Books Like Ideworld Chronicles: The Art Mage
Loved Ideworld Chronicles: The Art Mage? Here are the closest LitRPG and progression-fantasy reads, ranked by trope and theme overlap. Each pick lists the elements it shares with Ideworld Chronicles: The Art Mage so you can pick by what you actually want next.
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by TempleErind Hartwell trades her front-row seat to the apocalypse for monstrous powers and a delusion that she's the star of the show.
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by AzaleaEllisA brilliant fugitive sorceress must master scientific magic while juggling dual identities—one as a male university student, the other as the notorious Raven Queen.
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by PurveilorA fast-food dropout branded an outlaw must outfight armies and outsmart a rigged System as one of the rare Destined saving two colliding worlds.
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by Dreamer's RiotViolet’s ring never awakened—until her first kill revealed a calling that thrives on blood instead of benevolence.
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by kaydayLexie’s deck-building powers are weak, but with a scholar’s precision and a trickster’s cunning, she reshapes the rules of heroism—one illegal workaround at a time.
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by MecanimusA woman with divine luck scrambles to survive in a world where gods play deadly games and every choice could make her their pawn—or their doom.
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by HastumSamuel exploits humanity's growing supernatural panic, trading favors with eldritch gods to reclaim his family’s dark legacy—one exorcism at a time.
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by RavensDaggerA time-looper must uncover the corporate conspiracy behind her city’s impending doom before her save points—and sanity—run out.
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by MecanimusIn a city ruled by magic-wielding elites, a mana-starved cop risks addiction and ruin to uncover why her body rejects the power everyone else steals.
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by RavensDaggerA reluctant villainess spreads awkward kindness instead of despair under the watch of her increasingly impatient dark goddess.
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by SelkieFelix, a modern wizard with no training, must survive Camelot College's cursed libraries and lethal challenge rooms while Arthur’s undead legions rise.
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by ScottWarrenA soldier turned interdimensional rescuer fights with stolen magic and military tactics to save kids abducted by gods from dying worlds.
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