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.

  1. REND cover
    #1

    REND

    match 61%
    by Temple

    Erind Hartwell trades her front-row seat to the apocalypse for monstrous powers and a delusion that she's the star of the show.

  2. A Practical Guide to Sorcery cover
    by AzaleaEllis

    A brilliant fugitive sorceress must master scientific magic while juggling dual identities—one as a male university student, the other as the notorious Raven Queen.

  3. Tyrants of Earth - A LitRPG misadventure cover
    by Purveilor

    A fast-food dropout branded an outlaw must outfight armies and outsmart a rigged System as one of the rare Destined saving two colliding worlds.

  4. Cruel Violet - [Post-Apocalyptic Serial-Killer LitRPG] cover
    by Dreamer's Riot

    Violet’s ring never awakened—until her first kill revealed a calling that thrives on blood instead of benevolence.

  5. Ace of Capes [Superhero LitRPG] [Isekai] [Card Crafting] cover
    by kayday

    Lexie’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.

  6. The Calamitous Bob cover
    #6

    The Calamitous Bob

    match 56%
    by Mecanimus

    A 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.

  7. Eldritch Exorcist cover
    #7

    Eldritch Exorcist

    match 55%
    by Hastum

    Samuel exploits humanity's growing supernatural panic, trading favors with eldritch gods to reclaim his family’s dark legacy—one exorcism at a time.

  8. Save Scumming cover
    #8

    Save Scumming

    match 53%
    by RavensDagger

    A time-looper must uncover the corporate conspiracy behind her city’s impending doom before her save points—and sanity—run out.

  9. Changeling cover
    #9

    Changeling

    match 52%
    by Mecanimus

    In 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.

  10. Heart of Dorkness cover
    #10

    Heart of Dorkness

    match 52%
    by RavensDagger

    A reluctant villainess spreads awkward kindness instead of despair under the watch of her increasingly impatient dark goddess.

  11. Song of the Gift-Giver cover
    #11

    Song of the Gift-Giver

    match 52%
    by Selkie

    Felix, a modern wizard with no training, must survive Camelot College's cursed libraries and lethal challenge rooms while Arthur’s undead legions rise.

  12. Department of Otherworld Rescue [LitRPG, Isekai] cover
    by ScottWarren

    A soldier turned interdimensional rescuer fights with stolen magic and military tactics to save kids abducted by gods from dying worlds.

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