Dungeon Crawler Carl

The world ends on a cold night in Seattle. Carl is outside in his boxers, chasing his ex-girlfriend's cat, when aliens flatten every building on Earth. The survivors are dropped into an eighteen-floor dungeon that is also the most-watched game show in the galaxy. Get down the stairs before the floor collapses, and keep the viewers entertained while you do it.

The cat comes too. Princess Donut is a prize-winning Persian, and she would very much like to be the star. The dungeon runs like a game show built inside a video game, with loot boxes, levels and prizes that range from useful to deeply stupid. Carl mostly wants to get through it without turning into the person the audience is cheering for.

Tabletop players, gamers, sci-fi readers, LitRPG fans and anthro fans, people who'd never share a table otherwise, all end up reading it. Plenty of people who swear they don't read fantasy are on book eight before they notice.