Books Like The Lost Deaths

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

  1. The False Note (A Magical Girl Story) cover
    by Soussouni

    Siena Marquez wields the power of a Magical Girl, but the Essentia inside her is warping into something monstrous—and she'll kill to keep it hidden.

  2. Foxfire, Esq cover
    #2

    Foxfire, Esq

    match 59%
    by Noa (October)

    A former government superweapon turned lawyer must choose between her hard-won peace and fighting for justice against the system that created her.

  3. Eldritch Exorcist cover
    #3

    Eldritch Exorcist

    match 54%
    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. Underland cover
    #4

    Underland

    match 52%
    by Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

    A rogue sorcerer and a swordswoman hunt forbidden truths beneath a sky of stone, where undead rulers and forgotten gods wield the deadliest weapon: knowledge.

  5. Downtown Druid cover
    #5

    Downtown Druid

    match 50%
    by Seersucker

    A half-breed criminal with slow-burning magic claws his way through a cutthroat city, balancing vengeance and survival with a club and a code.

  6. 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.

  7. Wretch cover
    #7

    Wretch

    match 48%
    by Emilsola

    A desperate man bargains with a monstrous Flame that grants power but demands his humanity in a dying city besieged by horrors.

  8. Contractual Obligations [or; Accidentally Seducing a Fallen Angel] cover
    by Lear Ragnos

    A fledgling dark mage hires a fallen angel to work in his bakery, but their contract’s fine print threatens more than just his soul.

  9. Infernal Investigations cover
    by saithorthepyro

    A disgraced infernal-turned-alchemist must hunt a poisoner mimicking her old gang’s methods before the conspiracy exposes her true identity.

  10. Duskbound: a Monster Hunter LitRPG cover
    by EmergencyComplaints

    Velik wields the [Black Fang] class to hunt monsters in the dark, but this year’s horde hides a truth even he fears.

  11. Mother of Learning: The AU Chapters cover
    by nobody103

    A rogue time loop fractures into bizarre realities where familiar characters become villains, lovers, or unwitting architects of the original timeline's destruction.

Featured in lists

Browse all lists

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.