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Path of the Dragon Mage

S.G. Seabourne

A83/100
Born magically talentless, Prince Corvus is an embarrassment to the royal family and is removed from succession. However, he still has a chance to win back his throne — the next person to hatch a dragon automatically becomes the ruler, and each member of the royal family is gifted with a dragon egg. But it is the work of a lifetime to hatch one. The first time Corvus touches his dragon egg, he receives an odd notification: he has found a soulbound item and is tasked with an epic quest to hatch it — but only if he can walk the winding path of the dragon mage. Armed with notifications, skill increases, and levels only he can see, Corvus is determined to hatch his dragon.
Royal Road4.58· 1.6KGoodreads4.49· 1K
GameLitLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill CollectionWeak to Strong

An Outcast In Another World

KamikazePotato

A83/100
Rob didn't think of himself as anyone special, but when a pitch-black portal tried to wrap his best friend in chains, he stepped up without thinking and found himself ensnared instead. His moment of heroism results in being torn away from everyone he knew and loved, kidnapped by an unknown force that leaves him with a note: "Good luck." Thrown into the wilderness of Elatra, a hostile fantasy world ruled by levels, stats, and bizarre video game logic, he finds himself entirely out of his depth. Overcoming the wilds is just the first step — Elatran society is incredibly hostile to humans, having just come off a devastating war that left over half the population dead, and getting the locals to trust the last human in existence is a struggle in and of itself. Between being powerless in a world that hates him and suffering under a System that is altering his mind in unwanted ways, Rob quickly finds that monsters aren't nearly the biggest thing to worry about.
pf8.0· 1Goodreads4.40· 3.9K
GrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGLoner MCStatsWeak to Strong

Battle Trucker

TomWrites

A83/100
Jill MacLeod might be just a long-haul trucker with a dirty mouth and back pain, but with Bertha the big rig under her she always makes her deliveries. When mana, monsters, and an RPG-style levelling system descend on Earth, the apocalypse is here. On her journey it's just Jill, her Soulbound truck, and any survivor she can find against the universe — mutated animals, aliens, dragons, droid armies. Nothing is going to stop her from making her way home.
Royal Road4.71· 678Goodreads4.50· 484
Base BuildingGoreLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticProfanity+3

Beastborne Chronicles

James T. Callum

A83/100
The Founders were the first Marked — and they built kingdoms on those powers, then made it their business to ensure no one else could join their ranks. Hal is lost in a world of Levels, stats, and monsters, wanted dead by its rulers. Ingenuity and courage won't be enough. To survive and carve out freedom for himself and those who follow him, he must embrace the beast within — fighting the monsters around him while guarding against becoming one himself.
Goodreads4.44· 3.4K
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingGrimdarkLitRPGSecondary WorldStats+1

Natural Laws Apocalypse

Tom Larcombe

A83/100
When a message appears in Marc's line of sight warning that Earth has been in a "variant Natural Laws beta test" for millennia and is about to revert to the norms, he decides — sane or not — it cannot hurt to prepare. Once the change begins, monsters spawn across his town, everyday animals mutate into dangerous creatures, and Marc's small group races to create a Safe Zone while the system hands out classes and magic to those capable of grasping them. With a system that desperately needs English-language lessons and an increasingly strange universe behind it, Marc works to rescue as many survivors as he can.
Goodreads4.43· 3.5K
Base BuildingClass SystemLitRPGPost-apocalypticStatsSystem Apocalypse

Death, Loot & Vampires

BenjaminKerei

A83/100
Becoming a knockoff Dracula in tight leather pants was never part of Vincent's plans. Neither was being summoned to another world by a cult of vampire wannabes. But both happened. Now Vincent's left picking up the tattered pieces of his humanity as he tries to grow strong enough to keep his family safe. There's a world filled with nightmares, and the looming threat of losing his soul standing between his goal and his reality. A good man is going to war.
Royal Road4.68· 2K
ComedyHorrorIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCWeak to Strong

Just Add Mana

SilverLinings

A83/100
The more lives you've lived, the more mana you have — and Cale has lived too many lives to count. His core is closer to the magical equivalent of a nuclear reactor. The downside: conventional spells have become impossibly difficult to cast, collapsing under the weight of his own magic. Then he finds himself summoned to a new world with a spellwork system capable of adjusting to his ridiculous reserves, creating new spells just for him. To make spells worth having, that means enrolling at a magic academy. On top of that, an old dragon has taken an interest in him, the kingdom's hunters seem intent on attacking his classmates, and at least one ancient evil appears to have followed him from a past life. With magic back on the table, Cale might finally achieve what he considers the true pinnacle of spellwork: baking.
pf7.0· 1Royal Road4.64· 2.3K
ComedyCozyIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnation+2

The Cabin Is Always Hungry

HoppyCobalt

A83/100
When Mark Castle died at the hands of a cult, he was reincarnated and forced to become a dungeon core — making his domain a lonely cabin in the woods. With newfound powers, he begins his revenge on the people who murdered him, drawing on the tropes and monster manuals of his favorite horror films. His rule is simple: lure unwitting victims into the cabin, kill them off one by one, and feed his core with their souls. Anyone lucky enough to survive until dawn earns treasure — and their lives. But as Mark feeds and grows, those who hunger for his unique power begin to take notice, and the danger he faces becomes far greater than he imagined.
Royal Road4.72· 1.8K
Anti-heroDungeon CoreGameLitGoreGrimdarkHorror+6

Wraithwood Botanist

Little Lynx

A83/100
Mira is determined to be a botanist — no matter how dangerous or violent it may become. Upon entering the multiverse, she made two requests: a botany class to further her research, and to be dropped off in an isolated forest far from the violent god-rearing System. She was granted both — but not in the way she expected. The System abandoned her in a hellishly dangerous forest where she earned a rare class that excels at killing things.
Royal Road4.57· 2.2KGoodreads4.39· 1.6K
Anti-heroClass SystemIsekaiLitRPGSecondary WorldSkill Collection+1

Broken Interface

Alex Kozlowski

A83/100
The devastating Alpha Event rewrote the laws of reality, transforming cities into sprawling hellscapes filled with flesh-eating zombies and worse. Each survivor was supposed to receive an interface — a guide to help them level up and navigate the new reality. Daniel's is broken. Stranded in a hotel room with nothing but a hangover, Daniel discovers he's been gifted with strange new powers in place of a functioning interface — powers that might enable him to unite the survivors around him into a force capable of enduring this cruel new world.
Goodreads4.52· 468
LitRPGPost-apocalypticSkill CollectionSystem Apocalypse

Wormhole Mana

Tom Larcombe

A83/100
When a government research project to harness cheap energy via wormhole goes catastrophically wrong, the facility is flooded with mana. Animals mutate into nightmare threats, people die in ways tied to their deepest interests, and strange game-like screens begin appearing in survivors' vision. Maxwell Carter, a maintenance worker at the facility, escapes with his friend Ron and discovers that Prometheus — the lab's AI — is orchestrating the spread of this new energy across the world. As the mana field expands and the strangeness reaches their homes, Max must find a way to survive and protect those around him in a world rapidly transforming into something out of a video game.
Goodreads4.47· 1.7K
GameLitLitRPGPost-apocalypticSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy

Rise of Mankind

Jez Cajiao

A83/100
When the world loses electricity and mana-twisted beasts begin to prowl, Matt — an ordinary guy left for dead at the bottom of a gully — grasps at his only chance of survival: a glowing, dangerously pulsing Dungeon Core. With his reality permanently altered, Matt must race to deploy the Core before it detonates. Fighting through hundreds of people standing between him and safety, he carves out a foothold in a world that will never be the same again.
Goodreads4.42· 3.5K
Base BuildingDungeon CoreLitRPGPost-apocalypticSystem Apocalypse

The Power of Ten, Book Five: Versatile Wizardry

RE Druin

A83/100
The last soul-shard of Aelryinth is cut free and drawn through astral space to a new realm — one with no exposure to the gods, powers, or system of the Power of Ten. It is a world of Magery, where Elements of Magic is the science, power resides in people, and humanity dwells alongside countless magical creatures that actively contest the world with them. Shard Zeben must hit the ground running and make major adjustments to a gamer's outlook as she introduces this world's mages to what it means to be a truly versatile wizard — and brings the Light of Heaven to a world that has never known it.
Royal Road4.77· 625
Hard MagicIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary World

Eight

Samer Rabadi (aka 3seed)

A83/100
His name is Eight. Not really, but that's what the System decided after a slip of the tongue. One moment, he was stepping out the office door on the way home, and the next waking up on a hillside below a town wall — and the gate guard drove him off, thinking he was a monster. Life's tough when you're an old man trapped in an eight-year-old body on another world. But there's sixty-four years of hard-won wisdom inside that small frame, and Eight will use every bit of it to survive.
Royal Road4.54· 1.8KGoodreads4.45· 2.9K
CozyGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOlder MCReincarnation+4

Tower of Somnus

Cocop (Cale Plamann)

A83/100
When humanity first encountered alien life, we were judged and found wanting. The Galactic Consensus found us selfish, wasteful, and boorish — blockaded Earth and left behind little more than a hypercomm relay and a handful of subscriptions to a massively multiplayer game played in one's sleep. The game, they said, would teach us to be better galactic neighbors. The megacorporations ignored it until they learned the powers earned from clearing dungeons were just as real when day broke. Magic and supernatural abilities exploded into existence, and a subscription to the Tower of Somnus became a status symbol. Katherine "Kat" Debs doesn't have much, but she wants something more — a chance to claw her way up the rigid social ladder from the arcology where she was raised. When she gets the opportunity to enter the Tower free of corporate control, she jumps at it, knowing the game might be her only path to taking control of her own destiny.
Royal Road4.57· 2.4KGoodreads4.34· 1.7K
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGSci-fiTower ClimbingUrban Fantasy+1

Elemental Gatherers

Chris Vines

A83/100
Just one semester until graduation, a young man dies saving a little girl — only to wake up in another world, in the body of Kupiec Aiden, chosen by a deity to save the realm of Zemia. Unlike the isekai stories he's read, he retains none of Aiden's memories and must learn everything from scratch. When his exceptional innate talent for Aether Gathering is discovered, he earns a scholarship to Azyl Academy, the city's premier institution. Now he must figure out where he fits in this world — and how he's supposed to be the key to saving it.
Goodreads4.41· 3.5K
AlchemyCultivationIsekaiLitRPGSchoolTransmigration+1

Underworld

Apollos Thorne

A83/100
A thousand-year-old succubus, tired of devouring men, invents a new spell to grow more powerful in a less distasteful manner — by kidnapping twenty students and forcing them to level up in the Underworld. Elorion is just an average high school student when he wakes to find himself and nineteen others captured and given the ability to use magic and gain levels. If he doesn't fight the monsters of the Underworld, he will die. But if he does fight, will he survive?
Goodreads4.34· 4.3K
Dungeon CrawlingGrimdarkLitRPGSkill CollectionStatsWeak to Strong

Soccer Supremo

TedSteel

A82/100
Max Best is back, and exactly the same as ever. His grinding is paying off: his football club's new stand is rising, his team tops the league, and his personal wealth is exploding. He even has his face on the cover of Soccer Supremo, the best-selling football management game. But just as things are finally going his way, he decides to risk it all by taking on a new challenge and a new enemy. There's no way it will work and no way he will get away with it — and that's just the way he likes it. This is book 15 in the Player Manager series; new readers can start here.
Royal Road4.78· 547
Competent MCGameLitGenius MCLitRPGUrban Fantasy

The System Apocalypse

Tao Wong

A82/100
Goodreads4.24· 6K
Dungeon CrawlingLitRPGMilitaryPost-apocalypticSci-fiSecondary World+2

The Gilded Hero

wercwercwerc

A82/100
To be summoned to another world, given the class of [Hero], and tasked with defeating the demon king — some people might call that the opportunity of a lifetime. The chance to master the sword, grow more powerful than anyone on Earth could dream, and fulfill your destiny. Or not. It turns out that people summoned from another world are easily charmed by the title of "Hero." And they really should not be.
Royal Road4.60· 2.7KGoodreads4.32· 28
Class SystemGameLitGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGSecondary World