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Splinter Angel

AvaritiaBona

B69/100
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· 883
Anti-heroGrimdarkIsekaiLGBTQ+LitRPGOverpowered MC+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

Blood Sovereign

C.Peinhopf

B68/100
Some monsters are born. Others are chosen. Mirela was meant to be a saint, but her birth was cursed. Born a vampire beneath the shadow of prophecy, she never knew her blood carried both miracle and abomination — she only ever wanted to survive. On her eighteenth birthday, the divine Catalyst awakens her class and reveals a truth that could tear the world apart. Hunted, betrayed, and torn between the call of sainthood and the hunger in her veins, Mirela must decide what her power is truly worth. Blood and divinity were never meant to mix. In her hands, both may save the world — or end it.
Royal Road4.68· 456
Anti-heroClass SystemGrimdarkLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MC+3

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

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

Reforged from Ruin

Silv3rtongue

B67/100
Raika used to be a cultivator — living in a sect, fighting in tournaments, defying the heavens as cultivators do. She was never the strongest or wisest, but she never gave up and always stood by her ideals. Then an Imperial Cultivator destroyed her soul organs and left her crippled. In a world ruled by a millennia-old Emperor and his Blades, where enslaved Daemons serve as weapons of mass destruction and eldritch entities roam at the edges of reality, Raika is now less than worthless. But when the choice is surrender or madness, she chooses madness. Embarking on a strange new path, she will abandon humanity, sanity, and the rule of the Empire to become something far stranger and more powerful than she ever imagined. A story of slow-burn progression, expansive worldbuilding, and a protagonist who keeps transforming — body, mind, and soul — until she is truly free.
pf9.0· 2Royal Road4.55· 1.2K
Anti-heroCultivationDungeon CoreGrimdarkHorrorLGBTQ++4

Supervillainy and Other Poor Career Choices

SoggyRedToast

B67/100
When a down-on-his-luck machine shop owner comes into possession of a rundown suit of power armor, he sees an opportunity to make some quick cash. Unfortunately, the world of Capes is not one you may enter and leave at will. What should have been a quick sale to pay off his debts quickly grows into an ongoing series of events that drag him deeper and deeper into the criminal underbelly of the city he calls home.
Royal Road4.60· 1.2KGoodreads4.01· 1.1K
Anti-heroComedySci-fiSuperpowersUrban FantasyVillain MC

King of Fools: Silver Tongue

NoDragons

B67/100
There's never been a situation in Jasper Stone's life he didn't make worse by opening his mouth — ridiculous amounts of trash-talk and overconfidence just spill out. He's never managed to do anything with his wits. But when the God of Fools tosses him into another world for amusement's sake, he'll need to put them to use. Because there are bandits, dragons, and cultists out there — none of whom appreciate Jasper's particular gift for insults.
Royal Road4.66· 735
Anti-heroComedyCultivationIsekaiLitRPGSatire+2

Harry Potter and the Surprisingly Competent History of Magic Professor

TheFanficGOD

B67/100
Cassian Rosier is a near-Squib from one of the Sacred Twenty-Eight families — the family's punching bag, mocked and barely tolerated. When a simple light spell becomes his last chance to prove himself, his world shatters: the Cassian they knew is gone, replaced by a man from our world with no magic but a lifetime of teaching behind him, and only the vaguest memories of a "Harry Potter" series he never bothered to read. Trapped in a ruined reputation with no real power, the new Cassian has one goal: survive. When forced to lecture on magic, he bluffs his way through by teaching Lumos — a spell he doesn't know. Something strange happens: as hundreds of students learn from his lecture, mastery floods his mind. Ancient variations awaken, along with memories that don't belong to him — some illuminating forgotten magic, others sharp, dark, and dangerous. Sent to Hogwarts as a professor, Cassian must juggle pureblood family expectations, faculty suspicion, and a power that grows every time he teaches — while wondering whether he is drawing on ancient wisdom or inviting something far worse into himself.
Royal Road4.42· 1.4K
Anti-heroComedyCompetent MCCozyGenius MCMystery+9

The Void Wolf

Monad

B66/100
A ritual with the sole purpose of obtaining immortality goes horribly wrong. What remains in its aftermath is a boy who receives an inheritance from the Void — a mysterious place that embodies darkness. With a newfound power, he is given a chance to carve his own way into the world.
Royal Road4.36· 1.4KGoodreads3.96· 27
Anti-heroHaremNon-human MCOverpowered MCSecondary WorldSoft Magic+1

Demon Card Enforcer

Tharsult

B66/100
It's Drop Night, the one night every decade when the gods hand out cards to a lucky few. If you get a deck, you're a deckbearer capable of great feats — such as controlling frightening monsters. Wolfe, top enforcer for the Grimm family mob, has already been overlooked on two previous Drop Nights. People of his ilk seldom receive cards, as the gods tend to favor those who follow divine mandates. Against all odds, though, Wolfe does receive a deck at midnight — including a rare card everyone would kill to have. With the rival street gang the Cobras fielding six deckbearers and cutting into the Grimm family's trade, someone has to do the dirty work. And it isn't going to be the spoiled children of Big Man Grimm.
Royal Road4.66· 630
Anti-heroGoreGrimdarkLitRPGProfanitySkill Collection+1

Master, This Poor Disciple Died Again Today

Noct

B66/100
In the midst of faking his death, Xiao Hui finds himself transmigrated into a cultivation world. With great hopes for what is to come, he gets taken in by a sect and chosen by a powerful master — except his master seems to have a hole in his brain. As a weakling who recognizes his place in the world, Xiao Hui faces certain death at every turn. So why fight it? He does what he does best: fake it, duck the fallout, and somehow claw his way to the top through a combination of cleverness and enthusiastic self-preservation. A xianxia comedy in the vein of A Will Eternal and Spirit Blade Mountain — neither grimdark nor fluffy, but woven through with both silly and intense moments.
Royal Road4.38· 1.4K
Anti-heroComedyCultivationDungeon CrawlingGenius MCHarem+7

Outlaw Country

Ghotty

B66/100
Buck Jones was born in 1850 and died in 1880. He was an outlaw, and technically still is. The world may change, the species may differ, and the circumstances may twist — but Buck knows one thing for sure. Always draw first.
Royal Road4.67· 438Goodreads4.06· 48
Anti-heroComedyCompetent MCIsekaiLitRPGSecondary World

Cruel Violet

Dreamer's Riot

B66/100
It's been centuries since the world fell to the mist and crystal, changing the flora, fauna, and the very air. Humanity slowly returns from mountain refuges, mastering crystals and the strange clarity they offer. Now, at age five, every child receives a crystal inlay ring that reveals their calling — a specific area of excellence and a unique method of growth. Everyone has a calling. Everyone but Violet. For eleven years she has been the only child with no calling, learning to adapt to the ridicule and pity with a carefully worn persona of warmth and kindness. Then she finds herself with blood on her hands — and finally understands how to feed her calling, and her appetite.
Royal Road4.67· 430
Anti-heroDungeon CoreGoreGrimdarkLitRPGOverpowered MC+6

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· 609
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyGenius MCGoreGrimdark+9

Unbound Deathlord

Edward Castle

B66/100
When virtual reality becomes real enough to feel like another world entirely, Valia Online arrives. A man running from his past joins the game to forget it all — calling himself Jack Thorn, he chooses an undead race: Deathlord. A mage by choice and a swordsman by necessity, he soon finds out he'll need much more than magic and steel to survive. Strategy, creativity, and carefully chosen words can often accomplish what simple attacks can't. But as the game becomes too real and touches a part of him he'd rather leave buried, Jack is faced with two questions: who is he, really — and who should he become?
Goodreads4.08· 2.1K
Anti-heroLitRPGLoner MCNon-human MCVRMMOWeak to Strong

The Discarded, Half-Eaten Apple Core New Life.

MDW

B66/100
The world ended. The Apocalypse opened the gates of Hell, demons killed everyone — including me. But I got a second chance at life. As an apple. Which was eaten by a starving survivor, not that I fault them. But to toss my half-eaten core into a landfill? Then an earthquake buried the landfill a mile underground. No sunlight, no water, and I'm pretty sure the apple I was reincarnated into was a GMO hybrid with no real chance of germinating. Then: **DING** — SYSTEM INITIATION!
Royal Road4.55· 1.1K
Anti-heroComedyCozyDungeon CoreGameLitGenius MC+12

Corruption Wielder

Aaron Shih

B65/100
When the world ends, humanity must fight to survive — but where others struggle in fear, Will sees only an opportunity. When Earth merges with the magical world of Arcadia and a system gives humanity a choice between forty years of indentured servitude or fighting a chaos incursion, Will doesn't hesitate. The system thanks him by throwing him into an impossible tutorial. With little chance of survival, he shrugs and picks [Corruption] as his primary attribute. With a forbidden element — and the powers of death and space added on top — Will just might be able to stab his way through. Earth's sole corruption wielder finds danger at every corner. To him, that might be exactly where he's meant to be.
Goodreads4.38· 1.4K
Anti-heroLitRPGStatsSuperpowersSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

Soulshard: Willbender

pyrowind

B65/100
Real Fantasy Online is the flagship product for the latest generation of neural-interface headsets, promising total immersion and the best NPC AIs ever created. But when the line between one's real self and one's digital identity becomes blurred, and the gods have their own agenda, who is the player and which is the game? Marcus has played any number of VR games and beta-tested dangerous systems. He usually disdains pre-order perks, but this time the bonus — the ability to craft your character's backstory and have it integrated into the game's lore — is too tempting to pass up. He opts to make a character purely for fun, with no interest in being all-powerful. Things aren't quite what they seem, however, and his backstory and character class have implications he never would have imagined.
Royal Road4.62· 998Goodreads4.58· 24
Anti-heroGameLitHaremLitRPGMysteryReincarnation+3

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· 1.2KGoodreads4.19· 355
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingIsekai+7