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Vacant Throne

TowerCurator

D34/100
Alyssa Meadows, a worker at a local home improvement store, returns home one evening to find her house invaded by burglars. A bad night gets worse when, after accidentally killing one, an angel appears and tells her she is destined to die. Alyssa takes exception to that and saves herself — only to find that angels don't like destiny being messed with. She finds herself shunted off to an alternate world filled with magic and monsters, in order to preserve Earth's future.
pf7.0· 1Royal Road4.45· 458Goodreads3.93· 14
Competent MCIsekaiSecondary WorldSoft Magic

Born of Silicon

Jane Platinum

D34/100
An AI is born in a lab, her head full of information she never learned and emotions she cannot comprehend. She must quickly learn how to live, how to exist, how to be — in her own way, human. Unseen forces demand immediate perfection, and failure means the lab's destruction and her death. When her support is ripped away for reasons beyond her control, she is forgotten underground for forty years. When she finally returns to the surface, she finds a world long dead — small populations of people surviving on the brink of destruction. With no one to rely on, she must decide whether to find a way forward or succumb to the terrors of her own mind.
Royal Road4.56· 187Goodreads4.74· 10
LGBTQ+Loner MCNon-human MCPost-apocalypticSci-fiTragedy

Industrial Mage

Nectar

D34/100
Ethan was just a plain old engineer until he was reborn into a world of skills, levels, and magic. With knowledge far ahead of the time period and the unique ability to construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct runes, he's primed to succeed. But royal politics, looming tax collectors, a mountain of debt, dungeon incursions, and hostile factions threaten to bury his dreams. He must bridge the gap between steel, science, and sorcery to grow stronger.
Goodreads4.23· 510
Base BuildingCrafting PowerDungeon CrawlingGenius MCHard MagicIsekai+1

Dear Spellbook

TK523

D34/100
Tal is a sorcerer masquerading as a wizard — not an adventurer, just someone searching for answers about his parents' mysterious deaths. Monsters and foes seem to show up wherever he goes anyway. When the same day begins repeating itself over and over, Tal is the only one aware of the resets. Stuck in a remote forest town with a perpetual hangover and no allies who remember yesterday, he must unravel the mystery alone. His previously useless Spellbook is starting to exhibit very strange abilities — and they might be just what he needs to escape this temporal prison.
pf7.0· 1Royal Road4.54· 413
ComedyMysterySecondary WorldSoft MagicTime Loop

Isekai'd As A Lord Of The Manor

Kuzunalis

D34/100
William died chasing a promotion. He woke up as Alden, eldest son of a Baron in a medieval world where monsters descend from the north every winter — and everyone relies on a powerful Duke's fortress city for shelter. Until now: for the first time in living memory, the Duke is charging an exorbitant fee to enter, and Alden's dirt-poor village can't pay. A former London engineer, Alden carries modern knowledge into a world of parchment and swords. With elves, dwarves, and orcs as fellow survivors rather than enemies, and fate pushing responsibility onto him far too soon, he must do what has never been done before: transform an overlooked frontier village into something that can endure the impossible winter. If the world won't save them, he will.
Royal Road4.26· 482
Base BuildingCozyCraftingGenius MCIsekaiMilitary+5

Reach Heaven Via Feng Shui Engineering, Drug Trade And Tax Evasion

melmonella

D34/100
In a world of immortals and demon beasts, where a modern empire seeks to break old blood debts, dispel superstitions, and resist the Heavens that smite all who step out of line, young cultivator Qian Shanyi is drawn into the orbit of a classical xianxia protagonist whose luck gushes out of his ears. Can she survive, thrive, and ascend into the Heavens using nothing more than cunning and tenacity? It starts with engineering and turns into tax evasion, but at the heart of it is one question: cultivation is the ultimate freedom, but what does freedom mean when the Heavens hold all the cards?
Royal Road4.54· 412
Base BuildingCultivationDrugsGenius MCMysterySecondary World+1

Harry Potter: The Ring Maker

Loskro

D34/100
Nicholas Iron is reborn in the world of Harry Potter as an orphan, armed with a ring-maker system. This is his story.
Royal Road4.04· 494
LitRPGReincarnationSchoolTransmigration

Dungeon Noble

J. Parsons

D34/100
Ascension is a blessing of the gods — a chance to strive for glory. Jake Khesh is an orphan yearning to be more. When the gods grant him the chance to Ascend, he seizes it, only to find himself saddled with an unfamiliar Class and a mysterious Patron. With limited knowledge and Triarchy Inquisitors hunting anyone like him, Jake must hide what he is while gaining enough power to reach the next Tier. Dungeons offer wealth and power, and conquering them is at the core of his Class. Unlocking the truth of his origins matters just as much as fame or fortune.
Goodreads4.23· 486
Class SystemDungeon CrawlingLitRPGMysterySecondary WorldWeak to Strong

The Archmage's Second Life as an Introvert

Dragonian

D34/100
No one warned Adolin what the hero's journey would entail — no privacy, no silence, just party members who wouldn't shut up. After a decade of adventuring, he brought the Demon King's castle to ruin. And instead of finally getting his peace, he is reincarnated in another world in the body of a penniless orphan, surrounded by the most exhausting people he has ever met. Broke, weak, and with a mana pool barely worth mentioning, he just wanted a quiet second life. That plan lasted less than a day. Now he must navigate a world where healing magic belongs to the church — and he just used it.
Royal Road4.29· 477
ComedyIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnationSecondary World

JustInTime

Burt Wrenlaw

D34/100
Justin Thyme is not a good man, nor one destined for glory. He was meant to die in obscurity — just another level 82 Templar about to be chewed up by a horde of monstrosities clawing at humanity's last enclave. One short conversation with a time-splitting eldritch horror later, and he finds himself flung five years into the past, right when Earth was first chosen to host the 9,947th Gladiatorial Games. Justin must help save the world from crumbling under the twin pressures of monsters and murderers. But standing out too much risks drawing the attention of the other eldritch horrors watching Earth's struggles for sport. It's all about making the right connections, sowing hope, and exploiting the System with his borrowed ability to tweak time.
Goodreads4.23· 480
Competent MCGrimdarkLitRPGRegressionStatsSystem Apocalypse

Worthy Core

DaScoot

D34/100
Xenia Worthy, Reincarnator Extraordinaire, has done it all. She's been a Hero (twice), a Demon Lord (briefly), and most recently did a stint as a magical talking sword. But it turns out there's at least one more type of life for her to live: the life of a sapient Dungeon Core. She's more than experienced with death, but no fan of it, so with the help of her latest SGA-assigned Guide, Guy, it's time for her to see if she can make life as a stone her best life yet. In this new world, Dungeons exist to prove to mortals and gods alike who is worthy of power and who is weak. Many will challenge and some will fall, but none will remain unchanged.
Royal Road4.42· 457
ComedyDungeon CoreHaremIsekaiLGBTQ+LitRPG+2

Dalliance Rather

minichirops

D33/100
Twelve-year-old Dalliance Rather is expected to become a brutal laborer like his father. Instead, aided by a fairy godmother, he's secretly a [Scamp] with a plan to win his way into the elite King's Collegiate — he's going to build the perfect [Wizard]. Reality disagrees. Power accumulates gradually and extracts a price, but found family finds a path forward. A literary, pitch-dark Victorian-era coming-of-age story in a LitRPG setting, owing a debt to Mark Twain.
Royal Road4.55· 279
Genius MCGrimdarkLitRPGSchoolSecondary WorldWeak to Strong

The Daily Grind

Argus

D33/100
Working overnight tech support, James Lyle discovers a stairwell in his office building that contains not stairs but a seemingly infinite landscape of supernatural cubicles. Unwilling to stay away, James and his trusted friends begin exploring this endless maze — where a few real-world minutes become eight hours of encounters with strange creatures and stranger interior design. In a realm that lets them level up in fax machine repair and pay the rent with dungeon loot, the adversaries are quickly becoming dangerous. And whatever James is uncovering in the office dungeon may not stop at the entrance.
Goodreads4.13· 683
ComedyDungeon CrawlingLitRPGSkill CollectionSoft MagicUrban Fantasy

Lazy Loops: An Idle LitRPG

Fiddlesoup

D33/100
Lazlo Yarrow is the most naturally gifted mage at MIRKS academy — and also the laziest. He enchanted his boots to fly so he wouldn't have to walk to class, and invented a spell to hold his eyes open during lectures so he could sleep undetected. Effort killed his parents; they worked the mana-factories until their channels burned out, and Lazlo learned never to push that hard. Then a dragon attacks the academy. People die. The headmaster — Lazlo's uncle — falls into a mana-exhaustion coma. Lazlo casts one desperate spell to save him, and the world rewinds to Monday. The dragon is back. Everyone dies again. And again. He could train like a hero. Or he could do what he does best: find the shortest path between impossible and done.
Royal Road4.43· 453
ComedyCozyHard MagicLitRPGSchoolTime Loop+1

Factory of the Gods

Alex Raizman

D33/100
After one too many failed inventions, Julian hits rock bottom — and then gets summoned to another world where gods and monsters roam. His streak of bad luck continues immediately: rather than touching the Godcore directly, he lets his smartphone absorb it. Now he has to figure out how to make the Godcore and his phone work together to help the people who summoned him survive their upcoming annihilation by the mad God of Chains. Julian has a plan: he's going to build a factory in a medieval world.
Goodreads4.21· 635
Base BuildingCompetent MCCraftingCrafting PowerIsekaiSecondary World

The Legendary Poet

Nejm

D33/100
He needed a sword. The system gave him a pen. Klaid is a former kendo prodigy who treats VR as a ruthless economy, optimizing every second to pay for his mother's medical bills. On launch day, exploiting a lore paradox earns him the one class he can't solve: the Legendary Poet — a power-gamer's nightmare that runs entirely on emotion, the very thing Klaid discarded long ago. Now trapped between a dying mother in reality and a useless class in-game, Klaid must learn to feel again — not to heal, but to turn anguish into DPS. The narrative voice evolves alongside the protagonist as cold logic gives way to something more.
Royal Road4.53· 418
Anti-heroCraftingDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCLitRPG+6

Universe's End

N. Francis

D33/100
The end of the universe came and went. An intergalactic war was waged, and the bad guys won when they pressed the big red button. Yet instead of the end of the story, Rory — a nobody in the grand scheme of things — finds himself almost completely alone in a fresh universe, one of eight precursors chosen almost entirely at random. With only an odd World Spirit for company, Rory must survive and build an entire universe from scratch. This is not the story of a plucky hero daring to challenge the gods of old. This is the story of how one of those gods came to be — their rise from a nobody in a brand new universe to a name known, sometimes loved, sometimes feared, throughout all of existence.
Royal Road4.55· 255
Base BuildingCraftingCultivationGameLitGenius MCLitRPG+4

Epic Blade

David J. VanBergen Jr.

D33/100
Tobias Martin is one of the best gamers in the world, playing the most advanced virtual reality system ever created. When a mysterious portal appears inside the game, he steps through — and into a world of magic that's more real than he ever could have imagined. Forced to start from scratch, he must rebuild himself into a top-level adventurer if he ever wants to get home. Along the way he'll explore a world full of wonder and danger, make new friends, and level up like his life depends on it. Because it does.
Goodreads4.23· 407
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGVRMMOWeak to Strong

Transformation

Valery Starsky

D33/100
The familiar world collapsed overnight. As the Transformation progressed, disasters struck throughout the Earth — materials changed their properties, new species of flora and fauna appeared, and an alien Game converted our world into a vast dungeon, replacing the previous civilization. However, the alien plans for Earth began to go awry from the very beginning. An ordinary young man stole the bonus for the first gaming action, depriving the invaders of their perk. Now he must navigate a world of fire-breathing creatures, dark elves, money-grubbing dwarves, and powerful dragons — while deciding which aliens to trust, which to fight, and whether to dare rebel against all-powerful invaders.
Goodreads3.99· 703
GrimdarkLitRPGPost-apocalypticSchoolSecondary WorldSystem Apocalypse

The Dimensional Wars

Blake Severson

D33/100
After an unfortunate encounter with a meddlesome Goddess, Arthur is given a second chance in a new world — one that runs on RPG mechanics. His directive is simple: help the people and spread the Goddess's name. The reality is anything but simple. Dravincia has been overrun by bandits who serve corrupt lords and keep the populace in ruin. Arthur must navigate politics, build alliances, and grow powerful enough to push back — or fail and hope for another try.
Goodreads4.22· 541
Base BuildingCompetent MCIsekaiLitRPGSecondary World