![I Built This City [LitRPG, Lateral Progression, City Builder, Clones]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.royalroadcdn.com%2Fpublic%2Fcovers-large%2F158131-i-built-this-city-litrpg-lateral-progression.jpg%3Ftime%3D1775099226&w=640&q=75)
by ThePudding
Trust in yourself, they said... but which one? Ellen is a young adventurer who duplicates every time she dies. And she dies a lot. All she wanted was to follow in her legendary grandfather's footsteps and become the greatest adventurer who ever lived! Was that too much to ask? Now she has to dodge government tax audits, endure unrelenting System notification spam, and wrangle a dungeon core bent on making her life as miserable as possible! But hey, if she can just learn to work with herself, it'll be fine! Probably! (Updates Thu-Fri + Bonus) (Also posting on ScribbleHub as ThePudding) (Patreon gets 17 Advance Chapters!)
#4
3/31/2026
Peak #1
25d
#3
3/30/2026
Peak #1
26d
#2
3/30/2026
Peak #1
26d
#1
3/29/2026
Peak #1
39d
Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 14:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
Overall Rising Stars shadow rank
deep field · ~#6149 of 7,531 · 6099 below #50
By genre
beats 65% of similar stories
beats 12% of similar stories
beats 97% of similar stories
Mid-pack, room on both levers
Traffic and conversion both sit mid-field for a story this size. Growth here compounds from consistency: steady cadence feeds traffic, and a sharper hook lifts what each view is worth.
At this conversion, the Comedy Rising Stars bar (≈3 new followers/day) costs about 1.5k views/day — the story currently gets ~4.1k.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 50–149 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
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