Seriously, I love this series so much. The Audiobooks are amazing.
So, uh, tell me about it, then.
You see, Carl is a Dungeon Crawler.
By far the best LitRPG out there, the only problem is Amazon thinks you want nothing but them afterwards.
The “Noobtown” series is also pretty good, its no DCC but it has a certain charm.
There’s silly references and then there’s just plain stupid. I can continue Dungeon Crawler Carl because it pulls back at least a little on the stupid. I put down Noobtown and won’t be picking it back up again.
Yea I tried book one of noobtown and it just felt like the childish side of dcc and nothing else. The wandering inn is amazing if you haven’t heard of it. Beware though, the pacing is more realistic than most books, I’m on book 11 and it’s only been like half a yearish in book.
The first few books are pretty rough, but the author does improve with each one.
It was filler between DCC books for me, if it hadnt been I probably wouldnt have stuck with it.
Aliens are going to strip mine earth, but to give the illusion of fairness those who survive the initial collection are given a choice, live on the surface knocked effectively back to the stone age or enter into an 18 floor dungeon that is effectively the galaxies largest game show.
The game is serious, the deaths are real and grusome. In the interest of fairness theres an AI controlling the game and the crawlers can change race, choose classes, level and gather loot and power as the dungeon goes on, but the game is rigged. Nobody has ever survived beyond the 13th floor.
This season with infighting between the alien governments, the AI slowly going a little batshit insane and one particularly determined crawler and his (now sapient) ex girlfriends cat. Who knows?
Plot sounds vaguely Battlefield Earth-ish.
Not really.
Think Squid Game meets Diablo made by reality tv producers doing way too much coke.
Aliens strip mining earth: tick.
Humans on the outside living without tech: tick.
Humans on the inside slaves without hope: tick.
One human going to make a difference: tick.
B grade at best: tick.
https://shepherd.com/book/dungeon-crawler-carl
Its hard to find a synopsis that is a good size.
Its just a really fantastic litrpg. Rich plot and characters, childish dick jokes and adult moments that make you want to message the author and go “wtf man?!?” Theres stuff that was laid in in book 1 thats finally getting paid off in book 6.
Its just really bloody good.
Thanks for sharing! What do you like the most about it?
Love it too. Definitely one of the best litrpgs I’ve read. I was really excited for the audio immersion but sadly I thought the first episode wasn’t quite as good. I listened to Kaiju battlefield surgeon and I imagined it to be like that. And it was, but a lot of small mistakes ended up making it feel a little rushed. KBS was actually really good too. Very enjoyed that one as well. Though I haven’t read the book for that yet, only listened to the cinematic audio.
Not going to lie, I find cinematic audio to be annoying as fuck. It just doesnt work for me. Audiobooks with some post processing on the voices and some sound effects works best.
Fair enough. I also don’t usually like it. I hate things like graphic audio for example. But for some reason KBS just worked for me.
6 books. Goddammit Donut, I just read 6 books and the book 7 won’t be out for ages.
I need my carl fix!!!
Jeff Haynes is sooo good! And I love the guest narrators too. I saw some people on Reddit say that they didn’t like the Scottish train engineer a couple years ago, but I thought that was rather enjoyable too.
