Genre directory

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Explore all 20 progression categories. Each guide explains the category, shows its direct catalog matches, and connects to a preselected Finder view.

01LitRPG

Fantasy where game-like systems such as levels, classes, skills, or explicit statistics are part of the story world.

709 direct matchesOpen guide →
02Progression Fantasy

Stories built around a character's deliberate, legible growth in power, skill, knowledge, or influence.

394 direct matchesOpen guide →
03Cultivation

Progression shaped by disciplined practice, internal power, martial traditions, and increasingly demanding realms of advancement.

35 direct matchesOpen guide →
04Xianxia

Chinese-influenced immortal-hero fantasy centered on cultivation, sects, spiritual power, and transcendence.

0 direct matchesOpen guide →
05Wuxia

Martial-hero stories grounded more closely in extraordinary skill, honor, rivalry, and the jianghu than immortal cultivation.

0 direct matchesOpen guide →
06Isekai

Stories in which a protagonist is transported, summoned, or reincarnated into another world.

3 direct matchesOpen guide →
07Dungeon Core

Progression from the perspective of a dungeon intelligence building rooms, creatures, traps, and power.

59 direct matchesOpen guide →
08GameLit

Fiction shaped by games or game logic, without requiring every LitRPG convention.

553 direct matchesOpen guide →
09Kingdom Building

Progression focused on settlements, factions, institutions, territory, and the people who make them work.

12 direct matchesOpen guide →
10Academy Progression

Training, rivals, examinations, and structured instruction drive the protagonist's advancement.

1 direct matchOpen guide →
11Apocalypse LitRPG

A system transforms or destroys the familiar world, forcing survivors to level, adapt, and rebuild.

17 direct matchesOpen guide →
12Monster Evolution

A non-human protagonist grows through transformations, evolutions, or species advancement.

28 direct matchesOpen guide →
13Crafting

Progression led by making, enchanting, alchemy, engineering, or another productive discipline.

26 direct matchesOpen guide →
14Tower Climbing

Characters advance through layered trials, floors, or ranked challenges inside a tower structure.

0 direct matchesOpen guide →
15Time Loop

Repeated time gives characters a way to learn, plan, investigate, and accumulate effective power.

40 direct matchesOpen guide →
16Regression

A protagonist returns to an earlier point with knowledge, skill, or memories from a later life.

10 direct matchesOpen guide →
17System Apocalypse

Modern life collides with levels, classes, monsters, and a newly imposed system.

17 direct matchesOpen guide →
18Superhero Progression

Superpowered fiction where ability growth and mastery are core to the plot.

0 direct matchesOpen guide →
19Sci-Fi Progression Fantasy

Progression structures placed in futuristic, technological, or spacefaring settings.

15 direct matchesOpen guide →
20Dark Progression Fantasy

Progression fantasy with harsher moral choices, violence, atmosphere, or consequences.

0 direct matchesOpen guide →