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Trope: readers or the publisher call it funny

Funny LitRPG and progression fantasy series

Series
2
Complete
0
Audio
185 h 5 m

Comedy is not a shelf on any store, so we tag a series as funny only when its publisher, a store page, its own Royal Road tags or readers say so, and one of our guides quotes them. Royal Road lets authors tag a story Comedy: Heretical Fishing and The Perfect Run both carry that tag.

Publishers lean on the word as well. Aethon sells Mage Tank as "hilarious", its Audible blurb calls it "A hilarious new Isekai LitRPG adventure", and our Mage Tank guide puts it plainly: it is a comedy first. Podium calls Beware of Chicken book 1 a laugh-out-loud, slice-of-life martial-arts fantasy.

Listeners who finish Dungeon Crawler Carl often ask for the same humor next, and the answers in those threads are where many of these picks come from. One r/litrpg reader called Chrysalis "the closest thing I’ve found to DCC in terms of humor and being engaging." Each series below is tagged from one of our guides, with the quote under its name, its status, its book count and its audiobook hours, so you can pick a finished series or a long one.

Finished

Complete series (0)

No Comedy series in our list is complete yet.

In progress

Still coming out (2)

Sources

How we checked this

Source: our own guides, quoted under each series; a series is listed only when a published guide says it in words, never from memory. Status, book count and audiobook hours come from each series' source table (publisher, Amazon and Audible pages), latest check . The introduction draws on Mage Tank Reading Order: All 5 Books, Book 6 and Audio, Beware of Chicken Reading Order: All 5 Books and Book 6.

This page joins search results once 6 series with a guide carry the tag and its introduction has at least 150 words.

Pick by more than one trope in What to read next, or see LitRPG, Progression fantasy, Cultivation, Magic school, Another world.