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.

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  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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