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License to Cultivate

MTalon

D38/100
Chang-li may be a humble scribe, but he dreams of becoming a cultivator. When a ghost's legacy gives him a chance to follow that dream, he seizes it — defying the hidebound Empire and its vast array of rules and customs as he masters lux and perfects himself. But a cultivator needs more than just power. He needs a sect. What starts as a scheme to avoid punishment becomes far more as Chang-li and his friends find themselves reviving the ancient Sect of Morning Mist and its lost techniques. A slave can win his freedom. A princess can discard her upbringing. The sect offers a chance to claim what's forbidden — if they can avoid entangling marriages, official scrutiny, and the wrath of more powerful enemies. Cultivation with a tower-climbing twist. Character-driven and full of action and intrigue.
Royal Road4.56· 442
Base BuildingCultivationSecondary WorldTower ClimbingWeak to StrongWuxia

Nullform

Dem Mikhailov

D38/100
In this world, everyone arrives with no memory of their past life and no limbs — everything is rented, and payment is due daily. The System assigns tasks; fail to complete them and you're fined and stripped of everything. Blind spots in the System's surveillance hide brutal, lawless violence. You are assigned a number. You are a volitional Nullform. Adapt, survive, and climb — or be swallowed by the endless pit of debt. This world will not take pity on you.
Goodreads4.27· 254
GrimdarkLitRPGMysteryNon-human MCSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

DAOPOCALYPSE: A cultivator invades a litRPG world

RAIDBOSS

D38/100
Feng Sai was raised to become a god — until a stranger tore his future away in a single sentence. Exiled to a territory no cultivator would look at twice, he discovers a secret path to godly power: an all-powerful System left behind by an angry, revenge-fueled god. But Feng Sai had already learned to live among mortals, building a better country brick by brick from within. Now, with the power of a god in his hands, he must decide whether to change the entire world — or destroy it.
Royal Road4.56· 437
Base BuildingCultivationGenius MCLitRPGOverpowered MCSci-fi+2

Hidden Wishes

Tao Wong

D38/100
When Henry Tsien is given the opportunity to make a wish, he chooses one that changes his life forever — landing him as a newly created, low-leveled Mage in a hidden supernatural world full of secrets and dangers. With a game-like interface granting him powers drawn from pop-culture assumptions, Henry must survive, level up, and pay his rent while navigating shadowy organizations and forging unexpected alliances.
Goodreads3.89· 799
Class SystemGameLitUrban FantasyWeak to Strong

Cosmosis

Pel-Mel

D38/100
Caleb hasn't had a good day since he was abducted into outer space. The food is terrible, nobody understands a word he says, and the aliens won't let him leave his cell. Best he can tell, he'll need to fight to escape and survive. Confronted with hostile aliens intent on holding him prisoner, Caleb chooses to dive headfirst into forces he can't understand — learning the eddies of the alien worlds he's stranded in, or never making it home. If a hallucination of one of the other abductees can be trusted, maybe they can make it through the trials before them.
Royal Road4.51· 479Goodreads4.14· 7
IsekaiMysterySci-fiWeak to Strong

The Castle in the middle of nowhere.

Uriel Sceptim

D37/100
A person dies and finds themselves in another world, building and managing a castle in the middle of nowhere. What follows is an unlikely blend of dungeon-core base-building, comedy, and dark adventure in a secondary world.
Royal Road4.11· 541
Base BuildingComedyDungeon CoreGameLitGrimdarkHarem+5

Soda Pop Soldier

Nick Cole

D37/100
Gamer PerfectQuestion fights for ColaCorp in WarWorld, an online combat arena where mega-corporations field entire armies to battle for real-world advertising dominance. Players and bots serve as high-tech grunts in an immense virtual battlefield. When times are tough and rent is due, there's always the Black — an illegal tournament set in the Westhavens, a gothic dungeon fantasy world. Before long, the real and virtual worlds collide when PerfectQuestion refuses to become the tool of a madman intent on hacking the global economy.
Goodreads4.11· 750
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGSci-fiVRMMO

Reborn as the Black Knight

D.M. Rhodes (Razzmatazz)

D37/100
War rages across the continent as a foreign power sets foot on the soil of a beleaguered nation. Among those surviving on the fringes is the exiled youngest princess, Acacia Odofredus Krone — ill, forgotten, and living in destitute squalor after failing even as a low-ranking adventurer. At her side, a soul reborn from another world finds himself reincarnated as the powerful manifestation of an ancient prophecy: der Schwarze Ritter, the Black Knight. Together, the two face dire poverty, Acacia's fatal sickness, the looming threat of her noble bloodline, and a horrific war — fighting their way up from the lowest shadows toward something that feels like a life worth living.
Royal Road4.56· 428Goodreads3.76· 38
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyDungeon CrawlingGenius MCIsekai+7

Lost Loop: Timeloop Litrpg

vVip3rzzz

D37/100
One day, the world changed — undergoing a terrifying and fascinating transformation at the chime of timers set in motion eons ago. Unfortunately, James finds himself stuck in the day before that change, caught in an endless loop and desperately trying to find a way out through his own skill and its preposterous use. Time prisons have their upsides, but living out the same day over and over is getting old. Looming questions about what the System is and why it needs him may change James forever — for better or for worse. What will happen to the future when James escapes the present? Is he ready to join the universe? Is the universe ready for him?
Royal Road4.56· 419
GameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCStatsSystem ApocalypseTime Loop+1

Apparatus Of Change

argusthecat

D37/100
Incarnated into an unfamiliar world with no memory of what happened and no destination in mind, a new being sets about creating a home. But the world was never kind before, and that has not changed. Begins a new life of small steps and large consequences, amid a change that could be the end of everything.
Royal Road4.55· 451
Dungeon CoreGenius MCLitRPGReincarnationSecondary WorldSoft Magic

Monster Tamer Academy

Matt Herrmann, Robyn Wideman

D37/100
For 200 years, monsters have terrorized the wilds, and the only thing standing between humanity and chaos is Monster Tamers — warriors who bond with monsters to unlock magic, growing stronger alongside their partners. Orphaned by a wild monster attack as a child, Dirk has always dreamed of joining the Academy. After bonding with a quirky and mischievous monster, he starts near the bottom — but he's determined to reach the highest tiers. Something big is coming, a monster larger and deadlier than anyone can imagine, and Dirk may be the only one who can stop it.
Goodreads4.24· 658
LitRPGMonster TamingSchoolSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

9 to 5 Monster Hunter

Adam Sampson

D37/100
Five years after a failed alien invasion, Earth maintains a fragile peace with orcs, elves, and dwarves. When a necktie-wearing orc walks into the magitek exosuit repair bay demanding the best rune mechanic on Earth, Luke is volunteered for interspecies employment — leaving Earth to repair advanced magic mech suits for monster hunters. Then he straps into one of those suits himself and discovers a taste for danger and profit. With a handpicked crew of battle-hardened monster slayers, Luke dives into deadly missions one monster core at a time. But the System of the World has other plans, granting Luke a powerful magic class and making him a player in a far greater game. Navigating ever-growing monster threats, secretive elvish plots, and cutthroat corporations, Luke's only hope is to get stronger than anyone seeking to use him. They want a pawn — he plans on clearing the board.
Royal Road4.57· 266
Class SystemCraftingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGMilitary+3

Project Alpha

R. A. Mejia

D37/100
Anthony Tinoco is just an average college freshman — until he stumbles into a world that exists in parallel with our own, governed by the System. Now he gains skills for everyday tasks, levels from fighting monsters, and experiences adventures he never thought possible. Not everyone is pleased to see someone like Anthony with these new powers, and some are willing to commit murder to stop him from using them.
Goodreads4.12· 742
LitRPGSuperpowersSystem ApocalypseUrban FantasyWeak to Strong

The Lich Queen

YoruTsubasa

D37/100
When Sepharin K. Vrost awakens in an unfamiliar world, she's no longer the ruler of Necron's eternal night — but the Warden of a crumbling northern border in a frozen land besieged by monsters. Burdened with a new mortal body, she must wield forbidden necromancy and frost magic to resurrect the fallen as undead soldiers. Her people despise her methods, and her estranged brother demands she relinquish her power. Sepharin has only one option: conquer death itself and defend her realm. After all, true queens never rest in peace. In the second arc, as she enters the Tomb of the Dread Empress, war with the orcs reaches its climax and long-imprisoned powers break free. Inheriting a Dreadworking Stronghold sets Sepharin on the path of rebuilding her legion — machinery capable of levelling cities, flying towers, and beacons that illuminate the frozen skies. But old forgotten souls stir in the deepest dark, and the powers ruling the world have begun to notice.
Royal Road4.57· 265
Anti-heroBase BuildingGameLitGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPG+3

Scale & Sea

James T. Callum, K.H. Sohmer

D37/100
Deklin will become a villain to rival the gods — but he knows no such power yet. He's just a fourth-year magi looking for a post-midterm vacation. When a failed portal spell strands him on a dangerous Worldshard, Deklin unwillingly enters a world where Spire Climbers compete for ever-higher standings and Cultivators bind magical Aspects to strengthen their spirits. Transformed into a dragonblood and branded as an outcast, he is forbidden from advancing past the first threshold — to seek anything more is to risk execution and slavery. To attain limitless progression, Deklin must defy the Lightbound kingdoms and their corrupted heroes to carve out a cursed and forgotten path of darkness.
Goodreads4.26· 303
Anti-heroCultivationIsekaiLitRPGStatsTower Climbing

Chosen of the Endless One

MrCarson

D37/100
Amos got in a car accident — and didn't get isekaied, reincarnated, or transmigrated. That happened five years later when his transplanted heart failed. But why would the Endless One grab an artist and animator to run a barony? Thousands of hours of YouTube videos might be an unlikely foundation for governance, but Amos must use every unconventional skill he has to shield his barony from a coming civil war while navigating the kingdom of Falmoren's treacherous politics. A slow-burn kingdom-building story set in a late Bronze Age feudal world.
Royal Road4.51· 473
Base BuildingCompetent MCCozyIsekaiReincarnationSecondary World

Newly Summoned Demoness

Erios909

D37/100
When demon-worshiping cultists summon Elania to their world to revive their dead god, a sudden attack sends her fleeing into Eladu's darkest depths. Amid savage predators and underground monsters, she discovers that her newfound abilities are both a formidable weapon and a haunting burden that threatens to reshape her very soul. Climbing toward civilization means contending with anti-demon sentiment and those who would use her as a source of arcane power. Elania is not alone, however — Yolani, an arcane artificer fighting her own battle, finds her fate inexplicably linked to Elania's. Together, they might just be the key to each other's survival.
Goodreads4.25· 444
GrimdarkIsekaiLGBTQ+LitRPGNon-human MCWeak to Strong

Hunting and Herbalism

Leif Roder, Synonymoose

D37/100
Zalia Taori is well equipped for life in the remote forest valley she calls home. But while tracking a deer through her snowy stomping grounds, she stumbles across a warp in the fabric of reality and is torn into an unfamiliar land where she must learn to survive as both predator and prey. As Zalia explores this forbidding new terrain, she encounters peculiar herbs, terrifying monsters, mysterious rituals, and some unexpected friends. She enters a world of classes and levels — where making the right move can bestow new powers, and a high-ranking bunny can be a formidable opponent. Just as this lone hunter gets her bearings, she spies opposing armies gathering their forces.
Goodreads4.14· 730
AlchemyClass SystemIsekaiLitRPGSecondary WorldStats+1

Wanderer of Dust

QuickDuckling

D37/100
When Ren learned she had less than a year to live, she knew she had to find the cure. Her search put her directly in the line of fire of Atlas, a powerful megaconglomerate that no sane person would stand against. The cure wasn't supposed to work — and that was a problem Atlas intended for someone to find. Ren was captured and held prisoner like a test subject, pressed into using the cognitive weapons the cure awakened in her. When an outside entity rescues her from captivity, it also hands her an offer promising power she never imagined, with a very simple price: her soul. Follow Ren as she dominates minds, repairs broken worlds, and fails to maintain a consistent gender across lives — her closest companion a mental construct who defies her programming at every turn.
Royal Road4.58· 103
Anti-heroGrimdarkIsekaiLGBTQ+LitRPGMystery+4

Gamified

Brook Aspden

D37/100
Felix thinks he is losing his mind when game-like quest notifications start appearing on his phone. Then things get stranger when he realizes he can level up in real life. After gaining the rare Beastmaster class and bonding with a particularly bloodthirsty housecat, Felix finds himself in a race to defeat his high school nemesis — who may now be a seven-foot Ogre — and save the world. When zombies roam the streets and even the squirrels are out for blood, real life turns out to be a lot harder than any game.
Goodreads4.17· 718
Class SystemComedyLitRPGMonster TamingSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy