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The Nameless Engineer

FrankG

D25/100
She wakes up on a hostile alien planet with no memory, no name, and a body rebuilt by machines. Everyone else got combat classes; she got Engineer, Level 0, locked from the start and designed to fail. But she's adapting — turning scraps and broken machines into things that keep her alive, getting stronger with every fight, and unlocking something new with every evolution. She needs answers: who she was before this, why she's here, how to get off this planet. Somewhere in her broken memory is a mission she was supposed to complete. None of that matters if she can't survive long enough to remember it.
Royal Road4.50· 323
CraftingCrafting PowerDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCIsekai+5

Gun Girl from Another World

Ninmast Nunyabiz

D25/100
Remmi's whole life has revolved around the terrifying equalizing power of firearms. So when she finds herself sitting amongst the clouds with a floating text box asking what she thinks power is, her answer is immediate and obvious. She doesn't realize she's selecting a class for a fantasy world. Now armed with a gun and a bizarrely generous point-based leveling system, she alone stands between a group of newfound allies and an all-consuming darkness threatening the end of their world.
Royal Road4.50· 321
Class SystemCozyCraftingDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPG+3

Chronicles of Ethan

John L. Monk

F24/100
In the future, retirement means uploading to an immortal existence inside Mythian — the world's fastest quantum computer running an endless virtual adventure. Weapons, spells, gold, and experience points become the measures of a life. Ethan Crane never wanted any of it. He didn't want to retire, and he certainly didn't want to play a game forever. But when he discovers his wife — whom he believed dead — is still alive inside Mythian, nothing will stop him from reaching her. Not even himself.
Goodreads4.02· 535
LitRPGOlder MCSlow BurnVRMMO

System Bound

Kaz Hunter

F24/100
Asher's ordinary life is shattered when he is yanked from his daily commute and thrust into a brutal world of monstrous creatures, deadly traps, and the relentless games of the Nexus. A train station harbors danger, with a single portal opening each day to daunting trials and battles of life and death commanded by masked facilitators. Forced to navigate this world both alone and with shifting teams of players who each have their own motives, Asher fights to survive. Every day brings a new hurdle, and every victory is bitterly earned. His only hope: become the champion.
Goodreads4.18· 342
LitRPGSystem ApocalypseTower ClimbingWeak to Strong

All the Elders in My Sect Are My Avatars!

TIGR4

F24/100
An avid xianxia reader suddenly gets what he always wanted — he wakes up in a real cultivation world. The only problem? Maybe it was never really his dream after all. Faced with the harsh reality of what cultivation truly involves, with endless realms to climb and an abundance of arrogant young masters to deal with, despair starts to creep in. Fortunately, his golden finger was not missing. A mysterious system appears in his mind, giving him elders, ancestors, and a sect leader to command. He no longer feels completely overwhelmed. After all, he doesn't have to do everything alone — well, technically, he does. They are his avatars.
Royal Road4.40· 351
Base BuildingClass SystemComedyCultivationReincarnationSecondary World

Otherworldly Anarchist

Dreamer's Riot

F24/100
No gods, no kings, no masters — that was Annie's mantra, until she woke up as someone else, somewhere else: a child in a completely new realm. Reborn in the body of seven-year-old Lillith, she must conceal her adult intellect and knowledge of biology, math, and physics from the unsuspecting family around her. In this new world she's expected to obey her parents, worship a god, and respect a monarchy — none of which she's willing to do. When she discovers that mages hold real power in this society, Lillith begins teaching herself magic and hatching bold plans to change the realm for the better. Her scheme is dangerous, and she'll need to decide carefully who to trust and what she can accomplish with self-taught magic. The plan is bold, brash, and possibly impossible — but Lillith is willing to try, danger be damned.
pf8.0· 1Goodreads4.18· 340
IsekaiLGBTQ+ReincarnationSecondary WorldSoft MagicWeak to Strong

Underpowered Howard

John L. Monk

F24/100
Deep within Heroes of Mythian — a game world where retirees exchange their physical bodies for an eternity of adventure — Howard learns a terrible secret: the game is glitched and it's killing its mightiest players permanently. Desperate to save his friends and countless innocents, he hatches a plan to fix things. He'll start again as a level 0 necromancer and exploit his way to power, using his deep knowledge of game mechanics. With luck, his game-breaking exploits will alert Mythian's admins that something is wrong — but the game's creators, uncaring at best and sadistic at worst, might simply delete him for exposing their mistakes.
Goodreads4.09· 519
ComedyGenius MCLitRPGOlder MCSummoningVRMMO

A Wandering Soul

Azureblade

F24/100
Some heroes are created from templates of abilities granted by godlike beings, given a task and sent into worlds to see it through. But what happens to the templates that break — the heroes with no purpose other than to prove it could be done? Follow Alexandria Cross on an adventure across the multiverse as she tries to find meaning in her existence.
Royal Road4.51· 215
IsekaiLoner MCSecondary World

Accidental Champion

C.J. Davis, Jamie Davis

F24/100
Cari Dix didn't know her whole life was a lie. Growing up with the most ordinary parents ever, all she wanted was adventure and a little fun. When she discovers an old computer from her father's past, Cari stumbles into a fantasy game world she'd always thought part of her childhood imagination. Taking her combat fencing skills with her, she sets out to explore a world her parents said didn't exist. This is the first book in a trilogy set in the world of Fantasma, picking up where the Accidental Traveler trilogy left off. Cari fights to save the last of the Empire's heirs and carries on the legend her father left behind.
Goodreads4.14· 507
Competent MCGameLitIsekaiLitRPG

Frostworld

Blake Arthur Peel

F24/100
On Frostworld, only the strong survive. Jarl Beckström dreams of becoming a great warrior, but he was born lowborn — classless, unable to level up — and lives the mundane life of a poor mud-farmer beneath the privileged battleborn and fireborn. When the Clan Lord's son disappears, Jarl seizes the chance to prove himself a hero. But dark things stir in the frozen wilderness: a star has fallen and the dead have begun to rise. While clanholds clash in eternal conflict, only an ambitious mud-farmer and his domineering sister can shed light on the true enemy — the monstrous undead draugr.
Goodreads4.18· 325
Class SystemLitRPGSecondary WorldStatsSummoningWeak to Strong

Early Adopter

Nat Wenty

F24/100
Private Investigator Scarlet Bourne isn't particularly bothered by the end of the world. When strange windows start appearing in people's vision, counting down three days to "Full Initialization," she does what she always does: she prepares. When the countdown ends, extinction never comes. Instead, the world gets monsters, mana, and the System. Most people panic. Scarlet sees a gap in the market — one an information broker is uniquely qualified to fill. The rules have changed and nobody knows what they are. She intends to be the first to find out, controlling the battlefield from the shadows rather than fighting her way to the top.
Royal Road4.50· 286Goodreads4.53· 70
Base BuildingGameLitGenius MCLitRPGMysteryOverpowered MC+4

Path of the Titans

Timothy McGowen

F24/100
In the realm of Premar, where magic is wild and unbound, everything changes when the Path of the Titans unlocks a new System — forcing all magic to obey the laws set forth by the powerful Titans themselves. Knox was a simple woodcutter who finally gets his chance to delve into a dungeon, and his world is forever changed. He goes from woodcutter to Adventurer to one of the few who can walk the mysterious Path of the Titans, uncovering his mother's past and growing into something far greater.
Goodreads4.17· 418
Base BuildingDungeon CrawlingLitRPGSecondary WorldStatsSystem Apocalypse+1

Maximum Intimidation Knight

D.N. Newyn

F24/100
Sir Henry Hildebraud of Mostenstein is the last of the Knights of Saint Merin — and the most useless of a useless lot. In a world full of magic, he has none. When a rock falls on his head and grants him a system, he expects salvation. What he gets is a hundredfold multiplier on his Intimidation stat, an attribute he never wanted and cannot turn off. Every time Henry speaks, he involuntarily threatens to massacre the local populace. Left with no choice but to pretend he is the most dangerous man alive, he sets out to find the woman rumored to hold the key to restoring the Order of Saint Merin — who is, by all accounts, a total weirdo. A comedy of accidental terror, knightly honor, and a progression system built entirely around downsides.
Royal Road4.50· 279
Class SystemComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingLitRPGSecondary World+1

Unseen Cultivator

Mechalich

F24/100
Long ago, demonic cultivators betrayed the Dao and cast down mighty sects, leaving only ruined wastelands behind. The few survivors took refuge in hidden pocket realms, striving to regain the strength necessary to reclaim the world. Now, twenty-five hundred years later, opportunity may have finally arrived. Qing Liao never dreamed of becoming a cultivator, but mandatory testing reveals his potential and draws him into the Celestial Origin Sect. As he trains to wield stellar qi, he discovers an unusual quirk that places him at the center of the war between demonic and orthodox factions. Elsewhere, Grand Elder Itinay has schemed for millennia waiting for her moment, while Scoria Scorn — a cultivator who chose the demons — hunts down every remaining fragment of human existence. As immortals collide, one cultivator waits unseen, an arrow cloaked in shadow.
Royal Road4.51· 176
Base BuildingCultivationGenius MCGrimdarkPost-apocalypticSecondary World+1

Dungeon Bringer

Nick Harrow

F24/100
White-hat hacker Clay Knight is given two hours to fix a compromised network for the Inkolana Cartel. When he hacks the hackers, he stumbles into an ancient ritual that summons him to Soketra — a forgotten world of dungeons and monsters. There, a fierce pride of warrior cat women believe Clay is the reincarnation of the ancient Dungeon Lord Rathokhetra. With raiders on his doorstep, Clay must master his new dungeon-building abilities and protect his growing army of guardians from a fate worse than death.
Goodreads3.94· 531
Base BuildingDungeon CoreHaremSecondary WorldTransmigration

All for One

Pegaz

F23/100
Every living creature wants to survive. For young Mason, years of being beaten, bullied, and abandoned by his own family drove that instinct deep. After being caught up in a terrorist attack during a college tour, he finds himself in an unfamiliar place, surrounded by a new foe — the supernatural. And not even death can stop his primal instinct to live.
Goodreads4.18· 297
LitRPGSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

I Don't Want to be the Hive Queen

ValetheHowl

F23/100
Marcus had a truly terrible Monday: a horrible customer, getting fired, and then getting shot dead in a robbery. He woke up in the body of a weak, strange creature in a fantasy world full of deadly monsters. Now Marcus must find a way to survive as a Vex Queen. His own bravery and determination aren't enough — he needs to build a Hive. And the monsters closing in are only the first of many threats to come.
Goodreads4.07· 511
Base BuildingLitRPGMonster TamingNon-human MCReincarnationSecondary World

Brockton Bays Marvelous Mage

MetaBettaOmegaLetta

F23/100
Taken from his home and stranded in a dark world of heroes and villains he does not recognize, William Kalus must learn to adapt and grow with his magic before the world around him spirals into chaos and death. Will William master magic and grow powerful enough to fight the monstrous fate the world of Worm holds, or will he fold and fail to live up to his potential?
Royal Road4.49· 303
GrimdarkIsekaiSoft MagicSuperpowersWeak to Strong

Truthful Transmigration

Halosty

F23/100
John Miller was a fairly normal young man, working hard to support a family that had run into many financial difficulties. His unexpected death ends his difficult but mundane life — and he wakes up alive, but not himself. Fortkran Tenebach was the young master of a cultivation clan in another world. John barely knows anything about cultivation, but he must make his way with the memories of his new body. His new family isn't as close as his old one was, yet he can't help but want to be honest with them. Certain they've noticed his sudden change in personality, he confesses what happened — a move he expects to be fatal. Quite surprisingly, his family breathes a collective sigh of relief that the old Fortkran is dead. This leaves John to take over his duties, including cultivation, though he has to start from the beginning and isn't sure he won't make some massive mistake.
Royal Road4.17· 357
Competent MCCultivationReincarnationSecondary WorldTransmigrationWeak to Strong+1

Unique Skill: Trash

Lykanthropy

F23/100
In a world where your Skills are your everything, what does it say about you when your personal Skill is literally Trash? Catarine has found herself reborn into a new world where great heights are achievable — but only with the proper Skills and the drive to improve them. Born into a Necromantic family with a Skill that mirrors exactly what everyone thinks of her, she must find her own methods to survive and rise.
Royal Road4.46· 334
ComedyCozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitReincarnationSchool+3