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The First and Last Emperor

StaleCrow

B72/100
"Of course I'm a tyrant. I've never claimed to be anything else." — The First and Last Emperor. Solis is an escaped survivor of the Church of the Celestial Heir, a cult dedicated to the end of days. When the System Apocalypse arrives — one the world was warned about in advance — Solis finds himself struggling against his own tyrannical impulses in an effort to do good. A character-focused story of dramatic rise to power, featuring in-depth and unique system mechanics, a pure mage build, and themes of legacy in an apocalyptic society.
Royal Road4.73· 248
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+3

Ether Collapse

Ryan DeBruyn

B72/100
Ether — the cosmic energy that governs the universe — has returned to Earth, and Gaia has awakened with it. Rockland Barkclay was just trying to take a solo camping trip in Algonquin Park after a rough year capped by his father's death, when hovering system messages began appearing and the world started changing. Now humans are in a desperate fight to survive in an evolving world, with the very planet itself acting as an unhinged overseer of the new order.
Goodreads4.19· 2.6K
Base BuildingLitRPGStatsSystem ApocalypseUrban FantasyWeak to Strong

The Spoken Queen's Swarm

TheDudeFromCI

B71/100
The Vex are a monstrous swarm—man-eaters feared across the world and killed on sight before they can grow and consume everything in their path. Rythica is one such monster: a hive queen whose egg was smuggled into a human city and raised in secret by unlikely guardians. Grown up without ever meeting another Vex, Rythica wages a constant internal war as brutal alien instincts clash with the politics, strategy, and mercy she has been taught. As she approaches maturity, the world can only hope that compassion is something that can be learned—because a Vex never forgives and never forgets.
Royal Road4.70· 482
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyGameLitGenius MCLitRPG+3

Voidknight Ascension

James T. Callum, K.H. Sohmer

B71/100
Sam was surfing with his cat when the world ended. Suddenly enlisted into a battle to fend off annihilation, Sam seizes the strength of the Void to survive. In the aftermath, he and his cat are thrown into a new world shattered into floating islands, alongside other survivors from Earth. Training with his giant sword and apocalyptic Void magic, Sam is unusually quick to adapt to this deadly realm of monsters and magic. With endless threats to face and countless powers to attain, his journey of Ascension climbing has only just begun — but first, he'll have to forge a Legend of his own.
Goodreads4.42· 1.1K
Base BuildingCraftingLitRPGSystem ApocalypseTower ClimbingWeak to Strong

Sexy Steampunk Babes

Bluefishcake

B71/100
Born into a world where men are outnumbered by women five to one, where airships travel the skies and great beasts stalk the seas, William Ashfield has one desire: freedom. In a feudal society where women rule and men are treated as playing pieces in the great games of noble houses, freedom is difficult to attain — especially when one desires it for more than just themselves. But with tensions growing in the Kingdom of Lindholm and civil war brewing, opportunities may arise for a man born with knowledge of another life and technology completely alien to this world.
Royal Road4.68· 859
Base BuildingHaremMilitaryOverpowered MCReincarnationSecondary World

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

Second Life as a Soldier

Soldier_of_Avalon

B71/100
He died a nobody. Now he's reborn in a body beaten and left for dead — no family, no food, no future. In the Kingdom of Avalon, strength isn't just respected, it's survival. Power is ranked by Tiers, magic is earned through blood and elemental affinity, and those without talent are nothing more than fodder for war. Edward has neither noble blood nor rare talent. What he does have is an iron will, a sharp mind, and the stubborn refusal to stay down. Desperate for food, shelter, and a second chance, he enlists in the Royal Army, trading the uncertainty of the streets for the grueling discipline of military life. The road ahead is long and unforgiving — but with each step, Edward edges closer to something greater: growth, purpose, and perhaps a place in a kingdom that would rather see him buried than crowned.
Royal Road4.57· 1.4K
Base BuildingGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGMilitaryReincarnation+3

The Order of Architects

Oleg Sapphire

B71/100
Theodore the Babylonian was once the greatest Earth Mage in his world — head of the Order of Architects, two thousand years old, and finally ready to retire. In the course of his long life, however, he had accumulated too many enemies, and they ensured his retirement was fatal. His death was not final. Reborn in a strange new world with all his memories and experience but none of his power, he must climb back to the top — before this world is consumed by the beasts of the Shadow Plane.
Goodreads4.40· 1.7K
Base BuildingCompetent MCCraftingIsekaiOlder MCReincarnation+1

The Dragon's Wrath

Brent Roth

B70/100
A VRMMORPG that offered escape, adventure, and a second chance. When Brent Roth suffered a workplace accident that left him immobile, he discovered The Dragon's Wrath — a virtual reality game offering everything he lacked in real life. Inside, as Sigurd, he builds more than just a character. Across three volumes, he carves out a kingdom in the North, wages war, and finds himself mired in a conflict far beyond his control — one man attempting to change the fate of thousands.
Goodreads4.23· 2.3K
Base BuildingLitRPGMilitarySecondary WorldStatsVRMMO

Vampire and the Dayspring Star

Matoi

B70/100
A party of four set out to destroy the wicked Exaltare, ruler of the Vampires: the Stardust Champion Mizar, a virtuous priest, a retired knight, and a lady Wizard whose wisdom and knowledge proved invaluable. Yet just before they stormed the palace, misfortune befell them — and the Exaltare's lair would not permit two to face its master. Instead of the death he expected, what awaited the surviving hero was mercy, a new role, and a cruel twist of fate as his new life began — as the Exaltare's daughter.
Royal Road4.70· 391
Base BuildingGrimdarkLGBTQ+Non-human MCOverpowered MCReincarnation+3

Ivil Antagonist

RavensDagger

B70/100
Ivil Antagonist has everything a woman could want: power enough to blot out suns and turn worlds to molten hells, a fleet of warships, and the fear of an entire space-faring nation. But she is quietly growing tired of being at the top. There is no lonelier place than the summit, especially when you have killed all of the competition. And so Ivil takes a great risk, asking a powerful oracle one simple question: where can I find true love? A Warhammer 40K-inspired romantic comedy featuring an overpowered villain protagonist, space pirates, and quite a lot of cute stuff.
Royal Road4.67· 934
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyHaremLGBTQ++5

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

Dungeon World

Jonathan Brooks

B70/100
In a world five times larger than Earth, dungeons and their Dungeon Cores have become the top of the food chain. Millions of dungeons utilize humanity as a source of Mana to facilitate their growth; in turn, humans delve into the dungeons to acquire Essence, allowing them to develop and enhance themselves. It is a symbiotic relationship that has lasted thousands of years. Far in the northern wilds, a young man is left alone when his parents are suddenly murdered. Now without friends, family, or supplies, Fredwynklemossering embarks on a journey to discover what killed his parents — and soon learns of his seemingly impossible status as a Dungeon Core/Human hybrid. With that knowledge comes a shift in his objective: the dangers the humans will face in the future dwarf any personal revenge.
Goodreads4.15· 2.5K
Base BuildingDungeon CoreLitRPGNon-human MCSecondary WorldStats

Remnant

Randi Darren

B70/100
Steve wakes with no memories in an open field of dirt, with only a collection of farm tools and bags of seeds to tell him what he's supposed to do. Hidden messages left by his past self warn that he has already failed once — though he has no idea at what, or how to succeed this time. The world has just undergone a radical change, forcing Steve to fight the undead, bandits, and nature itself as everything falls apart around him. He has an axe, a farm to build, and a mystery he doesn't yet know how to solve.
Goodreads4.14· 2.5K
Base BuildingGameLitGoreGrimdarkHaremLitRPG+1

Fallen Eagle [Kingdom-Building; Military Strategy]

Theodorus Sideris

B70/100
The year is 1459. Constantinople has fallen, and the Romans are no more. In the dying embers of the Byzantine world, the tiny Greek Principality of Theodoro clings to desperate existence in the mountains of the Crimean Peninsula — its fall not a possibility, but a historical certainty. Dr. Nikos Karagiannis, a history professor ripped across worlds into the body of Theodorus, a bookish third son in a disgraced house, has no magic or divine blessings. What he does possess is the knowledge of the political blunders, shifting alliances, and military tactics that will lead this land to ruin. A gritty, grounded take on rebuilding a nation where intrigue and diplomacy achieve as much as a raised army, battles are won through strategy rather than superpowers, and no character is safe from the crucible of war and politics.
Royal Road4.69· 451
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkMilitaryReincarnation+1

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

A Shelter in Spacetime

Dmitry Dornichev

B69/100
You wake up in a French hospital surrounded by zombie hordes, armed with nothing but a baseball bat and a map you can't read. Luckily, you have a personal shelter in spacetime. Sergey navigates the zombie apocalypse across Europe — from Paris to Berlin and beyond — looting everything not nailed down, recruiting an eclectic crew of allies, and slowly realising that the spacetime ocean is far more crowded and dangerous than any zombie horde.
Goodreads4.44· 443
Base BuildingComedyLitRPGPost-apocalypticSystem Apocalypse

Demesne

Shadow Crystal Mage

B69/100
Out on the frontier of a new continent, the wizard Lori and her group of settlers try to build a community in a land actively hostile to intelligent life. With their wits, their will, and their newly built Dungeon to protect them against the Iridescence — the deadly growth that makes life inhospitable beyond the borders of their demesne — they should be fine. If they can survive the lack of infrastructure. And the deadly beasts they need to hunt for food. And idiots who don't understand what settling somewhere actually entails. And dragons. Using structural engineering, the scientific method, logistics, and the dark art of personnel management, Lori and her newly dubbed lord Rian must solve the persistent problems of shelter, sanitation, food storage, and keeping the colonists from making terrible decisions.
Royal Road4.58· 1.2KGoodreads4.36· 14
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyDungeon CoreGenius MC+2

Elsewhere

Jack Fields

B69/100
Andy "Duke" Ellington was an exceptional fighter pilot who always pushed too hard — until the end finally came for him. Then he was Elsewhere: a completely different world where magic and stats were his new reality, with no support and only a marginal clue. Imprisoned Archmages, corrupt rulers, mysterious forces from beyond, and ancient dungeons all want a piece of him. He's happy to take them all on — and show everyone what happens when you mess with the Duke.
Goodreads4.45· 303
Base BuildingCompetent MCDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiSci-fi+2

Soulship

Nathan Thompson

B69/100
Jasper Cloud is the final non-person on Earth — the orphan son of the last two executed citizens in the Global Republic, struggling to survive in a world where old knowledge is now illegal. When a new light appears in the night sky, his only friend suddenly becomes a young woman with the power to undo the current reign of tyranny. But hidden enemies are already waiting for her and the living starship empowering her. Jasper slips through the cracks of their trap, empowered as well. If he is careful, he can refine his newfound strength, repair the damaged ship, and rescue the woman now determined to tear down the corrupt Republic with her bare hands.
Goodreads4.40· 1.4K
Base BuildingCompetent MCHard MagicSci-fiSecondary WorldSoft Magic+1