There are ones that aren't?

The litrpg readership accepts that they're all objectively "bad", they just ignore that fact and keep reading. Then wish the authors could pump out more than 1500 words per day so they could have even more.

IMO Worth the Candle (https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/25137/worth-the-candle) is the one exception.

any recs?

Ah hah, the classics first

He who fights with Monsters (edgelord Australian goes brr)

Defiance of the Fall (axe man goes brr)

Primal Hunter (archer goes brr)

Azarinth Healer (lady who punches goes brr)

There's probably about four months of continuous reading involved in the above and only Azarinth is actually finished, the others have no end in sight.

I am legally obliged at this point to ask have you read Cradle?

Cradle is not litrpg, but everyone likes it and those who don't are considered to be strange lepers (assuming you enjoy litrpg or progression fantasy at all)

Other honourable mentions..

Mother Of Learning

Dungeon Crawler Carl

Thanks! I have not yet read Cradle but often see it recommended.

I haven't explored litrpgs much yet, but I had a great time with Worm and it seems like they live in a similar space. Will check some of these out!

Top Tip: Nearly everything in the genre and all the books I mentioned are in kindle unlimited. It costs $10 a month (or about that) and you can download and read as much as you want that's on the service.

If you find something you like and plan to keep reading, it's well worth the cost.

You want recs for bad ones?

Well even if one belives there is such a thing as a good litrpg, anyone who likes the genre is going to have read those already. So yeah any litrpg connoisseur is going to be looking for recommended bad ones.

Have this then:

Reject Humanity, Return to Monke

https://www.webnovel.com/book/reject-humanity-return-to-monk...

Parts are NSFW but then you (or the parent poster) did ask for bad ones...