Books Like Underkeeper

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

  1. Cursed Relic Collector cover
    #1

    Cursed Relic Collector

    match 76%

    A trinket merchant bargains with a forgotten god for cursed relics, gaining power to hunt his enemies—if the artifacts don’t destroy him first.

  2. The Last Orellen cover
    #2

    The Last Orellen

    match 73%

    Kalen must master his volatile magic and untangle his stolen memories to discover if he’s the prophesied Orellen heir—or just another decoy marked for death.

  3. Downtown Druid (STUBBED) cover

    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.

  4. Blood Eagle cover
    #4

    Blood Eagle

    match 70%

    A mute skáld regains his stolen magic through forbidden blood rites, turning the arena that broke him into his forge of vengeance.

  5. Jackal Among Snakes cover
    #5

    Jackal Among Snakes

    match 69%

    A sickly royal bastard becomes a modern gamer trapped in his favorite RPG, armed with wiki knowledge but racing against a looming apocalypse.

  6. Storm's Apprentice cover
    #6

    Storm's Apprentice

    match 68%

    Dorian must master his forbidden magic at the deadly Windshriek Academy, where every lesson could make him the Empire’s weapon—or its next corpse.

  7. Wander West, in Shadow (Rough Draft) cover

    A man bonded to a sentient shadow that devours darkness must master its hunger before it consumes him in a world of eternal twilight.

  8. Book Of The Dead cover
    #8

    Book Of The Dead

    match 66%

    Tyron must master the forbidden Book of the Dead before its whispers consume him or the world destroys him for wielding it.

  9. Journey to Veresavir [Fantasy LitRPG] cover

    A corporate dropout stumbles into Veresavir, where forgotten magic and lurking horrors demand survival before mastery of the arcane.

  10. Chained Spirit Caller (CSC) cover

    Johannes Volkner wields a spirit-binding ability in Heliopolis, where magic and technology merge and time itself is unraveling.

  11. Just Deserts: Revised Edition (MHA, OC) cover

    Hisoka Higawara wields *Sand Manipulation* with chilling precision, but it’s his ruthless mind that makes U.A. High’s heroes and villains question which side he’s truly on.

  12. Arcane Exfil cover
    #12

    Arcane Exfil

    match 64%

    A Delta Force lieutenant wields magic enhanced by modern tactics against a tide of demons in a war-torn steampunk world.

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.