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Rise of the Mystic Mage

Jay Boyce

S+92/100
Ashlyn has been reborn five years in the past — both a gift and a curse. She wakes into the wreckage of a life she already lived and ruined, with nothing to show for it except five years of deep expertise in Elysium, the greatest virtual reality game ever made, and the ache of friendships lost. Armed with foreknowledge, she intends to fix her mistakes, save the relationships she destroyed, and blaze her way to the top with a brand-new class: the Mystic Mage.
Goodreads4.58· 1.2K
Competent MCLitRPGRegressionVRMMO

Battle Mage Farmer

Seth Ring

S+92/100
Goodreads4.43· 9.7K
IsekaiLitRPGRegressionReincarnationWeak to Strong

RE: Trailer Trash

FortySixtyFour

S+91/100
In the year 2045, an MRI mishap transmits Tabitha Moore's mind back into her body in the past. Now it's 1998, she's thirteen years old, and she has to confront her long, miserable lifetime of failures — and once again being trailer trash — all over again. Or does she?
Royal Road4.73· 4.6KGoodreads3.60· 33
CozyRegressionSchoolUrban FantasyWholesome

Towerbound

Samson Chui

S+90/100
Ren Varrow was never the hero type — a quiet alchemist who kept his head low while others chased glory. But when a top guild lured him into a lethal dungeon and stabbed him in the back, his story should have ended. Instead, it rewound. Thrown back to Day One, before the Tower rose and before the betrayals, Ren knows what's coming: secret quests, hidden mechanics, and a ticking clock that ends with Earth's destruction. Armed with future knowledge, he's ready to rewrite everything — from building a guild out of nobodies to crafting mythic-grade potions to surviving a hundred deadly floors.
Goodreads4.52· 1.6K
AlchemyAnti-heroBase BuildingCraftingLitRPGRegression+1

Rise of the Body Cultivator

Apollos Thorne

S89/100
The apocalypse happened. Portals appeared. Zombies attacked. Everyone got pulled in. A divine system offered impossible powers — flight, super strength, magic — but only through progress, never all at once. Nathanial Kane had read the System's warnings. It said they had centuries; the demons arrived in ten years. He had been counted among the strongest. It had all been for nothing. Witnessing Earth's end and dying, Nathan cast the only unique spell he'd ever found: Rebirth.
Goodreads4.55· 981
CultivationIsekaiLitRPGRegressionSystem ApocalypseWeak to Strong

Martial Messiah

ToraAKR

S89/100
The year is 2493. After AI wars eradicated three centuries of technological progress, humanity survived thanks to immortal martial artists called the Old Monsters. A technology known as time dilation emerged, tripling human life expectancy — until corporations seized control of it and enslaved the world. Raine KongRu signed a life-long contract with CronGate and spent his best years as another cog in their rise to power. Now he's awoken in his old body, two days before it all began. With a chance to amend his mistakes, he'll have his revenge while teaching the world exactly how deadly a man becomes after thirty years of the most brutal martial combat ever imagined.
Goodreads4.57· 709
Competent MCLitRPGOlder MCRegressionSci-fiSuperpowers+1

Solo

Vasily Mahanenko

S88/100
He was the greatest chaos mage of his time, spending sixty years defending the world from rift creatures — loyal to the Empire to his bone, until it decided to wipe out the Chaos clan and every last one of its members. Life has a way of surprising you, and he got a second chance to walk the entire path again. Except the rules are different this time around: chaos is now the weakest of the six elements, and its mages are considered bottom-feeders. Time to show this world just how dead wrong it is.
Goodreads4.53· 1K
CultivationHard MagicOlder MCRegressionSchoolWeak to Strong

Reborn: Apocalypse

L. M. Kerr

S87/100
Humanity fell. Warped to a new reality known as the 7 Layers, the human race was meant to fight its way through to Heaven — and failed. Every last person died. Micheal Care was just a middling swordsman in Humanity's Last Army. But thanks to a magical artifact he found by chance, his memories have been sent back into his past self. He's no chosen hero or divine champion — just a man who knows how badly things can go wrong, and is determined to change it.
Goodreads4.42· 5.4K
IsekaiLitRPGRegressionStatsWeak to Strong

The King's Avatar

Butterfly Blue

S87/100
In the online game Glory, Ye Xiu is regarded as a textbook example of a top-tier professional player. Forced out of the scene, he finds work managing an internet cafe. When Glory launches its tenth server, Ye Xiu — armed with ten years of experience and an incomplete self-made weapon — throws himself back into the game. Bringing memories of his past and a genius for play, his return to the summit begins.
Goodreads4.56· 583
Competent MCGenius MCRegressionVRMMO

When Immortal Ascension Fails Time Travel to Try Again

DragonOfRochester

A84/100
What is a 1000-year-old monster to do when she's failed her immortal ascension? Time travel — accidentally — and wind up back in her 9-year-old body, needing to re-cultivate. But after that? Get revenge. The idiot who killed her — also accidentally — was the main character of the Xianxia she transmigrated into. But since she can't harm a child or the main character without suffering consequences, she'll just have to raise him better, faster, stronger, and loyal instead. A Xianxia comedy and satire structured as a series of interconnected and chronological short stories featuring the same main characters.
Royal Road4.66· 2.5K
ComedyCultivationIsekaiOverpowered MCRegressionReincarnation+3

The Bell Tolls for Me

Nemorosis

A82/100
A succession crisis consumed the Kingdom of Dovhain following the death of Edgar the Great. Princess Isabella endured every indignity, overcame countless injustices, and fought the most vicious of enemies — first for survival, then for hope of a better future. She became queen, only to be betrayed by those she trusted most. Somehow, Isabella woke up eight years in the past, one week after her father's death. The experience and knowledge she gained in the struggle for the throne give her a fighting chance — but the question she must answer is a hard one. Should she pursue her own happiness, or attempt to better the realm? Perhaps, if she dares, she can reach for both.
Royal Road4.75· 1KGoodreads4.58· 19
Base BuildingGenius MCGrimdarkRegressionReincarnationSecondary World+1

Re:Cursed

Joroboros

A81/100
As the perfect sacrifice, it is only natural that Nix be sacrificed to the ancient gods lurking in the depths of the black hole. But she didn't die. Finding herself seven years in the past — to the day of her first cursed mutation — Nix is determined to correct her regrets, enact vengeance on her murderers, and simply live the life she never got to. But even with this second chance, freedom from the cults remains a pipe dream. To achieve everything she never could in her previous life, there is only one path before her. Nix will twist the curses that once bound her into the very source of her strength. The cults will regret sacrificing her — without ever knowing they already succeeded.
Royal Road4.75· 766
Anti-heroGrimdarkHorrorLitRPGPost-apocalypticRegression+4

Restarting the Apocalypse

Michael Chatfield

A81/100
Len and Rick have lived through it all: the Plynthian Civil War, the fall of nations, the rise of city-states and guilds, the otherworlder invasion, the fall of Harmonia. Now they have been sent back — 130 years — to the exact moment mana first appeared on Yorel. Their stats are baseline, their mana gates closed, their skills gone. But they remember everything. When society crumbles, mana mutations spread, and the boundaries between worlds thin, these veterans will be ready.
Goodreads4.46· 1.8K
CraftingDungeon CrawlingLitRPGMilitaryRegressionSystem Apocalypse

Towers of Heaven

Cameron Milan

A80/100
Six towers appeared on Earth one day — hundreds of stories tall, invulnerable, and filled with monsters, treasure, and magic. They also periodically release waves of creatures to attack the world outside. By 2083, only a hundred humans remain. In a final desperate attempt, they challenge the top floor. They clear it — at the cost of every life but one. As his reward, the last survivor is granted a single wish: to go back in time and prevent it all.
Goodreads4.25· 4.3K
LitRPGRegressionSystem ApocalypseTower ClimbingUrban FantasyWeak to Strong

Re:Birth: A Slow Burn LitRPG Mage Regressor

Ace_the_Owl

A80/100
At 79, Adom is an old mage who has known nothing but illness and regret. When the world finally burns and all hope turns to ash, a mysterious being appears at the last beat of his fading heart with a simple question: "If you could try again, would you?" A handshake seals the deal, and Adom wakes up on his old school grounds, sixty-seven years in the past — with all his knowledge intact, his memories preserved, and his youth restored. This time, Adom wants it all: food he's never tasted, a world still full of wonder, the life he dreamed of. There's just one small catch — he needs to prevent the end of the world first. And as he will soon discover, changing history may demand sacrifices even greater than watching it burn.
Royal Road4.59· 2.2K
ComedyCozyHard MagicLitRPGOlder MCRegression+1

The One Who Changes the Future

Boris Romanovsky

A80/100
The protagonist has traveled back twenty-two years to prevent the Eclipse — a cataclysmic event that will divide the Solar System's history and ultimately lead to Earth's total annihilation. Carrying knowledge of the future no one else possesses, he has five days before the point of no return. Armed with that foreknowledge, he builds influence, assembles teams, and acquires powers to forge a new future — but every intervention has consequences he never anticipated.
Goodreads4.52· 275
Competent MCGenius MCRegressionSci-fiUrban Fantasy

Gothic Twin Regressors

Smalllobbableballbomb

A79/100
When an unbeatable enemy threatens to eradicate civilization, necromancer siblings Darien and Liesel Embermourn cast a spell of great sacrifice to give the world a second chance. The spell returns them to their childhood, giving them time to prepare for the disaster they know is coming. But even as children they have enemies everywhere. The lord who murdered their parents is scheming to steal their lands, and an ancient dracolich gathering strength to the north will soon sense the twins' power and move against them. With both the living and the dead set against them, forging a new destiny will take power beyond mortal reckoning—and mortality is far behind them.
Royal Road4.83· 124
Anti-heroBase BuildingGameLitGrimdarkHorrorOverpowered MC+3

RE: Monarch

Eligos

A79/100
Cairn is a prince who is already tired of ruling. Faced with an imminent coronation and an overbearing father, he wants nothing more than to drown his responsibilities in cheap liquor and poor decisions. With the help of his sister, he hatches a plan to escape the throne once and for all—which goes terribly wrong. Cairn dies, then reawakens ten years in the past. He immediately begins planning for the future, only to discover his killer has somehow followed him back. To succeed, he must unite the kingdom and uncover his killer's motivation—using as many tries as it takes.
Royal Road4.63· 1.8KGoodreads3.90· 30
Genius MCGrimdarkMysteryRegressionReincarnationSecondary World+3

The Weirkey Chronicles

Sarah Lin

A78/100
The Nine Worlds span dimensions filled with wonder and adventure, but for Theo they mean bitter tragedy. For years he resented the betrayal that killed his friends, sent him back to Earth, and made him question everything he thought he knew. Now, after a lifetime of struggle, he's found a way back to the Nine Worlds — an old man reborn in a new body, with a second chance to rebuild what he lost and unravel a mystery that spans dimensions. Though he arrives in the safe world of Tatian, demons are crawling from the darkness between realms. There's no time to prepare carefully: he needs to find allies among the lost just to survive long enough to make use of what he knows.
Goodreads4.26· 3.4K
CraftingIsekaiLitRPGOlder MCRegressionReincarnation+1

Primer for the Apocalypse

Braided Sky

A77/100
Emie Mercer was one of several billion people who survived the apocalypse and was introduced to a new reality where magic was commonplace and everyone had access to a system. Unfortunately, the rest of Emie's family wasn't so lucky. As far as world-changing events went, Earth's reintegration into the Atlantis Alliance was remarkably tame — the post-apocalyptic universe mirrored the wildly popular deep-immersion VRMMORPG Atlas Online, allowing those who played to quickly adapt to their new reality. More than a decade later, Emie manages to create a formation that relies on her Time and Space affinities to return her consciousness to the past. When she arrives nearly four years earlier than expected, she realizes she has a unique opportunity to prepare and train for what is coming. A regression story focused on preparation, growth, and the cost of making herself exceptional — without relying on perfect foreknowledge.
Royal Road4.61· 874Goodreads4.47· 1K
CozyDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGRegressionSci-fi+3