Books Like Re:Cursed

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

#1
Vigor Mortis
match 68%

by Thundamoo

A starving slum girl discovers she can consume souls—but the more she devours, the more the hunger threatens to consume her.
#2
Nowhere Stars
match 66%

by Anemone

Liadain wields the magic of sickness and death to carve her path to immortality from the nightmares that devour souls.
#3
Eldritch Exorcist
match 62%

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.
#4
Pale Lights
match 61%

by ErraticErrata

Tristan, a thief cursed by a goddess, and Angharad, a noble hunted for vengeance, must survive the deadly Dominion of Lost Things to earn a place at Scholomance.
#5
The Calamitous Bob
match 60%

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.
#6
Trigger Happy - Magical Girl Arachnid Edition
match 58%

by Jarex

Sam wields happiness as ammunition and spider limbs as weapons against an alien invasion, but each victory costs another piece of her humanity.
#7
Maidens of the Fall
match 56%

by Hungry

Octavia trades her hatred of magical girls for forbidden power, joining a shattered sisterhood hunted by rogue Dream-Gods and their own monstrous pasts.
#8
Save Scumming
match 56%

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
Memoirs of Your Local Small-time Villainess
match 55%

by Flameruner

A sharp-witted editor must wield the magic and misdeeds of a notorious villainess to survive a world that already despises her.
#10
The Exorcist Doctor
match 55%

by Maradina

A disgraced doctor wields stolen arcanotech and a dying exorcist's symbiotic system to fight plague cults in a city choking on magic parasites.
#11
An Arsonist and a Necromancer Walk into a Bar
match 55%

by FictionalAtlas

A fire mage wields a necromancer's cursed staff, torn between the guild's distrust and the whispers of the dead in its wood.
#12
The Primal Hunter
match 54%

by Zogarth

A corporate drone discovers his true calling as a ruthless hunter when the System reshapes Earth into a deadly game of survival and evolution.

How we pick "similar"

Each pair gets a similarity score based on shared tropes, tags, tone and pacing. Top tropes carry the most weight; raw rating only nudges ties. No black-box ML — the pipeline is explained on our About page.