All Night Laundry - What maggot lives in the corpse of a day? A girl tries to do laundry, and ends up trapped and infested by an entity feeding off of perception. Notably drawn and written through one page every day for several years, and features time travel and multiple selves. Deals mostly with existential horror, but also has some gore and body horror.
Digger - wombat gets lost, ends up in a land being menaced by a dead god. by ursula vernon/t kingfisher and thus very funny and very poignant. You Will Cry About Hyenas
Godslave - girl frees a little canine who is being hunted by the entire egyptian pantheon for crimes. divine politics, neat designs, well-researched (and the author is local to me so I’m biased)
HERO - a nameless boy goes on a journey of self-discovery in a world still shadowed by war. gorgeous and ethereal, hasn’t updated since 2014 but still worth checking out. requires hovering for dialogue and narration
Kill Six Billion Demons - university student is accidentally bestowed a piece of power over the universe, and is promptly drawn into a conflict between reality’s seven rulers. main themes: cycles of trauma and violence, self-acceptance and definition, the futility of existence vs the worth of moving forward, are swords really cool (yes). has gore
Prequel - aptly named prequel to the elder scrolls: oblivion, following a khajit making terrible decisions, learning game mechanics and taking suggestions from readers. sometimes has games and cutscenes, updates on a ???? Schedule with glacial pacing.
Sleepless Domain - riffs on magical girl anime and tropes, following a water-themed magical girl in an elemental team. cute, funny, asks “what if being a magical girl was both a normalized job and necessary” and then savages it
Unsounded - a thief child and a zombie mage go traveling as part of at least three different and contradicting schemes. really complex and depthy world-building, politics, war, programming-based magic system. lots of gore, lots of horror, very nsfw but worth it. the author answers questions and provides extra lore on tumblr
Vattu - following the life of a child from a nomadic culture caught in an imperial raid. imperialism the webcomic, and what empire makes of you
White Noise - following two siblings separated and trying to reunite in a universe incredibly hostile to nonhumans. mostly set in a formerly hidden nation that has become a haven to the supernatural. has both fantastic and completely familiar in-universe bigotry, and lots of worldbuilding on tumblr
Wilde Life - journalist moves to a small town For Reasons and starts meeting local myths (and baba yaga) with questionable enthusiasm. occasionally gory, dips into horror
Hand Jumper
Here There Be Dragons
Knights of the Wandering Castle
Marionetta
Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint
Sable Curse
Spontaneous World Shifting
Surviving A Fantasy Adventure Comic
The Beast of Hadingley Hill
The Croaking
The Last Dimension
Wintercircle
Woven
Blindsprings
Gunnerkrigg Court
Fey Winds
Life of a Quack Healer
Paranatural - I'm just really behind and have to reread so it's here for now rip
Rubyquest
Surviving the Game as a Barbarian
The Boy Who Fell
The Dark Lord's Confession
The World After The Fall
tower of god - first comic that has taken me weeks, possibly a month to read through. has a really cool setting of a "big dungeon tower" trope that feels vast and mysterious and actually alive, with its own history and rules... but also it balloons in scale constantly, major characters rotate out for years of update time, and has lots of very long, flashy fights. read the first season and then stop unless you wish to join me in suffering