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Secret of the Old Ones

Blaise Corvin

C48/100
Secret of the Old Ones is a deep-dive VR game unlike anything the world has seen. Trent Noguero, a hardcore gamer who has been playing for a year, is on the verge of his big break — a chance to join the ranks of the most powerful players in the world. But power draws attention, and celebrity creates enemies. Trent has the keys to massive success, and he has also accidentally painted a target on his back — both inside and outside the game.
Goodreads4.19· 999
LitRPGMysteryVRMMOWeak to Strong

Rise of the Archon

Havoc1021

C48/100
In the Kingdom of Ferris, mages are not born but made. Through magic and arms, Ferris has grown to rule nearly the entire known world. Vayne was intended to live and die as an advisor to the nobility — nothing more. But a vision of his future reveals a terrible truth: he would grow to become the strongest mage of his time, only to fall in battle against strange invaders from beyond the impassable oceans. Now Vayne must choose — follow his intended path, fight a hopeless battle, or defy fate entirely and forge himself into the greatest mage the world has ever seen.
Royal Road4.54· 643
CozyCultivationOverpowered MCRegressionSchoolSecondary World+2

Resistance Above Magic

B.T. Narro, Beatrix Grinn

C48/100
Ancient powers are about to collide. The world is on the verge of changing, and all Levy wanted was to start leveling. Stuck with a specialization mostly used for buffing in towns for coin, Levy doesn't see it as a disadvantage — even if everyone else does. He expected to take the road most traveled, but it looks like he'll have to carve his own path and be the first enchanter to reach max level. First he'd better learn everything he can about the system of mana that seems to have a grudge against mankind — and may even have something to do with the burgeoning war.
Goodreads4.21· 982
Crafting PowerDungeon CrawlingHard MagicLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill Collection+1

Re:Hero — Starting Over As The Strongest

LaughYeAmer

C48/100
Demon King Erizen thought all Heroes were insane. For one thousand years he ruled the continent of Thalmyra while lunatic bands of Heroic Chosen Ones tried and failed to end his reign — until a random peasant girl from a back-end village manifested the Holy Sword, led a Crusade to his door, and ended his life before dying herself seconds later. As he died alongside the smiling Heroine, Erizen could not understand: why did heroes not care for their lives? What gave them such suicidal strength? When the System offers him reincarnation, he makes the only choice that makes sense — he will reincarnate not as a Demon King, but as a Hero. If even a peasant's heroism was enough strength to kill him, then this heroic Demon King vows to become nothing but the strongest.
Royal Road4.42· 704
Anti-heroComedyLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnationSecondary World+1

Necrotourists

Adsterhappy

C48/100
Lord Archlich "Boss", the greatest undead of all time, could conquer the world with his mighty collection of undead knights, dullahans, shadowlings, resurrected expired food, and skeletons. But that's too much work. So why not tour the world he hasn't set foot in for over a thousand years? From the mighty Holy City of Aon — home to the greatest undead hunters on the continent — to the mystical Sorcerer City-States, Boss will tour them all. Hide your artifacts, hide your religious sites, hide your long-held traditional values. Boss will ruin them all, unknowingly.
Royal Road4.56· 632Goodreads4.50· 2
Anti-heroComedyNon-human MCOverpowered MCSatireSecondary World

The Young Lady is a Reborn Assassin

DWS

C48/100
Jensen Weller was the world's most infamous professional killer — a shadow in the night who struck fear into the hearts of politicians, businessmen, and terrorists alike. Living life under fire, he always knew his number would come up. After finally falling during an intense gunfight, he awakens trapped inside the body of a teenage girl. Now afflicted with an extreme compulsion to laugh boisterously at the drop of a hat, the newly renamed Maria Walston-Carter must attend the nation's most prestigious boarding school and do her noble family proud. What initially seems to be a peaceful existence in a magical world undergoing an industrial revolution soon proves to be anything but — Jensen's skills as an assassin aren't ready to be put away just yet.
Royal Road4.48· 680
Anti-heroCompetent MCLGBTQ+ReincarnationSchoolSecondary World

Memories of the Fall

Rith

C48/100
Sisters Jun Arai and Jun Sana, along with their friends Juni, Ling, and Shu, make their living as members of the Hunter Bureau — an organisation dedicated to dealing with the terrifying flora and fauna of their home Great World. When they are dragged into a grand scheme to uncover the ancient secrets entombed within the Yin Eclipse Mountains, one of their world's foremost forbidden zones, they must survive dark machinations, eldritch undercurrents, and the echoes of a terrible conflict trying to re-emerge into an unsuspecting cosmos that rather hoped it was done with that sort of thing.
Royal Road4.59· 541Goodreads5.00· 3
CozyCultivationGenius MCGrimdarkMysteryPost-apocalyptic+3

Rise of the Skillmaster

S.T.J

C48/100
In a modern Korea where fifteen percent of humanity has awakened as Manaborn, rifts tear open across the city and the strong rise as Rifters. Sam Jimin, a poor orphan scraping by on the outskirts of Seoul, pinned everything on his Awakening. He received Rank E-1 — no skills, a dead end. Hidden behind that humiliating result, however, is a Unique Skill no one has ever seen: Skillmaster, the ability to create and edit skills at a cost only he can pay. With nothing left to lose, he gambles everything on it — fighting his way up through academies, guild politics, and rising threats, skill by skill and battle by battle.
Royal Road4.41· 703
ComedyCozyCraftingGenius MCLitRPGSchool+5

A Doctor Without Borders

DB Lazarus

C48/100
A doctor spent years mastering medicine — helping people live, watching people die, witnessing what a soulless system does to patients and to himself. He was counting down the days before he sold out. That plan ended when a stroke code went sideways. Now he's somewhere else entirely: a world where magic rules, Humans are despised, and Healers knit flesh back together in the blink of an eye. What good is a man of science with years of training and not a shred of magic? A slow-burn progression story grounded in medical realism, where every step forward is earned.
Royal Road4.43· 319Goodreads4.01· 1.3K
GameLitGenius MCIsekaiSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

Overpowered Murderhobo

Solomon Abraham

C48/100
Elliott Carpenter was murdered once. He never found out who. He never found out why. But he made sure it would never happen again. Over the next century, he became the most powerful being on Earth — untouchable, unkillable. That did not go unnoticed. When a dimensional barrier sealing Earth is broken, Elliott and his companions are dragged to another world by someone who knows exactly who he is — someone who may finally have the answers he's been seeking since the day he died. With his trusted murder-maid, his adorable murder-doll, and a reluctant young mage who came to kill him and is rapidly regretting it, Elliott sets out to find whoever summoned him — conquering countries and capturing gods along the way.
Royal Road4.61· 227
Anti-heroComedyIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCSecondary World

Hive Mind Beyond the Veil

1650th

C48/100
Awakening somewhere completely foreign, with no memory of how or why, a new consciousness finds itself flooded with biological knowledge — how life forms adapt, how cells divide and heal, the microscopic patterns underlying all living things. This strange existence as a hive mind is both a gift and a burden: seeing through countless eyes, feeling through countless senses, understanding each creature within its domain as an extension of itself. In the sequel, reborn into a world where war is the only memory, the hive mind fights, bleeds, dies, and rises again — carrying every lesson from the drones it controls. Having crushed the dregs of the Triumvirate, it now prepares for the greater storm to come.
Royal Road4.61· 227
Genius MCMilitaryMysteryNon-human MCReincarnationSci-fi+1

The Traveler Initiative

Orthoros

C48/100
Liam is a down-on-his-luck gambler whose life is falling apart. When loan sharks come to collect, things end badly. But he gets another chance — by joining the Traveler Initiative, which promises the freedom to explore planets across the universe, a new body, and a slew of other benefits. Even in this strange afterlife, his gambling addiction rears its head, and he somehow ends up reincarnated as a slug. What follows is a largely solitary journey of evolution and survival, as Liam slowly crawls his way up from the bottom of the food chain.
Royal Road4.54· 641
IsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnationSci-fiWeak to Strong

The Scattered and the Dead

L.T. Vargus, Tim McBain

C48/100
When the power grid fails and a mysterious virus runs rampant, society collapses almost overnight. Among the survivors: a family scrambling for shelter, two orphan girls trying to last the winter, a drunk plotting revenge against the raiders who killed his parents, and a televangelist fleeing a rumored nuclear strike. Slowly their paths converge. A new world will be born from the ruins—but not all of them will make it.
Goodreads3.95· 1.1K
DrugsGoreGrimdarkHorrorPost-apocalyptic

Idiot's Paradox

Taylor Colt

C48/100
Logan was kicking back with a beer on his dock when the System Integration transformed his world. The planet became a sci-fi movie overnight — powers, levels, and impossible messages from an entity called the System that has deemed humanity a plague. Each day the dissolution of society gets worse, and in 365 days only the top-rated 1% will survive. Logan could accept his lot and go along with the flow, but he's worked out how to manipulate his new world: baseball bats with nails, cleavers, weed whackers — whatever it takes. He's good at killing things, and when the System threatens his sister and her kids, he'll show it what an idiot can really do. Features a bonded murderhobo octopus and a sentient weapon with murderous intentions toward the MC's friends.
Royal Road4.46· 684
ComedyGenius MCLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSci-fi+2

Drakon Prince

Jamie McFarlane

C47/100
Separated as a child from his family, Theo has always felt made for something bigger than the suburban life ahead of him. When stepping in to protect a friend earns him a beating, he wakes up to floating game text inviting him to become a dragon. No matter how often he rejects the prompt, it returns. Reluctantly accepting, he's finally exposed to the real world — filled with goblins, orcs, and dragons. Starting at Level 1 and in extreme danger, Theo must embark on an epic quest to level up and claim his rightful draconic heritage. Dragons are both jealous and territorial, and the only way to survive is to grow fast.
Goodreads4.30· 507
Base BuildingClass SystemGameLitLitRPGNon-human MCStats+2

Dungeon Travels

Alston Sleet

C47/100
Death was supposed to be the end of it — the pain, the suffering, the failures. Instead, a recently deceased man wakes up as a small stone strapped to a table while a pimple-faced teenager rubs his facets. Life as a dungeon core isn't entirely terrible. There are lizard love triangles to observe, militaristic dwarves to spy on, and the occasional moment of dark comedy. The only real problem is his increasingly entangled situation with the Gods — which, admittedly, is a bit of a problem.
Goodreads4.18· 990
ComedyDungeon CoreNon-human MCReincarnationSecondary World

No Longer a Game

Samzen

C47/100
Chaos Online is heralded as the first "Hardcore" VRMMORPG. Pain conversion is set at a staggering 75%, and graphical fidelity has been pushed to the limits without any censorship whatsoever. "Who wants to feel their skin melt from dragon fire?" some asked as they dismissed it. Despite the popular belief that no one would play a game so close to reality, Chaos Online sold millions on the first day. Fight. Suffer. Win. Welcome to Chaos Online.
Royal Road4.54· 638
GameLitGrimdarkLitRPGVRMMO

Divine Seed

Andrew Karevik

C47/100
The gods prophesied to die refused to take part in Ragnarok, threatening the annihilation of the nine worlds. Yggdrasil — the World Tree — was forced to act, dispersing its seeds across the planes. One seed landed in a strange forest called the Feverwood, in a world of humans, elves, orcs, and other strange creatures. To flourish and carry on the World Tree's legacy, this young dungeon must grow its roots, attract adventurers, and absorb their essence as they succumb to its challenges. This is the story of the Tree Dungeon.
Goodreads4.09· 1K
Base BuildingDungeon CoreIsekaiNon-human MCSecondary World

Knights of Eternity

Rachel Ní Chuirc

C47/100
When she awoke to find Valerius, leader of the legendary Gilded Knights, towering over her, she thought she'd gone mad. She was the Fury — mistress of claw and flame, armies trembled at her name. Now she lay chained and broken, a prisoner in her own home. Only yesterday, she had a different life: a nephew struggling to beat the villain Zara the Fury in an arcade game, an uncle with a big booming laugh, and a gun that changed everything. Now she finds herself trapped inside the body of the game's most feared villain, in a world that is anything but virtual.
Goodreads4.32· 286
Anti-heroClass SystemIsekaiLitRPGReincarnationTransmigration

The Last Enclave

Morgan Cole

C47/100
Still reeling from the death of his parents, Jake finds a doorway to an abandoned space station in his grandfather's basement — and when he walks through, he discovers he's trapped there with company. The station's AI enlists Jake to reclaim the systems needed to support life, but he has only eight hours to complete the task or he'll die alone in the cold vacuum of space. With only a wrecking bar, work boots, and basic survival equipment, he must defeat the horrific monsters infesting the station before his air runs out. Hidden somewhere in the station is also a message that could spell doom for Earth and the entire universe.
Goodreads4.29· 732
Base BuildingCompetent MCLitRPGPost-apocalypticSci-fiStats+1