Museum Core (Dungeon Core/LitRPG Apocalypse)

Information

Status

Ongoing

Year

2024

Author

Jakob H. Greif

• Book 4 Release!
  Mar 28, 2026
• New Fiction Release!
  Dec 9, 2025
• Map of the Transformed Zones
  Apr 18, 2025
• Chapter 3: Building the Citadel
  Apr 2, 2024
• Chapter 2: Chomp!
  Apr 2, 2024
• Chapter 1: Wakey, Wakey
  Apr 2, 2024

What readers say about Museum Core (Dungeon Core/LitRPG Apocalypse)

• “The story method may seem standard Dungeon Core at a first glance, with the standard powerful boost, but it is done in a logical, reasonable and innovative method without the MC just getting everything handed to him. It also follows a parallel story that hi…”

  CoruptionRoyal Road5.0 / 5

• “This story has been an incredibly fun read. The world building is fascinating. In that it is somewhat system apocalypse but only in parts which is different. I can't say I look forward to every update. I have been highly entertained each and every chapter.…”

  TargrothRoyal Road5.0 / 5

Reviews

Community Reviews(10)

• CoruptionRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  The story method may seem standard Dungeon Core at a first glance, with the standard powerful boost, but it is done in a logical, reasonable and innovative method without the MC just getting everything handed to him.
  It also follows a parallel story that highly overlaps with the MC's story.
  The style is clear, interesting and does not leave you wondering WTF they meant. The descriptions are good, but not overly done.
  Characters? The ones focused on feel well fleshed out and believable. They make sense and do not do things just for plot convince.
  The support characters do not seem like they are simply props or make no sense. They fit the story and could probably stand people looking into them deeper
  The grammar is very good, with only a couple of very minor issues. You can read the story easily without trying to decipher what was written as if it was a foreign and ancient language, and they did not make the mistake of trying wordplay with multiple meanings (Something I am sometimes guilty of)
  I highly enjoyed it.
• TargrothRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  This story has been an incredibly fun read. The world building is fascinating. In that it is somewhat system apocalypse but only in parts which is different. I can't say I look forward to every update. I have been highly entertained each and every chapter. If you enjoy dungeon core stories at all this is a very good option. I personally think it can compete strongly with any other dungeon core story.
• Undead WriterRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  SO I will start off saying, I HATE the dungeon core fairy thing where the fairy outright verbally abuses and emotionally abuses the poor soul in the core just because she's a pretty woman.  Thankfully this novel doesn't have that....Instead, its a confused guy from another world where the guy in the core isn't putting up with his BS and tells the little guy to go F off when he tells him not to do things.
  I enjoy this dynamic and can't wait for more.  The story is good, I'm enjoying the build up and interested to see where things go given so many interesting paths the author has injected into this novel.  There is a system, cultivation, and magic!  But the MC says F to all that and decides to turn the greatest horrors of humanity into the most fluffy animals available, except for the hypo.....ya the hypo freaked me out for a minute.  Cool idea, scary to see them with the speed of a cheetah lol.
  In the end, great work and I can't wait to see where this goes.  It really reminds me of how fun a novel can be.  Sometimes I forget that when I'm reading.  This is a great story with great potential!
• RunnerRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  System apocalypse of not just one system but multiples and earth is just one of the many planets taking part in it.  What this means is glitches, lots and lots of glitches.  Some of which is planets being merged together (including earth), people waking up as other races (not all of them), and different systems of power to use for advancing (hard to figure out as they keep glitching out).
  What this all means is we have a slow building story of a MC trying to figure out what to do (as a dungeon core) and how to do it with a dungeon fairy from another world that use to be human and is a horrible teacher.
  As of this chapter, I have no idea what direction this story is going.  It's more of a slice of life of someone being tossed into a absurd situation and at the moment all they want to do is survive and protect themselves from a world tossed into a slow rolling chaos.  (Meaning while no one really knows what's going on or what the future is, they can see what's happening and make educated guesses.)
• DaveRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  A Mana/System/Cultivation/Multiverse apocalypse hits earth, transforming 7 sections beyond natural control. Some people get transformed into monsters, others get a system, some become cultivators. And one 'lucky' individual gets merged with a dungeon core, that is in the Natural History Museum in London - with all the animal patterns it could want!
  Great story and  a great read.
• EldritchMaestroRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  Exceptionally promising premise as a dungeon in a museum (much less the London Natural History Museum) has plenty of options to work with.
  I like the idea of survival, and of the idea that so many things are out of whack that no one is quite sure what is going on. Its an apocalypse situation that makes sense if it were to happen in this manner.
  Style:
  I like the style, its to the point but you still get an idea of what is going on. Along with covering the basics of what is happening it feels enjoyable.
  Story:
  Overall story implementation feels right as well, there are mysteries in what is going on and why, but we are still quite early. It also feels more like a survival situation than anything with a distinct 'goal' per se.
  Grammar:
  Typos and missing punctuation are here and there unfortunately. Most often I see missing quote marks for when people are speaking or missing letters here and there. Not enough to be truly horrible but it does occasionally pull me out of 'hey they missed that'.
  Character:
  My biggest complaint so far. It's early and there is a ton of room for fleshing people out here but I feel like the characters need more to make them 'people' rather than characters. The closest I've seen so far was one person's realization they could eat the local pastries, but no details other than that. Did they like them? what were their favorites? I would like to see more about them being people to help flesh things out.
• TranquilClawsRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  The multiverse invasion concept and magic systems involved are fantastic. The story starts right in the action and keeps the pacing going. It ditches the system screens in favor of more natural descriptions of what it would feel like to have a system's effects working their magic on you regardless. It's great...
  But then the pacing feels, weird. Like, if I could describe this story in a sentence: It has the feel of an AI drawing where the creator poured a bunch of really cool ideas into the prompt and then hit generate.
  The world and characters will act normal for one second and then you blink and the scene has skipped a few frames, still pretending everything is normal. Sometimes the world will randomly advance out of sync with some other part of the world, and that is partly explained by some of those crazy apocalypse system effects. But the remainder is a mystery.
  I...enjoyed this book? Honestly, I've never felt so strange about a novel before. Hopefully, other reviews can better describe what exactly is going on here.
  If you like system apocalypse and dungeon core novels, reading this is like eating candy with strange but interesting flavors.
• darkrikeRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  I want to say that this is good.
  But I find it weird that it has such a high rating.
  And well, it is ok. The grammar is good and I can and maybe want to read more.
  But it has decided some things that are not really working.
  For one, and the major problem.
  -Our MC's utter lack of background. This mostly a problem shown in relation to his interaction with his dungeon spirit. The only interaction he has. But it also has affects with readers expectations on the MC.
  Basically, the problem is that our MC has experiences and expectations that are always relevant to how he talks. The thing is we readers have absolutely zero knowledge of what those expectations and experiences are. So instead of the annoying interaction between the MC and spirit being totally in character and relatable. It just shows them being incompetent and nonrelevant towards progressing. Or something like that. Read and you will understand.
  Second. The non-deep exploration of being a dungeon plus active rank restrictions. Basically what we get is. MC absorbs something, now he can summon it in some unmentioned amount. Ok, this is a little false since things are just starting out plus there are already signs of more things to explore. But it still lacks deeps. For the other point. Yeah, there are ranks, one thing that is relevant but at the same time not.
  Third thing. Interlude, or more correctly second main character. Not much to say. I am just not here to read about another story when I want to read the main story. I get that the interludes are there to explore what is happening outside. The thing is, it has no relevance to the main story, our dungeon story. And is not needed yet, especially in such a large amount with every other chapter. It would have been far better if the second main character was just introduced later and then her storis explored in flashbacks.
  So yeah.
  The MC needs a background story or information. Thus we readers can know why and from where he is coming from. An important note i
• SkelatoxRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  Short version: If you like systems and/or apocali, then so long as the typos don't turn you away, you'll probably enjoy this one.
  Now, starting out with the good - this story has a pretty refreshing take on what quickly became a stale genre: System Apocalypse. Largely by having the apocalypse be just as devastating for the systems in question - yes, plural systems, that's not a typo in my review title. In fact, part of the interest in the story is seeing the variety of systems at play, be they differing flavors of LitRPG, Cultivation, Wizard Bullshit, or more.
  In addition, most of the characters who'll be using those systems are pretty fun, and seem to each have depth, though we've had little opportunity to explore it. We also seem to be building up to a decent mix of archetypes, with a summoner unrelated to the dungeon, a would-be mage, and the RoyalRoad staple of a brutal pugilist.
  As for the bad... that mention of typos up there is topical. This story suffers from a lot of them, often to the extent that it hampers the readability of the work. If you get a couple chapters in, and find yourself struggling with them, it unfortunately does not get better.
  Aside from that, the only noteworthy complaint are the switches in perspective between characters, which often feel jarring and ill-timed. There were several moments where I lamented a perspective switch, because I had just become invested in the other character's situation. This could be seen as a glass-half-full situation, as it means the characters are good enough to become invested in, but it can be frustrating, nonetheless.
  All-in-all, it's as the title says. There's a really solid core story here, it's just buried under a very heavily blemished, unpolished exterior.
• reteikerRoyal Road

  ★★★ 2.5

  I read Apocalypse Redux, the authors previous story. (I am going somewhere with this)
  The "centerpiece" of Apocalypse Redux, what the story was primarily about, was in essence ¨people are stupid & why that makes incredible super hero-power granting systems a bad idea¨. Everything that happens in Apocalypse Redux can in some way, shape or form be traced back to this concept. Which means for all that the story has dozens of different characters, powers & alliances they all stem from same thing, namely, to prevent people from being excessively stupid with their super powers.
  It is great, for there is not a word in the story that isn't exempt from the purpose of the main character. Everything goes into trying to prevent the end of the world by stupidity, bringing the whole story together.
  This story does not have that. At all.
  What we do have here is cool new dungeon core with a genuinely awesome museum setting, I love it and want to read more about what is ostensibly the main character(You know, the thing the whole ass novel is named after) But, we are now interrupting your decently interesting dungeon fic with POLICE WOMAN!
  POLICE WOMAN! has a strong sense of duty and a daughter to take care of. And I do not care.
  I can see what her purpose in the story is, she is the delver to the protagonists dungeon, but boy, do I not care about her.
  I probably don't care because whenever she appears(too frequently) we don't get to read about our dungeoncore buddy. Which shouldn't be a problem for me. I'm not dumb, a dungeoncore novel is nothing if the dungeon does not have delvers to delve the dungeon the core is building. The delvers are usually side characters however, not lite-protagonists like our police woman is.
  But back to the purpose of the story, Why is all this magical nonsense even happening? Why & how is our protagonist a dungeoncore? Why have people turned into monsters? Why is none of this relevant?
  Probably, because the story seems to be running on the rule of cool