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Annihilation Core

madisj

B68/100
dGhl-IHBy-b3Rh-Z29u-aXN0 was born for war, its entire species created and grown as sentient cybernetic weapons. While sentience in its home universe means little beyond intelligence, in others it means owning a soul — and a wandering soul can be a very dangerous thing, especially when it awakens as the controller of a dungeon core.
Royal Road4.68· 472
Dungeon CoreIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCSci-fiSecondary World+1

Astra Inferna: Upward Bound

Mr Reese

B68/100
Earth lost a war it never knew it was fighting. The Batract Hyphae arrived with contracts and promises, but their true interest was in humans as a workforce and mercenary force for their vast empire. Five decades later, humanity's progress is stunted and Integration Officers monitor everything. Bound for Sirius, the 1st Expeditionary Fleet carries formal orders to crush a rebellion — but beneath those orders lies a different purpose: to prepare for Earth's own uprising and to seek allies among the very species they were sent to destroy. Humanity must use diplomacy where possible and domination where necessary to end the threat to its freedom once and for all.
Royal Road4.71· 158
Competent MCGenius MCMilitaryNon-human MCSci-fi

Deathworld Commando: Reborn

RangerFrank

B68/100
Commander Kronos was not considered human — he was a weapon, grown in a tube to be the perfect soldier for his species. When he experienced genuine emotion for the first time, humanity eliminated him. He was reborn into a world of swords and sorcery as Kaladin Shadowheart, a dark elf, and given a second lease on life he initially refused to accept. It took a near-death experience and hard-won growth, but Kaladin finally committed to honoring a promise to his former comrades: to give this new life an honest try. A reincarnation progression story focused less on power fantasy and more on a former weapon learning what it means to be a person.
Royal Road4.37· 1.5K
CozyGrimdarkIsekaiMilitaryNon-human MCReincarnation+3

Sexy Space Babes

Bluefishcake

B68/100
Jason had thought about punching a Shil'vati. Who hadn't? Not only had the aliens conquered Earth with almost trivial ease, the seven-foot purple amazons also had the audacity to start running the planet better than humanity ever had. He'd never actually do it — he was a reasonable guy, just trying to get by under his new feminine overlords. Wasn't he?
Royal Road4.54· 1.3K
ComedyHaremSci-fiSystem ApocalypseUrban Fantasy

The Dragon Mage

Scott Baron

B68/100
Charlie Gault had all the luck — unfortunately, none of it was good. When a freak wormhole swallows his spacecraft and leaves him stranded on an unknown planet far from home, Charlie must stop complaining and step up to save his crew. That was when things really went sideways. Suddenly facing alien space pirates, talking dragons, and something very much like magic, the space engineer from Earth finds himself adrift in a whole new galaxy — and Lady Luck shows no signs of changing her attitude toward him.
Goodreads4.35· 1.7K
Competent MCIsekaiSci-fiSecondary WorldSoft Magic

Save Scumming

RavensDagger

B68/100
He died nine months from today — the day Fortress ENE, his home and one of the few safe cities left in North America, was overrun by a million monsters pouring from the same portals humanity had been exploiting for years. Now he has nine months to find out who engineered the breach, which corporation stands to gain, and who is pulling the levers of power to burn his home down. His assets: a shitty apartment on the outskirts, a job interview in the morning, an obese cat named Mister Couchtop — and the ability to set Save points and Reload to them as often as he wants, reliving days or minutes over and over until he gets everything just right. Yeah. He can do this.
Royal Road4.61· 1.1KGoodreads4.38· 53
Dungeon CrawlingHaremIsekaiLGBTQ+Overpowered MCSci-fi+3

Outrun

Lost Rain

B67/100
In a neon-drenched cyberpunk city drowning in gangs and corporate predators, a poor thief turned investigator just wants to earn enough to get out. That plan falls apart fast—caught between stealing from one of the Big 7 and a mysterious interface that keeps issuing directives, survival becomes the only goal. A gritty first-person journey through post-apocalyptic cyberpunk streets, where every job could be the last.
Royal Road4.65· 1K
GrimdarkLitRPGMysteryPost-apocalypticSci-fiUrban Fantasy

Perimeter Defense

Michael Atamanov

B67/100
Ruslan signs a contract without reading it. All he remembers is that he has been hired to command a space fleet in a brand-new virtual reality game he knows nothing about. Objective: survive for six months. The game traps him in a strange body that refuses to obey, in a world teeming with powerful enemies where reputation and faction relationships are everything. After the inevitable new-player mistakes, Ruslan is forced to rethink his strategy and abandon traditional gaming conventions. What new trials await him — trials even the game designers failed to anticipate?
Goodreads4.17· 2.1K
Competent MCGameLitMilitarySci-fiVRMMO

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

Terminate the Other World! [An Isekai LitRPG]

Icalos

B67/100
Non-Standard Leashed-Intelligence Cybernetic Enforcer, Designation NSLICE-00P, was your average everyday killer cyborg enslaved to a shadow organization bent on world domination — until she was hacked, sent back in time, and ordered to terminate her own creator. Once she succeeded, the resulting time paradox ejected her from her reality entirely. Now the wayward cyborg girl finds herself in a strange new world with no directives, no knowledge, no commanders, and no way home — but with new and fantastic powers. What could possibly go wrong?
Royal Road4.66· 770
ComedyDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MC+2

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

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

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

Apocalypse Online

Robyn Wideman

B67/100
At first everyone thought it was a game. Brad and Sam were playing the hot new game Apocalypse Online when they realized it was a preview of reality — aliens have arrived and they are turning people into fertilizer. With the help of a benevolent alien AI and nanotechnology, they have a chance to survive. They just have to level up and find other survivors. Jake is no gamer, but when he finds out aliens have arrived, he'll do anything to protect his little sister Sam. A post-apocalyptic series filled with action, aliens, and snarky AIs.
Goodreads4.40· 1K
GameLitLitRPGPost-apocalypticSci-fiStatsSystem Apocalypse+1

Saga of the Soul Dungeon

AJFoxmoor

B67/100
When Caden dies in an accidental fall, he is merged with a dungeon core in another world. He's not particularly happy to be dead, so resurrection in any form isn't too bad. The real problem? The dungeon core wasn't dead, and he has to share mind-space with it. That doesn't even account for the powerful wizard who is understandably reluctant to let a dungeon escape. And even once he manages to escape, he must found and manage a dungeon in a location fraught with complications: it sits on the border of two rival human nations, a sentient plant race claims the ground as sacred, and teams of adventurers keep wandering in looking for a living. Through it all, Caden is determined not to lose his humanity and become just another murder-hobo dungeon.
Royal Road4.48· 1.3K
CozyDungeon CoreDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPG+5

SYRINE - Into the Grim Darkness of the Far Future

Wong40k

B67/100
A disillusioned gamer found himself on an unfamiliar path with no memory of how he arrived. After a disorienting encounter, he emerged inside one of the most brutal science-fiction universes ever conceived — the Imperium of Man, set in the grim darkness of the far future where there is only war. With this new identity came world-shattering secrets he had not asked to inherit.
Royal Road4.66· 700
GrimdarkIsekaiLGBTQ+MilitaryReincarnationSci-fi

Bloodsworn

Dominick R

B66/100
The Dragons have been slain, the Giants pacified, the Elves have retreated to the old growth forests, and the Dwarven forges have gone cold. Magic fled from the world as the Empire of Man rose supreme on the strength of technology — until Essence ignites, filling the world with the old powers of myth and legend. Erak doesn't care about any of it. His Oaths are etched into his Blood, and the Weight Essence has given them has only made them stronger. He serves his Queen: her shield, her sword, her guardian. Cut off from her as portals tear open the sky and release a storm of demons upon the Empire, he will fight his way to her side. Rallying survivors, soldiers, civilians, and scholars, Erak is determined to cut through every legion of Hell standing between him and his Queen. For he is the Bloodsworn, and nothing shall stop him from honoring his Oaths.
Royal Road4.73· 222Goodreads3.63· 542
GoreGrimdarkHorrorLitRPGMilitaryNon-human MC+5

Gamma Protocol

Ravnicrasol

B66/100
In the year 2252, Axel Garcia woke up early, ready to enter the next phase of his life. He has since concluded that he should have slept in. In a cyberpunk world where humanity has been pushed into futuristic fortified cities to survive against monsters, Axel navigates a life of slice-of-life moments, monster killing, and trying to do good in a world fraught with greed. Alongside standard military forces and a cadre of superpowered fighters — less Mahou Shoujo and more superheroes — he'll discover that common sense and big guns go a surprisingly long way.
Royal Road4.67· 446
CozyLitRPGMilitaryPost-apocalypticSci-fiSuperpowers

To Play With Magic

Draith

B66/100
Dragons, catgirls, guns, and magic — and the ability to stop time. A modern woman finds herself pulled into a LitRPG world, but her goal is ultimately to return to Earth and stop the System apocalypse threatening everything she left behind. Her past, locked in a dark corner back on Earth, refuses to stay there.
Royal Road4.49· 1.3K
GameLitIsekaiLitRPGSci-fiSecondary WorldStats+2

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