Outrun - Cyberpunk LitRPG

Information

Status

Ongoing

Year

2024

Author

Lost Rain

• Chapter 253
  Jul 2, 2025
• Chapter 252
  Jun 30, 2025
• Chapter 251
  Jun 27, 2025
• Chapter 250
  Jun 25, 2025
• Chapter 249
  Jun 23, 2025
• Chapter 248
  Jun 20, 2025
• Chapter 247
  Jun 18, 2025
• Chapter 246
  Jun 16, 2025
• Chapter 245
  Jun 13, 2025
• Chapter 244
  Jun 11, 2025
• Chapter 243
  Jun 9, 2025
• Chapter 242
  Jun 6, 2025
• Chapter 241
  Jun 4, 2025
• Chapter 240
  Jun 2, 2025
• Chapter 239
  May 30, 2025
• Chapter 238
  May 28, 2025
• Chapter 237
  May 26, 2025
• Chapter 236
  May 23, 2025
• Chapter 235
  May 21, 2025
• Chapter 234
  May 19, 2025

Reviews

Community Reviews(10)

• Zaibatsu1990Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Story is written properly with care to storytelling and character progression. Characters are described in easy to visualise and imagine there persona's. Envirement and places are described in good easy to process ways without blowing chapters to ungodly blaber of words. Story engages/emerses reader in to character and envirement . Delight to read and can't wait for new chapter.
• redshinigami49Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Read it if you want more of badass silent assasin in a cyberpunk / magic world.
  The magic touch is sublime , every thing work together with the tech side. A mage is strong but a sneaky bullet is better.
  Can't help but love each new encounters and the system bring a nice touch.
• DCatRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Grammar is five out if five. Well not perfect grammar but grammar that fits the narrative. Dialogue between characters is also on point, so far we don't have simultaneous dialogue in a rapid fire moment but its easy to distinguish the speaker. The narrative also gives voice to the dialogue so its much easier to visualize how a character speaks and tie it to their personality.
  Story is Five out of Five. We're seeing a surge in Cyberpunk stories in Royal Road, but they're still pretty new and good ones are few. So it won't be too tough to implement cliches and ride it out as a new story. That said, although the story isn't too different from common Cyberstories, its still an entertaining read and have establsihed early on a few differences it has from other stories, giving expectations to how the story would pan out in that direction.
  Style is Five out of Five. Definitely good writing style, narration is a show more than tell. Dialogue somehow becomes a show and tell as it isn't just pointing out what the character is saying, but coupled with good use of narration, is also pointing out how it is being told. The way information is provided is also not through large info dumps or long expositions, rather we learn more about the world as our Main Character explores and interacts with others or everything around her.
  Character is a tentative five out of five. Main character is great, she doesn't feel like a Mary Sue nor is she chock full of trauma. In fact, her strengths and flaws are being established as the story grows, and at the same time, her character is also developing, my hope would be that she doesn't get stuck in the cycle of stagnation such as growing only to revert, grow only to revert, grow only to revert... For other characters - everything is excellent so far, characters have depth and personality (even one-scened characters are given some). However, our MC's interactions with other people are on the minimal side so far, thus it is still tentative if the br
• Lt. TheynaRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  This a refreshing Cyberpunk story. It doesn't have the same murderhobo vibes that the vast amount of others have, which is a nice take.
  The biggest issue I see is the fight scenes could use a bit of a rework, but they aren't the focus so its an acceptable issue. Loving the stylistic choices, and especially the dialogue being more action focused than a 'he said' 'she said' simulator. It was something I praised in their other work, and love in this one too.
  I've read the author's other work, Shattered Veil, and it's nice to see that Lost Rain has listened to feedback and taken what they've learned to create this. It has a lot of the things I liked about the other, but done in a far better way. The pacing is good, the style is great, and I am loving the subtle worldbuilding of Aythryn City. Can't wait for more!
• Mad279Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  This fiction is pretty good. I really like the world that is being built and hope that it continues to expand.
  great characters, great pacing, the mc doesn’t become OP due to system.
  Only thing I would like it is if the danger got a little more.
  any fans of Ghost in the city should definitely check this out.
• emobunnyRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Love me some cyberpunk stories in general but this one is at the top of my list. The fact that it regularly gets updates is a blessing too as most stories I follow tend to suddenly go silent or take months to update. Keep up the good work. Here’s hoping I don’t manage to kill this one off too with my bad luck. Also hug a tree Shiro.
• AlternativeHatsRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  Overall Review:
  I don’t even know where to start with this one! Calling it just a cyberpunk or LitRPG story feels like underselling it. This web serial is massive (easily the length of several full books and counting), but somehow it never loses momentum. Every chapter pulls you deeper into a world that’s both familiar and completely alien, and it’s the kind of story that makes you forget time exists while you’re reading.
  What really hooked me was the world-building. It’s layered, not just a backdrop of neon lights and rain-slick streets (though there’s plenty of that depicted beautifully), but a fully functioning, living, rotting world. Every piece of tech, every corporation, every strange setting has a sense of history that you can feel even though the story doesn’t spell it out for you. It’s immersive in a way that makes you feel like you could walk right into it, though you probably wouldn’t survive long.
  The main character is another highlight. They’re not some overpowered hero, but they’re not helpless either. The kind of character who’s always thinking, always adapting, but still human enough to screw up or get caught off guard. Watching them grow, piece together the layers of conspiracy, and carve out a place for themselves in a world that would rather grind them down is incredibly satisfying.
  What surprised me the most, though, was the tone. It’s gritty, really gritty, but it’s not just grit for the sake of edginess. There’s a real sense of weight to the world, where every action has a consequence and every character feels just one bad decision away from total disaster. Interestingly, the main character almost contrasts with the grittiness at times, they bring a sense of clarity and control that makes the rough edges of the world stand out even more, until those same edges inevitably cut deep.
  On top of that, the genre blending is just incredible. You’ve got cyberpunk at its core, but it never settles into just one lane. There’s this constant sense of tensi
• TredornRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  I wanna start off by saying I’ve read a decent chunk of this novel and it’s been great, I adore anything gamelit/litrpg and have been on a recent cyberpunk kick. BUT, and excuse the grammar, the pacing is a smidge of a nightmare, levels and skills are steady initially but after a while it seems like we go massive chunks of time and then get some massive deluge of skill ups and such. I’d spread it out a bit more but other than that, I’d recommend this novel.
• RocksNPebblesRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  I can't get into this and was quickly skimming before I dropped it. Every paragraph and sentence is excessively dripping with descriptive prose. The entire thing is like and endless Dick Tracy film noir style hard boiled detective giving long and flowery descriptions of each place, what Joe public thinks about it, and just immersing you in the grime and filth of the forever underbelly of the endless city.
  Telling us what gangs are around, their style, and dropping in lingo and slang galore. This makes for a very slow pace and in each chapter perhaps only 1 or 2 things happen. Some may like this style, but it wasn't for me. Seemingly well done for what it is.
  I felt like I was stuck on the loading screen with the hello night city radio voice from cyberpunk 2077 telling me about some random future retro tech crime news thing... but it never loads to the game.
• CocolopolisRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  I hope the reader finds this review useful.
  What are the genres of this work? Cyberpunk, Urban-Fantasy crossover. Think Shadowrun approximation with Cyberpunk RPG/Game lingo. Nova, Gonk, Choom, preem.
  What is the story about? An orphan young-teen street girl in Aythryn (Anything?} City  gains a LitRPG interface, and levels up.
  Does the story keep its pacing? It does, for the most part. The protagonist progresses in abilities, and the interactions aren’t dull. The occasional injection of an alternate PoV, from a random, unimportant one-shot character might take some adaptation. Some of the most significant “investigations” aren't solved through deduction of clues. The culprits 'out' themselves and make further detective work moot.
  Interesting points, strengths of the work? The work has a solid grasp of its world. Cyberpunk lingo is nuanced and well within genre. Extensive chapter numbers allow for a long read. The LitRPG is interesting and integrated into the power fantasy of the protagonist. World building is probably its strongest point and kept this reader for 100 chapters.
  How’s the proofreading and grammar? The grammar is above average, with small errors here and there, mostly homophones, malapropism, and such. Small tense slips abound. The problem for this work is narration. This work DROWNS in ‘as’ conjunctions, ‘as’ adverbs, and ‘as’ predicates. Of the chapters I bothered to check (at the time of this review) there wasnt a single chapter without, at the very least, 30+ instances of the word ‘as.’ Many chapters begin with a sentence that includes 'as' and end with a sentence that includes 'as.'  I counted up to 80+ instances of the word ‘as’ in 1 chapter, though only once. Then come the gerunds and participles.. So. Many.  -ing this. -ing that. This reminds me of an online spell checker: perfect punctuation with the sort of repetition that hurts a mind's eye.
  How is the suspension of disbelief? Apart from the forceful nature of some of the conclusions to ‘inve