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LitRPG · Dungeon Core
LitRPG · Dungeon Core
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72.4
Build-a-dungeon LitRPG — monster ranching, base-building, and crafting loops from the dungeon's point of view.
Open nicheLatest scan / 2026-08-31
Top-scoring niches right now
LitRPG · Dungeon Core
Build-a-dungeon LitRPG — monster ranching, base-building, and crafting loops from the dungeon's point of view.
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72.4
Cultivation · Overview
Qi, sects, and realm breakthroughs from the xianxia tradition — a rising crossover family with deep KDP revenue.
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68.2
LitRPG · System Apocalypse
Earth gets a game System overnight — survival, leveling, faction wars. One of Royal Road's hottest LitRPG niches.
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65.5
Fantasy · Overview
The widest genre family — epic, urban, grimdark, cozy and more. Maps demand and trend across every fantasy subgenre.
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59.2
LitRPG · Overview
Stat sheets, skills, and game-System fiction — the genre that built Royal Road. High demand across the whole family.
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55.9
Index
Every tracked niche
LitRPG
Fantasy
Mystery
Cyberpunk
Urban Fantasy
Cozy Fantasy
Grimdark
Apocalypse
Wuxia
Portal Fantasy / Isekai
Slice of Life
Magitech
Post Apocalyptic
Martial Arts
Kingdom Building
War and Military
Crafting
Dystopia
Dungeon Crawler
Survival
Reincarnation
School Life
Monster Evolution
Hard Sci-fi
Tower
Mecha
How we score
Four axes,
no opinions.
Every score is a weighted geometric mean across four independent signals. We reward niches that win on multiple dimensions — not ones that spike on one and crater on another.
Demand
78Reader appetite minus title supply. High = hungry market, thin shelf.
Trend
7090-day momentum across Royal Road, Reddit, and NovelUpdates.
Revenue
81KU penetration, paperback price depth, audiobook arbitrage.
Channel
62Series friendliness and cross-channel readability.
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