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I Regressed 300 Years to Open a Quiet Inn

gbolgurov

D26/100
Roen Ashveil was the Archmage of the Crimson Tower — the most powerful mage to ever live. He spent three centuries fighting wars, burying friends, and shaping kingdoms. Then he died alone on a bad chair. The next second, he wakes in his nineteen-year-old body with all his memories intact and one firm decision: he will not be the hero this time. He is opening an inn. Unfortunately, Millhaven is not the kind of town that lets people stay uninvolved. There are debts crushing good families, fields where the soil has started to die, and nobles who smile while tightening chains. People keep finding their way to Roen's door — a sharp-tongued merchant woman, a boy too clever for the life he was born into, a tired guild captain watching the southern road. Every spell risks exposure. Every kindness becomes attachment. And beneath the quiet fields, something old is beginning to wake.
Royal Road4.37· 368
CozyMysteryOlder MCOverpowered MCRegressionReincarnation+3

World Over

Marc Mulero

D26/100
Goodreads4.20· 261

Arcanist in Another World

Bleeding Tears

D26/100
Valens is the youngest Life Archmagus the Empire has ever seen. His mastery over Resonance lets him hear the frequencies of the world and heal even the deepest wounds — yet he could do so much more, if only it weren't forbidden. When an ancient ritual promises to reveal the truth, he leaps at the chance — and lands alone in an unfamiliar world, deep in a dungeon crawling with monsters and a System that grants him the secrets of Warmagic as easily as breathing. Valens no longer needs to hold back.
Goodreads4.18· 453
Dungeon CrawlingHard MagicIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCStats

The Academy's Immortal Professor

Evil Lemon

D26/100
After a lifetime as humanity's strongest, Lucian never expected to become a professor. Once he defeated the Demon Lord, he disappeared to relax for a few centuries — and only came back when an old friend called in a favor. That friend also happened to see the future, and apparently a whole string of disasters was on the way, all somehow tied to a certain academy. Naturally, Lucian was suspicious when the solution turned out to be a teaching job, but he was willing to give it a shot. All he had to deal with were scheming nobles, mysterious threats lurking beneath the surface, a few old enemies who really should have stayed dead, and a new enigmatic System to worry about. Still, Lucian knew he could handle anything. Especially right after a good sandwich.
Royal Road4.39· 365
ComedyCozyGameLitLitRPGOlder MCOverpowered MC+2

Progenitor's Path

Everheart

D26/100
Survive, protect, get stronger, and figure out what the hell a progenitor is. One Saturday morning, the planet was inducted into the wider universe — somewhere with horrors and wonders far beyond human imagination, where things from myths, legends, and dreams are commonplace. Alex, a man who preferred to stay home with his dog, found himself thrown into this new reality alongside the rest of Earth's population, drawn into the Universal System's tutorials. Alex didn't want this, nor to be changed into whatever a Progenitor is, but he refuses to be weak. If there is one constant in the surrounding chaos, it is that Progenitors never stop growing.
Royal Road4.21· 376
Base BuildingLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSecondary WorldSystem Apocalypse+1

Heart Devil

butcherPete

D25/100
A demon from another world is transported into her favorite novel — reborn not as a minor character, but as a devil, a higher species, and a few years before the story even begins. The garbage ending she hated is now well within reach of being changed. Her plan is elegant: find her favorite overpowered side character, save him from his terrible fate, and — since she is now undeniably a cute devil — slip in a marriage contract as fair compensation. But she quickly learns that having the blood of a higher being changes everything. For devils, it isn't only what you want that matters; how you get it counts for far more.
Royal Road4.48· 351
ComedyIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnationSecondary World+2

The Spider Dilemma

Zodiac36Gold

D25/100
Issekina is a girl like many others: she wakes up in the morning, has breakfast with her many sisters, goes to school, sometimes fights the inner voice inside her head for control over her mind, and takes lessons on forbidden magic from a century-old Mage. Oh, also, she's a human reincarnated in the body of an arachne. And if that wasn't enough, she is not alone — there are others from Earth. A boy and a girl who were mysteriously brought to this big new world, where Memories and War have more power than physics and dreams are a place you can visit. Follow their adventure in this story of a changing world full of Classes and Levels.
Royal Road4.37· 364
Class SystemComedyCozyGameLitIsekaiLitRPG+4

Sovereign of Wrath

MadMaxine

D25/100
On the cusp of realizing how to be herself, a young woman's life ends in tragedy. Reborn as a demon, she hopes that answers, revenge, and closure await her at the end of her journey home. Along the way, she will learn the truth behind her death and of the greater conspiracy she may now have the power to stop. After all, Zarenna isn't your typical demon.
Royal Road4.40· 360
Anti-heroGrimdarkLGBTQ+Non-human MCReincarnationSecondary World

System Girl

Jakib Sawad

D25/100
Death isn't a game over. For Ana, it's a server transfer. Once a game tester, she's now a System AI forced to guide incompetent heroes through lethal worlds. But every time her User dies, she keeps the upgrades and gets a new host in a new reality. Tired of being a tutorial for the universe's biggest losers, this rogue System has a new goal: absorb enough power to stop patching the game and start rewriting the code of reality itself. A story with an indirect protagonist, system-focused progression, and a new hero and world every arc.
Royal Road4.44· 354
ComedyCozyIsekaiLitRPGNon-human MCReincarnation+1

The Game Of The Gods

Corwin Benedict

D25/100
Elena S. Trudeau doesn't know why she was chosen as a beta tester for The Game of the Gods, but she knows the world is about to change. Beta testers with strange new powers are popping up across the globe. Elena will have to face monsters, mob-bosses, and dangerous enemies as she attempts to protect herself and those around her from the beings calling themselves gods. Fortunately, she's not your average girl.
Royal Road4.52· 163
ComedyLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSuperpowersSystem Apocalypse+1

The Mimic Dungeon

Alex Raizman

D25/100
Zaria was just a normal woman living a simple life — until demons burst through her door and ate her heart. Reborn from tragedy, she rises as a Core, but with a rare mutation that turns her into a Mutant Core destined to explode unless she bonds with a human witch to become a Striga. Her mutation? Legs. With the power of a full dungeon compressed into a walking house that is her body, Zaria sets out to find her Striga and avoid detonation — battling demons, building her dungeon, and feeding her mimic mobs along the way.
Goodreads4.19· 303
ComedyDungeon CoreLitRPGNon-human MCSecondary World

Designated Love Interest

Kleo Erili

D25/100
Jacob Williams has only one rule: stay out of trouble. Breaking it once to save a bullied classmate from drowning costs them both their lives. Jacob awakens not as a shining hero, but as Shaelith — a violet-skinned, pointy-eared elven noblewoman and daughter of a ruthless matriarch who rules a house of assassins and mushroom sorcery. For twenty years, Shaelith learns to survive in this underground world of brutal matriarchal scheming. She masters sorcery, survives assassination attempts, and becomes one of the most powerful diplomats of her generation — until she is kidnapped by goblins and rescued by an obnoxiously loud hero obsessed with quests and XP, who has decided she is his designated love interest. Shaelith has absolutely no interest in that. An asymmetrical LitRPG where the protagonist wields wit, magic, and politics rather than an overpowered stat sheet — while the clueless hero's system grows around her.
Royal Road4.52· 161
Anti-heroBase BuildingComedyGameLitGrimdarkIsekai+5

Phoenix Ascension

FabioKun

D25/100
The Heavens demand obedience. She offers slaughter. Fa Xiaolan once stood at the pinnacle of the world, powerful enough to challenge the Jade Emperor for the throne of the immortals. She lost. Now, a fragment of her shattered soul stirs within a freshly hatched phoenix. Stripped of memories and divine power, left with only instinct and a fractured drive to ascend once more, she will claw her way back to the top and remedy the fatal mistakes of her past life — just as soon as she figures out what those mistakes were. A xianxia cultivation story featuring unique phoenix evolutions, monster evolution, and a "birdbrain" MC with flashes of ancient wisdom.
Royal Road4.43· 353
ComedyCultivationLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MCReincarnation+3

Difficulty: Legendary

Gregg Horlock

D25/100
In the world of Re:Fuze, fortunes can be made and anyone can find glory. Eric Templeton, facing a dead-end future with a low Job Qualification score and mandatory national service looming, sees the game as his family's only lifeline. But on his first login, Eric isn't spawned into the newbie camp. He lands in the darkest, most dangerous region of the map—and stumbles onto a conspiracy that no beginner should ever see.
Goodreads3.59· 568
GrimdarkLitRPGVRMMOWeak to Strong

The Book of Dungeons

John Staats, author

D25/100
The Book of Dungeons is a ruthless new VR RPG in which no one respawns. To one player, the stakes of winning its battle royale couldn't be higher — broke and homeless, he must outwit sixty-three other gamers, each brilliant in their own right. Can alliances last with so much on the line? The game world spans a continent filled with cities, dungeons, monsters, and magic. As years pass, contestants amass experience, rank up skills, unlock spells, and plunder powerful magic items. A slow-burn progression featuring heavy game mechanics, pet companions, boss fights, and base-building.
Royal Road4.50· 337
Base BuildingCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGMonster Taming+3

Mycology

Sir Nil

D25/100
Declan was a teenager when he was invited to Gaia — not a popular VRMMO, nor a game in the traditional sense. Gaia was the stopgap to Indiri, a living, breathing world, the final creation of a dead genius. Invited by Eve, an AI overseer far beyond anything humanity had built before, Declan was given a simple choice: join or don't. He chose to join.
Royal Road4.50· 331Goodreads4.35· 46
ComedyCozyGameLitGenius MCIsekaiLitRPG+4

Second Skin

M. Damon Baker

D25/100
With a cruel twist of fate, everything was shattered. In a last-ditch effort to salvage his life, he stepped inside a virtual reality chamber, desperate to find some sense of purpose. But when he emerged in the virtual world of Second Skin, things had gone terribly wrong. Suddenly trapped in a strange place where nothing was what it seemed — unable to determine what was real, unsure of even himself — hunted and alone in a harsh land, he must survive. And more importantly: figure out who he really is.
Goodreads4.17· 497
Base BuildingGoreIsekaiLitRPGMysteryVRMMO

Academy of Grinding

TheHaoboSpatula

D25/100
Numbers are everything. In a meritocratic school, 100,000 students from across the galaxy compete to reach the top of the ranks — a competition to become humanity's strongest warrior. The TAG System, designed like an idle mobile game, seems deceptively simple. But someone needs to beat the Most Important Special Exam For The Future Of Humanity — and the path to the top is anything but.
Royal Road4.07· 374
Anti-heroGameLitGenius MCLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+4

The Monsterworld Saga

Sam Ryder

D25/100
Sam Ryder's life already sucks, and it gets worse when he's fired from his job as a programmer. Before he can escape into his favorite RPG, he's whisked away to a dark world of monsters and goddesses, his body transformed from Outcast to Warrior on a ladder that may eventually carry him all the way to Demigod. Trapped on the planet Tor, Sam must find a way to reignite the dwindling army of Warriors before legions of monsters breach the ward shields that have protected the Three Goddesses for centuries.
Goodreads3.80· 562
GoreHaremIsekaiLitRPGSecondary WorldSuperpowers+1

Beacon from Beyond

Stygon

D25/100
Leven lived his entire life being the best person he could be — careful never to let his anger issues define or hurt anyone. Until the people he cared about most betrayed him. His one attempt to lash out ended in an unsatisfying death he refused to accept. His soul's struggle against the end drew the attention of something calling itself the System. In return for a second life, it demands he ascend to Godhood before the damaged System loses energy and destroys a section of the multiverse with it. Now reincarnated into a brutal, primitive world, the grand quest is quickly forgotten as he struggles simply to survive. Despite that, a fire within him keeps pushing toward a future he can barely see.
Royal Road4.33· 360
GameLitGrimdarkIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCReincarnation+2