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Level Up

Dan Sugralinov

B70/100
At thirty years old, Phil is an unemployed gamer struggling to make ends meet. On the day his wife dumps him, he receives a mysterious piece of wetware — a game interface implanted in his brain that allows him to see the world through the eyes of an RPG player. Now that Phil can see his real-life stats, they're far below average. But real-life stats can be leveled up just like virtual ones. As Phil begins to improve himself guided by his own conscience, he must also find out who implanted the mysterious game in his brain — and how he's supposed to deal with an apparently omnipotent unknown force.
Goodreads4.20· 2.4K
GameLitLitRPGStatsUrban FantasyWeak to Strong

Elsewhere

Jack Fields

B70/100
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· 310
Base BuildingCompetent MCDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiSci-fi+2

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

The False Hero

Michael Plymel

B70/100
Disillusioned businessman John Lawrence Locke finds himself summoned as a hero to another world filled with monsters and magic, his body reverted to the age of fifteen. Betrayed by the very people who summoned him, he is condemned as the False Hero and forced to flee for his life. Alone in an unfamiliar world and hunted by all of humanity, he takes on the alias of Lutz and uses his gaming knowledge to quickly adapt to the world's strangely game-like mechanics.
Goodreads4.40· 1.6K
Competent MCGameLitIsekaiLoner MCOlder MCStats

Remnant

Randi Darren

B69/100
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

Master Hunter K

From Hell

B69/100
Without warning, humanity in its entirety was suddenly moved to another dimension. This new world, for all its gifts of wondrous abilities, was a stadium — a deadly arena of unimaginable scale. Every man, woman, and child was given a weapon and ordered to fight. Only two options existed: complete the many trials ahead, or perish. Billions of lives were extinguished in mere moments. But even within this abyss of despair, one small ray of hope existed: if even one person could complete every raid, humanity would be redeemed and restored. No save points, no revives, no retries. Within this marathon of death, one man becomes aware of an exception to the rules.
Goodreads4.32· 1.8K
IsekaiLitRPGRegressionStatsWeak to Strong

Spellgun

paradigmblue

B68/100
For millennia, the Elders have gifted pre-technological civilizations with the Implant — a piece of technology that alters reality on a quantum level, granting extraordinary physical and mental abilities. In return, recipients must pass through the Gauntlets: entire worlds hollowed out and turned into training grounds. Those who survive become the Elders' foot soldiers as they expand across the galaxy. What happens when a human accidentally receives an Implant instead?
Royal Road4.59· 1.2K
GameLitIsekaiLitRPGSci-fiStats

Intelligent Design: A Monster Evolution LitRPG

Kienti

B68/100
Earth is integrated into the cosmic System without warning. Recognized for humanity's tenacity and will to survive, the planet faces a brutal ultimatum: adapt or die. At midnight, every human transforms into an egg with the potential to evolve beyond imagination. Among them is David, an ordinary man thrown into a savage new world. Armed with only his wits and a drive to survive, he must navigate a place where the rules are simple: evolve fast, or become prey for something that did.
Royal Road4.63· 1.1K
ComedyLitRPGNon-human MCStatsSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

The Sovereign's Toll

AuthorJS

B68/100
His family was his world. Now he's in a new one. When a fatal accident rips Caleb Foster from his wife and kids, the forty-year-old gets a second chance in a realm of dungeons and monsters. A cosmic system offers him a choice of legendary powers, but Caleb refuses the flashy magic. He chooses the abilities to learn faster, remember perfectly, and master any physical skill. A father's instinct to protect doesn't die with his family. To survive and shield the new lives that depend on him, he must use a lifetime of quiet competence to navigate a dangerous frontier town, hunt deadly beasts, and outwit men who mistake his lack of flash for weakness. In a place where might makes right, Caleb is about to show that the most lethal weapon is a mind that misses nothing.
Royal Road4.44· 1.4K
Competent MCCozyDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGOlder MC+6

Engine of Reincarnation

Philetus

B68/100
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· 1.2K
CozyIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnationSkill Collection+1

Corruption Wielder

Aaron Shih

B67/100
When the world ends, humanity must fight to survive — but where others struggle in fear, Will sees only an opportunity. When Earth merges with the magical world of Arcadia and a system gives humanity a choice between forty years of indentured servitude or fighting a chaos incursion, Will doesn't hesitate. The system thanks him by throwing him into an impossible tutorial. With little chance of survival, he shrugs and picks [Corruption] as his primary attribute. With a forbidden element — and the powers of death and space added on top — Will just might be able to stab his way through. Earth's sole corruption wielder finds danger at every corner. To him, that might be exactly where he's meant to be.
Goodreads4.39· 1.4K
Anti-heroLitRPGStatsSuperpowersSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

Faceless Hunter

XKarnation

B67/100
Xen is a rare mind-eating slime who absorbs the memories of a fallen Hunter during a dungeon raid gone wrong — gaining not just human knowledge, but access to the class system designed to fight his kind. Granted a unique Shapeshifter class, he can take the form of any creature he consumes and learn their skills without limit. Using this edge, Xen plans to conquer the World Dungeon and infiltrate human society — the most dangerous enemy being the one that wears many faces.
Goodreads4.43· 374
Anti-heroDungeon CrawlingLitRPGNon-human MCSkill CollectionStats

Death: Genesis

Nicholas Searcy

B67/100
Zeke Blackwood devoted his childhood to baseball and gave up a kidney to save his sick brother — only to die on the operating table. Eons later, after Earth has been ravaged, he is reborn in the Radiant Isles: a magical realm of legendary creatures, horrifying monsters, and a war between good and evil. Fully healed and guided by the mysterious entity Oberon, Zeke begins battling his way through trolls and darkness, gaining superhuman abilities with every victory — and acquiring allies in an archer named Abby and a soul-bonded dire bear cub named Pudge.
Goodreads4.39· 1.4K
GrimdarkLitRPGMonster TamingPost-apocalypticReincarnationStats+1

Apocalypse Online

Robyn Wideman

B67/100
At first everyone thought it was a game. Brad and Sam were playing the hot new game Apocalypse Online when they realized it was a preview of reality — aliens have arrived and they are turning people into fertilizer. With the help of a benevolent alien AI and nanotechnology, they have a chance to survive. They just have to level up and find other survivors. Jake is no gamer, but when he finds out aliens have arrived, he'll do anything to protect his little sister Sam. A post-apocalyptic series filled with action, aliens, and snarky AIs.
Goodreads4.40· 1K
GameLitLitRPGPost-apocalypticSci-fiStatsSystem Apocalypse+1

To Play With Magic

Draith

B66/100
Dragons, catgirls, guns, and magic — and the ability to stop time. A modern woman finds herself pulled into a LitRPG world, but her goal is ultimately to return to Earth and stop the System apocalypse threatening everything she left behind. Her past, locked in a dark corner back on Earth, refuses to stay there.
Royal Road4.49· 1.3K
GameLitIsekaiLitRPGSci-fiSecondary WorldStats+2

Soulshard: Willbender

pyrowind

B65/100
Real Fantasy Online is the flagship product for the latest generation of neural-interface headsets, promising total immersion and the best NPC AIs ever created. But when the line between one's real self and one's digital identity becomes blurred, and the gods have their own agenda, who is the player and which is the game? Marcus has played any number of VR games and beta-tested dangerous systems. He usually disdains pre-order perks, but this time the bonus — the ability to craft your character's backstory and have it integrated into the game's lore — is too tempting to pass up. He opts to make a character purely for fun, with no interest in being all-powerful. Things aren't quite what they seem, however, and his backstory and character class have implications he never would have imagined.
Royal Road4.62· 998Goodreads4.58· 24
Anti-heroGameLitHaremLitRPGMysteryReincarnation+3

Level One God

Zachary Scott

B65/100
He used to be a god. Now he's level one. Brynn was the first to ever activate the world's hidden Prestige Mode, gaining powerful perks at the cost of his godhood and all memories of his past life. Now at rock bottom in a brutal world where leveling is so deadly most people never try, he must grind his way back to divinity — armed with nothing but a magical helmet and an empty Alchemist's Kit left by his former self. But secrecy is everything. This world had nine gods, and all but one reset at the same time. With no memories to guide him, Brynn can't trust any of them. And behind it all lurks one haunting question: what terrified gods enough to make them start over?
Goodreads4.41· 459
Class SystemCompetent MCDungeon CrawlingLitRPGSecondary WorldStats+1

Deluge: hydras can be adventurers too

tenfingers

B65/100
In the swamp, the rules are simple: you eat them, or they eat you. Nothing's ever that simple when humans get involved. They feed you weird potions, teach you ridiculous commands, and make you fight pointless fights with totally unfair enemies. After years of non-consensual experimentation and a dark ritual involving goat's blood, the System reclassified Deluge as sentient. A nice title, but not something you can eat. Now, armed with heightened intelligence and slowly accumulating knowledge, Deluge expected the world to finally make sense. It doesn't. The more he learns, the more absurd it gets: civilization, laws, status, guilds, oaths — all random nonsense. There's only one system Deluge respects, and that's the System. System gives you levels. System gives you power.
Royal Road4.69· 176
ComedyGameLitLitRPGNon-human MCPost-apocalypticSecondary World+1

Dual Class

Arthur Inverse

B65/100
When a city boy wakes up with a mysterious system glowing before his eyes, the worlds begin to merge. Drake confronts his past and a new reality where sharp wit and brutal killings go hand in hand — facing countless enemies and unexpected allies, with choices that will shape the future of his planet. Before the real adventure begins, he has to survive a deadly tutorial and master his spells in a world reshaped by the system.
Goodreads4.37· 1.5K
Class SystemLitRPGStatsSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

Stray Cat Strut

RavensDagger

B65/100
In the year 2057, the world has become a corporate-run utopia for the super-rich and a hellhole for everyone else. Catherine 'Cat' Leblanc is an orphan about as far from super-rich as one can be. When the Incursion alarms start blaring and the sky starts raining hungry xenos, it's just another blemish on an already bad afternoon. A cyberpunk magical-girl alien-invasion LitRPG — exactly as wild as it sounds.
pf6.0· 1Goodreads4.38· 1.3K
LitRPGPost-apocalypticSci-fiStatsSuperpowersSystem Apocalypse