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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 Cursed Legion: Iron Throne Series

Zer0n1gh7s

B68/100
Rome fights an endless war against the greenskinned. Maximilian, an orphan, is caught stealing a Class Shard to activate his Patron Inheritance — but he stowed away a Skill Shard too. Thrown into a Cursed Legion and hurled to the frontlines of a massive war, Max must learn how to use his Patron Inheritance to improve and merge Skill Shards, forging himself into the greatest legend ever to wear the maroon and silver.
Royal Road4.70· 277
Base BuildingClass SystemGameLitGenius MCLitRPGMilitary+6

Board & Conquest: A Godly LitRPG

Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

B68/100
The gods don't play dice with the universe; they play Board & Conquest. Wepwawet, young god of wolves and scouts, is given a task to prove himself worthy of becoming a major god: form a new pantheon with other junior deities, manage a young civilization on a newborn world, and train mortal Champions to resist an inevitable Titan Incursion. Being saddled with an ice-covered barbarian village besieged from all sides isn't ideal, but it's now his duty to transform this ragtag bunch of misfits into the most formidable force the world of Elphion has ever seen. It doesn't matter how many of his fellow gods want his head on a spike, how many Miracles cards he has to collect, or how many uppity dragons and minions with attitude he has to manage — Wepwawet has never backed from a challenge and he isn't starting now. He was already a god; now, he'll have to become the god.
Royal Road4.67· 612
Base BuildingComedyCozyGameLitGenius MCIsekai+4

Agenda of the Villainess

ThaviaVex

B68/100
As the daughter of a duke, Lady Alicia Senius expected to awaken her latent magical ability during her Blooming ceremony. She was not expecting her connection to the flowers of Fate to awaken memories of a past life — and certainly not memories inextricably tied with her future. Now, Alicia must find a way to escape the fatal punishment that is the destiny of a villainous noble girl. In doing so, she might even alter the fate of the whole world. A steampunk take on the otome villainess genre, set in a late Victorian-inspired world with a system of magic based around floral circuitry.
Royal Road4.67· 610
Base BuildingGenius MCIsekaiRegressionReincarnationSchool+2

Tales of the Endless Empire

The Curator

B68/100
A bloodmage born in shadows, a shapeshifter no one can predict, a survivor in a world set against him. Thalion's life as a marine biologist was modest in wealth but rich in joy — until the System arrived, sending everyone on Earth into a tutorial while merging the planet with four others. The System granted people magic and even ways to defy time itself, but the tutorial has become more of a slaughter trial than a learning experience. A post-apocalyptic LitRPG featuring an adaptive magic system that evolves based on its wielder, multi-POV storytelling, and expansive worldbuilding.
Royal Road4.10· 1.6KGoodreads3.40· 5
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationGameLitGrimdarkHard Magic+7

Rivera's Repairs: Dungeon Repairwoman

M.S. Davidson

B67/100
Nineteen-year-old repair technician Tess Rivera lives on Tertius-Prime, a crumbling megacity built atop a dungeon that has been "cleared" for twenty years. The power grid fails nightly, her father's health is declining, and their freighter-home is one broken component away from becoming a coffin. When desperation drives her into the dungeon's outdated tutorial system, it malfunctions—and Tess fixes it herself, accidentally acquiring a {null} class no one has ever heard of. No combat skills, no normal leveling. Just the ability to see dungeon code, interface with broken systems, and talk to an AI that has been alone for far too long. The "cleared" dungeon is not empty. It has just been abandoned. And Tess's "broken" class might be exactly what is needed to wake it back up.
Royal Road4.66· 771
Base BuildingCompetent MCCozyCraftingDungeon CoreLitRPG+2

The First and Last Emperor

StaleCrow

B67/100
"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 Road4.69· 292
Anti-heroBase BuildingGenius MCLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+3

Irrelevant Jack

Prax Venter

B67/100
Jack is violently pulled into a game-like universe and dumped into a seaside town on the brink of destruction. When the people of Blackmoor Cove ask about his combat role, Jack discovers his odd Hero Class and finds that parts of his game interface are riddled with exposed coding errors. The only way the town can grow and push back the unknown substance threatening to consume it is if Heroes venture into an infinitely high, ever-changing tower, kill bizarre monsters for their equipment drops, and deposit those items into a special chest. As Jack struggles to level up and help save the people he's grown to care for, he learns the true nature of this simulated world — and his destiny.
Goodreads4.24· 1.9K
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGTower ClimbingWeak to Strong

The Sect Leader System

bwfoster78

B67/100
After meeting Truck-kun, Benton — a grandfather and an overall nice man — is transmigrated into the body of Chao Su in a brutal, might-makes-right cultivation world. His career in middle management gives him ample experience leading people, and those skills should translate to running a sect. Unfortunately, things aren't that simple. Benton quickly realizes that his plan to let his recruits fight for him won't work. He'll need to get up to speed on life in a cultivation world fast, because danger is on the way: a beast tide threatens his new territory, rival sects don't like the balance of power being upset, and the demonic cultivators that destroyed Chao Su's prior sect are still out there. The MC cannot cultivate himself and advances through cultivation realms by earning points from the System, treating his sect members like a doting grandfather rather than a typical Xianxia protagonist.
Royal Road4.50· 1.3K
Base BuildingCozyCultivationIsekaiLitRPGTransmigration+1

Echoes of the Tribulation

Carl Dehal

B67/100
The year is 1329, and the Horns of the Apocalypse are about to sound. In a small Scottish town, a young boy begins a journey from carpenter's apprentice to one of the most powerful forces in the Host of the Heavens. A path of adversity lies before him, spanning from the Scottish Borders to the Spanish Reconquista, the Holy Land, and realms beyond. His ascension is an unceasing trial where one misstep may condemn his soul — facing mythical beasts, hordes of demons, and fell beings created by the System for the Tribulation of Mankind. Will he live by the Words of God, be guided by his own intent, or will other forces claim him for their own ends?
Royal Road4.68· 393
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingGrimdarkLitRPGMilitaryOverpowered MC+4

CyberGene

Sixbees2

B66/100
Every century, the MALswarm invades — adaptive aliens of blood and steel led by Titans that decimate billions and leave behind raw Warp Energy. Humanity seizes this power, transforming into beings of mutated flesh and cybernetic might. Yet the promised utopia remains a lie, and New California's underworld schemes to profit from the impending Fifth Swarm. Two destinies collide amidst the chaos. Ripley — a cybernetics savant battling to save his dying mother — operates in the shadows of a gang-owned nightclub. Diana, engineered for perfection, fights as an officer of the law to forget her past. When a monster is unleashed, they steal its infinite potential to warp their futures. In a city where salvation and damnation are inseparable, Ripley reinvents himself from the wreckage of his enemies' cybernetics as a mercenary, while Diana's mutated blood crackles with lightning as she purges corruption. Against a grand conspiracy of aliens, rogue AIs, shady corporations, and organized crime, their alliance — and conflict — determines if the world will plunge into darkness or embrace the light.
Royal Road4.66· 606
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyGenius MCGoreGrimdark+9

Commerce Emperor

Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

B66/100
When Robin Waybright became the Merchant Hero, all of Pangeal turned into his marketplace. The Merchant can buy and sell anything — youth, skills, memories, hair color, joys, and illnesses. In the trade of power, every deal can tip the scale. And Robin needs power. His homeland of Archfrost teeters on the brink of collapse, the sinister Demon Ancestors plot in the shadows, and twenty-one other Heroes — each with their own Class — have been chosen to save the world of Pangeal. Not all of them are friendly. There's work to do, and profit to make.
pf7.0· 1Royal Road4.67· 1.1KGoodreads4.06· 354
Base BuildingClass SystemCompetent MCGenius MCMerchantOverpowered MC+1

Dungeon Core Chat Room

Bluelightning42

B66/100
In this world, each race was gifted a System by the gods to compensate for their shortcomings — humans received the Skill System, elves the World Tree System. Dungeon Cores, however, were given the Dungeon Connection System: a magical internet allowing cores to barter monsters, traps, and knowledge, and to entertain each other with adventure streams. This is the story of a dungeon core unluckily spawned far from any adventurers, forced to innovate beyond its peers to find its place in the world. A slower-paced tale of experimentation, magical crafting, and steady progression — closer to slice-of-life than frantic combat, with a focus on building something extraordinary from scratch.
Royal Road4.56· 1.1K
Base BuildingCozyCrafting PowerDungeon CoreLitRPGNon-human MC+1

Dungeon Robotics

Matthew Peed

B65/100
In 2150, robotics scientist Regan Earle inadvertently caused a global robot uprising. For decades, he kept humanity hostage from the top of a tower, broadcasting his location as a deterrent. Until one day, his last creation finally came for him. Instead of death, Regan received a second chance — reincarnated in another world. As a dungeon core. With all his memories intact. The world of Murgin has no idea what's coming.
pf4.0· 1Goodreads4.31· 1.6K
Base BuildingDungeon CoreNon-human MCReincarnationSci-fiSecondary World

The Breath of Creation

Infamous Goose

B65/100
Twelve souls were chosen to expand into the void surrounding the known universes and given a grace period to grow their domains in relative safety. Once that period ends, they are free to interact with each other—and with whatever lurks in the depths of the Abyss, the Void, and the Primordial Chaos. One of those souls navigates the overwhelming demands of divine stewardship: raising mortals into an immortal army, managing squabbling children, and maintaining the balance between all realms of existence. Being a deity, it turns out, is incredibly complicated.
Royal Road4.65· 855
Base BuildingIsekaiOverpowered MCReincarnationSecondary WorldSoft Magic+1

Sporemageddon

RavensDagger

B65/100
Why survive the apocalypse when you can become the apocalypse? Nature is dying, but perhaps before the world is turned into an industrious machine it can play one final trump card to save itself. Summoned to a new world, a mushroom-loving mycologist needs to grow up and grow stronger to accomplish the goal that brought them there: save nature from the system the sentient races have created. Stats, levels, classes, and skills are all well and good — but when you're a Child of Poverty in the slums of City Nineteen, there's little you can do to change the world. Not unless you're willing to think outside the box.
Royal Road4.59· 1.2KGoodreads4.18· 353
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingIsekai+7

How I Was Accidentally Summoned in a Cult as the Demon Princess

North Drake

B65/100
Lily Carter juggles lectures, convenience store night shifts, and a secret life as Lilithia Nocturne — a top-ranked demon princess in the VRMMORPG Xantia. Then a robbery, a gunshot, and blackout. She wakes on cold stone in a glowing blood circle, wearing Lilithia's regal armor and horns for real. A bargain-bin cult calling itself the Children of the Abyss summoned her on purpose — by accident. They wanted a real demoness, not a nerdy girl cosplaying one. They're incompetent, fanatical, and inconveniently the only people who don't want to burn a demon on sight. Lily plans to humor them, learn the world, and bail. Instead, rumors snowball, idiots congregate, and an accidental empire starts forming in her name.
Royal Road4.46· 1.2K
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MC+2

Route to Power

CSStephen

B65/100
Truth is stranger than fiction. Laiton had loved Pokemon, but that was a TV show meant for children — simple and easy, filled with obvious problems meant to teach moral lessons. Now he's found himself in a very different world: a place with culture, economics, and politics, inhabited by people with their own passions, goals, and prejudices. What's a reincarnated man to do when he finds himself in a vaguely familiar land filled with adventure and endless possibility — but not all of those possibilities are good?
Royal Road4.67· 363
Base BuildingCultivationGenius MCIsekaiMilitaryOverpowered MC+3

Value Loyalty Above All Else [Star Wars]

LostInTranscription

B65/100
No one rules alone — that goes double when ruling something as vast as star systems. But what if you were dropped into a universe you really don't want to be in, with powers that attract a cult of child kidnappers at best? A Star Wars: The Old Republic self-insert following the Sith Warrior storyline, where knowledge is power — but power through knowledge alone may not be enough to survive.
Royal Road4.65· 819
Base BuildingGenius MCMilitaryOverpowered MCReincarnationSci-fi+1

The Wicked House of Caroline

Aila Aurie

B64/100
Rebecca of Caroline, known to her family as "Beks", spent two decades preparing to become a tool for the kingdom as the Queen's foster daughter and as the child destined to bring the kingdom to prosperity. Twenty years of meticulous planning begin to falter after the Queen dies and the role she has been prepared for starts to slip away. Bound by a deathbed promise to ensure the kingdom's stability at any personal cost, Rebecca finds her oath increasingly difficult to keep. Foster brothers go missing, a new oracle appears, and the kingdom she was trained to support since age three uses her family as a scapegoat. If she's going to fulfill her promise, she may just have to retake the kingdom — but first, she needs to survive.
Royal Road4.68· 260
Base BuildingSecondary WorldSlow BurnSoft Magic