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    Dungeon Crawler Carl

    Matt Dinniman · 2020

    The apocalypse will be televised! A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth—from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds—collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot. A dungeon so enormous, it circles the entire globe. Only a few dare venture inside. But once you're in, you can't get out. And what's worse, each level has a time limit. You have but days to find a staircase to the next level down, or it's game over. In this game, it's not about your strength or your dexterity. It's about your followers, your views. Your clout. It's about building an audience and killing those goblins with style. You can't just survive here. You gotta survive big. You gotta fight with vigor, with excitement. You gotta make them stand up and cheer. And if you do have that "it" factor, you may just find yourself with a following. That's the only way to truly survive in this game—with the help of the loot boxes dropped upon you by the generous benefactors watching from across the galaxy. They call it Dungeon Crawler World. But for Carl, it's anything but a game.

    Fiction & LiteratureFantasy
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    Stats for nerds
    43recommend
    83mentions
    72people
    2022–2026years
    58% recommend37% neutral5% critical

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    What Hacker News says

    1. ragazzinaOct 2026
      I feel like the people that didn't understand Blindsight are probably better off reading Dungeon Crawler Carl.

      What kind of criticism is "no need to have Dracula in space"? The novel is about other types of intelligence, and the question is whether a conscience is necessary for intelligence, a topic that in similar words is discussed every day on this same forum many times a day.

      In the book there are normal humans, upgraded humans with severed emotions, there are absolute sociopaths that are still conscious, and there are intelligent aliens with no conscience at all. Were they supposed to be all different alien species? I prefer it this way, there's more variety.

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    2. imperialdriveSep 2026
      Half way through Dungeon Crawler Carl book 8, really got hooked on the whole universe haha.
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    3. kinowSep 2026
      I'm reading Matt's latest movie from Dungeon Crawler Carl series. A great fun way to unwind after programming all day! Will check the two other books you mentioned, thanks!
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    4. rocketpastsixSep 2026
      I just started book 6 of Dungeon Crawler Carl. You are in for a treat.
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    5. MrDrMcCoySep 2026
      Currently going through Bobiverse, Dungeon Crawler Carl. Recently finished the Dark Profit Saga (Orconomics). Highly recommend all of them.
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    6. gwbas1cSep 2026
      The seventh floor of Dungeon Crawler Carl is my favorite so far. It's a very fast read.
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