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Top 18 Completed Reincarnation Novels on Royal Road (2026)

Updated November 2026 · ranked by average reader rating

Completed Reincarnation Novels are among the most popular stories on Royal Road.

This guide ranks the best by average reader rating. The current top picks are Old Granny Gob - (A Goblins and Grandmas prompt entry), Empty Sea: SSS Villain Stuck in an NPC World and Restart (Reborn as a Reluctant Demon Lord, Book 2). Every story here is finished, so you can read straight through.

The 18 best Reincarnation novels on Royal Road

  1. Old Granny Gob - (A Goblins and Grandmas prompt entry)

    4.87 · 9 chapters · Completed

    Betty thought her life's last chapter would be taking care of her son and grandchildren. Inexplicably, fate had something else in mind for her. She is transferred to a world with a system. While this gives her a brand new lease on life…

  2. Empty Sea: SSS Villain Stuck in an NPC World

    4.80 · 50 chapters · Completed

    Dying was supposed to be the best thing that ever happened to Minokawa. In Empty Sea, an MMORPG brought to life, an isolated reincarnated player with overwhelming power discovers that the sentient game is turning him into its Demon King…

  3. Restart (Reborn as a Reluctant Demon Lord, Book 2)

    4.80 · 60 chapters · Completed

    This is book 2 of the series! If you haven't read book 1 (which you can find here then you should probably do that first to avoid spoiling yourself in the synopsis. But that's just a suggestion. If you want to be confused, go ahead. Have…

  4. Sublight Drive (Star Wars)

    4.80 · 105 chapters · Completed

    It is twenty-two years before the Battle of Yavin, and the galaxy is at war. Born to a not unimportant, not important planet in the Inner Rim, Rain never placed much thought into his future. After all, the galaxy is vast, and peaceful…

  5. Asheron's Fall: The Power of Ten, Book Six

    4.78 · 519 chapters · Completed

    Finished the Royal Road Writathon Challenge for April and November 2024, and April 2025! This story is complete at 518 chapters, ending May 1, 2025. The sixth of Aelryinth's soul shards is floating free, being brought down and into…

  6. Biracial Edgelord Can't Make Immortal : Power of Ten, Book Seven

    4.78 · 570 chapters · Completed

    This Book began May 2, 2025, and continues the story of the Shards of Aelryinth in other multiverses and worlds. Finisher in the October 2025 and April 2026 Writathon Challenges! ----------------- Shard Funf has been sent to yet another…

  7. The Lil Robot That Could [LitRPG Isekai Adventure]

    4.72 · 32 chapters · Completed

    Follow Dasher, the food delivery robot, as he fights to deliver food to hungry people, even though the journey is at times scary and perilous. Plagued with fading memories from his life before, he struggles to hold on to his humanity…

  8. An Unborn Hero

    4.71 · 93 chapters · Completed

    This is the tale of an epic battle between the embryo of a hero and the egg of a demon lord. Okay, so perhaps 'epic' is overselling it a bit, given that there are serious mobility issues on both sides of the conflict, but they're trying…

  9. Mirabelle's Boots - The Cruel Fairy’s Wish [A Shoe-Making litRPG!]

    4.67 · 31 chapters · Completed

    [I was reborn after being murdered because of the true wish that I made for revenge against all human-peoples, but now I’m alive again and I actually just kind of don’t want to do that anymore; so I opened a shoe-store instead!] Mirabelle…

  10. Kittypunk [Cyberpunk KitRPG]

    4.65 · 71 chapters · Completed

    She was the world’s greatest assassin. A silent threat, an unknown knife, the cause of a hundred mysterious deaths, all to feed her cats and pay her rent. And then she died. The last thing she expected was to be reborn... as a harmless…

  11. The Lucky Cat Dungeon

    4.61 · 68 chapters · Completed

    Ever since I was shoved into this dungeon by that divine feathery jerk, I've been assaulted by rats almost daily. I must have skipped the tutorial because this game menu keeps popping up whenever I want to do something and it keeps…

  12. Sporemageddon

    4.60 · 227 chapters · Completed

    Why survive the apocalypse when you can become the apocalypse? Nature is dying, but perhaps before the world is turned into an industrious machine nature itself can play one final trump card to save itself. Summoned to a new world, a…

  13. Our Little Dark Age

    4.59 · 130 chapters · Completed

    Elia is stuck in the maze, a near endless construct filled with undead & undeader. Rye is stuck inside her own head. Elia has the steering wheel for everything else you see, and she's adamant on driving her way. There's a very easy road…

  14. Everrain Reincarnation [LitRPG, action, adventure]

    4.58 · 86 chapters · Completed

    A madman, a rebel, a king, the king. While true, these are but empty titles. What I am is a cursed soul, damned to never rest, to experience death after death, and snatch moments of respite through skill and tenacity. And in this world of…

  15. Nobody's Hero [System Apocalypse LitRPG Progression Fantasy]

    by noct
    4.53 · 87 chapters · Completed

    There's one firm rule in Central City: everyone dies. Super strength, invulnerability, regeneration, everything else is on the table. Everything except immortality. After all, if anyone was immortal, then Alpha, the…

  16. Candlelit Lives {Serial Reincarnation LitRPG}

    4.49 · 89 chapters · Completed

    {Volume 1 Synopsis}: It is an exciting time for the people of the Eurial continent. The new [Mage] Class has allowed the powerful to begin uniting the fractured tribes and villages into kingdoms and civilization. A century on, and the…

  17. Six Souls [Isekai/LitRPG] [Complete]

    by Milc
    4.48 · 164 chapters · Completed

    DISCLAIMER: If you are one of the fives of people coming through to this page from the Shadow Light Press website, please be advised that I have annulled my contract with them under AZ law due to being given misleading and false…

  18. An Unbound Soul

    4.40 · 299 chapters · Completed

    When Peter suffers a too-close encounter with a truck, he finds himself reborn in another world. At first glance it is a perfect fantasy land. There's magic to play with, elves singing in the forest and a hyperactive catgirl neighbour…

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best Reincarnation novel on Royal Road?

Right now Old Granny Gob - (A Goblins and Grandmas prompt entry) by Capaluchu is the highest rated, with an average rating of 4.87 out of 5 and 9 chapters. Empty Sea: SSS Villain Stuck in an NPC World by D.M. Rhodes (Razzmatazz) comes next.

How are these stories ranked?

Stories are ordered by their average reader rating on Royal Road, and the guide is refreshed as ratings change.

Are there completed Reincarnation novels I can binge?

Yes, including Old Granny Gob - (A Goblins and Grandmas prompt entry), Empty Sea: SSS Villain Stuck in an NPC World and Restart (Reborn as a Reluctant Demon Lord, Book 2).

Where can I read these Reincarnation novels?

Every story is free to read on Royal Road. Open a story's page and use the Read button to go straight to it. FicGems doesn't host any chapters.

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