FicGemsTop 25 LitRPG + Anti-Hero Lead Novels on Royal Road (2026)
Updated November 2026 · ranked by average reader rating
LitRPG + Anti-Hero Lead Novels are among the most popular stories on Royal Road.
This guide ranks the best by average reader rating. The current top picks are Seeking Strays, Ashes of Vaeltharion: Burden of Fate and Poll World [LitRPG][Reader Polls]. Some of them are already finished, so you can binge without waiting for updates.
The 25 best LitRPG + Anti-Hero Lead novels on Royal Road
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Seeking Strays
by Lost RainProtect my sister. That’s all that ever mattered to me. Come hell or high water, I’d do anything if it meant my sweet little sister could have just one more day of a peaceful life. Anything. There was just one issue—I was burning the…
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Ashes of Vaeltharion: Burden of Fate
by SteveHarthunUpdate: Ashes of Vaeltharion: Burden of Fate is being stubbed ahead of its March 10 release on Amazon. To comply with Kindle Unlimited exclusivity, most chapters have been removed from Royal Road. The full book is now available on Amazon…
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Poll World [LitRPG][Reader Polls]
by BirdBugBooksReality was a disaster. Welcome to the upgrade. LEO is a psychotic entertainment AI specializing in reality television. He's also God now. In the name of perpetual entertainment, he's turned the world into a LitRPG death game. Don't…
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Shadowswarm Summoner: A Worldhopping Deckbuilder LitRPG
by SmilingSatyrShadow Wizard Ambrose always has a scheme, but this time, he's going for gold. The target: a Wildcard, a rare, powerful card that becomes whatever your deck needs most. Yes, technically headmaster Charles Vanderborn has already promised…
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Faith in Numbers: Ring Around the Rose [Cult-Building LitRPG]
If he can’t have magic, he’ll give them madness. Sid is perfect on paper… brilliant, disciplined, a natural leader. Too bad he can’t cast a single spell. Magic needs connection. Sid feels connected to nothing. To the powers that be at his…
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Myth//OS
by Lost Rain⏸ On hiatus · No new chapter since Jun 18, 2026 (5 months ago).What’s left when it all falls apart? Where do I go when the path forward is blocked? How do people just move on like nothing ever happened? A change in location certainly helped me. Bastion, the last hope of civilization. It's bright…
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Restart (Reborn as a Reluctant Demon Lord, Book 2)
by TitusGMThis 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…
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Get Trucked: A LitRPG Road Trip
This book is now available on Amazon in every format. The pre-order is now available on Audible. - - - Ever wonder why you hear about so many people getting hit by trucks? Yeah. That’s me. My name is Max. State Trooper by day, and Endr by…
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Havoc and the Cafeteria Queen [SCS (Stray Cat Strut) FF]
⏸ On hiatus · No new chapter since Sep 25, 2026 (6 weeks ago).This is in fact two stories set on opposite sides of a river in the SCS 'verse. On one side, a nameless old man sitting vigil for his dying wife gets caught in an Antithesis Incursion and takes the opportunity to put decades of studying…
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Rock falls, everyone dies
by zechampBy a stroke of fate, a stone gains sentience and sets out on a grand quest to touch grass. However, the system forgot to change its stats from their [Metric] values to the appropriate [Str, Int, Dex] values. Things escalate. Fast…
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Super Villain System[Super Villain Litrpg]
by vVip3rzzzSomething is really, really wrong with the world. Beyond the eldritch horror encroaching from beyond and the invasive species of man-eating aliens, something about the Federation of Man just isn't right. Superheroes aren't much of heroes…
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The Core Problem
by MirrondIzuku Midoriya was busy recovering from the aftermath of his battle with Overhaul when suddenly he found himself transported to another world... together with Tomura Shigaraki, the man who has tried to kill him and his friends multiple…
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Acolyte VS Adjudicator: Fallout [Book 1 Complete]
Someone needs to destroy the planet. Someone else has to save it. Humanity loses either way. Lenora Graves was picked for her last name—and little else. She wakes up dead and gainfully employed. Her new job? Lead the zombie apocalypse and…
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Murder in the Temple (LitRPG | Progression Fantasy)
by MaloryWelcome to Soar, where your Level, your Class, and your god decide how you live and how you die. Unless you’re Jana Lowe. Then you're all kinds of screwed. Murder in the Temple (stubbed Dec 25) Death of a Curator (stubbed Feb 2) The…
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Shoggoth (An SCS fanfic) | Or a science experiment journey to becoming an Eldritch Abomination.
by Ren_The_TURK⏸ On hiatus · No new chapter since Jul 16, 2026 (4 months ago).Stuck in a Janitor Droid body, a lost mind fractured by fate becomes awakened during and Incursion. Join our titular MC on its journey from being a cross between a Dalek and a astromech unit with only cleaning tools to an immortal…
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Teddy Bears on Brigade [A SCS Fanfiction]
Chapters released Mon/Wed/Fri. Evelyn "Teddy" Claire is a street kid just trying to make ends meet. That's hard to do when you live in the undercity, a near slum found underneath the foundations of the megacity of Calgary. Usually, her…
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The Cabin Is Always Hungry (A Dungeon Core Horror Slasher)
by HoppyCobaltMark Castle loves horror movies. But when he died in the hands of a cult, he is reincarnated and forced to become a dungeon core… And makes his domain as a lonely cabin in the woods. With newfound powers, he starts his revenge on the…
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Warlock of Ashmedai: The City of God [Progression fantasy/LitRPG]
by FoamKnight“Collect souls. Grow stronger. The continent depends on it.” Oak fears his own lust for war. Sadly for him, all of Pairi-Daeza stands upon the edge of a knife. Angels and demons weave their plots in the long shadows cast by the corpse of…
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Beware the Trickster (An Occult Progression LitRPG)
by MangowoLife was perfect: naps in sunbeams, stolen snacks and expertly timed "accidents" to torment her favorite human. So, when licking a strangely alluring gemstone on an old mask suddenly flooded her fuzzy head with memories of her former…
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Dragon Spar: The Game Maker LitRPG Series [Fantasy, Post-Apocalyptic LitRPG - Book 1 Complete, Book 2 Updating]
What happened when my Dad was plucked from this universe and kidnapped into a post-apocalyptic, gritty fantasy, video-game-like world? I went after him, of course. Things turned dark. Lies swarmed thicker than the zombies and dragons…
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Eldritch Exorcist
by HastumThere isn't just a grain of truth behind superstition. It's a boulder of truth, and it's about to roll onto the world. The world has forgotten the ancient ways of magic, ritual, and the occult. The arcane power that was once abundant is…
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Level One Zombie [A Dungeon Crawler LitRPG]
Frank isn’t exactly a model citizen. He's also not here to save Earth; he just wants his favorite curse word back. Too bad the World Dungeon drops him in as a zombie with a level cap of 1 and a profanity filter that turns every F-bomb…
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Surprisingly Enough(NOT), Common Sense Is Overpowered in Cliché Cultivation World
Ning finds himself reborn in the world of cultivation. However, as he embarks on this new life, he gradually becomes aware of something amiss. It dawns on him that this realm revolves around a select few individuals, the so-called…
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Re: Villain (to Hero) [LitRPG | Progression | Tower]
by bor902To survive, Nihil became a necromancer. He waded through rivers of blood and collected an army of corpses to storm the upper floors of the tower. Tragedy struck on the 99th floor however and progression became impossible. His only ally?…
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Vainqueur the Dragon
Vainqueur now has a Webtoon adaptation! It is now available on Amazon! Book 1 (Audiobook 1), Book 2 (Audiobook 2), Book 3 (Audiobook 3), Book 4 (audiobook 4). Vainqueur Knightsbane is your average dragon: a giant, fire-breathing lizard…
![Cover of Havoc and the Cafeteria Queen [SCS (Stray Cat Strut) FF]](/covers/thumb/e3b650e5-4671-4fea-9442-d3853f43bb52.webp)
![Cover of Super Villain System[Super Villain Litrpg]](/covers/thumb/1546e821-a552-4564-b586-cead9b19a97c.webp)
![Cover of Acolyte VS Adjudicator: Fallout [Book 1 Complete]](/covers/thumb/ad5592ef-d012-4b3f-8727-10a31cc0f691.webp)
![Cover of Teddy Bears on Brigade [A SCS Fanfiction]](/covers/thumb/9148588d-fcdb-442e-88b4-a6b32957728f.webp)
![Cover of Warlock of Ashmedai: The City of God [Progression fantasy/LitRPG]](/covers/thumb/96950e12-c417-4140-9d93-7c2563231639.webp)
![Cover of Dragon Spar: The Game Maker LitRPG Series [Fantasy, Post-Apocalyptic LitRPG - Book 1 Complete, Book 2 Updating]](/covers/thumb/24bfa6c9-3214-4941-932a-014a8aec1d23.webp)
![Cover of Level One Zombie [A Dungeon Crawler LitRPG]](/covers/thumb/e6a9222f-99ef-4407-aa4e-91f694f2ea91.webp)
![Cover of Re: Villain (to Hero) [LitRPG | Progression | Tower]](/covers/thumb/f21c8f16-8d70-44da-acd9-2b1fdf4b46b6.webp)
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Frequently asked questions
What is the best LitRPG + Anti-Hero Lead novel on Royal Road?
Right now Seeking Strays by Lost Rain is the highest rated, with an average rating of 4.89 out of 5 and 82 chapters. Ashes of Vaeltharion: Burden of Fate by SteveHarthun 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 LitRPG + Anti-Hero Lead novels I can binge?
Yes, including Restart (Reborn as a Reluctant Demon Lord, Book 2), Rock falls, everyone dies and A Farm Girl's Guide to Necromancy (Redux).
Where can I read these LitRPG + Anti-Hero Lead novels?
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