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Outrun – Cyberpunk LitRPG

Name: Outrun – Cyberpunk LitRPG
Rating: 4.69 (830 reviews)
Author: Lost Rain

Lost Rain

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Ah! Aythryn City. Truly a mess of neon and trash all supporting the psychopaths that live here. Desire is the name of the game in such a bright place, as anyone on the streets can verify. Whether it be the gangs roaming the streets, the corpo rats in their tall towers, or the people just trying to get by; everyone wants something.

Then enter me: a poor thief turned investigator just to make enough for end’s meet. Or at least, that’s how it was supposed to go down. Now though? Now I’m caught in several shit storms between stealing from one of the Big 7 to a weird interface telling me what to do. I just hope I can survive long enough to get out of this cursed city with enough Rayn to make a better life.

Outrun will be a long run, heh, with plenty of post-apocalyptic/cyberpunk world building sprinkled in.

If you’re reading Outrun anywhere other than Scribble Hub or Royal Road, its stolen without my permision.

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Myth//OS

★ 4.84

Lost Rain

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. It’s flashy. It’s dangerous. There was nowhere else in the world, or any world, like it. With heroic Wardens protecting the city from monsters, rifts, and villainous Anarchs, there’s always something happening within the walls of Bastion. Not to mention the corporations bickering like children even during the end-times.

The existential threats that sought the destruction of the last city were just another Tuesday. The Wardens, with their system-granted powers, kept them in the back of people’s minds. Forged from broken myths, shattered stars, and fractured hope, they're the only thing between the city and total devastation. They were just out of reach for me.

They were. Until the OS picked a wayward Stray who happened to be in the right place at the right time. One rift, job, and monster at a time, I’d claw my way back to the top... just as soon as I found the drive to actually get out there. Picking up the pieces was just too tiring.

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This is going to be quite a long story.

If you like superheroes vs villains, cyberpunk, and system progression, then you might like Myth//OS? Check it out?

CyberGene [Volume 1 Complete! 500k+ Words] [LitRPG w/ cybernetics + mutations]

★ 4.65

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Chapters M-W-F 9AM.
Volume 1 Blood and Steel: All Three Acts Complete!
Volume 2 Thunder and Webs: Act Two Ongoing!

Discord - Patreon - Spotify Playlist

Upgrade. Consume. Evolve. Whether it’s cybernetics or mutations, this world demands you be more than human.

Every century, the MALswarm invades — adaptive aliens of blood and steel led by Titans that decimate billions and leave behind raw Warp Energy. Humanity seizes this power, transforming into beings of mutated flesh and cybernetic might. Yet the promised utopia remains a lie, and New California’s underworld schemes to profit from the impending Fifth Swarm.

Amidst the chaos, two destinies collide. Ripley — a cybernetics savant battling to save his dying mother — operates in the shadows of a gang-owned nightclub. Diana, engineered for perfection, fights as an officer of the law to forget her past. When a monster is unleashed, they steal its infinite potential to warp their futures with their newfound powers.

In a city where salvation and damnation are inseparable, Ripley reinvents himself from the wreckage of his enemies' cybernetics as a mercenary who will one day become an architect of ruin. Diana's mutated blood crackles with lightning as she purges corruption, igniting into a storm of change. Against a grand conspiracy of aliens, rogue AIs, shady corporations, organized crime and centuries of forgotten history, their alliance — and conflict — determines if the world will plunge into darkness or embrace the light.

Wrong City? Wrong People? No. This is the right city, and they're the only ones who can save this dystopian future.

In the Clash of Blood and Steel, The Eclipse rises — echoing in Thunderous Omens and Webs of Lies.

What happens when you mix GodClads, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Akira and a dash of Blade Runner into the mix? This novel.

What to expect?

- Two MCs on opposite sides of the law. Crime vs Police. Mercenary vs Investigator.

- Superhero/Supervillain Themes. How far will they go to achieve their goals?

- Two distinct Power Systems. Cybernetics vs Mutations.

- Adaptation-based Progression. Every Powerset is a story of survival.

- A medium-burn story. Fast-action; slow-burn drama.

- Slice-of-crime. Criminal hijinx, cybernetic crafting, conspiracy investigations, and asskicking.

- Both MCs have separate romantic lives... for now.

- Weak to strong to legendary. Power. Fame. Money - they'll get it all.

- A long Sci-Fi Epic. Three Acts Per Volume. Ten Volumes.

- Eventual alien invasion and Kaiju fights.

Author's Note: This story can be pretty heavy at times. T/W's include: Gore, death, profanity, sexual themes (no descriptions), drugs. Honestly, my novel might be a list of war crimes one day. This story was highly influenced by some downer moments in my life as the characters learn that they can accept the darkness in them and embrace the light. As tragic as elements of this story might be, it is about overcoming tragedy. I hope you'll enjoy it.

Magical Girl Ghostslayer [Cyberpunk Post-Magic Apocalypse]

★ 4.66

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In the shadows of the cyberpunk future, a magical girl is born.

The magical girls and guardians are dead. Earth is flooded with mythical creatures, the paranormal and the eldritch. Humanity is relegated to sprawling cities and ruled by megacorporations who liken themselves to the divine. Ghostslayers – armed with cybernetics and guns – stand between humanity and extinction, but are bereft of morality and answer to the highest bidder.

Two years after losing her parents in a wraith attack, Evantra awakens as the world’s final magical girl in an abandoned laboratory. She is gifted the ability to use occult artefacts to access skills and rituals fuelled by the souls of her enemies.

With a series of mysterious murders and the arrival of a megacorp to the slums of Wisptown, Evantra’s journey to becoming an [eldritch] Ghostslayer begins. She must find ways to level up, expand her repertoire of guns, artefacts and friends, and uncover the secrets behind her awakening. Maybe, she’ll even make it all the way from her late parents’ church to Elsecaller city.

The city where legends are born.

Hers, is only just beginning.

What to expect: A weak to broken (slow burn) character drama with slice of life, darkness, world mysteries, found family, and comedy.

With a side of: Guns, ghosts, shady megacorporations, skills, rituals, occult artefacts, haunted megabuildings, mythic realms, haunted space stations, hypercars, cybernetics, eldritch entities, raids into lost territories.

System: Stats-lite - oriented around levelling up, discovering more powerful artefacts and completing quests to unlock skills and rituals.

Updates W - F - Sun

Patreon is 6 weeks ahead.

Stray Cat Strut

★ 4.64

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In the year 2057, the world has become a corporate-run utopia for the super-rich, and a hellhole for all the rest.

Catherine 'Cat' Leblanc is an orphan that is about as far from super-rich as one can be. When the Incursion alarms start blaring and the sky starts raining hungry xenos, it's just another blemish on an already piss-poor afternoon.

A cyberpunk magical-girl alien-invasion LitRPG.

It’s exactly as wild as it sounds.

Somebody Stop Her

★ 4.58

Vitaly S Alexius

This book is now on Kindle!

In the sleepy town of Saint Mary, the Kilborne superhero family's new neighbors are more than just odd—they're supervillains! School would be a breeze for Martin Kilborne if it weren't for Alexa Terranova, his raygun-toting classmate who recruited him as her minion. Martin becomes quickly tangled in Alexa's supervillain plots from stealing an ice cream van, to destroying the Superstate, to bewildering time-travel escapades leaping between his Earth and a dead world 400 years in the future. When Martin is awakened from mundane existence by Alexa, his life transforms from mundane to madcap—an ever accelerating train ride with no breaks, packed with adventure, dark comedy and post-apocalyptic, cosmic horror!

Book 2:

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/101201/somebody-stop-him-a-progression-fantasy-epic

Stray Cat Strut [Volume Eight Complete! More coming in Mid-November!]

★ 4.64

RavensDagger

In the year 2057, the world has become a corporate-run utopia for the super-rich, and a hellhole for all the rest.

A cyberpunk magical-girl alien-invasion LitRPG.

It’s exactly as wild as it sounds.

AQUILA [Book 1 Complete]

★ 4.66

nyctophilus

Twenty one. That’s the age when everything changes. Everyone manifests a symbiont, a creature invisible to all but its host that shapes their destiny in a rigid world.

Conrada Dorrien harbors a dangerous secret: she alone can see everyone’s symbionts.

But revealing her gift could trigger a buyout of her contract, separating her from family and friends, and placing her at the mercy of ruthless corporations. Best case she ends up a lab-rat in some R&D project, worst case a weapon to a private military contractor.

As manifestation approaches, Conrada hopes for a life within the sanctuary of academia following in her father’s footsteps and providing refuge from the confines of her serfdom. But she fears her extraordinary connection to the symbionts means she’s destined for anything but easy obscurity.

All it takes is a single word.

Classified.

Conrada finally learns what happens when bidding wars between recruiters erupt at manifestation when she becomes the latest acquisition by Aquila Operations, a boutique corporate consulting firm. No corporate mergers, land acquisitions, or balancing budgets here. Conrada joins a team known for their unorthodox methods and a reputation for always getting the job done.

For Aquila is in the business of the unique and the dangerous, and charges prices accordingly.

~2k word chapters, updating twice a week (Thurs + Sat). Season 1 complete, Season 2 currently posting!

What to Expect: 1st person POV, slow burn, low fantasy, soft sci-fi, dystopias, corporate-feudalism. It's not quite cyberpunk, it's not quite grimdark. Diverse side characters.

The world and characters are all grey, there are very few clear cut 'good guys' here. Victories are rarely clean and usually hard won.

There is a slow-burn hetero romance. It will have some aspects that are an unhealthy mess.

Written as 'episodes' that are a little 'mission of the week' and contain complete plot arcs. Episodes are then arranged into 'seasons' which contain one interwoven, overarching plot. A core cast of characters are present most episodes, and others will only be there for that episode.

There will often be more questions than answers.

What Not to Expect: LitRPG or system elements, protagonists who are going to solve every problem with power ups or killing, a discrete 'bad' guy/antagonist that can be defeated to make everything better.

Profanity is a common occurrence, other content warnings are there for when the plot needs it.

Advance chapters available on Patreon!

All written work is by a human, if you see mistakes, please let me know so I can correct them. Volume cover art by nunesk!

Godclads

★ 4.66

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Professionally edited and published versions of volumes 1 and 2 can be found on Kindle and as audiobooks on Audible!

Avo was born to destroy New Vultun. In a twist of fate, he’ll become its only hope for salvation.

The gods were the enemy. The slaver. The chains. With dreams of paradise, humanity slaughtered them and stole their powers, opening the path to become more – to ascend.

Instead, they nearly destroyed the world.

Vast hive cities serve as the final bastions against the crumbling of reality. New Vultun is the greatest of them all, and within its borders, ascenders wage war to determine the laws of existence itself.

The world descends ever deeper into ruination.

Avo was born a weapon, a slave to his instincts and his masters. He and his brothers were made to burn New Vultun to ashes. Everything changes when Avo gains immortality and becomes heir to an impossible legacy.

He must ascend the megacity of New Vultun. He must challenge the very tyrants that usurped the gods.

He must finally free the world from chains.

Join the Discord and subscribe to the patreon here.

Chapters are usually around 2.5 to 3k words.

Disclaimer: Expect detailed descriptions of violence, cannibalism, and cursing.

Expect: Monster mc, magitech, cyberpunk, implants, atrocities, oppression, non-human protagonist, reality-warping powers, and combined arms warfare.

Do not expect: Smut, romance

If you develop a sudden outbreak of rash after reading Godclads, it's not the story. But go see a doctor. Just in case.

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