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View submission: Do NOT Sleep on Dungeon Crawler Carl
I've only read one other that I found totally boring but Carl is really well done. It actually made me want to play a dungeon crawler and open the loot boxes myself. The characters are all great and as the books progress it becomes more and more about what's going on outside the game and less about the stats and levelling. In fact I'd say only the first book is really about that. And given that all the characters are very aware of the meta makes it feel natural.
Comment by Zaphod1620 at 24/02/2025 at 15:57 UTC
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The closest game to DCC is Caves of Qud. It has a very retro interface, but the underlying simulations are staggering, and can lead to some crazy emergent scenarios like what happens in DCC.