FicGemsTop 25 LitRPG + Sci-fi Novels on Royal Road (2026)
Updated November 2026 · ranked by average reader rating
LitRPG + Sci-fi Novels are among the most popular stories on Royal Road.
This guide ranks the best by average reader rating. The current top picks are Poll World [LitRPG][Reader Polls], The Ascension: Season 23 and There's Always Another Level (LitRPG + Sidekick Romp). Some of them are already finished, so you can binge without waiting for updates.
The 25 best LitRPG + Sci-fi novels on Royal Road
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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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The Ascension: Season 23
by Hoyle23Five thousand contestants enter. Three hundred advance. The whole world watches. The game begins long before the first level does. For twenty-two seasons, The Ascension has taken ordinary people and turned them into names the world…
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There's Always Another Level (LitRPG + Sidekick Romp)
Friends, it's time for a proper negative five-hundred to hero story. Zero to hero ain't gonna cut it. Far too often the main character is a capable but naïve bumpkin bouncing off the turnip truck at whatever magical academy made a…
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Aura Overload
by PlumParrotIn a crumbling empire ruled by cybernetic immortals, royal bodyguard Hector Finalis was betrayed, branded a traitor, and left for dead. Two centuries later, his lost neurodeck resurfaces in a scavenger haul, and he awakens in a fragile…
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Horizon's Edge [Space Opera/Sci-Fi | LitRPG]
by ZeeWulfehUpdates M-W-F Felix Conway is glitched. Waking adrift in a damaged space capsule, he has no memory of his past and the only clues to his identity are his uniform and a handful of personal belongings. Nestled among them is a photo of a…
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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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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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The Wardens of Eternity: Alice Rising
by Everseas(This is the second story in the Wardens of Eternity series and connects with 'One Dungeon to Rule them All') Blurb: They took everything from him, the life he knew, the people he cared for, his whole family. He will go to the end of the…
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Ghost in the City: Cyberpunk Gamer SI
by Seras⏸ On hiatus · No new chapter since Aug 13, 2026 (3 months ago).[This story has not been published on Amazon by me. Any copies found there are stolen] Night City, it's a place of endless wonders and horrors. Opportunities and dangers, but before Motoko Kusanagi can access any of them. She first has to…
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The Band - To the Mountains
by Shoelessme⏸ On hiatus · No new chapter since Aug 3, 2026 (3 months ago).Veterans, friends, companions. When the world gave up on them, they created a new one. This is that story. Includes: A virtual world that the occupants think and feel is real. At least while they are in it. Only 3 chapters are out of the…
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Sunny Days Endless Hell [Base-Building, Apocalyptic Slice of Life]
by ZarinthelThe world is corrupted by miasma, and a strange fog covers the sky. Blood still splattered everywhere from killing her first mutant zombie, Zan Xinyi becomes the unwilling host to her very own system: The 1 Gacha Game System. It doesn’t…
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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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The Call of the Hollow Men
An experimental AI that he doesn’t remember stealing, thrown an unknown number of years into the future and promptly enslaved, Mat decides that everything sucks, and people still do mean things to one another. But alien life has been…
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Systema Delenda Est
Get it on Amazon Book One: Invading The System When the System came to Earth, technology failed, monsters appeared, and billions died as humans were inducted into the game-like physics the System enforced. Unfortunately for the System…
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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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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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Sigiljack: Sci-Fantasy Cyberpunk LitRPG (Just hit Rising Stars!)
by Nate C.SIGILJACK Progression Sci-Fantasy Cyberpunk LitRPG Street-Samurai Combat x Dungeon Crawling Mana + Metal + Trauma Magic broke the world. Corporate greed broke him. John Ranson is a washed-up combat engineer with a glitching arm, dwindling…
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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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Bloodsworn
by Dominick RThe Dragons have been slain, the Giants pacified and the Elves have retreated to the depths of the old growth forests. The Dwarven forges quenched and stilled. Magic has fled from the world as the Empire of Man stands firm and tall above…
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New Gam3 Plus
by EphemeralityLevel up. Get stronger. Kill hostile aliens with the help of a friendly AI. Alan’s done it all before. Yet Earth is facing an impending invasion, and it might be his fault the government has already surrendered. Given another chance to…
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Battle Trucker
by TomWritesThe first book of Battle Trucker, What the Truck, is now available on Kindle Unlimited, Amazon, and as an Audiobook narrated by the fantastic Zura Johnson! A preview of book 1 (10%) is posted here, as is the in-progress book 2. Thanks for…
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Dungeon Planet: The Healer Always Leaves Alive
When a world falls through the false vacuum of its native universe, it ends up in the Spiral — an endless twisting helix of planets, stars, and civilizations, where a thousand different fundamental rules mix and blend to form the…
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One World Won't Do [World-Hopping LitRPG]
Nathaniel's succubus professor killed him last night. This morning, she's offering him unlimited power. As a detective back on Earth, he knows how to play dumb and asks what the catch is, before turning her down. Because what he wants is…
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The Rings of Jupiter [A Dark Cyberpunk LitRPG] (STUBBED)
by O.C. SaarBOOK 1 IS OUT ON AMAZON! --- Raziel is meant to be dead. He shouldn't have levels, skills, or a metal arm that throws lightning. But he does, and he's only just getting started. Once a legendary Gunslinger of the Outer Ring, Raziel has…
![Cover of Sunny Days Endless Hell [Base-Building, Apocalyptic Slice of Life]](/covers/thumb/52a74c1a-3ef2-4eae-a38e-4519584a45fd.webp)
![Cover of Havoc and the Cafeteria Queen [SCS (Stray Cat Strut) FF]](/covers/thumb/e3b650e5-4671-4fea-9442-d3853f43bb52.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 One World Won't Do [World-Hopping LitRPG]](/covers/thumb/748986c2-6d4f-47f5-8a71-cc074231bff1.webp)
![Cover of The Rings of Jupiter [A Dark Cyberpunk LitRPG] (STUBBED)](/covers/thumb/d2b0407e-5a37-47f3-b2bc-76a998387efa.webp)
More LitRPG + Sci-fi novels to explore
![Cover of Flesh of Gods [Book One Complete]](/covers/thumb/071beb22-6005-415b-8edb-0641a25ba70c.webp)
![Cover of Department of Otherworld Rescue [LitRPG, Isekai]](/covers/thumb/3cffdbf1-4c9d-41f6-a87a-e47338a4d7ec.webp)
![Cover of My Big Goblin Space Program [STUBBED]](/covers/thumb/71ef5277-0890-446a-a036-d745112e7f7a.webp)
![Cover of Gamma Protocol [LitRPG, Cyberpunk]](/covers/thumb/e7b6ef62-611b-4b1d-a10f-9836e65040e3.webp)
![Cover of No More Heroes [Superhero LitRPG]](/covers/thumb/286f0130-3767-43e2-b58f-b2bacf8f00c9.webp)
![Cover of The Weaveborn Saga [SciFi, LitRPG]](/covers/thumb/d07f712e-5d82-41a1-ac03-0bd6901f07e4.webp)
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Frequently asked questions
What is the best LitRPG + Sci-fi novel on Royal Road?
Right now Poll World [LitRPG][Reader Polls] by BirdBugBooks is the highest rated, with an average rating of 4.86 out of 5 and 47 chapters. The Ascension: Season 23 by Hoyle23 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 + Sci-fi novels I can binge?
Yes, including The Call of the Hollow Men, Systema Delenda Est and Engineer's Odyssey.
Where can I read these LitRPG + Sci-fi 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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