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Dungeon Crawler Carl

Matt Dinniman

S+99/100
You know what's worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. And you know what's worse than that? An alien invasion, the destruction of all man-made structures on Earth, and the systematic exploitation of all survivors for a sadistic intergalactic game show. Join Coast Guard vet Carl and Princess Donut as they try to survive the end of the world — or just get to the next level — in a video game-like, trap-filled fantasy dungeon that is actually the set of a reality television show with countless viewers across the galaxy. Exploding goblins. Magical potions. Deadly, drug-dealing llamas. Survival is optional. Keeping the viewers entertained is not.
pf8.4· 5Goodreads4.52· 525.9K
ComedyDungeon CrawlingGrimdarkLitRPGPost-apocalypticSkill Collection+2

Hell Difficulty Tutorial

Cerim

S+93/100
Nathaniel's bus ride was supposed to be just another boring commute. Instead, he, 23 fellow passengers, and a corgi named Biscuit find themselves trapped in a "Hell Difficulty" tutorial, battling monsters and leveling up to survive. Easy, Normal, and Hard difficulty have their challenges—but Hell is where you have to be a little out of your mind. With a terrifying talent for mana manipulation, Nathaniel invests every stat point into mana. Attribute imbalance be damned: it will either kill him before the monsters can, or turn him into one of the most powerful beings in the system.
pf8.5· 2Royal Road4.60· 5.2KGoodreads4.48· 5.5K
Anti-heroGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+2

Defiance of the Fall

TheFirstDefier

S+93/100
Zac was alone in the middle of the forest when the world changed. The whole planet was introduced to the multiverse by an unfeeling System — a universe where an endless number of races and civilizations fight for power and dominion. Stuck in the wilderness surrounded by deadly beasts, demons, and worse, Zac must find the means to survive and grow stronger. With only a hatchet for a weapon, he'll have to seek out his family before the world collapses — or die trying.
pf4.5· 2Royal Road4.51· 7.4KGoodreads4.42· 16.7K
Base BuildingCultivationLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSci-fi+4

Are You Even Human

Thundamoo

S+91/100
In 2025, the moon hatched and its child died. Things have since gotten worse. Some people have superpowers now, but so do the extradimensional invaders slowly wiping humanity out. By Julietta's eighteenth birthday, the war has been loss after loss for longer than she's been alive — so she can't bring herself to be terribly shocked when the sky splits in half and weeps death. Surviving is the real surprise. Unexpectedly gaining the powers of a shapeshifter, she can change into any living thing she has touched, mixing and matching parts at will — except when she tries to return to her original form. Trapped behind enemy lines in someone else's skin, Julietta must adapt to new powers, new bodies, and new threats just to survive. But when she makes it out, will she still be Julietta?
Royal Road4.76· 1.7KGoodreads4.59· 278
Genius MCGrimdarkLGBTQ+MilitaryNon-human MCOverpowered MC+4

The Years of Apocalypse

UraniumPhoenix

S+91/100
Mirian Castrella, a student in her final year of a magical academy, unexpectedly finds herself caught in a time loop and haunted by strange dreams of the Elder Gods. Her plan had been to become an artificer to support her struggling family, but when the Akana Praediar army betrays her country in a surprise attack, everything changes. Instead, she finds herself delving into the dark secrets of the world, mastering magic, finding allies, and uncovering a vast conspiracy. Just because the time loop can save her life doesn't mean it can save her from everything. Mirian must navigate a dangerous world changed by the magitech revolution. Her quest to stop the apocalypse she relives again and again will lead her to battle magi and beasts, into the unfathomable underground Labyrinth, across distant lands, and into forgotten ancient ruins. Only by becoming a master arcanist who understands the true nature of the world can she hope to succeed.
pf9.0· 2Royal Road4.78· 3.7K
Hard MagicPost-apocalypticSchoolSecondary WorldTime LoopWeak to Strong

Shadow Sun

Dave Willmarth

S87/100
When Earth is seized by an ancient alien race wielding incredibly advanced tech and transported to a new location with twin suns, gamer geek Allistor finds himself fighting to survive in real life. The human race is declared a contaminant, and the new overlords decree that 90% of humanity will be exterminated. Creatures out of myth and legend are sent to do the killing. After seeing his family killed in the first week, Allistor leads a small group of survivors in their struggle to stay alive. Not satisfied with simple survival, he strives to make himself and his people stronger. The new RPG system that now governs the planet is something he can work with — and teach others to exploit. Thrust into a leadership position with vengeance in his heart, Allistor aims to establish a stronghold and take the fight to the monsters who seek to enslave his people.
Goodreads4.46· 4.8K
Base BuildingCompetent MCLitRPGPost-apocalypticSci-fiStats+1

Stray Cat Strut

RavensDagger

S87/100
In the year 2057, the world has become a corporate-run utopia for the super-rich and a hellhole for everyone else. Catherine 'Cat' Leblanc is an orphan about as far from super-rich as one can be. When the Incursion alarms start blaring and the sky starts raining hungry xenos, it's just another blemish on an already piss-poor afternoon. A cyberpunk magical-girl alien-invasion LitRPG.
Royal Road4.65· 4K
GameLitLGBTQ+LitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSci-fi+2

Battleforged

M.H. Johnson

S87/100
When the apocalypse struck, Eric was as shocked as everyone else — but there were no chosen heroes in his version of the end. Just people desperately trying to survive. Hope came in the form of alien vegetative pods: a select few really could level up, embrace magic, and gain limitless power — if the pods didn't turn you into topsoil first. Eric, along with a handful of friends who happened to be rogues long before any System existed, plans to pull off the greatest heist of all time: stealing a priceless fortune right out from under the noses of everyone trying to kill them. All he has to do is outmaneuver a thousand orcs, outfox an army of clever elves, and escape a war-torn city alive.
Goodreads4.49· 1.8K
Anti-heroLitRPGPost-apocalypticStatsSummoningSystem Apocalypse

12 Miles Below

Mark Arrows

S87/100
The world is in ruins. Extreme sub-zero temperatures suffocate the surface, making even simple survival an ordeal. The only escape from the deadly climate is underground — but that brings its own disasters: monstrous machines lurking in the depths, land that shifts like contraption more than rock, and only demigods powerful enough to travel deeper. When an expedition into the far uncharted north goes terribly wrong, Keith Winterscar and his father are trapped together in a desperate fight for survival. Stumbling upon an ancient war of titanic scale, the two must set aside their differences while they struggle against gods, legends, and the grand secrets of the realm that lies below.
pf9.0· 1Royal Road4.73· 2.1KGoodreads4.41· 2K
Dungeon CrawlingGrimdarkMysteryOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticSci-fi+2

Phase Shift

Kyle Johnson

S86/100
A system message appears worldwide: a Quantum Phase Shift has been selected to "increase habitability." Expected survival rate: 1–5%. Troias Drakos awakens to find that the world he knew is gone. Most of Earth's life was killed in an instant, and those who survived have been granted powers that seem almost magical — though the monsters of this new reality are equally powerful, or far more so. Only by uniting and mastering their new abilities will humanity survive. Troias has been given a unique set of powers. If he is to have any chance, he must master them and become a true Spirit Warrior.
Goodreads4.50· 1.3K
LitRPGPost-apocalypticStatsSuperpowersSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

Runeblade: A Delving & Skill Merging LitRPG

Bacon Macleod

S86/100
Kaius just wanted to unlock his class — instead, he restarted the apocalypse. After years of training, Kaius has barely acquired the first two of his family's legacy skills: powerful, vanishingly rare abilities whose method of creation is a secret people would kill for. Narrowly surviving a bandit ambush, he gets trapped in the Great Depths — a world-spanning dungeon. To escape, he must slay one of the Guardians defending the exits, a feat no classless fighter has ever survived. If that weren't bad enough, succeeding will reignite a forgotten trial that nearly ended civilization.
Royal Road4.63· 4K
Dungeon CrawlingGameLitHard MagicLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+3

The Land of Broken Roads

Ryan English

S86/100
The age of Man has come and gone. His bright and glorious works are ruins, his heritage scattered and forgotten. Vicious things now walk his empty halls and hunt his empty streets. Men are few in number and huddled far away on the last weary stretches of land that have not cast them out. For a boy like Dirt, there is no food but what he can scavenge and no shelter but what he can dig. If he wants to survive, he must find allies in even the most unlikely places — because in a world the wilds have reclaimed, there is no mercy from hungry jaws. An adventure story about friendship, courage, and the unrelenting savagery of nature, following a boy with a mysterious, forgotten past who must quickly learn to contend with the supernatural to survive.
pf7.0· 1Royal Road4.79· 859
Post-apocalypticSecondary WorldSoft MagicWeak to Strong

Daniel Black

E. William Brown

S86/100
Summoned to a world in the midst of apocalypse, Daniel Black would have his hands full just staying alive. Add in refugees, desperate soldiers, scheming nobles, and a pair of thoroughly wicked witches, and life gets very busy indeed. Good thing he has magic of his own to even the scales — but will even that be enough?
Goodreads4.28· 7.6K
GoreHaremIsekaiPost-apocalypticSexual ContentSoft Magic

Sponsored System

Tom Larcombe

S85/100
Earth has been given thirty days' notice before being inducted into an interstellar System. When aliens offer early access to the System — for the price of an ounce of gold — Mike and his prepper grandfather manage to scrape together the Krugerrand needed to get him through the portal to a training planet. The training is simple but brutal, and a corrupt orc trainer takes a personal interest in Mike that quickly turns to hatred when Mike refuses to be scammed. The conflict sends Mike fleeing into an ancient, monster-filled forest far outside the Safe Zone. By the time he returns home, he's gained a class, a group, and more power than most trainees who played it safe. But Earth is already falling apart — the System's arrival brings monsters, and it's time to put that training to work.
Goodreads4.48· 1.8K
Class SystemIsekaiLitRPGPost-apocalypticSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

Path of the Berserker

Rick Scott

S85/100
When cultivators came to Earth they destroyed human civilization in a matter of hours. Armies fell, cities burned, and the moon turned red and filled the world with monsters. Now, over a decade later, what is left of humanity slaves under the heels of Qi-infused masters. One man wants none of it. Sick of serving and determined to make the cultivators pay, he is found by a fearsome goddess who shows him a different path — one that does not rely on Qi. Through blood, sweat, and pain, he will fight to take back the planet and free humanity, or die trying. That is the Path of a Berserker.
pf6.0· 1Royal Road4.51· 774Goodreads4.52· 2.9K
Anti-heroBase BuildingCultivationMilitaryPost-apocalypticSci-fi+3

Sponsored Apocalypse

Blaise Corvin

S85/100
Miles "Shrug" Lindstrom received a quest years ago — he was the only person who could see the window, and in addition to the quest, he could also see a countdown to the end of the world. Part of him hoped he was just insane. Then the countdown stops, and what happens is nothing like he could have imagined. Miles prepared for almost any scenario, but a world full of monsters wasn't one of them. Will finishing his strange quest help him survive the chaos?
Goodreads4.48· 1.7K
Competent MCLitRPGPost-apocalypticSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 6: The Ghosts of Earth

DoctorHepa

A84/100
The apocalypse will be televised. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth collapses into a heap, transformed into a dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot that circles the entire globe. Only a few dare venture inside — and once you're in, you can't get out. Each level has a time limit. But this game isn't about strength or dexterity; it's about followers, views, and clout. Building an audience and killing those goblins with style. You can't just survive here. You gotta survive big. And if you have that 'it' factor, you may just find yourself with a following — and the loot boxes dropped by generous benefactors watching from across the galaxy.
pf10.0· 1Royal Road4.63· 2.9K
ComedyDungeon CrawlingGameLitGenius MCGrimdarkLitRPG+4

Broken Interface

Alex Kozlowski

A84/100
The devastating Alpha Event rewrote the laws of reality, transforming cities into sprawling hellscapes filled with flesh-eating zombies and worse. Each survivor was supposed to receive an interface — a guide to help them level up and navigate the new reality. Daniel's is broken. Stranded in a hotel room with nothing but a hangover, Daniel discovers he's been gifted with strange new powers in place of a functioning interface — powers that might enable him to unite the survivors around him into a force capable of enduring this cruel new world.
Goodreads4.53· 467
LitRPGPost-apocalypticSkill CollectionSystem Apocalypse

Battle Trucker

TomWrites

A84/100
Jill MacLeod might be just a long-haul trucker with a dirty mouth and back pain, but with Bertha the big rig under her she always makes her deliveries. When mana, monsters, and an RPG-style levelling system descend on Earth, the apocalypse is here. On her journey it's just Jill, her Soulbound truck, and any survivor she can find against the universe — mutated animals, aliens, dragons, droid armies. Nothing is going to stop her from making her way home.
Royal Road4.71· 677Goodreads4.51· 483
Base BuildingGoreLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalypticProfanity+3

Necroepilogos

Hungry

A84/100
Nothing walks the black cinder of Earth except the undead leftovers, reanimated by science so advanced it may as well be magic. Twisted into unimaginable forms by flesh-shaping and machine-grafting, the undead are the only remnant of a civilization reduced to ash and organic slurry. Elpida doesn't know this world, but she's on her feet, leading a half-dozen other fresh revenants — ripped from oblivion and disgorged shivering and naked on cold metal slabs in a womb-lab of blinking lights and blaring alarms, by machines running some ancient plan. A story about body horror and alienation, weird zombie-girls gluing themselves back together, mad science beyond mortal ken, and trying to cradle the flower of companionship in twitching, undead fingers.
Royal Road4.80· 508
GrimdarkHaremHorrorLGBTQ+MilitaryNon-human MC+2