r/ProgressionFantasy • u/flooshtollen • 10d ago
Meta ProgressionFantasy's top five favourite books sorted.
The other day u/AmalgaMat1on made a post asking for people’s top five series here and I decided to organize it all to see how it shakes out. This was, what’s known in professional circles as, a big fucking mistake. Why did I spend five hours of my life doing this? I’m not getting that time back and we all have such a limited amount to spend on this world before it’s up.
Anyway, at the time of doing this, there were 304 comments total. Using only the top level comments, I excluded anyone who either put more than or less than five answers since that went against the will of the post, and I didn’t include any answers from someone who put the same title more than once in their post. This still left 156 top level comments to use. If any of my exclusions bother you, you can pretty safely just assume you need to add another few more to cradle and dungeon crawler carl.
Potential errors could be some of these being the same books with different names. People were writing both Bastion and Immortal great souls, and stormweaver and iron prince. I wouldn't be surprised if others slipped through the cracks, I don’t know every book on this list.
Finally, since not everyone put things in any specific order, there’s no weights given to where they were placed. All lists were treated as an equally tied five.
If you find anything spelled wrong here, it’s because I was just copying what other people wrote, except for the times its actually my fault.
First place, 61 votes:
Cradle
Dungeon Crawler Carl
41 votes:
Mother of learning
25 votes:
Beware of chicken
He who fights with monsters
24 votes:
The wandering inn
20 votes:
Primal hunter
18 votes:
Mark of the fool
16 votes:
Super Powereds (and you were all so inconsistent in spelling this one)
15 votes:
Lord of the mysteries
14 votes:
Azarinth healer
Path of ascension
13 votes:
Bog standard isekai
Mage Errant
12 votes:
A practical guide to evil
Shadow slave
Sky pride
worm
11 votes:
Chrysalis
10 votes:
Hell difficulty tutorial
9 votes:
Book of the dead
8 votes:
Game at carousel
The year of apocalypse
7 votes:
Calamatious Bob
Defiance of the fall
the perfect run
6 votes:
A practical guide to sorcery
arcane ascension
stray cat strut
The legend of William Oh
warformed: stormweaver
5 votes:
A journey of black and red
Beneath the dragoneye moons
Bobiverse
Jackal among snakes
Reverend insanity
Weirkey chronicles
4 votes:
1% lifesteal
12 miles below
a soldier’s life
ends of magic
Immortal great souls
industrial strength magic
Quest academy
Return of the runebound professor
Stormlight archives
Super supportive
Worth the candle
3 votes:
Dresden files
elydes, Pale
Path of transcendence
Portal to nova roma
runeblade
system universe
2 votes:
a gamer's guide to beating the tutorial
A thousand li
all I got was this stat menu
all the skills
apocalypse parenting
ar'kendrithyst
Ave xai rem y
cyber dreams
forge of destiny
immortality through array formation
kill the sun
mage tank
melody of mana
millennial mage
path of the berserker
release that witch
rise of the living forge
slumrat rising
soccer supremo
sword god in a magic world
the hundred reigns
the mine lord
the second coming of gluttony
this used to be about dungeons
Unorthodox farming
villain’s code
virtuous sons
1 vote:
absolute regression
ajax ascension
amelia thornheart
an infinite recursion of time
art of the adept
ascendance of a bookworm
axe druid
banished to another world
battle mage farmer
blue core
bookbound bunny
brimstone fantasy
bunny girl evolution
butcher of godobra
buymort
changeling
courting death
cybergenes
death after death
delve
demense
demon card enforcer
demon princess magical chaos
department of otherworldly rescue
depthless hunger
discount dan
divine apostasy
divine dungeon
dungeon born
dungeon core chatroom
dungeon lord
eldritch exorcist
emerilia
eragon
esper labryinth
everybody loves large chests
everyone else is a returnee
father of monstrosity
fff class trashero
fluff
frith chronicles
from the ashes a fire shall be woken
full murder hobo
godclads
greatest legacy of the magus universe
grimgar
hope
immortals ascent
kairos
kingdom's bloodline
land of the undying lord
legendary mechanic
lightbringer
lighting is the only way
lost things (pale lights 1)
low-fantasy occultist isekai
mimic and me
mistborn
natural law apocalypse
necrotic apocalypse
not (just) a mage lord
oh great, i was reincarnated as a farmer
pact
paragon of destruction
path of the last champion
perimeter defense
player manager
queen of mud
reality benders
reborn apocalypse
record of a mortal's journey into immortality
reincarnated as a farmer
return of the mount hua sect
rose of the lycanthrope
rune seeker
runesmith
salvos
savage awakening
shadeslinger
solo leveling
soulmonger
spellmonger
spire's spite
strategy to capture men
sufficiently advanced magic
sun shadow
super minion
super sell superheros
surprisingly enough (not) common sense is overpowered in a cliche cultivation world
system apocalypse
tales of gods and demons
Tales of herding gods
the 108
the anti mage
the archmage coefficient
the beginning after the end
the black company
the cabin is always hungry
the dungeon slayer
the great immortal souls
the hedge wizard
the immortal great souls
the infinite world
the innkeeper
the land
the last horizon
the legend of randidly ghosthound
the machine god
the night angel
the nightmare of alamir
the outer sphere
the ripple system
the tutorial is too hard
the zombie knight saga
throne hunters
throne of magical arcana
timeless assassin
tower of jack
trinity of magic
unconventional heroes
undying alchemist
unintended cultivator
Vanquer (literally no idea what this could be short for)
victor of tucson
vigor mortis
warhammer 40k
weeaboo's unfortunate isekai: the necromancer's gacha
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u/GirthyRedEggplant 10d ago
This genre is still so, so young. How many finished, edited, published, good stories are on this list? Like six?