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Top 25 Progression + Portal Fantasy / Isekai Novels on Royal Road (2026)

Updated November 2026 · ranked by average reader rating

Progression + Portal Fantasy / Isekai Novels are among the most popular stories on Royal Road.

This guide ranks the best by average reader rating. The current top picks are Ashes of Vaeltharion: Burden of Fate, Fallen Lands and Queen of Swords. Some of them are already finished, so you can binge without waiting for updates.

The 25 best Progression + Portal Fantasy / Isekai novels on Royal Road

  1. Ashes of Vaeltharion: Burden of Fate

    by SteveHarthun
    4.88 · 7 chapters

    Update: 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…

    ActionAdventure Anti-Hero LeadDungeon CrawlerGrimdark

  2. Fallen Lands

    by C.Peinhopf
    4.87 · 7 chapters

    This is the primary ongoing fiction page for Fallen Lands. Books 1-3 are available on Kindle Unlimited and Audible - Siren's Reach will be available in audio early Feb. Please be aware that reading this Synopsis or any portion of this…

    ActionAdventure Female LeadGameLitHigh Fantasy

  3. Queen of Swords

    by Lucendi
    4.83 · 13 chapters

    Derrick Johansen had been preparing to buckle down for the afternoon with a nice enjoyable game Crusader Kings II. Never in his wildest dreams had he been expecting to end up in the place of the ruler he had chosen when he started the…

    AdventureDrama Female LeadGameLitGender Bender

  4. Horizon's Edge [Space Opera/Sci-Fi | LitRPG]

    by ZeeWulfeh
    4.82 · 34 chapters · Ongoing

    Updates 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…

    ActionAdventure LitRPGMale LeadPortal Fantasy / Isekai

  5. Endless Delirium [Grimdark, Dungeon Crawler] (Book 1 Written)

    by Stygon
    4.81 · 81 chapters · Ongoing

    [Note: By popular request, I’m clarifying that the feather on the cover is a weapon, NOT a quill. This will make more sense at Chapter 2] The Fifth Integration begins. Descending upon Earth and the Fifth Universe as a whole, an infantile…

    ActionAdventure ApocalypseDungeon CrawlerDystopia

  6. Faith in Numbers: Ring Around the Rose [Cult-Building LitRPG]

    by Cosmic Blizzard, shalizadad
    4.81 · 52 chapters · Ongoing

    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…

    ActionAdventure Anti-Hero LeadArtificial IntelligenceFemale Lead

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

    by D.M. Rhodes (Razzmatazz)
    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…

    AdventureFantasy ApocalypseAttractive LeadChivalry

  8. Periapt [Survival in the world of a Cursed CRPG, Progression, Crafting, LitRPG] (ON HIATUS UNTIL PART III FINISHED)

    by lost_rambler
    4.80 · 34 chapters · Hiatus
    ⏸ On hiatus · No new chapter since Sep 17, 2026 (7 weeks ago).

    Return to Periapt had been an internet rumor, a creepypasta about a cursed computer game hidden on an old CD-ROM that could be found in the strangest of places. The game was about explorers on a wild continent of magic beasts, wagon…

    AdventureFantasy CraftingLitRPGMale Lead

  9. Instead of Becoming an Adventurer, I Chose to Fish

    by apinsig
    4.79 · 33 chapters · Ongoing

    Earth did not end in a man-made disaster. It ended when mana flooded in, changing everything. Ray Wilson was just a man running a small construction business, spending his free time on the thing he loved most, fishing. When the mana…

    ActionAdventure CraftingHigh FantasyLitRPG

  10. Leave Luck to Heaven [LitRPG]

    by Bavitz
    4.79 · 33 chapters · Ongoing

    Sometimes you're too good for your own good. Trash-talking speedrunner Hague learns that the hard way after he makes a particularly outrageous boast on stream: "I'm better than anyone, even God." Turns out, a god was listening. Now, as…

    ActionAdventure ChivalryGameLitHigh Fantasy

  11. A Cursed Cleaning [STUBBED!]

    by Ellen Taylor
    4.78 · 2 chapters

    THIS ENTIRE BOOK WILL BE STUBBING ON AUGUST 15th, 2025 “In seven days, they will come. In seven days, they will destroy. If you want to survive, you must get your house in order. Follow your to-do list, and you will be protected.” She…

    FantasyHorror Female LeadGameLitLitRPG

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

    by RE Druin
    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…

    ActionAdventure Attractive LeadFemale LeadGameLit

  13. Get Trucked: A LitRPG Road Trip

    by longwindedone1
    4.78 · 8 chapters

    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…

    ActionAdventure Anti-Hero LeadLitRPGLocal Protagonist

  14. A Hive of Bone and Chitin [A Biomancy and Hivemind Litrpg Adventure]

    by Vareniya
    4.77 · 70 chapters

    When an extradimensional invasion destroyed Earth, Anya did not die. Being isekai’d? That was fine. But why did it have to be a world where every god dumped their heroes? To be Godtouched is to be an omen of unrest and calamity for the…

    AdventureFantasy Female LeadLitRPGPortal Fantasy / Isekai

  15. Blood, Bath, and Beyond [Crafting LitRPG]

    by Hesketh II
    4.76 · 19 chapters · Ongoing

    Isekai’ed and offered a dark and terrible power? Nah. Tell the system to get lost and head to the countryside to make magic soap! Rachel never wanted to be the ‘Dark Enchantress’. Sacrificing the still-beating hearts of peasants to gain…

    ActionAdventure CraftingFemale LeadLitRPG

  16. The Calamitous Bob (stubbed)

    by Mecanimus
    4.76 · 149 chapters

    This story has been stubbed in order to be released via Kindle Select. The world of Nyil, with its monsters, its knights and its mildly sociopathic gods. Come and see! A soul flees and a soul arrives, blessed by luck. Will she survive?…

    ActionAdventure Female LeadKingdom BuildingLitRPG

  17. Spirit System -Book Two-Rise of the Dragon Rangers

    by G.S. Striker
    4.75 · 43 chapters · Ongoing

    The realm needs dragons to fight the darkness. Unfortunately, their minds are still those of six month old babies. Despite the challenges, Ash and Bree are growing stronger. That is, until Ash no longer knows who he is. The Witch Queen…

    ActionAdventure CraftingGameLitHigh Fantasy

  18. The Art of Seeking Gold

    by LoveMoney
    4.75 · 67 chapters · Ongoing

    Japanese translatation: This story is about: an internet troll and "critic" who gets transported into the manga she trash-talked online, and now she must save it from the apocalypse.The twist? People back in her own world are reading and…

    DramaPsychological Attractive LeadFemale LeadLesbian Romance

  19. The Far Place

    by R.C. Joshua
    4.75 · 4 chapters

    Clayton was here, and now he finds himself elsewhere in the most dangerous way possible. Arriving on another world and getting a class were normal compared to where he is now… Standing at the edge of the rules of reality, dithering on the…

    ActionAdventure LitRPGMagicPortal Fantasy / Isekai

  20. (B2 Stubbing Nov. 10th) New Life as a Max Level Archmage

    by ArcaneCadence
    4.74 · 148 chapters

    Book one is available on Kindle Unlimited and Audible. Vivienne has poured so many hours into the massively popular MMO The Seven Cataclysms that she has more of a life inside the game than out. It's a fitting irony, then, when one day…

    AdventureComedy Female LeadGameLitHigh Fantasy

  21. Beware the Trickster (An Occult Progression LitRPG)

    by Mangowo
    4.72 · 18 chapters

    Life 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…

    ActionAdventure Anti-Hero LeadAttractive LeadFemale Lead

  22. Dragon Spar: The Game Maker LitRPG Series [Fantasy, Post-Apocalyptic LitRPG - Book 1 Complete, Book 2 Updating]

    by keeganashleylive
    4.72 · 57 chapters

    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…

    DramaFantasy Anti-Hero LeadDystopiaFemale Lead

  23. Hell's Wonderland

    by ArcanePigeon
    4.72 · 19 chapters

    Welcome to Hell’s Wonderland Online! Where everything is trying to kill you. Vorpalia has been drooling over the FDVRMMORPG for years now, and after finally being able to play it and enact her long held dream of becoming a dragon, she…

    ActionAdventure Female LeadGrimdarkHigh Fantasy

  24. RE: Deity - The Breath of Creation - [Stubbed]

    by Infamous Goose
    4.72 · 156 chapters

    Book 1 Available on Amazon! Book 1 Stubbed November 19th Synopsis: Sometimes the multiverse needs expanding. That's where I come in. Unfortunately being a deity isn't all fun and games, as there are always things working against you. Not…

    ActionAdventure Attractive LeadCultivationDungeon Core

  25. Song of the Gift-Giver

    by Selkie
    4.72 · 96 chapters · Ongoing

    When Merlin sundered the world, splitting the magical from the mundane, he made a small mistake. He copied everything over as it was, to create the same world for wixen to live in. But in his great copying, he also copied over the bodies…

    ActionDrama Attractive LeadGrimdarkHigh Fantasy

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best Progression + Portal Fantasy / Isekai novel on Royal Road?

Right now Ashes of Vaeltharion: Burden of Fate by SteveHarthun is the highest rated, with an average rating of 4.88 out of 5 and 7 chapters. Fallen Lands by C.Peinhopf 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 Progression + Portal Fantasy / Isekai novels I can binge?

Yes, including Empty Sea: SSS Villain Stuck in an NPC World, Biracial Edgelord Can't Make Immortal : Power of Ten, Book Seven and The Lil Robot That Could [LitRPG Isekai Adventure].

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