A Gamer's Guide To Beating The Tutorial

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[Books 1, 2 and 3 now available in e-book, audiobook and physical forms!]

On New Year's Eve, Lo Fennrick decides that he wants to die. The universe seems to hear him for the first time in his entire life, and just as the clock strikes 00:00, a message pops up inviting him to the Tutorial. Fennrick accepts. But at the prompt to choose the difficulty level, is there anything the former pro gamer can do but pick the very hardest--appropriately titledHell?

Hell, as the name implies, is nothing less than endless torment, not all too dissimilar to what Fennrick's life already was. Monsters, imprisonment and execution is enough to stretch what little sanity he has left to the brink of snapping, a haze of RED, BLACK and WHITE threatening to submerge him in eternal madness. However, despite his numerous sins and misdeeds, the world isn't quite ready to see him off just yet. Will those he cherishes be able to save him from the mad clutches of his own brain, or will he simply drag them down together with him into his self-made hell?

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Status: Ongoing
Year: 2023
Author: Palt

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Rating: 4.4/ 5.0
Followers: 1,662
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Chapters(172 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

phinox beets sphinxRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
For the first few books, it felt like a car crash I couldn't look away from. It was suspenseful and thrilling, embodying the phrase '"When you look into the abyss, the abyss looks back at you". Kitty getting insane in real time.
I don't get what people like about moleman. I love how the MC doesn't even justify his actions and how that effects other players.
Blue-eyed SerpentRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
There's literally no way I can express how much I love this book! But I'm going to try without spoiling anything OK here we go. The main character does grow but keeps the same charm that we love him for. This is the kind of book that you pick up when you were on a break from that hero B***S***. It definitely earned its villain tag and antihero tag. It's kind a hard to find stories like this and this type of story is definitely one of my favorites. Overall a great story. I hope you continue for many chapters to come.
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CalabanVIIIRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
First off, the MC's an evil bastard. Not just a manipulative edge lord or a comedic saturday-morning-cartoon villain, but a genuine monster. If you can't stomach a story whose main character commits genuine atrocities then I must advice you against reading this one. If you can though, you're in for a suprisingly deep read with a lot of unexpected emotional growth and struggle. The beginning's a bit chaotic/strange though and I feel like there's a bit of a disconnect between where we start and where we end up. Nontheless, I really appreciate this story and the topics it explores through a Main Character who's both a childish monster and yet someone you can't help but watch in the hope that he improves.
calamarispiderRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
this is my first time doing a review on this site, so thank u in advance for bearing with my baby-deer legged attempt at writing my thoughts here.
first thing i would say. this story reads, deeply, as an autistic(/neurodivergent) story. speaking as someone with autism--the lived experience of growing up and living as an autistic person resonates throughout every word used to describe fennrick and his experiences throughout it all. if you arent neurodivergent to this degree, in this way, perhaps you wont understand what i mean. thats okay. you dont have to understand.
it is important to keep in mind the context of Lo's actions. yes, he does horrible things. yes, he is incredibly violent- he spirals further and further as the story continues, every piece of character development being torn from grit teeth and snarling all the while. its slow, its small, and i get the feeling Lo will get far far worse before theres even a chance of him getting better. Lo Fennrick, at his core, is a deeply lonely and traumatised person--even before being thrown into the hyper-violent tutorial. yes yes yes, AND. the tutorial itself, specifically and especially the 'hell' level, is the perfect framework to break even the most 'normal' of people. being alone, isolated, with nothing to do but violence and pain... i highly doubt anyone would be able to survive such a thing and come out of it fine. if you think you could- you cant. dont kid yourself.
specific score stuff;
the style is good. its written from the mental perspective of Lo himself, and its nothing short of wonderful to read cognitive processes transcribed so well. there is a strong character in every sentence, and its always fun to read someones mental patterns as they warp and shift.
the first scene with the ladies, along with the lobotomy, the poking, are both sections that just... clicked, in my mind. there is something so perfect about how they were depicted. just read them, i hope youll understand what i mean. if you dont...
hjot6ffhuRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The Story is about struggle of Fenrick as he suffers crual and unfair Tutorial level's.
I personly love the idea of a charcter that has only his will to survive as positive triet, but the story is a gory mess [which again I personaly love].
It's clear most people would not like it as the suffering fenrick causes could be easly avoided by most regular humans.
If anything gamers guide is a unique exprience if anything else,
AutumnstarRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
To preface, I've read the previous version, as well as what it was based off of, so I have/had expectations and hopes when I started reading.
This story brings a certain feeling of realism and unhinged-ness that I don't get from anything else I've read on this site. While obviously the premise is as unrealistic as most things, the author is able to draw you in in such a way that you can feel an understanding of the main character, Fennrick, while still being able to be horrified by the decisions he's chosen and made.
If you don't think you're interested, I'd say at least read a couple of chapters. The writing up to the point I've seen (past chapter 100), has remained consistent, and will show you one way or the other if you'd like it.
Grammar is nigh spotless. The only grammar errors I've seen have been from when they're intentionally placed.
The style of this story is amazing. Like I said before, you get drawn in with the details, and when things calm down, you lean back and take a breath... up until Fennrick does something or has something happen to him again. It's a breath of fresh air, then back diving into whatever hole has been so conveniently placed in front of him.
Character wise, there's a level of growth that feels downright, gasp, human!!?!
Honestly, the depth that's been put into all the characters, even one-offs, has been delightful to read. Fennrick is insane, yes. So far removed from what's normal that he does sickening and horrifying things on a regular basis, true. But he's growing. The people he's able to make contact with are able to reach him in such a way that it feels just right.
The story is similarly great. The overall premise is so far somewhat simple, that is to leave the tutorial, but I'm sure that's going to change. Going back and reading this version, there's setup and foreshadowing that I hadn't caught the first time I read through it, so it can't be said that there's little thought put into this.
DradaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The story is fun to read and has good charters
It has very good character progression, the story shows what it takes for the MC to survive hell from him being a try-hard to just an inhuman monster that will do anything to survive. Except low budget gamer system with berserk levels of just excruciating misery that the MC has to go through
Dungeonmemer15Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Read every chapter out on patreon, and man, it is good. Endless suffering and misery? Character development (degeneration)? Interesting characters (who will all probably die horribly)? Wildly varying methods of torture? An unique story? A fate I'd never wish for even my enemies? Morbid and honestly nauseating (but fun) solutions to simple problems? All this and more, written extremely disturbingly but extremely well in the Gamer's guide to beating the tutorial.
Somehow it never gets old. Kill, gut, eat your enemies, cry, paint with blood, repeat. You'd think it gets boring, but it doesn't. There is always a twist on it, always another way to make Fennrick's existence jut a bit (or a lot) worse, and that's what we are here for. Well, a lot of people. I've read people saying that he deserves what he's going through and such, I disagree. Looked at from an outsider's view, someone who lives a regular life, what he does would warrant the death penalty anywhere, but that view is simply incorrect due to the hell part being true. He is losing his mind due to the unfair structure of the tutorial, while being forced into worse and worse choices that are the only way to survive. Between death and murder, even though they claim they wouldn't, most people would choose murder, after all the survival instinct is the strongest. Also, I think most under the same conditions would be the same.
Or, maybe I'm stupid and all of this is wrong.
Anyways, if you don't read it I'll haunt you as a ghost after I die. Read it now
EldritchPastaCatRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
God damn I love this novel. Out of all the books I have read, this is by far my favorite. There's something just so disgustingly, brutally human about Kitty and the way he acts. He's a an emotional, confused, struggling, hypocritical monster in a way only humans are capable of. No plant nor animal is capable of the cruelties the human mind can conjure, and I see that in Kitty. He's like a feral cornered animal, but one capable of complex thought. He wants to survive at any and all cost, be it a life, or his humanity. But I can also see that he doesn't want this, to be this monster he's become. He's a beast of circumstance borne through necessity, fear, desperation, and suffering. I cant see him as a good person, but neither can I see him as evil, as I wouldn't be surprised if I made the same choices if in his shoes.
It reminds me of a quote I read in another novel on this site; "Blame not the beast for its beastly flesh and beastly ways." -Father of Monstrosity by Dosei
FaboRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is the first time I wrote a rewiev for something, but this story deserved it. The way it managed to portray a broken character as the mc is simply phenomenal. The gore scenes are there for a reason and play a essential part in the character progression of the mc. The side characters seldom turn up, but when they do, they leave a lasting impression.
In summary I can say, that not everyone will like the story, because the mc can be quite psychotic at times, but it's worth a try!
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