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Dungeon Devotee

Dungeon Devotee

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Psychological LitRPG Male Lead Strong Lead Magic GameLit High Fantasy Dungeon Progression
6,788 Followers
277 Pages
317,180 Views
13 Chapters
Monday, August 1, 2022 8:28:40 PM

Through all of Linaria, no dungeon holds such a grip on the dreams of men as the Eternal Depths.  Hundreds throw themselves against its trials each day.  Dozens survive, walking away with power and wealth beyond their wildest dreams… until they go back for more.  One way or another, they all eventually feed the Depths.

Edmund Montgomery Ahab has sworn to destroy it.

Underleveled, undertrained, and underprepared, Edmund steps into the maw of the world’s greatest predator, a sword in his hand and vengeance on his mind.  At first his task seems impossible, but with every level he earns, every piece of loot that drops, every secret he uncovers, and especially every bit of power he can squeeze from his mysterious connection to the Aspect of Madness, Edmund crawls closer to accomplishing that insurmountable feat.

With nothing else to lose, Edmund has already given the Depths his life.  All that remains to be seen is whether he takes the dungeon’s right back.


Dungeon Devotee is an episodic serial.  It will never be taken down for KU.  Each chapter details a single floor of Edmund’s journey through the vast Eternal Depths, with all the levels and loot and lack of cliffhangers that entails.  New chapters come out on the first of each month.

Sunflower : [A sunflower based litRPG]

Sunflower : [A sunflower based litRPG]

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Psychological LitRPG Portal Fantasy / Isekai Harem Slice of Life Supernatural Male Lead Female Lead Strong Lead Non-Human Lead Secret Identity Magic Strategy High Fantasy Dungeon Progression Attractive Lead
2,508 Followers
147 Pages
188,269 Views
23 Chapters
Sunday, August 7, 2022 5:48:00 AM

Hello. I am a sunflower.

Are you a sunflower too?

Well, it doesn't really matter. Today is a calm day. The wind is warm. I do not know why I am alive, but do you want to look at the sun together with me?

- I am a sunflower.

[Updates Sundays]

12 Miles Below

12 Miles Below

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-fi Supernatural Male Lead Strong Lead Magic Grimdark Dungeon Post Apocalyptic Dystopia Progression Artificial Intelligence
5,019 Followers
1,753 Pages
1,623,783 Views
142 Chapters
Monday, August 1, 2022 4:02:15 PM

The world is in ruins. 

Extreme sub-zero temperatures suffocate the surface, making even simple survival an ordeal. Frozen derelicts of bygone eras span across massive ice wastes. And the elite few hoard any technology rediscovered within.

The only escape from the deadly climate is beneath the surface. But it’s another disaster underground. Monstrous machines lurk in the depths. Unhinged demigods war against them, dying over and over, treating it all like a game. The land itself shifts over time, more contraption than rock. And an ominous prophecy states that the key to everything waits at the last level - but nobody’s ever reached that far. 

When an expedition into the far uncharted north goes terribly wrong,  Keith Winterscar and his father get trapped together in a desperate fight for survival. Stumbling upon an ancient power struggle of titanic scale; the two will need to set their differences aside while they struggle against Gods, legends, and the grand secrets of the realm that lies below.



Updating Monday and Thursdays.

Discord can be found here (This is a shared discord server with other books.)
WARNING: This series is ridiculously filled with spoilers, every book has multiple reveals. Discord was made for up-to-date readers since there's no way to really police spoilers.
Don't join until you're current!!

Dungeon Life

Dungeon Life

Original Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy LitRPG Portal Fantasy / Isekai Slice of Life Magic Dungeon Progression
7,500 Followers
407 Pages
1,392,694 Views
72 Chapters
Monday, August 8, 2022 7:44:24 PM

A normal guy gets hit by a truck and isekai'd.  Why?  Because trucks are apparently some cosmic loophole.  He decides to be a dungeon, because it sounds weird and interesting to be one.  Is it?  Let's find out.

Updates Monday and Thursday.

Cover by the talented and very cool Vitaly S Alexus

FINAL CORE : [A holy dungeon-core litRPG]

FINAL CORE : [A holy dungeon-core litRPG]

Original Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy LitRPG Reincarnation Portal Fantasy / Isekai Gender Bender Slice of Life Supernatural Male Lead Female Lead Strong Lead Non-Human Lead Magic Anti-Hero Lead Strategy High Fantasy Dungeon Progression Attractive Lead
4,926 Followers
381 Pages
543,603 Views
45 Chapters
Tuesday, August 9, 2022 5:38:59 PM

[I died and was accidentally reborn as an angelic monstrosity, so now I’m building a holy dungeon-tower that is tall enough to reach the gods; so that I can complain about it! But the humans think that I am trying to destroy the world.]

[Dungeon-Core] [litRPG] [Base-building]

Goblin Cave

Goblin Cave

Original Fantasy Non-Human Lead Magic GameLit Dungeon
3,604 Followers
253 Pages
319,899 Views
34 Chapters
Wednesday, August 3, 2022 11:00:33 PM

[Goblin Cave] is a perfectly average Dungeon that becomes unsatisfied with its work.

A Dearth of Choice (Dungeon Core)

A Dearth of Choice (Dungeon Core)

Original Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy LitRPG Reincarnation Supernatural Non-Human Lead Magic GameLit High Fantasy Dungeon
2,808 Followers
339 Pages
167,924 Views
14 Chapters
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 8:54:54 PM

A young dungeon core forms next to a lovely village, full of lovely people who would likely understand its plight of not wanting to murder them all if only it had a mouth with which to speak. Instead, everything goes horribly, terribly wrong.

Its literally a crystal, it can't be having a panic attack, can it?

This is the story about a village, a dungeon, its desire to provide light and laughter and life. It tries to choose the talents and perks to bolster its life-mana alignment every time, to further its cause. So how is it that it wound up with an undead army and some insane boosts to death-aligned mana? How did everything go so wrong?

[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge]

Never Die Twice

Never Die Twice

Original Fantasy LitRPG Male Lead Strong Lead Secret Identity Dungeon Mythos Villainous Lead
6,979 Followers
506 Pages
1,951,824 Views
42 Chapters
Tuesday, August 17, 2021 1:02:51 PM
Now available on Amazon Kindle! 


Walter Tye is the best friend any adventurer needs. He is the smiling shopkeeper next to your local dungeon, the one who sells you these cheap healing potions. When you need information about a monster, Tye always knows. He wants to help; you can trust him.


He is also the undead necromancer ruling said dungeon, getting paid to solve problems that he caused in the first place. But don't tell anyone that... 


Story sponsored by knightaether.
The Dungeon Without a System

The Dungeon Without a System

Original Adventure Fantasy Non-Human Lead Magic High Fantasy Dungeon Genetically Engineered Progression
4,291 Followers
408 Pages
709,041 Views
47 Chapters
Saturday, July 30, 2022 4:13:59 AM

The unnamed main character wakes up as a Dungeon Core. Instead of being deep within the earth or in a cave, this newly-minted Dungeon Core finds himself drifting to the beach of an uncharted and uninhabited island.

Watch as he explores the uses of mana, defends himself from people trying to kill him and confuses the hell out of all the humans who attempt to understand just why he's different from other dungeons.

DISCLAIMER: I have only posted my novel to Sufficient Velocity and RoyalRoad. If you see it on any other site; THAT IS NOT ME. This story is free and until I decide to publish it will remain that way.

Cinnamon Bun

Cinnamon Bun

Original Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy LitRPG Portal Fantasy / Isekai Slice of Life Female Lead Magic Steampunk Dungeon
6,265 Followers
2,529 Pages
6,320,395 Views
340 Chapters
Tuesday, August 9, 2022 3:01:47 PM

The world called out for a hero to purge it of a great evil. It received Broccoli Bunch, explorer, expert cleaner, occasional ghost-buster, and full time Cinnamon Bun. 

 

Features include:

Talking enemies into becoming friends
Hugging menu boxes
Awesome overpowered skills (such as Cleaning, and Gardening)
And more adventure than you could shake a stick at! 

 Follow Broccoli on her personal quest to make all the friends. All of them.


Updates: Monday, Wednesday, Friday!

Now Available in ebook and paperback formats here:

Volume One - Amazon

Volume Two - Amazon

Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 5: The Hunting Grounds

Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 5: The Hunting Grounds

Original Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy LitRPG Supernatural Male Lead Strong Lead Non-Human Lead Magic Strategy Grimdark GameLit Low Fantasy Dungeon Post Apocalyptic
6,939 Followers
24 Pages
188,162 Views
4 Chapters
Tuesday, January 7, 2020 4:00:02 AM

Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 1 is now on Amazon! 
mybook.to/dungeoncrawlercarl

Book 2 is also now available! 
mybook.to/dungeoncrawlercarl2

Royal Road and Patreon is where to get the newest chapters and releases. 

The apocalypse will be televised!

A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible.

In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground.

The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe.

Only a few dare venture inside. But once you're in, you can't get out. And what's worse, each level has a time limit. You have but days to find a staircase to the next level down, or it's game over. In this game, it's not about your strength or your dexterity. It's about your followers, your views. Your clout. It's about building an audience and killing those goblins with style.

You can't just survive here. You gotta survive big.

You gotta fight with vigor, with excitement. You gotta make them stand up and cheer. And if you do have that "it" factor, you may just find yourself with a following. That's the only way to truly survive in this game—with the help of the loot boxes dropped upon you by the generous benefactors watching from across the galaxy.

They call it Dungeon Crawler World. But for Carl, it's anything but a game.

DCC Discord! 

10/01/20

The first several chapters of DCC are now off of Royal Road because the book is on Amazon. I want to thank all of you for 9 months of amazing support. This is and Patreon will always be the place for the newest chapters and content, but to comply with Amazon's Kindle Unlimited policy, I can't have more than 10% of the story up here. 

 

 

This is a work in progress. Major editing will be done after the book is complete, so there will be egregious typos and parts that make no sense whatsoever. Please, please feel free to point any and all of these things out. Chapters WILL get edited, and that editing might break earlier chapters. I will attempt to keep readers apprised of all changes. Updates one-two days a week. 

Blue Core

Blue Core

Original Action Adventure Fantasy LitRPG Non-Human Lead Magic Dungeon
12,196 Followers
2,875 Pages
11,668,216 Views
250 Chapters
Saturday, May 28, 2022 4:32:26 PM

Read the series on Amazon!

Dungeon: A place full of monsters, traps, treasure, and death. Those are the Great Dungeons, with unplumbed depths below the roots of the mountains.

That's not for me.

Dungeon: A place of rape, torture, and death, to control and corral enemies and slaves. These are the Red Cores, from which the mage-kings draw their power.

That's also not for me.

I don't like monsters. I don't want adventurers. I want to stay well away from enemies and slaves.

Fortunately, there are alternatives...

(Includes explicit and consensual sexual content. Chapters containing such will be marked.)

Join our Discord!

Sporemageddon

Sporemageddon

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Tragedy LitRPG Reincarnation Portal Fantasy / Isekai Slice of Life Strong Lead Magic Urban Fantasy Steampunk Dungeon Ruling Class Dystopia Progression
5,127 Followers
352 Pages
714,105 Views
68 Chapters
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 3:01:56 PM

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 mushroom loving mycologist needs to grow up and grow stronger in order to accomplish the goal which brought them to this new place: to save nature from the system that the sentient races have created.

Stats, levels, classes and skills are all well and good, but when you’re a Child of Poverty in the slums of City Nineteen, there’s little you can do to change the world. Not unless you’re willing to think outside the box!


This story contains lots of cute stuff, but also some tragedy. If you’re expecting it to be as light and carefree as Cinnamon Bun or Heart of Dorkness, you might find yourself disappointed.

This Used to be About Dungeons

This Used to be About Dungeons

Original Adventure Fantasy Slice of Life Multiple Lead Characters Magic High Fantasy Dungeon
3,008 Followers
2,321 Pages
1,217,252 Views
126 Chapters
Tuesday, August 9, 2022 3:21:50 PM

This Used to be About Dungeons is a comfy slice-of-life adventuring story that occasionally features dungeons. Updates Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Mostly it's about walking in the woods with a friend, looking for mushrooms to put in your soup, or haggling with the guy selling squash, or taking care of a neglected garden. It's putting some jam on shortbread biscuits. And yes, sometimes you go down into the dungeons with your friends, and you kill monsters there, or disarm traps, but when you come out, you realize you've found the perfect magic item to give to one of the local kids that helped you out when your cat was sick. Look, the dungeons are always going to be there, and sometimes you need to make a journey to one of the Spirit Gates, or make a pilgrimage with the local Cleric of Symmetry to a holy shrine. Your tour through the local dungeons can wait. You'll have rivalries with other groups, and find some dungeon eggs that need to be carefully incubated in case they turn out to be something valuable, and help a friend to build a fishing weir. There's a big world out there, a mostly tame place with lots of magic, and even more to do and see. Join me, won't you?

The cover image is Morning Sunlight Effect, Eragny, by Camille Pissarro.

A Lonely Dungeon

A Lonely Dungeon

Original Adventure Fantasy Mystery LitRPG Non-Human Lead Magic GameLit High Fantasy Dungeon Post Apocalyptic
3,590 Followers
213 Pages
630,004 Views
24 Chapters
Monday, March 8, 2021 7:31:52 AM

When a new dungeon is born, it wants nothing more than to have the most vicious monsters, the most cunning traps and the most shiny of loot. There is only one problem, but it's a rather big one; it finished its first floor years ago, but it still hasn't been visited by any adventurers! In order to find someone or something to explore its floors, or perhaps just to find someone to talk to, this dungeon will have to go way off script. But it soon discovers that going off script brings problems of its own, and that adventurers are not the only thing this world is missing.

A shortish story about a dungeon's journey of exploration and self-discovery in a devastated world. Cover made (poorly) with POV-Ray.

Prequel to An Unbound Soul

Published here, scribblehub and amazon.

Double-Blind: A Modern LITRPG

Double-Blind: A Modern LITRPG

Original Adventure Fantasy Psychological Mystery LitRPG Male Lead Anti-Hero Lead GameLit Low Fantasy Dungeon Dystopia
8,020 Followers
793 Pages
1,965,038 Views
118 Chapters
Tuesday, August 9, 2022 11:09:52 PM

Choosing a college when your family is struggling can be difficult, but it isn’t supposed to be world ending. And the falling meteor is seriously limiting Matt’s options. 

Now in the aftermath, his home city is locked down by a mysterious dome, corporations are looking to monopolize a wealth of new untapped resources, and people are suddenly developing powers via a system that seems to have borderline sinister intentions. In the chaos, he decides to stick to what he knows: stay out of the spotlight, grind, and survive.

Watch as Matt is dragged into a dark LITRPG set in the real world, where the price of failure is death, and the prize for winning is beyond his wildest dreams. 

++++++++++++++++++

There’s a couple big influences here: Solo-Leveling, Squid Game, and Code Geass. If you enjoy LITRPG stories with morally gray characters, high stakes, and smart protagonists who start weak and eventually become powerful in a unique way, you’ll probably find something to like. But be forewarned. It won’t be easy.

I'll be writing this fast, so keep in mind there's likely to be typos that we'll correct as we go.

Developmental Editing by Lev.

The Hedge Wizard

The Hedge Wizard

Original Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Male Lead Magic Grimdark GameLit High Fantasy Dungeon Progression
6,941 Followers
829 Pages
1,389,000 Views
93 Chapters
Tuesday, August 9, 2022 9:06:59 PM

Book 1 is now available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited and Audible.

A Dungeons and Dragons inspired adventure with a realism-focused spin on gamelit.

Hump grew up believing his master was nothing but an ordinary hedge wizard. However when the old man unexpectedly dies, his book of spells binds to Hump’s soul. Now without a master, Hump sets off to find his place in the world, to discover the secrets of magic, and to understand the Book of Infinite Pages.

Book 1 and 2 are now complete.

Updates Tuesday and Saturday.

Discord: https://discord.gg/RNJWmVJVwx

ARMOR

ARMOR

Original Action Adventure Drama Fantasy Strong Lead Non-Human Lead Secret Identity Magic High Fantasy Dungeon
3,441 Followers
37 Pages
122,680 Views
6 Chapters
Wednesday, July 20, 2022 1:01:04 PM

I was created as the ultimate dungeon trap: a living suit of armor that devours any adventurer who dons me. My master created me for his entertainment, leading adventurers to ruin and betraying them at the last moment. This time will be no different. 

Or so I thought. 

Now I'm living the life of an adventurer. Hopefully, my companions won't realize I'm not who, or what, they think I am.

*Stubbed as of 7/7/2022

Available on Amazon 7/20/22

Order here for Ebook

Order here for Audiobook

Monster Menu

Monster Menu

Original Action Comedy Fantasy Horror LitRPG Portal Fantasy / Isekai Martial Arts Slice of Life Magic Xianxia GameLit Dungeon Progression
1,171 Followers
315 Pages
84,910 Views
38 Chapters
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 10:02:00 AM

Renee 'Nay' Favreau wanted to be a respected chef with a renowned Taco Truck. Maybe even two or three trucks if she became successful, so she could truly cover Los Angeles. 

But after a deadly encounter with an interdimensional spider, she finds herself in a dangerous new world full of magic and mayhem.

Discovering she has the power to become a coveted Epicurist for the cultivators known as Marrow Eaters, one of the special chefs with the ability to prepare the magical meals that give the Eaters their powers, she must navigate a world full of gods and monsters if she wants to survive the heat.

Release schedule is 5 chapters per week. Monday - Friday. 

MECHROMANCER: A Robot Necromancer LitRPG

MECHROMANCER: A Robot Necromancer LitRPG

Original Action Adventure Sci-fi LitRPG Strong Lead Dungeon Villainous Lead Technologically Engineered First Contact Artificial Intelligence
3,419 Followers
170 Pages
363,330 Views
39 Chapters
Saturday, July 2, 2022 4:20:12 AM

UPDATES MWF 

\\AI615 BEGINNING REPORT \\CONTACT MADE WITH LOCAL CIVILIZATION POSSESSING TECHNOLOGY OUTSIDE OF KNOWN UNDERSTANDING

\\PLANETARY LOCALS CLAIMED TO POSSESS LEVELS AND QUANTIFIABLE STATISTICS

\\ON INITIAL EXAMINATION, LOCAL ADVANCEMENT APPEARED TO MATCH A LATE IRON AGE TECHNOLOGICAL LEVEL \\RECONNAISSANCE SCANNING AND INTELLIGENCE GATHERING REPORTED ANOMALOUS BEHAVIOR

\\2.61 SECONDS AGO, LOCAL SAPIENTS INITIATED COMBAT WITH AI615, AI616 AND GROUND CREW

\\AI615 REQUESTING IMMEDIATE—

Error. End of message not received.

Mechanical Officer 1, designation OFF01, was terminated. The colonization mission failed.
OFF01 has been brought back to life through the magic of the system, and it’s directives have been overwritten. Now OFF01 has a new directive: protect one Tobias Agrippa at any cost.

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