Books Like Neon Dust

Loved Neon Dust? Here are the closest LitRPG and progression-fantasy reads, ranked by trope and theme overlap. Each pick lists the elements it shares with Neon Dust so you can pick by what you actually want next.

  1. Hero by Design: The Old God's Game [Intern to Hero Progression] cover
    by Lovely-Cosmic-Icicle

    Lunai must master her symbiotic roots and navigate cosmic schemes before her dying world collapses—while her mentor Bliss hides dangerous secrets.

  2. Mass Effect: Knight of the Old Republic cover
    by Azureblade

    Shepard must decide whether to trust Revan’s ancient Sith power or watch the galaxy fall to the Reapers.

  3. Cyber Dreams cover
    #3

    Cyber Dreams

    match 64%
    by PlumParrot

    A scrapyard welder turned fugitive upgrades her body with stolen cybertech while evading the megacorp that wants it—and her—back.

  4. Magical Girl Mechanical Heart cover
    by Thundamoo

    A rejected magical girl awakens in a mechanical body, enslaved to the monster she refused, and must fight the Guardians she once idolized to reclaim her stolen humanity.

  5. Terminal Fleet cover
    #5

    Terminal Fleet

    match 62%
    by Martarion

    A shattered psychic Navigator navigates corporate megacities and mech battles while hiding from those who would weaponize her fading connection to warp space.

  6. Assassinate Wonderwind cover
    #6

    Assassinate Wonderwind

    match 58%
    by Matizu

    A broke VR assassin risks everything infiltrating Ray Dragon Falls for one last kill, but his target might be worth more alive than dead.

  7. Soul Guardian: A Hellishly Cozy Fantasy cover
    by Alex Karne (TheDeliciousMeats)

    A demon and his angelic rival must find a home for a young witch or risk being stuck forever in a small town full of hellhounds and suspiciously good coffee.

  8. Star Wars: A Penumbral Path cover
    by Lee Duckett

    Two Padawans train under rogue Jedi Masters, forging their own path between the Order’s light and the war’s encroaching darkness.

  9. Accidental World Domination: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Death Ray cover
    by TheAceOfSkulls

    Alex Adams, a D-list supervillain, accidentally kills a top-tier evil overlord with his faulty death ray—now everyone wants him dead, so he might as well take over the world.

  10. LF Friends, Will Travel [HFY] cover
    by Bainshie

    Humanity's greatest weapon isn't war—it's their baffling ability to befriend hostile aliens, rogue AI, and even broken vending machines.

  11. Song of the Gift-Giver cover
    #11

    Song of the Gift-Giver

    match 56%
    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. Tinea and Leah [Cyberpunk, Alien Incursions, Murder and Mayhem, Sapphic Romance (WLW)] cover
    by Eleeyah

    A genetically enhanced fugitive and a rogue AI specialist forge a sapphic bond while battling alien incursions in a cyberpunk dystopia.

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