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.
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by ThundamooA starving slum girl discovers she can consume souls—but the more she devours, the more the hunger threatens to consume her.
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by AnemoneLiadain wields the magic of sickness and death to carve her path to immortality from the nightmares that devour souls.
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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 ErraticErrataTristan, 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.
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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 JarexSam wields happiness as ammunition and spider limbs as weapons against an alien invasion, but each victory costs another piece of her humanity.
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by HungryOctavia trades her hatred of magical girls for forbidden power, joining a shattered sisterhood hunted by rogue Dream-Gods and their own monstrous pasts.
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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 FlamerunerA sharp-witted editor must wield the magic and misdeeds of a notorious villainess to survive a world that already despises her.
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by MaradinaA disgraced doctor wields stolen arcanotech and a dying exorcist's symbiotic system to fight plague cults in a city choking on magic parasites.
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by FictionalAtlasA fire mage wields a necromancer's cursed staff, torn between the guild's distrust and the whispers of the dead in its wood.
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by ZogarthA 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.