Reddit mentions of Re-Start (Level Up Book #1) LitRPG Series

your name isn't Dan Sugralinov is it ;)

I haven't read it, but Re-Start sounds exactly like what you're looking for

This is an example of LitRPG that might be a bit of what you're looking for:

https://www.amazon.com/Re-Start-Level-Up-Book-LitRPG-ebook/dp/B07CKRMLJB

If you haven't checked out The Dresden files yet you really should. It's not "true progression", but it's about a modern wizard who keeps "skilling up".

https://www.amazon.com/Restart-Level-Up-Book-LitRPG-ebook/dp/B07CKRMLJB/ kinda sorta?

https://www.amazon.com/Re-Start-Level-Up-Book-LitRPG-ebook/dp/B07CKRMLJB Is finished. Good read to, though i wish there was more!

My first translated from Russian - LitRPG and motivational book: Restart (Level Up Book #1) LitRPG Series

https://www.amazon.com/Restart-Level-Up-Book-LitRPG-ebook/dp/B07CKRMLJB/

The idea of augmented reality isn’t new. The Google Glass project is in fact nearing its completion even as we speak. But the idea of digitized real-life stats, that’s a bit different. I had it in summer 2014. At the time, I was working hard trying to lose weight from my original “too-fat-to-tie-laces” 242 lb. to my current 175 lb. These days, I can’t even imagine my life without going to the gym.

It was in the gym that I first realized how effective weight training could be.Today you lift 45 lb, a week later it’s 55 lb, and six months later, it’s already 175! Or, speaking in RPG terms, you level up Strength from 2 to 8.

Then an idea struck me. What if we could see all these status bars, skills and characteristics in real life just as we can in MMORPG? It’s one thing to know you’ve learned something from a book - and it’s something quite different if you can clearly see that it’s added +2% to your Intellect. Or that a visit to a swimming pool gives you +5% to Stamina. Would that motivate you more?

I’m absolutely sure it would. This is exactly why I’ve always loved RPG and LitRPG as well as weight training. Three years ago, I couldn’t do a single pull up. Now I can do fifteen easily. It’s the same in business: whether you work your backside off or just go through the motions, your company’s earnings are the only accurate barometer of your activity.

I spent some time thinking about it until it all fell into a pattern. That’s when I came up with my MC Phil Panfilov and his story. I mapped out his development arc, added some key scenes, came up with support characters and started writing.

That’s how I finished "Level Up. Re-Start", the first book in a series which tells the story of a gamer who’s been a bit too lax with his life. By the time he’s thirty-something, he has a wife, a string of one-off freelance gigs, a powerful computer, a level 110 rogue character in a popular RPG game and a beer gut.

What could happen in the life of an overgrown nerd in order to change his attitude? Could his wife - whom he loves a lot - leave him? Or what if he somehow could see the world through a game interface? Would he be able to face the harsh reality if he could see that his Reputation with his wife is Unfriendly, his Agility is stuck at 4, Strength at 6, Stamina at 3 and that his most advanced skill is WoW playing? Isn’t it time he did something about it?

That’s basically a glimpse into my story which I wanted to share with my English-language readers. The finished book has already hit the bestseller list back in Russia. The English translation of the first book in the series is available in KU.

Yeah TzunSu is right there is a series out there called the Level Up series. Book one is called Re-Start.

https://www.amazon.com/Re-Start-Level-Up-Book-LitRPG-ebook/dp/B07CKRMLJB

Closest I can think of are SciFi-ish.

Re-Start Level Up. Guy gets a computer program uploaded into his brain that does some magic-like stuff, but through techie mumbo-jumbo means.

Emerilia's Michael Chatfield does some SciFi litRPG that isn't great, but fits. I'm currently reading book two of the Harmony War series, and no magic just tech.

Reality Benders has magic, but not really in the human faction, and very very minorly in the MC (he gets some psionic stuff with rather limited use).

Limitless Lands in a VR story with magic, but the MC doesn't use any. He's basically playing a strategy game while everyone else is playing an RPG. Works out well, story wise.

Survive Week One is right up your alley, though again, the non-Earth folks seem to have a not-quite-magic, and of course the MC is obviously going to eventually get it. Even then, I think it fits your bill for now.

I'm trying to remember, but I don't think the MC in Feedback Loop uses magic, and some of the VR worlds he travels through don't seem to have magic. Not that absurd things don't still happen, they just generally are because of game-mechanics (like pulling bombs/guns/cars from your inventory).

I will recommend you probably one of the greatest and most realistic LITRPG book I've listened to recently. It's on my top 5 favorites right now

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Re-Start Level Up Book 1

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CKRMLJB

So addictive, very refreshing with a solid narration. You just can't wait just how the mc develops and improves himself.

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It will probably even inspire and motivate you on how to be a better person in real life.
I can even say that many will probably relate to the scenario if this ever happened to you.

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It's that good

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