Alex is dead — and headed somewhere only the worst of the worst go, all for a single choice he made about a product his company owned. He is given one alternative: return to the living in another world, with his soul belonging to another, bound to make pacts with others that seal their secrets forever.
The world he is sent to is the dark ages. To keep his soul out of hell, Alex must ask how much he is willing to take from others — and how much he will give of himself to survive.
Heretical Fishing: A Cozy Guide to Annoying the Cults, Outsmarting the Fish, and Alienating Oneself
Haylock
A78/100
When summoned to a fantastical world and granted powers by a broken System, most freshly minted protagonists would strap on their boots and get ready for their stats to start climbing. But Fischer isn't like most MCs — he doesn't want to be a hero at all. Fame, fortune, power? He had enough of all that in his old life.
Discovering forbidden fishing techniques and petting every cute animal within scritching distance is more his speed. Unfortunately, cosmic forces rarely care for mortal feelings. He's hounded on all sides by inept cults, conspiring nobles, and magical misunderstandings — and even his dutiful pet crab is firing energy blades like an anime antagonist.
The Nine Worlds span dimensions filled with wonder and adventure, but for Theo they mean bitter tragedy. For years he resented the betrayal that killed his friends, sent him back to Earth, and made him question everything he thought he knew.
Now, after a lifetime of struggle, he's found a way back to the Nine Worlds — an old man reborn in a new body, with a second chance to rebuild what he lost and unravel a mystery that spans dimensions. Though he arrives in the safe world of Tatian, demons are crawling from the darkness between realms. There's no time to prepare carefully: he needs to find allies among the lost just to survive long enough to make use of what he knows.
Life was perfect: naps in sunbeams, stolen snacks, and expertly timed accidents to torment her favorite human. So when licking a strangely alluring gemstone suddenly flooded her fuzzy head with memories of her former human existence, Clover — now a fox — simply filed it under "things to not give a damn about" and went back to napping.
Fate had other plans. When the curtain of her pampered ignorance was ripped aside, revealing a world steeped in ancient horrors, eldritch hungers, and flesh-warping occult progression, she reacted with remarkable calm. Because the real horror was anything threatening her nap-snack-torment equilibrium.
Now this newly enlightened vulpine has a simple goal: get stronger — not for glory, but purely to achieve peace through overwhelming power.
Lee Song always dreamt of becoming a proud cultivator — roaming the plains on horseback, fighting villains, righting wrongs. But during his initiation ritual, a terrible mishap brings him face to face with something even more frightening than an Eldritch Great One: a Canadian.
With his plans for a life of righteous fame in jeopardy, Song must find his way in a world that isn't quite what he expected. New friends, new places, new food — and a new destiny, apparently in mail delivery.
A cozy coming-of-age cultivation story blended with Lovecraftian themes, set in a world local to the protagonist.
4.79· 195
Base BuildingComedyCozyCultivationIsekaiSecondary World+2
A girl suddenly vanishes from her world and finds herself drifting in and out of consciousness in a place of pure darkness. Queen in the Mud follows a female monster protagonist as she makes her way through a vicious, untamed world ruled by a system.
Dorian achieved his life's goal: reach the peak of power. What now? Do it all over again — but faster.
A blend of LitRPG and cultivation, with time-looping elements, following an ancient God who has reached the apex of power progression and chosen to reincarnate repeatedly to speedrun the Dao.
It began as just another evening of fantasy gaming, with James, Karl, Andrea, and the rest ready to assume their roles as wizard, cleric, warrior, and thief. But their gamemaster had something else planned — and the game soon became a matter of life and death as the seven adventurers found themselves transported to an alternate world, inhabiting the actual bodies of the characters they had been playing.
Cast into a land where magic worked all too well and dragons were a fire-breathing menace, the young gamers faced a terrible task: the only way home was to find the legendary Gate Between Worlds, guarded by the most terrifying enemy of all.
All Oz Carnavon ever wanted was to become a master mage. But doing so requires the natural gifts or wealth needed to secure an appointment to one of the prestigious magical academies in the Core City at the center of the seven realms — and Oz had neither. Born without magical talent, he's been serving in the nightmarish elemental plane of fire, where life is cheap and escape is rare.
When Oz fakes his death to escape his family's contract and sneaks into the Core, everything seems to be going according to plan — until he gets blamed for an assassination attempt on the fire realm's ambassador. Now a fugitive in a vast magical city, he must earn a place among the magical academies that have nothing but disdain for his kind. And the clock is ticking: the most dangerous wizard in the realm of fire is coming to track him down.
4.41· 2.4K
Hard MagicIsekaiSchoolSecondary WorldWeak to Strong
Asa Ward is a reasonably content gunsmith, caught entirely off guard when he is summoned to a different world. In this strange realm of magic, both people and gods are after him for his knowledge of weaponry. All he wants is to find a way home. Forced to learn the magic system of his new world, he never knows when others are watching to steal his knowledge of non-magical weapons.
A fantasy isekai featuring a unique magic system and a protagonist watched by the gods themselves as everyone begins to uncover the very nature of divine authority.
4.48· 425
Competent MCCraftingHard MagicIsekaiSecondary World
When Merlin sundered the world to separate the magical from the mundane, he made a small mistake: he copied every mundane body but not their souls. That night, they rose as undead — and the world has never known peace since.
Camelot is now an institution for teaching fine young wixen about magic, and it is not a safe place to learn. Felix has never held a wand or cast a spell — until Paracelsus, the Immortal Alchemist, breaks into his home to tell him he's a wizard. Meanwhile, Erik Morsin, groomed to be the next Duke of Ireland, is a member of the most hated family in King Arthur's nation. Four other students round out a group whose lives will intertwine at Camelot — though only five can bond as a coven.
A mild LitRPG set in a magic school, planned across eight books.
Jane's life was a string of bad luck — unpaid bills, dead-end jobs. When she wakes up in a vast, deadly desert with a glowing system menu in front of her face, she dumps all 630 of her available stat points into Luck. In a system where 10 is the maximum, the laws of probability bend to her will.
But godlike luck has a downside. When a devastating one-in-a-trillion accident eliminates the realm's greatest evil, the terrifying Demon Horde assumes Jane is their new all-powerful queen. Now she must lead a legion of monsters through a game-like System she barely understands, all while hiding the fact that she has no idea what she is doing.
Ethan Reed, an ordinary young man from Earth, finds himself mysteriously transported to the world of Pokemon. Stranded and bewildered, he spends over a year lost in an untamed forest, surviving while he makes sense of his new reality. During this time he builds a little plot of land: a farm of berry trees, a secluded meadow, and a rough shelter, shared with the surrounding Pokemon.
Finally rescued by an experienced Pokemon Ranger, Ethan arrives at bustling Eterna City and is welcomed into the community of trainers and League Officials. Feeling out of place and uncertain about his future, and lacking confidence in battling, he decides to pursue a different path — becoming a move tutor and breeder, inspired by his connection with the Pokemon from his clearing.
When Garrett comes to after a close brush with death, he's in a new world — missing an arm and paralyzed from the waist down. The brutal gang lord whose floor he's crashing on wants him gone, and only a plucky young woman and his own wits stand between him and a cold death in the streets.
Armed with a system that grants experience for exploring this new world, Garrett is determined to survive by any means necessary — even if it means becoming a villain. But the city is far from what it seems. Terrifying creatures lurk around every corner, immune to conventional weapons, and a strange lucid Dream world keeps bleeding into reality.
When it does, Garrett realizes the hostile gangs around him are the least of his worries.
When Emily Smith's life was cut short by a nuclear war, something — or perhaps someone — decided that what happened to her was unjust and gave her another chance. Her new world offers more than a fresh start, though: she faces a choice between vengeance and peace, and she's also a werewolf now.
Her choice, at least to her, was obvious. But its consequences will be far-reaching and profound for the world she now calls home.
In the war-torn land of Cyraveil, four heroes strove to overthrow an empire. By cold steel and elemental sorcery they brought peace to a land on the brink of destruction. But when the people sought out their saviors, they had vanished.
Matt, Blake, Jen, and Carl — the four mysterious companions who had deposed an insane ruler and saved countless lives — were spirited back in a whirlwind of magic to a sleepy suburb in Mellbridge, Oregon, exactly as they'd been the night they were taken, as if no time had passed. Except only three came back.
4.63· 1.5K
IsekaiRegressionSchoolSecondary WorldTragedyUrban Fantasy
Hannah has a routine. Wake up, shower, school, work, sleep. A perfectly normal routine for a perfectly normal girl who does not have to remember how her limbs work every morning because of haunting nightmares of being a very different creature in a very different world.
But that's all she thinks they are — nightmares — until one night they're all too lucid, and her body on Earth starts to change. Slowly, Hannah's humanity starts to slip away.
A story in two worlds, with magic leaking in from one to the other. It's about love, self-acceptance, neurodivergency, and a whole lot of trauma.
A snarky villain and her heroic nemesis blow themselves up and land on a fantasy world. They find themselves faced with two prospects: learn to cooperate and respect someone they've fought against for years, or be swept away by the powers that be.
Because Pride always comes before the fall.
Noah Brown has a gift for fighting, but punching things never paid the bills — until he died and an Eldritch god found his soul.
The strange encounter transports him to a new world, where he is summoned by bloody cultists with nothing but the shirt on his back and a mysterious item in his System menu marked [???]: a source of infinite potential.
If he wants to survive — maybe even thrive — it's time he finally put his gift to good use.
4.43· 2.1K
Class SystemIsekaiLitRPGSkill CollectionStatsWeak to Strong