Deep Delve

Self-Published

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Description

Kevin is in a bit of rut.  He's working for Wal-mart, and his engineering degree is gathering dust.  He spends his off hours enjoying a variety of Virtual Reality games,  and carpet bombing his resume to any firm that might accept it, and some who he is sure will not.  Along with a substantial portion of the gaming world, he is eagerly awaiting the release of Deep Delve, a secretive but wildly speculated about VR-MMORPG.  Kevin receives a surprise phone call two weeks before Deep Delve is set for release, and finds himself taking an offer he just can't refuse.

Information

Status
Hiatus
Year
2020
Author
Jahx

Tags

LITRPGACTIONFANTASYADVENTUREMAGICGAMELITHIGH FANTASYSTRATEGY

Royal Road Stats

Rating
4.1/ 5.0
Followers
76
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13,735

Chapters(9 total)

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Community Reviews(4)

  • Kirt77Royal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Very well done. Engaging story and characters. I really wish the author would pick it back up.  Good solid concept and great world building. The chapters are long too so that is nice.
    Need to add more words for the review. Reviews are a hastle so I rarely leave them except for work I really enjoy.
  • meerschaumRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 4.5
    I like the characters.
    This was fun and I'd like to read more. Definitely more interesting that the average VRMMORPG story.
    I'd like to read more if the author ever picks it up again. The characters remind me of people I used to know and haven't thought about in years.
    Definitely was fairly early before the hiatus. I wonder if it will get picked up again after Monroe finishes, but I don't feel like we gotten an overarching conflict yet, mostly a slice of life with some ... concerns and themes .... which is appropriate for slice of life.
  • KayBeeJayRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 4.0
    I've read a few different VR-MMORPG stories or Dungeon Creator/Master/Core stories but this was the first time I read about a combination of both and I really liked it. The characters feel pretty good overall, even if some dialogue here and there feels a bit off. Everything seems mostly coherent and fleshed out, no obvious holes or anything. Slight deductions for some continued misspelling of "Deity" in one of the chapters but thats easily fixed, and no similar mistakes from what I noticed.
    Overall, I definitely recommend this, even if it sucks to get cut off so suddenly and so fast with only 9 chapters at the time of writing this. If you liked reading it, maybe check out Monroe because at least that's getting updates? Slightly similar type of main character, but very different type of story at the start (even if they start getting similar later).
    I really, really liked the first dungeon Keving created and I would absolutely love to see what else he could think of. Also how the game mechanics would've worked with status effects due to the cold from the shipwreck, etc. etc. Really would like to find out if he gets in a relationship with any of the characters? I like a good romantic subplot, and Monroe really isn't delivering on that end, sadly.
  • Skull-LeeRoyal Road
    ★★★ 3.0
    The main problem is that the story is abandoned.
    It is years since any new material was posted but in Monroe the author plans a spin off. Reading comments, the author claim that she wants to continue as recent as a few weeks ago.
    I'll give it a better rating is it continues to some completion, but even with the good idea it was a waste of time to read a long start of a story.
    I like the style of the author, including taking almost 5 chapters to set the scenario up. She then take another 5 to introduce the main idea of the story. Since only 9 chapters are written, you can guess that the main story is about to start.
    I penalised the story since we only have the promising setup of a story. It is very promising but not the actual story.
    I seldom find any issues with the English. Therefore this score is more like the text written makes sense and fit well together. Even non English speakers can follow the story.
    The main character is established with character faults, friends and typical interactions. The first level of support characters are also well established. There are even decent established second level support characters. (The father of his friend as well as the nurse she hired for her father. The secretary of his new boss, head of legal department of new work, there's a few other secondary support characters.) That is the same in Monroe but it only becomes clear after another ten or so chapters that non of the support characters will be the main character.
    So once those teen are written we can expect half a star increase.