r/ProgressionFantasy

So I guess I’m going from lit rpg and progression to just progression. Maybe it’s because I’m strictly an audiobook listener, but I just can’t stand anymore status screens and just several minutes at a time of just numbers.

Maybe I’m weird, and it would be different if I read instead of listened.

On that note, stuff like Cradle, Bastion and Mark of the Fool are my jam. What do you guys recommend in that area? Finished series would be great but I’m aware that’s a fairly short list, so if there’s at least a decent amount to dive into I’ll take it.

Trying to think of some good and/or highly popular series outside of LitRPG and Cultivation, and I'm struggling more than I thought. The only ones that jump to mind is Superpowereds, A Journey of Black and Red, and haremlit series like Mob Sorcery.

Maybe it's just early, but it's amazing how much Progression Fantasy DOESN'T fall outside the scope of litrpg and cultivation.

i like systems where every choice isn’t reversible

choose the wrong technique and you have to live with it. specialize too early and another path becomes impossible. build your body around one type of power and later discover that another route would have been much better.

that makes progression feel like an actual journey instead of a skill tree where you can eventually collect everything.

it also makes early decisions matter again

if the protagonist can always respec into the optimal build later, a lot of the tension disappears.

I’m someone who primarily reads fantasy and sci-fi novels mixed with some classics. But recently I’ve had an itch to read some cultivation specifically eastern cultivation, but no offense intended, a lot of it is slop. So I was wondering if there were any recommendations I could get of novel level quality xianxia stories?

For example, I read shadow slave, which I do like, but the writing was awful. I’ve also read Tbate which for the first half was pretty bad but the second half was actually decent writing. But for shadow slave, I had to drop it because it was just so overly repetitive due to having to put out a chapter a day, the dialog was pretty bad and he used the same 100 words to describe everything.

I appreciate any suggestions thanks!

I just want a novel about actual surviving in post apocalyptic, may it be zombie or after nuclear fallout, and please no magic nonsense or system stuff just good old surviving, it's fine if there are mutated monster but no psychic powers.