The end of the world according to Carl

THIS IS GOING TO HURT! Dungeon Crawler World, the most-watched reality show in the galaxy, has simple rules. Survive eighteen floors full of deadly traps and twisted monsters, and you might get the ruins of your planet back. Carl, who entered the game wearing only a leather jacket and boxer shorts, and his talking cat, Princess Donut, have barely scraped their way through the first three. Avoiding being run over by a goblin murder-dozer, untangling a pig-ball, and saving the residents of a retirement home was the easy part. Now, Carl and Princess Donut are among the most popular crawlers, and a sadistic AI with a bare-foot fetish is about to put them through the meat grinder known as the Outer City. The once-vibrant metropolis may be in ruins, but its streets are far from empty. Get ready for mutated clowns, undead giraffes, fungal beasts, and ancient curses. And don't forget to beat, murder, and kill! With or without trousers, the main thing is to do it in style! A brutal LitRPG that makes Squid Game look like an educational programme for toddlers. “If Douglas Adams snorted a kilo of cocaine and then programmed Diablo, this is what it would look like.” – PEVNOST