Books Like The Perfect Run: Bad Runs
Loved The Perfect Run: Bad Runs? Here are the closest LitRPG and progression-fantasy reads, ranked by trope and theme overlap. Each pick lists the elements it shares with The Perfect Run: Bad Runs so you can pick by what you actually want next.
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by Vitaly S AlexiusA delusional gas-masked captain leads his broken crew through a reality-bending wasteland manipulated by a sadistic AI.
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by idkmanseemssketchyKira wields time magic in a broken System that killed two-thirds of humanity—but the real cost comes from the rules it won’t explain.
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by SeersuckerA bulletproof courier with a monstrous face delivers mail across a radioactive wasteland, upgrading his unkillable body with every near-death encounter.
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by Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)Ryan "Quicksave" Romano explores New Rome’s neon dystopia with infinite retries, testing villainy, heroism, and every role in between to craft his perfect ending.
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by Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)A bullet-core in his skull resurrects Yuan as a Gunsoul—a living weapon hunting his killers across a wasteland ruled by nuclear cultivators and weapon-gods.
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by TheAceOfSkullsAlex 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.
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by TomWritesWhen the apocalypse turns her truck into a Soulbound war machine, a foul-mouthed trucker fights to haul her way home through a monster-infested wasteland.
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by LoateSky Memoriam's isolated survival shatters when a crashed AI awakens cosmic horrors that twist reality and hunt her mind.
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by PlumParrotA scrapyard welder turned fugitive upgrades her body with stolen cybertech while evading the megacorp that wants it—and her—back.
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by nobody103A rogue time loop fractures into bizarre realities where familiar characters become villains, lovers, or unwitting architects of the original timeline's destruction.
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by StaleCrowA boy wields pure magic in a System-ruled apocalypse, destined to become the tyrant who bends reality itself—if he survives long enough.
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