Seriously, I love this series so much. The Audiobooks are amazing.

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      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?

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          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.

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            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.

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            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.