Road4.58· 1.4K
Class SystemDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingGenius MCGrimdarkLitRPG+4

My Best Friend is an Eldritch Horror

Actus

B72/100
Good things come to those who wait. Damien Vale didn't, and now he's bound to an Eldritch creature from beyond the farthest reaches of the universe — unfathomable, utterly evil, and fond of being called Henry. To Damien, none of that mattered. He was going to learn magic regardless. Starting his first year at a mage college, he didn't expect it to be easy — but when he's assigned to room with a strange girl whose magic even Henry is wary of, things get complicated. He sets out to become a powerful mage while dealing with a murderous professor, an eldritch creature that has created a teenage persona, and a roommate far more perceptive than he'd like. As Damien struggles with the ramifications of the monster within him, a disturbing truth emerges: Henry might not be the only eldritch creature on the mortal plane — and Damien may be the only one who can stop them.
Royal Road4.56· 803Goodreads4.26· 2.9K
Dungeon CrawlingHorrorLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MCSchool+3

The Gift of Loot

Jack_Golightly

B72/100
Thomas just wants to keep his skin intact during the System integration, and maybe carve out a life more interesting than the one he's had so far. When he steps inside a dungeon, he receives his magical gift: every monster kill drops weapons, mana crystals, and powerful gear. While others struggle to survive in a new world, Thomas begins to build something far more dangerous — an advantage.
Royal Road4.68· 935
CraftingDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+2

Slime Sweets and Dungeon Treats

Pandora Pierce

B71/100
After waking up in a dungeon, Hazel wasn't about to grab a sword and start fighting. Instead, she picked up a sandwich — and that choice glitched the system, giving her a brand-new class: Culinary Mage. Now Hazel is baking her way through the dungeon, making friends with slimes, and cooking up a storm instead of grinding monsters. XP from cooking, a quest to escape by reaching floor 100, and a cafe full of adorable slimes who evolve by eating good food — it's not a conventional approach, but it might just work. As Hazel's cafe grows and her dishes become legendary, she starts to wonder if defeating the boss is really the key to her freedom — or if there's more to this dungeon than meets the eye.
Royal Road4.71· 387Goodreads4.49· 61
CozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGMonster Taming+1

Cat Girl Evolution

Bedivere the Mad

B71/100
Yona wasn't always a cat, but she is now, and she's living her best cat life. No silly Quests or Systems are going to get in her way — until they do. Stranded alone on an island surrounded by monsters, she needs to fight to survive and return to the mainland. Or she could just pig out, nap, and sometimes slap some fish people around. Either works. One thing she won't do: swim. And that makes escaping the island considerably more challenging. Meanwhile, the gods are brewing up something — as gods tend to do.
Royal Road4.68· 865
Anti-heroComedyCozyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingGameLit+7

Saga Online

Oliver Mayes

B71/100
Damien thought his exams would be bad enough. Then his mother collapsed with a failing heart. In a desperate move, he throws himself into the Streamer Contest of Saga Online, the latest fantasy VR-MMORPG — winning would provide the funds for her surgery. But early betrayal and a close run-in with a vampire nearly ruin his attempt before it begins. Stuck at the bottom of a dungeon with no gear and no allies, Damien must embrace the undiscovered Occultist class, master control of his new demonic minions, and take the contest by storm. His plan: topple the most famous player in Saga Online.
Goodreads4.27· 2.2K
Dungeon CrawlingLitRPGSummoningVRMMOWeak to Strong

Just A Bronze

Seth Richter

B71/100
Kat was a freshly graduated healer from the academy, ready to begin her life as a bronze adventurer with her three best friends. Together, the four of them entered the portal to their new city, ready to delve the beginner dungeons and gain fame and fortune. Only three exited. Forty years later, Kat emerged from an experimental portal to the nether-realm, eager to reassemble the shattered pieces of her life. But after decades trapped, picking up where she left off is easier said than done. A slice-of-life litRPG about battling monsters, making friends, and attempting to live a quiet life as just a bronze adventurer.
Goodreads4.46· 328
CozyDungeon CrawlingLitRPGWeak to Strong

Underdog

Alexey Osadchuk

B71/100
Eric was born in a world governed by the Great System, completely nulled — level zero, no characteristics points, kept alive only by tiny base reserves of life and energy. When his parents die in a mining accident on his fourteenth birthday, the bank takes their house and Eric is left with no choice but to work off the remaining debt in the Dungeons of the Crooked Mountains. Despite being treated as a freak and outcast his entire life, Eric discovers that his affliction — the very thing that makes the System's normal paths unavailable to him — may be a hidden advantage. The story of a nulled boy's struggle to survive, and to rise.
Goodreads4.27· 2.2K
Dungeon CrawlingLitRPGMonster TamingSecondary WorldSkill CollectionStats+1

The Dragon Heir

Mangowo

B71/100
Jade was born wrong — a magicless half-beastkin in a world ruled by power. After a failed elven ritual traps her in a monster-filled dungeon, restraint stops mattering. She wakes up with scales, wings, and a body that grows stronger with every kill. The hunt feels good. Almost too good. The only catch is that she's becoming a dragon in mind and body. To escape, Jade must climb the dungeon's food chain by indulging the instincts she spent her life suppressing — or die as prey. Humanity is optional. Survival isn't.
Royal Road4.49· 1.6KGoodreads3.29· 102
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyDungeon CrawlingLitRPGMystery+6

Loopshard

Dosei

B71/100
Adam is no one special — just an accountant standing in line at a bakery one early Saturday morning. Unfortunately, fate has other plans when the black cubes show up before he can get his pastries. The cubes are the heralds and guides of the Trials of Defiance, and they've decided that Adam, along with every other able-bodied human adult, is to become a Player in their game. Humanity's future is at stake, and it's all but inevitable that Adam is going to die. Despite everything, he overcomes the first Stage and attains some measure of power — then discovers a way to kill the black cube following him around. The only problem is that killing the cube takes him down with it. Oh, and it also gives him the power to go back in time when he dies. A roguelite-inspired GameLit with infrequent time loops, a weak-to-strong protagonist, and huge build variety across Relics, Weapon Types, Divine Boons, and meta upgrades.
Royal Road4.58· 1.3K
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGPost-apocalypticSkill Collection+3

Deadworld Isekai

RC Joshua

B71/100
Lots of people get isekai'd, and Matt is no exception. After a quickly resolved misunderstanding with a truck-shaped system assistant, he's sent to Gaia — the garden planet. The truck assures him it's a really good fit. It would probably be right, too, if Gaia wasn't a burned-out wasteland completely devoid of life. Matt has all the system-granted advantages of a LitRPG isekai hero — it's just that he arrived a little late for them to do anyone any good. Now he's starving, wandering a sterilized featureless wasteland that doesn't much care about his improved stats, and searching for a system-issued guardian that might not even exist.
Royal Road4.54· 1.2KGoodreads4.39· 1.1K
ComedyDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCIsekaiLitRPG+4

World Tree Online

M.A. Carlson

B70/100
In the future, androids have taken over most jobs, leaving humans with little to do. Enter World Tree Online, a fully immersive virtual reality experience. Join Byron in his first thirty days of non-stop fantasy adventure in the cursed province of Hurlig Ridge — a land filled with monsters, mysteries, murderers, and treasure. The people of the province have been tormented for centuries by a pack of voracious wolves. Now, with the arrival of adventurers, dark forces have begun to stir, accelerating their dark plans. Can Byron unravel the mystery of this curse before it's too late?
Goodreads4.44· 551
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitMysterySecondary WorldVRMMO

The Runic Artist

Ellake

B70/100
Where there is a Rune, there is a way. Nate is a kid from Sydney, Australia whose free time is devoted to his one true love — art, graffiti specifically. That is, until his hobby catapults him into a new world filled with danger and magic. Finding himself alone in a forest that is clearly not on Earth, he must learn to navigate this new world and the System that governs it. Armed with nothing but his trusty penknife and a Legendary Class, Nate will fend for his life — conquering dungeons, discovering runes, and being drawn into battles against enemies he didn't even know he had, all while making new friends along the way. Torn between returning to his old life and the friends he left behind, or making a new home in a world filled with magic, he will have to decide where his heart truly lies.
Royal Road4.59· 1.3K
CozyDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary World+3

Trials of the Endless Planes

RJ Shoke

B70/100
For four years, humanity endured the Crucible — a harrowing trial that forced survivors to conquer dungeons and battle horrific creatures in order to gain powers of their own. But the Crucible was merely the beginning. As the trial concludes, survivors find themselves on the precipice of the Endless Planes: a vast realm of kingdoms, mythical creatures, and formidable challenges where magic thrives and ancient forces shape the destiny of worlds. Among them is Kaito Bao, once a loving father and husband who has lost everything. Driven by an unending desire to hunt monsters, he has accumulated powerful abilities, incredible Feats, and rare Titles. His climb begins at Serpent's Way, the bottommost world of the Endless Planes — where all must start their ascent to the top.
Goodreads4.42· 930
Anti-heroDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGStatsTower Climbing

Weeaboo's Unfortunate Isekai: The Necromancer's Gacha

Warby Picus

B70/100
Getting isekai'd into a gameworld full of waifus was supposed to be the dream. Unfortunately, the mysterious black-robed figure who did the summoning grabbed the wrong guy, and now the protagonist faces waves of monsters intent on terrible things. The game turns out to be a gacha, which means desperately earning money to pull summons, building fortifications, furnishing a tower, and gearing up — all while grappling with the existential horror of gacha economics. The necromancers who built this game are going to pay. A base-building, summoner-focused isekai with no harem, featuring tower defense mechanics and dark humor.
Royal Road4.67· 929
Base BuildingComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MC+4

Underkeeper

Hankthemoose

B70/100
Bernt might have graduated from the Mage Academy, but not everyone has the money or connections to launch a prestigious career as a mage. A few years later, Bernt finds himself working for City Maintenance as an Underkeeper among the other rejects of Halfbridge's magery. But hey, it's a stable job. With the help of his unlicensed, unregistered soul-devouring demonic familiar, he'll save enough to launch his career as an adventurer — just as soon as he can afford some proper gear. If only there were a faster way. Adventure, it turns out, has a habit of finding him first.
Royal Road4.67· 885Goodreads4.33· 704
Class SystemCompetent MCDungeon CrawlingGenius MCHard MagicSecondary World+2

System Misinterpret

Ryan DeBruyn

B70/100
An Apocalypse changed human biology and granted new powers, but came with no instructions — so everyone created their own. Born over a century after "The Rise," Jeff scavenges with his tyrannical mother for survival, banned from cultivating freely. His one objective is to join the immortal rankers climbing the Northern Tower. On the day of his escape, a guild attack throws him through a dungeon portal that hasn't been used in nearly a hundred years. In pursuit of his ultimate goal, Jeff must navigate mountains of misinformation, choose between Church, guild, or going it alone, while predators come from every direction.
Goodreads4.42· 845
CultivationDungeon CrawlingLitRPGSystem ApocalypseTower ClimbingWeak to Strong

Ascension of the Primalist

NB.Dravenlord

B70/100
Seth was just a commoner from the outskirts, someone who could only dream of the Wielders' world — a realm of Ranks, attributes, and spells forever beyond his reach. Until the day he awakened as a Primalist. To escape a life of misery, Seth enrolls in one of the nation's elite academies, only to find himself stepping into a society rotting with injustice. Equality of chances is a lie; power is inherited, not earned. Fortunately, his new class feeds on danger rather than privilege: the riskier the hunt, the greater the gain. To rise, Seth must abandon caution and seek fights where survival is never guaranteed — and become the strongest predator the wild has ever seen.
Royal Road4.63· 1.1K
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGMonster TamingOverpowered MCSchool+2

The Dungeon of Stories

John Stovall

B69/100
Will is the newest dungeon born into the world — and he is a rank higher than any dungeon that preceded him. Born alongside seven others in a small area due to a magical disaster caused by the Voidbringers, Will faces an immediate threat: they have returned, and they can corrupt dungeons. With the aid of his dungeon fairy Amber and an adventuring party led by Gar Adamant — displaced prince of the kingdom the Voidbringers destroyed — Will must grow his dungeon, build up a nearby town, and fend off enemies on every side.
Goodreads4.44· 455
Base BuildingDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingSecondary World

The Broken Knife

SilverSidhe

B69/100
Kaz is a kobold, just trying to survive, grow, and protect his tribe. His efforts are about to become complicated: dragons are nesting in a cave nearby, and humans are seeking an ancient secret in his mountain with potentially deadly consequences. Join Kaz as he discovers what magic and cultivation are, gets up close and personal with a dragon of his own, and delves deep into the mountain to find secrets — and a freedom he never dared to hope for.
Royal Road4.68· 616
CultivationDungeon CrawlingNon-human MCSecondary WorldWeak to Strong