The Life of a Dungeon

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2021

Author

Kaisel

• Chapter 44
  Apr 6, 2021
• Chapter 43
  Apr 1, 2021
• Chapter 42
  Feb 25, 2021
• Floor Maps (Not A Chapter)
  Feb 20, 2021
• Chapter 41
  Feb 20, 2021
• Chapter 40
  Feb 17, 2021
• Chapter 39
  Feb 16, 2021
• Chapter 38
  Feb 15, 2021
• Chapter 37
  Feb 14, 2021
• Chapter 36
  Feb 13, 2021
• Chapter 35
  Feb 11, 2021
• Chapter 34
  Feb 10, 2021
• Chapter 33
  Feb 9, 2021
• Chapter 32
  Feb 8, 2021
• Chapter 31
  Feb 7, 2021
• Chapter 30
  Feb 6, 2021
• Chapter 29
  Feb 5, 2021
• Chapter 28
  Feb 4, 2021
• Chapter 27
  Feb 3, 2021
• Chapter 26
  Feb 2, 2021

Reviews

Community Reviews(8)

• SrayanRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I am reviewing this at a fairly early point because I have already spotted one genuine innovation in the "reincarnate as a dungeon core" trope. This is the first core novel where the core could use fossils (as opposed to skeletal remains) to gain monster types. This opens many options. The other reviewer who mentioned pace being too fast is correct for the early chapters but it's only really fast for chapter one.
  I am still giving 5 stars because of the innovation and the extra possibilities arising  from it. Agree author should slow it down a little and allow both readers and even the MC to "smell the roses".
• Enjoyer_Of_BooksRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I like dungeon stories and this one checks all the boxes for me.
  Dungeon floor design with a fair amount of living ecosystem
  Adventurers
  Experiments to make new things for the dungeon
  Light mix of system descriptions and status screens with a more realistic sense of using mana to expand and do things.
  Looking forward to more as it comes out. Enjoyable read so far (39 chapters in).
• Shadow13Royal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  The ancient/extinct mob types and background surrounding how the dungeon is created is an interesting take and I feel has a lot of potential.
  However I feel that the story needs more in-depth information and details concerning the personalities of several of the characters. Aside from the dungeon several of the other characters are only briefly mentioned and does not give enough time/info to get a completely accurate read on them. While it's understandable I would still like to see more action and attention given to the suporting characters as well as more in-depth interactions with the Dungeon itself.
  The main areas I'm leaning towards are as follows:
  1. Dungeon Monsters. I particularly want to see an in-depth look/perspective at the life and growth of the dungeon's monsters, both the sentient and non-sentient, from their perspective.
  2. The gods and goddesses. Is the dungeon goddess the only 1 involved with the world? I'd like to see either a scene involving a couple gods talking/clashing or even just the interactions between the followers of different gods/goddesses.
  3. The original villagers of the dungeon town.
  4. The adventurers. Specifically I'd like to see more on the adventurers that first officially dived in the dungeon, maybe some rookies, as well as the Guild Master in the dungeon town.
• BlizzzrRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  I have 3 constructive criticisms for the author,
  1 you never show us what the main character is thinking, how do they react to the situation they're in? what are their thought prosses behind what they do? these are things that I feel are desperately needed in this story
  2 you never tell us how they know things, to give an example when building their first floor, the main character makes a tree sapling then, grows it up. they were a human until recently, how did they know they could do this? it could even be as simple as their dungeon instincts telling them they can, just something other than nothing.
  3 and this last one is more of my personal taste, but the pace is too fast. we go from one thing to another without any details, this is similar to 1 but having more to do with everything that's not the main character, like how does the dungeon look? it has trees, but what kind? or how do the kobolds act?
  all in all, it's like this is the bones of a story, now it just needs some meat on them to make it good.
• RedgumRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  The dino- themed dungeon is a nice idea, but this story is so generic that it hurts. The MC has zero personality and any and all action is glossed over like a foot note.
  The grammer and spelling is good, so I stuck it out to around chapter 7 or 8 but there was no development in characters or personalities, just dungeon-bot mechanically making a generic dungeon.
• ThekingofoneRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  It's a pretty good start but the author rushes the development of the main character/ dungeon. It leads to it feeling less interesting when the main character gets something new because it doesn't feel worked for.  Something I am interested in is the theme of the dungeon, though from where I got to before writing this (chapter 12)  it hasn't really been used for more then a single monster.
• Thor AegirRoyal Road

  ★★★ 2.5

  This dungeon core novel has many good points and could be a great story.
  There is a lot of good ideas in this novel, from the character soul-napping to the idea of a dungeon giving life to fossil.
  But the litrpg part is not convincing. There is no detail of mana cost, no real use of skills, no exploration of the status menu. The author would do well to remove the litrpg parts and use a abstract mana well for the core.
  Additionnaly, the main character does not use the memories of her previous life. She has been to school, she should know about genetics, ecosystems, engines, electricity, geology, etc... The forest floor is a mine of genetic materials, and could be used. The character use only one tree species for mana reinforcement. She does not explore the different types of mana (elemental, shadow ? , light ?, etc...). She has no curiosity for the runes....
  I liked what i found in this novel, but it could be much much more. I hope the author work on the possibilities of high school education for this novel. It does not mean to use dna, but maybe more curiosity about mana and it's logic, more automation, more biodiversity, more ecology, etc...
• RoccoRoyal Road

  ★★ 2.0

  mc is a push over with out any real explanation as to why, the mc isn't biding their time or given any real reason to be so afrad especially given the the "fight" she put up in the prologue. the rest of the story has some interesting takes on the dungeon genre but my first point makes it hard to read any further.