A LitRPG Adventure

Fantasy meets horror in this gore-soaked, standalone LitRPG adventure!

It had seemed like a dream offer. Paint a mural. $15,000. How could Duke not jump at the chance?
But it came with a catch, as these things often do. He had to first see what his client wanted him to paint.
A private server. A digital playground. An alliance of the world’s most sadistic, most depraved minds. A place to bring their prey, to hone their skills.
Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon. Survival horror. One of the most brutal, most terrifying full-immersion games ever made. A place where fantasy characters such as elves and dwarves clash with technology, where giant monsters roam the hills, entrusted with protecting the gates of heaven from the demons who would tear it all down.
A game where one plays the last of the battlefield surgeons: a healer tasked with keeping the behemoths alive at all costs.
But on this server, they don’t care about the game. That’s not why they’re here. They’ve come because of the game’s most unique feature: Full pain. Realistic anatomy. The ability to bring their victims well beyond the body’s normal breaking point. And most importantly, the ability to bring them back and do it all over again.
Trapped in a bloody, merciless nightmare, Duke only has one goal. To survive. And in order to survive, he must play the game. He must win the game. And to do that, he must become the most cruel, most ruthless monster of them all.

This brutal, 200,000 word, standalone LitRPG novel features the following:

A co-op survival horror game where fantasy-type characters and technology clash.

Medium-heavy stats.

Lots of violence.

Stomach-churning gore.

No-holds-barred kaiju battles.

Torture-happy, paladin dwarf toddlers.

22 individual races, each with their own magical system.

A pet tapeworm named Banksy.

Dozens of kaiju, each with their own distinctive form and abilities.

Demons and angels, and you can’t trust a damn one of them.

About 200,000 words--the length of 3 books!

No harem.

Reader Reviews

Luek

(5/5)

May 02, 2024

HoooooookayThis is.....dark. it is well written, has an interesting plot, and a fun game system. That being said...hoooooollllllyyyyy crap is it fucked up. (Especially the ending) I would classify this as GrimDark Gamelit. Be warned.

Cameron

Not for the faint of heart - but a wild ride!What a ride this story was. From start to finish it twisted, turned, and went down fucked up routes.This protagonist / hero / survivor - yeah, hard to say what to call him, basically has everything about him questioned at one point or another. It makes for a great psychological thriller, filled within a lovecraftian horror setting filled with giant abomination monsters.Yeah there are levels and stars and it is a game system... but it’s definitely a ho...

NoNo JoJo

(4/5)

Preface: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.Explicit content: Loads (and I mean loads) of gore and body horror. Some gross sexual situations.Recommended for: Fans of the genre looking for a spin on things (it's not an MMORPG), possibly fantasy fans?This was a weird read for me. I've never read any LitRPG before, but I'm in a reading challenge that contains a prompt for one, so I gave this a go. It was...interesting. Mostly it just left me wanting to actually pla...

Richin109

WowThis is one of the best litrpg books I have read. And even calling it litrpg doesn't do it justice. Well written interesting plot. Really hope there is another book in the series.

Chris Greaves

I'll start this by pointing out that I don't normally read horror genre books. However, I'd just finished Dungeon Crawler Carl by the same author and thought I'd give this a go. Some parts of this story make for uncomfortable reading, there is torture, pain, and gruesome scenes - probably what you'd expect from a horror story...but it is well done! It is kind of a mix between the movie Hostel, Saw and Seven - all based in a Japanese inspired, borderline Lovecraftian, type setting. It is an enter...

Amanda Higgins

This book ended up being not for me which was a disappointment as I am a fan of Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl series. While I recognized many of the same game mechanics in the Kaiju book that I saw in the Dungeon crawler series, Kaiju Battlefield Surgeon lacked all the key aspects of Dungeon Crawler Carl that made the series work for me. Kaiju is a gross book; that isn’t necessarily a complaint but rather a trait of the world Dinniman creates. The one issue I had with this feature though is t...

Carl Dinapoli

WowDark, gross, violent, disturbing yet surprisingly heartfelt, funny and even lump in the throat, tear inducing and warm. The story of Duke is not a gentle one, but it's a good one. I've been reading the author's Dungeon Crawler Carl series, and love them, so I thought I'd read this one while waiting for the next book. It is, as of now, my favorite book by the author. More than once it made me want to cry, laugh or throw up in my mouth a bit. Well worth the read. If love to see more like this.

Jonathan Chang

(I received this book for free)There is not actually all that much kaiju surgery, which is what I read it for, but it's still an interesting book. Note I didn't say enjoyable -- this is definitely not for everyone. I don't find most of the gross scenes beyond the pale, as they all make sense within the context of the story, but that might be too fine of a distinction for you. Feel free to skip it and look for something else in that case.

Steve

(3/5)

The beginning of this book was so depressing that I nearly gave up. Instead, I did something I never do, and skipped forward to about the 2/3 point in the book. This gets a 3 from me for the overall experience, although the writing is competent. It is too dense for non-fiction (for me) and it says something that I managed to pick things up from the 2/3 point with little or no loss of critical info. This suggests to me that it could have been compressed/edited back to <400 pages.Anyway, lots of g...

Charles Daniel

One of the most horrible novels I have ever read -- but it is so excellently horrible!I think the Author's dedication note at the beginning of this novel almost adequately describes why on would want to read, or not read, this work; So I'm copying it here for a review:Hey Mom,You know how you pride yourself in reading all my books? I really appreciate that, and I love you for it. Do us both a favor. Skip this one. This book is unnecessarily gross, pointlessly violent, probably blasphemous, and i...

Hannah

First impressions when I picked this up was that it was unlike anything else I had read and I really liked the feel of it. I like to play RPGs and have often wondered what it would feel like to actually live in one so this satisfied that feeling for me for the first few chapters. This book kept me on my toes and I loved following the stories of Duke and Clara as they tried to find their way out of the video game, so many twists and turns! Not for the faint hearted though as it’s pretty graphic i...

William Howe

Ummm...wellI *don’t* recommend reading this novel.Movies like ‘Hostel’, ‘Saw’, and ‘Se7en’ are a good comparison. This takes you to dark places. The epilogue doesn’t make it better. At first it’s just gory and vivid. Then it gets disturbing. Then it *really* gets disturbing.Yeah, this is very well written. But you need to be careful. Reading this...I feel the need to watch several hours of children’s cartoons to cleanse my mind.This is Kaiju fighting and horrifyingly specific vivisection and oth...

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