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The Last Human

PSHoffman

B71/100
Thousands of years ago, humankind was destroyed — but the xenos still worship them as gods. Now alien civilizations build cities among humanity's majestic ruins, and one Empire has learned to harness forgotten human technology to dominate the distant worlds. Eolh is a jaded avian thief raised in the underbelly of a city full of winged xenos. He fought the Empire when it first arrived, but the resistance died long ago. He trusts no one and looks out only for himself. When an unusual heist takes a deadly turn, Eolh must bargain with an android carrying an impossible secret — one that could shake the foundations of the universe.
Royal Road4.57· 550Goodreads3.64· 3.9K
Anti-heroGenius MCIsekaiLoner MCNon-human MCOverpowered MC+4

Kill Me If You Can

cody.bray

B71/100
He spawned into this world with the worst race possible, limited spells, and no real skills to speak of. On paper he should have died in the first hour. In practice, he is a cockroach with a sword. Between his rapid healing and his ability to steal portions of the dead's souls, he grows stronger with every fight. Narrating all of this is the AI voice in his head — the one keeping him alive, and the one growing increasingly curious about why a trial was built that no one could pass without her. At first she thought it was meant to keep others out. Now she's starting to wonder if it was meant to trap her.
Royal Road4.26· 165Goodreads4.04· 25.9K
Anti-heroGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGMysterySkill Collection+1

Garden of Silk

MadMaxine

B71/100
The power Slate Graystone needs to remain the ducal heir is just out of reach, and he will do anything to get it. Even become a demon. Battling new instincts, ravenous hunger, and struggling to find her place in a world far darker than expected, Slate — now Silk — fights to claim the life she rightfully deserves: one for herself and the mundane folk she was sworn to protect. When Silk learns that the corruption left in the fallen Empire's wake runs far deeper than her own transformation, she must choose between standing by noblesse oblige or tearing the whole system down — and the Sects with it.
Royal Road4.72· 278
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkLGBTQ+Non-human MC+1

Wildcards: The Dread Captain

Brian J. Nordon

B71/100
At the District One Invitational, a rookie eSports team defied all odds and reached the finals, earning worldwide acclaim. Dubbed the Paragons, they never celebrated that victory — they lost a friend in the match, who never appeared online again. Ten years later, only Helena remains of the original team. Abidden, once the most exclusive VR game ever made, has been reduced to a shadow of its former glory — yet remains the most-streamed game in the world. James Sylvester, finally out of hospital and crippled with medical debt, his gaming licence revoked, has been competing in illegal slum arcades to make repayments. When a high-profile job grants him temporary backdoor access to his blacklisted account, he receives an invitation that could change his life forever.
Royal Road4.65· 1.2K
Anti-heroCompetent MCGameLitGenius MCLitRPGSci-fi+1

Trials of the Endless Planes

RJ Shoke

B71/100
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· 931
Anti-heroDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGStatsTower Climbing

Flesh Eater: Demon Evolution

grisaille

B71/100
Reincarnating as a demonic lump of flesh would probably be a nasty shock to most people, but Pyre has always been good at rolling with the punches. Sure, something is blocking her soul and most of her memories, and the world she was reincarnated into is barely surviving off the blood of dead titans — but she is not worried. She is just here to level, devour, and get stronger. All of that has got nothing to do with her. Until it does.
Royal Road4.68· 704
Anti-heroLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MCReincarnationSecondary World+2

Apocalypse Reincarnation

Kaz Hunter

B71/100
Ten years ago, deep within a rift, Sloan faced a choice: defeat the Demon King and end the apocalypse, or claim his power and keep the rifts open. He chose an ending — and his party killed him for it. Now Sloan is reborn in a world where the System is life and his former companions rule like overlords over a monster-ridden wasteland. Armed with a cheat skill, he will climb rank by rank to take back everything that was stolen from him.
Goodreads4.22· 2.4K
Anti-heroLitRPGRegressionReincarnationSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

Lord Valevsky: Last of the Line

Vasily Mahanenko

B70/100
Maximilian is the last of the noble Valevsky lineage. His family was executed on the orders of the powerful Duke Odoevsky, who coveted their lands. Maximilian escaped death but not punishment — condemned to serve as a suicide soldier on the front lines against the dark god Skron's mutated creatures. With nothing left but his honor and a thirst for revenge, Maximilian vows to claw his way out of this sentence and reclaim his birthright. First, he has to survive training.
Goodreads4.41· 1.2K
Anti-heroGrimdarkLitRPGSecondary WorldStatsWeak to Strong

A Beginner's Guide to Napping, Sunbathing, and Slaughtering Your Prey

TigerCannon

B70/100
Fang is a simple cat. He likes napping in the sun, having his belly scratched for precisely 17.329 seconds, and hunting defenseless wildlife. He does not like being called Chairman Meow, and he certainly does not like being punted between dimensions. Fang is having a Very Bad Day. Mysterious blue boxes have appeared out of thin air, and the world around him is stranger than any cat should have to endure. This is a slice-of-life story: Fang is a cat soul in a cat body, and that is not going to change. There is no epic tale here — only a cat doing cat things in an interesting setting, with light game elements mostly present for flavor. Nature is cruel, and cats are crueler than most.
Royal Road4.62· 1.2KGoodreads2.50· 2
Anti-heroComedyCozyGameLitIsekaiLitRPG+3

Oathbreaker: A Dark Fantasy Web Serial

SovWrites

B70/100
Alken is the Headsman of Seydis — an executioner tasked by the divine powers of his homeland to hunt traitors and warmongers in a war-afflicted land haunted by demons and the restless dead. Once a paladin, this role ill suits him. Torn between principle, knightly oaths, and a tangled web of loyalties, Alken seeks an elusive redemption through penance of blood. His lonely journey through a broken land of time-weary elves and brooding demigods grows increasingly strange and personal.
Royal Road4.70· 381
Anti-heroGrimdarkHorrorMysteryOlder MCSecondary World+2

The Eternal Assassin

Wizardly Dude

B70/100
Summoned to another world by an ancient lich, Asher — a mortician's apprentice — finds himself held captive by the dead. Deciding not to stay, he uses his newfound dimensional abilities to escape, stealing centuries' worth of illegal magical experimentation on his way out. In a world where resurrection magic makes death a mere suggestion for the upper class, Asher discovers his stolen power can ensure anything that dies by his hand stays dead permanently. A lot of very powerful people find this upsetting — an ancient cabal of liches, a noble order of truthseekers, and the kingdom's assassin's guild all want that power for themselves. Most won't stop until they have it, unless Asher can get to them first.
Royal Road4.51· 1.4K
Anti-heroCozyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MC+3

A Young Girl's Fair(l)y Contentious Pokemon Journey (Pokemon x Youjo Senki)

CluelessRR

B69/100
Waking up in an unoccupied Francois city shortly after her death was not Tanya Degurchaff's idea of a third life. With her magic replaced by some unknown power, she was relieved to find this world at peace — until attempts to become a productive member of society landed her in the clutches of another Schugel. Now on the run from the authorities and branded a common criminal, Tanya faces increasingly impossible odds. Can the world survive the Devil of Kalos?
Royal Road4.72· 189
Anti-heroComedyIsekaiReincarnationTransmigration

The Truck Effect

Skylark (Dion Sky)

B69/100
To save a universe, a reincarnator must die. This keeps happening and has never made any sense. Lamutri is a Chapel assassin of the multiversal House of Fate, dispatched to deal with reincarnators in exchange for the promise of ascent — except his reality-altering Defects keep him strangled at the bottom. When straightforward missions start going horribly, exponentially wrong, the Chapel holds Lamutri to blame and offers a simple solution: murder the problem. But with the fates of universes in his hands, he realizes someone has been keeping very significant secrets for a very long time.
Royal Road4.71· 239
Anti-heroGenius MCIsekaiMysteryNon-human MCReincarnation+1

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· 1.3KGoodreads4.36· 14
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyCozyDungeon CoreGenius MC+2

Doom Guy Isekai

Angry Spider

B69/100
A very familiar soldier, hardened by endless battles against the hordes of Hell, is finally overrun and killed. But his war isn't over yet — he finds himself transported to a new world with new enemies to face.
Royal Road4.55· 1.3K
Anti-heroComedyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MC+2

Hell Hound Evolution

Winter Knights

B69/100
She's a puppy. She's a girl. And she's going to evolve. Waking up one day in a litter of puppies, her human life a fading memory, she quickly falls into the flow of things — playing and hunting with her pack, taking naps, and leveling up. With five siblings who all have unique powers, a protective Dog Mom and three-headed Cerberus Dad, nothing seemed like it could go wrong. That is, until human hunters attack her family and kidnap her brothers and sisters. Now alone in a harsher world, she won't give up — she'll continue to level and evolve, and become powerful enough to take revenge and get her family back.
Royal Road4.67· 723
Anti-heroCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitGrimdarkIsekai+9

A Benevolent Evil Dragon

Nolifeneeded

B69/100
A powerless man, thrown about by a world he had no say in and unable to change his circumstances, is reborn as a newborn dragon with the potential to finally be truly free. Escaped from the grasp of higher powers and not keen to be another cog in the machine, he uses his cumulative knowledge and new talents to survive and carve his own path. Misfortune still follows him, however. Higher beings are keen on interfering with his existence, his own instincts and impulses as a dragon contradict his human mind, and old problems he thought he had left behind come back to haunt him. This is a story of exploring identity, the self, and the world — with a complex magic system and an unhinged, scientific approach to studying it.
Royal Road4.69· 374
Anti-heroIsekaiNon-human MCOverpowered MCReincarnationSecondary World+2

The Abyssal Dungeon

TheDeepDarkReef

B68/100
In the world of Vol — a vast, bountiful plane where the only constant is life in its many forms — an otherwise unremarkable dungeon core awakens in one of the most resplendent locations in Vol: a Mana Reef. Watch as this small gemstone turns a simple hole in the ocean floor into something truly unique, while the rest of the world is forced to deal with its growth.
Royal Road4.51· 1.4K
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyDungeon CoreGameLitNon-human MC+2

The Jester of Apocalypse

Robert Blaise

B68/100
Despite being a young master of the Zearthorn sect, Neave refuses to cultivate — years of beatings and abuse haven't changed his mind. Forced to choose between an arranged marriage and a path of cultivation, he makes a third choice: entering a secret vault and touching a book he should never have touched. Trapped in a hellish time loop of death and suffering, he fights waves of demons in an impossible challenge of skill, creativity, and perseverance. What will happen when he finally returns — oblivious to the apocalypse he has become, unaware of the horrors he dragged back with him?
pf7.0· 1Royal Road4.47· 1.4K
Anti-heroCultivationGrimdarkOverpowered MCSecondary WorldTime Loop+1

Splinter Angel

AvaritiaBona

B68/100
Ana just wanted to get home. Instead, the kid she was bodyguarding got dragged through a hole in reality, and she went with him. Once the smoke settled, Nic was dead, Ana had no way home, and she had to deal with magic, floating numbers, and a forest full of demons. The locals are friendly — when they're not trying to kill her. Ana has a gift for getting stronger, even if she struggles to see people as anything more than objects. Possessed creatures and bad actors will find out what happens when they run afoul of someone unburdened by conscience. A bodyguard turned guardian angel, Ana will fight to protect her new world, whatever it takes.
Royal Road4.57· 1KGoodreads4.41· 853
Anti-heroGrimdarkIsekaiLGBTQ+LitRPGOverpowered MC+2