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Battle Trucker

Battle Trucker

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-fi LitRPG Female Lead Strong Lead Magic Post Apocalyptic Ruling Class Genetically Engineered Technologically Engineered Soft Sci-fi Dystopia Progression
1,472 Followers
110 Pages
109,333 Views
16 Chapters
Saturday, February 12, 2022 12:45:23 AM

Jill MacLeod might be just a long haul trucker with a dirty mouth and back pain, but with Bertha the big rig under her she always makes her deliveries. When Mana, monsters, and an RPG style levelling system comes to Earth it's the end of the world as anyone knows it: the apocalypse is here. On her journey it's just Jill, her Soulbound truck, and any survivor she can find against the universe. Mutated animals, aliens, dragons, droid armies… it doesn’t matter. Nothing’s going to stop Jill from making her way home.

Blare the Horns of Valhalla and let slip the Rigs of War!

[A story in the apocalyptic LitRPG genre]

[Warning tags: Profanity, Gore]

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
5,048 Followers
1,763 Pages
1,643,402 Views
143 Chapters
Thursday, August 11, 2022 4:00:05 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!!

The Future That Never Was — Guns are back in cereal boxes!

The Future That Never Was — Guns are back in cereal boxes!

Original Action Comedy Sci-fi Short Story Virtual Reality Cyberpunk Martial Arts Gender Bender Reader Interactive Slice of Life Male Lead Female Lead Strong Lead Multiple Lead Characters Non-Human Lead Secret Identity Anti-Hero Lead Space Opera Post Apocalyptic War and Military Villainous Lead Genetically Engineered Technologically Engineered Hard Sci-fi Soft Sci-fi Dystopia Progression Artificial Intelligence Attractive Lead
345 Followers
571 Pages
63,839 Views
106 Chapters
Monday, August 15, 2022 12:02:00 PM

WELCOME TO THE RETROFUTURE!

The Future That Never Was is an extended universe where Mars was terraformed before the Beatles sang Penny Lane, the Soviets colonized the asteroid belt and pirates plundered the rings of Saturn. In this alternate space age, humankind couldn't dream of a brighter future. Alas, the minute Earth turned into a nuclear wasteland, shadows already conspired from the heart of the Moon to the mysterious Planet Nine—and maybe beyond...


The book series includes numerous R-rated titles. All of them will be uploaded on Royal Road. Check the Index or the list below for the main stories.


🐈  KITTY KITTY - START READING

Join sassy space cat Lee and his Desert Eagle-toting, soda-swigging human partner, Ali, in a future stuck in the late 80s/early 90s. Board the dynamic duo’s ship, the mythical Kitty, as they bounty-hunt their way through a dystopian solar system—so lock and load, and shout Cowabunga! because it’s crime-fightin’ time! 


🪐  PACHINKO BLUES - Fall 2022 - LEARN MORE

Amid the chaos of the Rings Civil War, a disgraced pilot called Miles finds itself tangled in a vast vendetta involving a Lunar corporation, android mercenaries and data-cartels. From Saturn’s Plastic Fields to the fringes of Kuiper, Miles’s violent redemption is an 80s-esthetic space western filled with tears, blood and... ducks?


Other stories related to the first arc of The Future That Never Was:

• RADIO FREAK - Standalone biopunk short story featuring Ali Koviràn, the Data Maiden and Bill Murray

• STELLAR PATRIOTS - Special episodes with Braun Kamirov, linking KITTY KITTY to the upcoming DATA dilogy and CYBER MACHO

• DATA ONE & DATA ZERO - 2023

• CYBER MACHO - TBA


Do you want to support our work or simply read in better condition? Visit our amazon shop and Patreon!

Saltworld: An Apocalypse LitRPG

Saltworld: An Apocalypse LitRPG

Original Action Adventure Fantasy LitRPG Slice of Life Supernatural Male Lead Strong Lead Magic Urban Fantasy Mythos Post Apocalyptic Progression
5,742 Followers
321 Pages
620,681 Views
32 Chapters
Saturday, March 19, 2022 10:36:11 PM

August 18, 2018. Earth is at peace.

Then the sun explodes, and the world changes forever.

Sen Salazar, a third year in Dubai's renowned Belmont University, is thrust into a world where only monsters are found aplenty. Resources are dwindling, survivors are scarce, and safety is nowhere to be found. And when it's combined with an otherworldly system designed to bring out humanity's hidden potential? Sen's watched enough movies to know what to do:

Survive.

...He just has to figure out how to stop himself from turning into one of the monsters, first.


Discord link here.

Romantically Apocalyptic [discontiniued version]

Romantically Apocalyptic [discontiniued version]

Original Adventure Comedy Horror Sci-fi Cyberpunk Supernatural Male Lead Female Lead Strong Lead Multiple Lead Characters Anti-Hero Lead Super Heroes Post Apocalyptic War and Military Time Travel Dystopia Artificial Intelligence
1,452 Followers
0 Pages
37,687 Views
1 Chapters
Tuesday, August 4, 2020 12:08:21 PM

>Read the updated version HERE!<

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
6,940 Followers
24 Pages
188,485 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. 

The Perfect Run: Bad Runs

The Perfect Run: Bad Runs

Original Adventure Sci-fi Cyberpunk Super Heroes Post Apocalyptic Time Travel Loop Genetically Engineered Soft Sci-fi
1,319 Followers
47 Pages
18,718 Views
2 Chapters
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 3:03:54 PM

An anthology and companion piece of The Perfect Run, covering the question you've all asked once... what if?  

What if Quicksave had become a Psycho? What if Len Sabino had taken the Violet Elixir rather than the Blue? What if Jasmine had remembered? What if Ryan had gained a different power or fallen in love with someone else? Follow the Ultimate One as it guides you through these roads not taken. 

Updates on special occasions. 

A Lonely Dungeon

A Lonely Dungeon

Original Adventure Fantasy Mystery LitRPG Non-Human Lead Magic GameLit High Fantasy Dungeon Post Apocalyptic
3,597 Followers
213 Pages
632,837 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.

Lever Action

Lever Action

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Female Lead Steampunk Post Apocalyptic Technologically Engineered Progression
2,028 Followers
387 Pages
503,463 Views
70 Chapters
Wednesday, September 8, 2021 8:25:48 PM

Charlie Norwood, a goblin-exterminating bounty hunter working in the frontier desert, finds herself embroiled in conspiracy when she stumbles across some gnomish warmechs chasing down an elven prince.

A Fantasy Western.

[Participant in the Royal Road Writathon Challenge] 

Alpha Cultivation

Alpha Cultivation

Original Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy Martial Arts Slice of Life Male Lead Strong Lead Xianxia Post Apocalyptic Progression Attractive Lead
1,481 Followers
288 Pages
189,743 Views
29 Chapters
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 2:16:45 PM

I am Titan Maximus Chadman, the seventh head of Alpha Cultivation sect. I practice the Dao of Chadness and cultivate Big D energy. To grow my powers, I must be alpha in every situation.

Now that foreign cultivators have taken over Earth, I may be modern civilization’s only hope.

Discord link

Apocalypse Parenting

Apocalypse Parenting

Original Adventure Fantasy Sci-fi LitRPG Female Lead Urban Fantasy Post Apocalyptic Progression Artificial Intelligence
1,460 Followers
311 Pages
101,992 Views
44 Chapters
Thursday, August 11, 2022 2:02:45 PM

A few minutes ago, Meghan Moretti’s biggest concern was getting the kids’ athletic clothes washed in time for practice this evening. Now, it seems that Earth has been forced into participating in some high-stakes intergalactic reality television. All electrical wiring has been slagged, and most combustibles neutralized. Some kind of evil space rodents are appearing on the front lawn, too.

Like any parent, Meghan’s first instinct is to keep her young kids safely away from the monsters, but an odd stroke of luck has her coming into some advanced information about this dangerous game. She learns that her kids will have to fight too.

What’s a mom to do?

Updates Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Check out Book One, Time to Play, on Amazon! You can also sign up for my mailing list to receive a free 15,000-word short story about Vince's first day of the apocalypse.

Deadman (A Post-Apoc Litrpg)

Deadman (A Post-Apoc Litrpg)

Original Action Adventure Drama Sci-fi LitRPG Male Lead Strong Lead Non-Human Lead Anti-Hero Lead GameLit Post Apocalyptic Soft Sci-fi Dystopia Progression
2,353 Followers
372 Pages
313,405 Views
60 Chapters
Tuesday, August 9, 2022 12:16:00 PM

Even after the bombs fell, even after countries unleashed weapons beyond imagining on one another, even after lawlessness became the norm, people still expect their mail.

As a deadman, I'm uniquely suited to deliver it. Rads don't bother me, and people who try to hurt me typically wind up dead. Sure, humans may not like dealing with a face like mine, but hey, you can't beat my express rates.

A dystopian litrpg in the vein of Fallout and The Postman

*1500+ words per chapter

*Updates Tuesdays and Thursdays

Apocalypse Born

Apocalypse Born

Original Adventure LitRPG Slice of Life Post Apocalyptic
2,472 Followers
471 Pages
269,088 Views
20 Chapters
Tuesday, October 29, 2019 5:54:44 AM

The world as we know it ends in the year 2000. Over the course of a week, billions die and the survivors are faced with a reality that no longer makes sense. Can they fight back against wizards, monsters, and robots in a world where none of the old rules seem to apply, and their only ally is a mysterious heads-up display that reads like a particularly uninterested narrator?

Well, that part of the story's mostly done.

Hunter, instead of being alive in the age of heroes and martyrs, bravely fighting for the future of his entire planet, is born in 2003. By the time he can walk and talk, humanity has already fought back the worst of its demons and settled into its new status quo. What's an easily bored kid supposed to do in the Midwest when there's all this magic and nothing to do with it?

The Dog at the End of the World

The Dog at the End of the World

Original Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy LitRPG Male Lead Non-Human Lead Magic GameLit Post Apocalyptic
989 Followers
402 Pages
203,427 Views
61 Chapters
Monday, February 21, 2022 9:01:01 PM

Lucky Lachlan is just your average mutt. He's been living with his Girl for as long as he can remember and he'd do anything for her. He might have to do more than he bargained for.

One day when he awakened from his mid-day nap, he saw a box. It had no scent and floated calmly in the air.

Greetings Lucky Lachlan!

You have been chosen.

The End is coming in three days.  Prepare yourself!

Thanks to Kieran Pierce for the lovely cover!

Dog at the End of the World is a participant in writathon.

Romantically Apocalyptic Webcomic

Romantically Apocalyptic Webcomic

Original Action Adventure Comedy Sci-fi Virtual Reality Cyberpunk Male Lead Multiple Lead Characters Grimdark Super Heroes Post Apocalyptic Time Travel Technologically Engineered Dystopia Artificial Intelligence
690 Followers
376 Pages
94,382 Views
171 Chapters
Monday, August 15, 2022 3:54:50 AM

Charles Snippy finds himself lost and alone at the end of the world. He makes a wish for a friend and meets Zee Captain, an eccentric lunatic luminary, who drags him on an adventure through the eldritch, deadly, questionable and limitless post-apocalyptic world of tomorrow, a place where Goodness makes the rules and everything has purpose and passion.

~A post-apocalyptic, dark comedy webcomic that I've been working on since 2005 by myself at first and then with friends from all around the world.

Discord: https://discord.gg/ngawayz

Echoes of the Tribulation: An Historical Apocalypse LitRPG Series.

Echoes of the Tribulation: An Historical Apocalypse LitRPG Series.

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Historical LitRPG Martial Arts Supernatural Male Lead Strong Lead Magic Grimdark Low Fantasy High Fantasy Dungeon Mythos Post Apocalyptic War and Military Ruling Class Dystopia Progression
1,181 Followers
967 Pages
206,110 Views
44 Chapters
Sunday, February 20, 2022 6:00:45 AM

What you can expect:

 The year is 1329, and the Horns of the Apocalypse are about to sound.

In a small Scottish town, a young boy begins a journey from a carpenter's apprentice to one of the most powerful forces in the Host of the Heavens.

His Journey: A path of adversity lies before him, spanning from the Scottish Borders to the Spanish Reconquista, the Holy Land, and Realms beyond. 

His Ascension: An unceasing trial, where one misstep may condemn his soul. Our hero must discover a path of progress and conquest over mythical beasts, hordes of demons, and the other fell beings created by the System for the Tribulation of Mankind. 

His Tribulation: Will he live by the Words of God, be guided by his own intent, or will other forces claim him for their own ends?

His Fate: ...

Is yet to be determined.

Discover the wonder of the Tribulation Apocalypse in Chapter one of the Echoes of the Tribulation: an Historical Apocalypse LitRPG Series.

Current Schedule : On Hiatus.

Updates expected to begin again around October.

Thanks for reading!

Knights Apocalyptica: LitRPG, Power Armor, Academy

Knights Apocalyptica: LitRPG, Power Armor, Academy

Original Action Adventure Fantasy Sci-fi LitRPG Portal Fantasy / Isekai School Life Male Lead Magic High Fantasy Mythos Post Apocalyptic War and Military Technologically Engineered Progression Artificial Intelligence
1,091 Followers
162 Pages
51,331 Views
23 Chapters
Monday, August 15, 2022 1:31:57 AM

The Earth met its end, bathed in holy fire. The rifts spill monsters into our world. The Kingdom of Cindrus is the last bastion of humanity; the last vestiges of a broken people clinging to life deep underground.

But not all hope is lost. Erec, like all humans, has been blessed by the goddess. From a line of disgraced nobility, he seeks to reclaim his family’s honor and join the prestigious academy–the institution that trains the next generation of Knights. Formidable warriors that blend their Blessing and advanced Armor to reconquer the wasteland of a world from the horrors that spew forth from rifts.



This is a fantasy/post-apocalyptic portal litrpg, and I hope you enjoy. Will try to update whenever possible!

Somebody Stop Her

Somebody Stop Her

Original Action Comedy Sci-fi School Life Male Lead Female Lead Anti-Hero Lead Super Heroes Post Apocalyptic Villainous Lead Time Travel
1,530 Followers
357 Pages
187,241 Views
36 Chapters
Tuesday, June 14, 2022 4:02:12 PM

In a world of villains and heroes, the Kilborne family moved to the small town of Saint Mary. Their new neighbors, living in the 1888 Saint Mary cathedral, turned out to be a family of supervillains. Martin Kilborne would find school perfectly mundane if it wasn't for Alexa Terranova who is: constantly bothering him with a pocket raygun, demanding he become her minion and threatening to blow up the principal's office in a series of unnecessarily complicated, wacky plots. 

The more Martin learns about Alexa, the more dangerous and insane his life becomes as he is dragged into terrible, misfortunate, no good adventures of doom.

A wholesome, slice of life, superhero / supervillain sci-fi comedy, sprinkled with elements of horror.
Participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge - 55'555 words in 35 days!

Dedicated to my daugher who has an unbendable stubborn spirit and my friends at the Silver Pen server who motivated me to write new things!

Grand Design

Grand Design

Original Action Adventure Sci-fi Female Lead Strong Lead Space Opera Post Apocalyptic Technologically Engineered Artificial Intelligence
1,303 Followers
698 Pages
447,039 Views
47 Chapters
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 5:06:42 PM

Humanity once ruled space, building an empire that stretched across hundreds of stars.  Now Earth is a cold cinder in the void, its colonies and ships annihilated in an instant.  For five thousand years the surviving races have huddled in the dying light of those few stations which avoided total destruction, eking out their existence in the shadow of the long-dead humans who built their homes.  When a piece of that lost legacy resurfaces, the few who still remember humanity have one last opportunity to find the truth and avenge the fallen.

 

Cover by Harry Rowland - https://www.instagram.com/rowl_art_/

The Ones Not Chosen - A Litrpg Apocalypse

The Ones Not Chosen - A Litrpg Apocalypse

Original Action Adventure Fantasy LitRPG Male Lead Post Apocalyptic Progression
3,256 Followers
232 Pages
202,971 Views
23 Chapters
Friday, August 12, 2022 11:17:08 PM

Wheelchair-bound and terminally ill, Clover wanted nothing more than to live a normal life. However, fate had other plans for him. On the worst night of his life, the System violently appeared, scrambling the Earth's geography and creating hordes of monsters. 

Amidst the chaos, he now has only one goal: Raise his Level high enough to fix and cure all the problems his failing body was plagued with.  

There's only one problem with his grand plan: How is a skinny guy in a wheelchair supposed to slay dragons and win sword fights?

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