Dungeon Crawler Carl

At 2:23 in the morning, Carl steps outside his Seattle apartment to rescue Princess Donut, his ex-girlfriend’s prize Persian cat. He is wearing boxers, a leather jacket, and tight pink Crocs. Then every roof on Earth collapses. Buildings flatten, streets disappear, and almost everyone caught indoors dies. Before Carl can understand what remains, a voice announces that Earth has been seized, repurposed, and transformed into an eighteen-level World Dungeon.

The survivors have one hour to enter. Once inside, they must fight, level up, gather loot, and reach the next staircase before each floor is destroyed. But this is not merely an apocalypse. The Borant Corporation is broadcasting the crawl to billions of alien viewers, turning humanity’s extinction into entertainment. Carl enters with no pants, no weapon, and one extremely valuable cat. Survival will demand violence, strategy, and an audience willing to keep watching. As the dungeon tries to humiliate and break them, Carl and Donut discover that staying human may be harder than staying alive.

• LitRPG and progression-fantasy listeners who want leveling, loot, skills, monsters, and lethal dungeon mechanics.
• Fans of fast, darkly comic survival stories driven by inventive action and an unforgettable human-and-cat partnership.
• Listeners drawn to sharp satire about reality television, corporate power, manufactured fame, and audiences consuming suffering as entertainment.

Matt Dinniman is an American author best known for blending dark comedy, relentless action, and game-system storytelling in the bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series.