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Twice Lived

obran

C51/100
In a fraction of a moment, the Earth was no more — destroyed in an accident, killing billions. This is the story of Elm, a regular American born on Earth and given a chance to be reborn on a world of magic, monsters, and dungeons. But for Elm, this is far from the idealistic reincarnation story. He is born into a family of inquisitors — a noble order dedicated to hunting down and killing the "Twice-Lived," the name society gives to those reincarnated with their past-life memories intact. Elm must navigate a world that wants him dead, armed only with knowledge from a life that no longer exists.
Royal Road4.53· 724Goodreads3.54· 200
GameLitGoreGrimdarkLitRPGReincarnationSecondary World

The Machine God

Xiphias

C51/100
Alexander died and woke up in a world not so different from his own — except for the aliens, the superhumans, and somehow becoming a villain with a supervillain team. Now every hero and bounty hunter in the country is after him. In a world where the rich get away with murder and heroes cause as much destruction as the bad guys, Alexander intends to change that. At the center of all the madness is a System still being born — shaped by humanity's hopes, greed, and desperation — and it doesn't just want this world. It wants all of them.
Royal Road4.60· 622
Anti-heroIsekaiLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MCSci-fi+3

Friendly Neighbourhood Goblin

James Tadhg

C51/100
The gods are dead, killed by a summoned hero. Exiled from his goblin tribe, Stump finds himself in a world reeling from an isekai — deity corpses litter the landscape, their guts imbuing the world with magical power, and their killer has become the new god. Stump carves out a small home in the slums of a city locked in twilight, in the fungal graveyard of a murdered divine. There he harnesses light magic to illuminate a small corner of his darkened world and starts a mercenary company to piece together his fractured neighbourhood through quests big and small. But there are those who long for another hero and the destruction they bring, willing to stop at nothing to recreate the apocalypse of the past.
Royal Road4.63· 143
ComedyCozyGameLitGenius MCIsekaiLitRPG+3

Twisted Garden (Pokemon AU)

Aleister Adair

C51/100
Erika may have been born lowly, but she knows she is destined for glory and greatness. Street rat, trash, orphan — these labels are mere fetters to be shattered. One step at a time, Erika will claim everything that is rightfully hers. And what the world cannot give her, she will take by force. A darker, grittier, and more realistic take on Pokémon with xianxia elements and a unique power system.
Royal Road4.61· 401
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationGenius MCMilitaryOverpowered MC+1

Rise of the Grandmaster: Megabooks

Bradford Bates, Michael Anderle

C51/100
Tim was always a planner — college, graduate, well-paying job. That plan was coming together until he saw a presentation at his graduation ceremony offering him a chance to get paid to play a virtual world called The Etheric Coast. He could spend his life in a cubicle and a one-bedroom apartment, or he could take a leap of faith into a world of unlimited possibilities. Now he just has to figure out how to get the job of his dreams, help his parents financially, and catch the attention of the girl of his dreams. Tim sure hoped the wave he was about to catch didn't kill him first.
Goodreads4.30· 900
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGStatsVRMMO+1

Foodstuffs

Arthur Stone

C51/100
You are an absolute nobody — nothing but a useless lump of meat, a delicious morsel for those who got lucky at the start. The only goal anyone expects of you is to die as quickly as possible. But this particular piece of food eats back.
Goodreads4.30· 897
Anti-heroGrimdarkLitRPGSystem Apocalypse

The Emperor Without An Empire

Drew Royston

C51/100
They stole his empire, his cultivation, even his name. Their mistake was leaving him alive. Now going by Shen Taros, he carries seven hundred years of experience in an eighteen-year-old body with the spiritual capacity of wet parchment. A god-like cultivator will hunt him within the year. In the meantime, he is opening meridians one painful breath at a time, learning alchemy from a terrifying mistress, and picking entirely avoidable fights with powerful people who consider themselves beyond justice. Between all of that, working in a decrepit fish warehouse, and dodging loan sharks, he is making remarkable progress. They wanted this Emperor permanently retired. He intends to disappoint them.
Royal Road4.63· 130
AlchemyBase BuildingCraftingCultivationIsekaiLitRPG+3

Afterlife Online

Domino Finn

C51/100
Tad Lonnerman dies in traffic on his way to a crappy meeting. He wakes up uploaded to a beta test of Haven, an unannounced hyper-immersive MMO where the dead get a second chance at life — digital reality, not virtual reality. Except Haven is no blissful paradise. Tad bumbles into a pagan blood feud, crosses paths with fallen angels, and gets lied to by saints. His only allies are a frat boy with a penchant for dying and a pixie who won't give him the time of day. All Tad wants is to return to his old life — and he'll make a deal with the devil for the opportunity.
Goodreads3.99· 1.2K
GameLitGrimdarkLitRPGReincarnationStatsVRMMO

Future Reborn

Daniel Pierce

C51/100
Jack Bowman is out of luck and out of money — until he agrees to be cryogenically frozen for a major scientific research company. When his pod splits open two thousand years later, he finds a wasteland world of warring tribes, mutated animals, monsters, and ogres. The freezing process was only half the experiment. Something swimming in his bloodstream is turning Jack into something more than human, and he'll need every advantage he can get to survive.
Goodreads4.16· 1.1K
Base BuildingGoreHaremPost-apocalypticSexual ContentSuperpowers

Desolada

lkal92

C51/100
For millennia, the demon lords known as the Goetia enslaved humanity, until a group of mortals called the Archons received divine blessings of power and overthrew them. Under their dominion mankind flourished, though the war in the shadows never ended. A thousand years later, sixteen-year-old Leones' family is executed for the crime of heresy — burned to death for questioning whether the Archon of Flames is truly divine. After manifesting the power to control time, Leones survives and embarks on an uncertain journey for power and revenge. But to overcome a god, he may need help — and along the way he will discover the truth behind the demon lords, time, and reality itself.
Royal Road4.58· 668
Anti-heroGrimdarkHorrorSecondary WorldSoft MagicTime Loop+1

Wandering Warrior

Michael Head

C51/100
James Holden has reached the maximum level possible for a human — which is fortunate, because he is a wandering warrior without control of his destination, tossed between universes by gods who have failed to explain why. On each new world he serves as the lone Judge, righting wrongs the innocent cannot fix themselves, with one year to accomplish his mission. On his twentieth world, James quickly finds that the roots of corruption run deep — guilds protect themselves rather than the people, and monsters roam unchecked. Being the strongest human will not be enough this time. He may have to recruit some new blood, even if he prefers to work alone.
Goodreads4.32· 525
Competent MCIsekaiLitRPGLoner MCOverpowered MCStats

Apocalypse Reborn

SageOfEyes

C51/100
From indebted orphan to forced guide to decoy king, Jack has a lot on his plate. It isn't enough that there are murderous elves on the horizon, or a nation filled with sneering academics ready to topple the kingdom he is supposedly in charge of — in a few decades the world will end unless a bunch of maniacs designed to fight each other can somehow work together. What's a player to do without saves and retries on the highest difficulty: reality?
Royal Road4.60· 598
Base BuildingGameLitGenius MCMilitarySecondary World

Doing God's Work

Skylark (Dion Sky)

C51/100
The gods are real and incorporated. Providence is a profitable global monopoly — but its chief executive is a corrupt authoritarian, the combined might of the divine powers ignores humanity's problems, and Helpdesk service is, frankly, terrible. In this corporate fantasy, it's up to history's most maligned immortals to step up and sort things out.
pf8.0· 1Royal Road4.61· 390
Anti-heroComedyGenius MCSatireUrban Fantasy

The Whims of Gods

S.I. Waxman

C51/100
Tess was hoping for some major life changes — getting chosen by a god wasn't what she had in mind. After a quarter-life crisis and quitting her job, she's abruptly plucked from Earth and whisked away to a new world. With nothing but a cryptic blessing from a god, Tess must carve out a new life in a land where magic, monsters, and character levels are all par for the course. Dark forces are stirring, she's woefully unprepared, and spiders keep trying to turn her into dinner. Follow Tess as she gets embroiled in the affairs of gods, embarking on a journey through blighted deadlands, bustling cities, and merciless dungeons.
Goodreads4.31· 719
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGStatsWeak to Strong

After the End: Serenity

Lillene

C51/100
At the end of everything, the Final Reaper won — but it was a hollow victory. Having killed everyone who wronged him or his people, he was left utterly alone. When Order's Voice offered a chance to reset the multiverse to an earlier time in exchange for most of his power, the choice was easy: start over from when Earth was first brought into Order. Landing in his old body, the Final Reaper becomes Thomas again — and chooses a new name for a new life: Serenity. He has ten years from the moment the Voice arrives to prevent Earth from losing the second round, as it did before. It will require a group effort, which is difficult for someone who has been alone for longer than he can reckon. A system apocalypse story designed so that a large percentage of humanity can survive and prosper — if they work together.
Royal Road4.18· 816
Anti-heroLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MCRegressionSci-fi+2

Ascension of the Sylvan Cosmos

Mortrexo

C51/100
Follow the story of Tianlian Liu Shu, a tree who starts knowing nothing and struggles to survive and extend her roots through the cosmos. The world she lives in is filled with fantastic sights and strange new cultures — and everyone in it has a system, even her. Despite being a tree, she finds herself with a group of women who fawn over her every branch and leaf. Tianlian Liu Shu, a female tree, isn't quite sure what to do with all of them.
Royal Road4.62· 268
CozyDungeon CoreHaremLitRPGNon-human MCSecondary World

HELL CLIMBER

Paul Todkill

C51/100
The gods are real — and they hate you. This wouldn't be true for most people, but for Samuel Lin, whose first interaction with a god was cursing them out, well, you get the idea. Sam was behind on his Master's thesis when he was selected as one of humanity's representatives in an interstellar battle royale: a fight to the death on the grandest cosmic scale. Dropped through a portal onto the slopes of Mt. Olympos, he discovers the only way to survive is to climb, and the only way to climb is to fight. Surrounded by enemies and marked for death by grudge-bearing gods, Sam faces a very interesting question: does he have what it takes to kill a god? Each Ring of the climb is a new world with new quests, new party members, and new ways to die.
Royal Road4.63· 120
ComedyDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGSci-fi+3

I'm A Tree. Now What?

Claff

C51/100
A man wakes up as a tree and has to deal with floating blue boxes. The non-adventure begins.
Royal Road4.60· 588
ComedyCozyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+1

Dial (Ben 10/MCU SI)

Mahmoud Schahed

C50/100
A man from our world is dropped into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with nothing but a watch on his wrist to make a life with. Luckily, it's one hell of a cool watch. Now if only he'd gotten the manual.
Royal Road4.50· 731
ComedyCozyIsekaiSci-fiSuperpowers

The Forerunner

James Clay

C50/100
Zed is a washed-up MMA fighter with little future ahead of him. While out with friends, he meets a woman with an unbelievable story: aliens are going to take over the solar system in two years. He dismisses her — until she shows him things that aren't possible, including healing his chronic injuries and revealing her true, non-human appearance. There's no stopping the takeover. Humanity will be transported to an already-populated planet and must find a way to survive. A few humans are to be sent ahead to prepare the way — the Forerunners.
Goodreads4.30· 820
IsekaiPost-apocalypticSci-fiSecondary WorldWeak to Strong