Review: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

The annoyingly loud typeface on the front cover design of Dungeon Crawler Carl was a sign of worse things to come. “Are you kidding? The Syndicate consists of over three billion independent star systems. Every season, a new Dungeon Crawler World debuts across the net. Quintillions of citizens of the Syndicate become obsessed with the Crawl.” ​”Wait, so this is like a TV show? Like Survivor?” page 35, Mordecai and Carl Table of ContentsWhy Dungeon Crawler Carl?The BookLitRPGs and Dungeon CrawlsThe Signs Were ThereCharactersBad WritingDungeon Crawler CringeConcluding Thoughts Why Dungeon Crawler Carl? I am fairly sure I first heard about Dungeon Crawler Carl a couple years ago from the booktuber cari can read. At the time I did not think much of it, nothing about the book caught my interest and I never looked into the book further. Fast-forward a couple years and I saw a mutual on the fediverse share a review of the book on the indie arts and culture website jank.cool. I did not read…