The Programmer's Dungeon [Progression, LitRPG]

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2022

Author

Astralium

• Chapter 1: Scary World, Unending Troubles
  Mar 30, 2022
• Glossary (Contain Spoilers)
  Apr 17, 2022
• Map (Contain Spoilers)
  Apr 6, 2022

Reviews

Community Reviews(10)

• NegsBetilRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Author I have to ask is Vincent half Japanese and half Chinese, He has the resistance to seduction of a JP LN MC and the quickly growing ruthlessness of a Xianxia MC.
  I hope he can have a few friends from the minions.
  And the enemy's power scale to match the advantage of technology afterall sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology
  Anyways keep up the good work Ser Author
• CoolNoobRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  The story has a cool premise where a programmer student becomes a dungeon master after getting involved in an unfortunate accident. MC has two abilities, being [Programming] and [Developer Interface].
  He can basically code anything under a certain limit, but I don’t know how much OP it can become.
  Style so far is good, light to read, and easy to get into.
  I can’t complain about grammar since I myself don’t have the necessary skill, but I don’t find any mistakes so far.
  The characters are fine and interesting. In recent chapters, MC has been interacting with the dungeon core a lot. Can’t wait to see where that will lead into.
  Anyway, the more you read, the more it will pay back. The story is building up into something good with certain intrigue playing out in the background. I wonder when the invaders will start attacking MC’s dungeon.
  Also, it seems that Author didn’t use the typical level LitRPG where much other stories can devolve because being too restricted by that and keeping it somewhat realistic.
  It will also be fun to see MC finding a bug after coding thousands of lines and having the dungeon malfunction.
  My only complaint is that it lacks chapters! I want more!
• PakkoRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  The programmer's dungeon is well done and worth the read for people just getting into it. I didn't get the chance to read this story before the rewrite but I am glad I started now. The premise is well done and I am excited to see more from this story and how it continues beyond the initial writing. The one thing I am worried about for the story is the dungeon elements. Vince has left the dungeon in more recent chapters and that is not what some like out of their dungeon core stories. For now, I am fine with it but I hope the divergence doesn't take too long but I understand the need to power up the MC with the help of others for a while.
  Readability and the grammar/editing of the story are well done overall and I haven't noticed anything wrong with the chapters as I go through them.
  The style of the RPG elements and writing, in general, is great. The author doesn't use blue boxes which is a welcome change. The other parts that go into style have also been good. From the action scenes to the dialogue.
  In the end, my main concern would be where the story goes from here and how the story focuses on VInce the dungeon master
• BullerRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  reading it wasn't as fun. It was still fun, to be sure. Initial premise sounded neat as heck and it had been a while since I read anything related to the Programming tropes. But, damn, was I annoyed by grammar issues. There aren't too many of them but it drags the fiction down too much. Mixed in with the execution of the tropes, I wasn't entirely happy with how it turned out. It has promise but it needs some work.
  4.5/5
• Kit MonsterRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  Over all I really enjoy this story. I was really interested in where it was going from the moment I read the description, and so far I haven't been disappointed. The author has a great way of describing surroundings that makes it very easy to imagine what the world is like, which I love.
  As far as style goes it starts off feeling very much like a standard isekai, but the way the author handles things makes it a bit more fun. It's like reading a manga without the pictures. Things have a sort of visual oomph despite only existing in words. It's fun.
  The story so far has me interested. I'm curious to know what with happen next, and I've been really enjoying the interactions between Vincent and Lorelei.
  The grammar is where things take a harder hit here. It's not unreadable by any sense, but sometimes there's an awkwardly worded phrase or a sentence that's obviously missing a word. It's nothing that couldn't be fixed easily by giving it a quick edit while reading aloud.
  The characters are great, too. At least the main characters are. The half point deduction on this is only because the bad guys feel a little one note right now, but I'm sure that will change.
  All in all? Definitely give this a read if you like dungeon core. It has all the theorizing in dungeon maps and cheating the system into giving you things for cheap that you could ever hope for.
• Monkey D. DaddyRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  (4.5/5)..  The story is good.  Mc is likabel and usages his brain ....  but there are few cliche like ----
  1)-  villains are evil for the sake of evil.. I mean villains do worst disgusting crimes as if it's common thing .. and no not 1 but group of villain..  no matter how cruel a human can be only psycho's can be such cruel as  villains are inn this story.. like beating slaves to death or feeding to mouse..
  2)- mc uses brain in fight but that's all.. he always takes fight with like several times stronger than himself..  all his fight's are against people dozen of time stronger than himself and somehow survive in last moment and killes enemies with traps...  It's okey one time but it's happening contineously and mc is the one that take risk...
  3) mc does some stupid things that no normal human would do.. instead of becoming stronger in safe place  he went out to town or to exterminate some dark organization.. while mc being soo soo soo weak to the point of annoying..
  mc is still F rank while he already fighting B rank and some global dark organization as enemy...  and no mc just try to excercise fking 2 days and then boom again he goes to seek death and somehow survive...  It's too annoying  to see such a weak mc always picking fights with stronger enemies .. just like some dumb cultivation stuff where mc fights 1 realm higer villains each time and miraculasly defeats them...  I hope it become better or mc become atleast some stronger instead of some disgustingly weak or just fking not involve in fights..  It's okey few time but it's happening same thing from the start .. how is someone supposed to not get annoyed while seeing the same thing..
• 1212BRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  "The Programmers Dungeon" is a gimmick novel. But it doesn't really do much with that gimmick.
  We follow along as our main character is unceremoniously chucked into a fantasy world, almost dies and just survives by fusing with a dubgeon core, who takes on a human shape and as whose 'master' he serves.
  Fate settles him with a special skill called "programming" with which he can alter the world around him, using his trusty laptop and a code line.
  Style / Grammar:
  The prose flows decently, though I stumbled a few time — Only one of which being from a sentence that struck me as odd, while the rest were from (parentheses) uses in narration, or internet lingo, such as "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" or "Lol" appearing in text.
  On those latter two points I'm not yet sure whether they're supposed to be part of the main character's personality, or if that's just the author's style. It did definitely make me cringe thought. Personal prefrences.
  Apart from that necessary information is conveyed in a very, very exposition heavy way, which wasn't very enjoyable to read.
  The grammar is okay. It didn't kill my enjoyment of the story, but it definitely isn't top notch either.
  Other reviews go more into detail on that, so consult them if you want to know more.
  Plot:
  The plot is fairly standard for a dungeon core novel. I don't think I even need to elaborate on what's the central conflict and danger to the main characters. If you're read more than two stories in the genre, you'll have a good idea how it goes.
  What's the twist in this story is that the main character is not stationary — Though his dungeon is so... Hm.
  And the fact that the world isn't medieval high fantasy, but has significant non-magical technology, such as guns as well.
  The story is trop laden and it knows this.It lampshades this, but this didn't really improve anything for me. It didn't really make me laugh, as I presume it was supposed to. It just made me think "If you know about this, why don't you actually change, or subvert it?"
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• ShadeByTheSeaRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  I for the most part I enjoyed the story, but I just couldn't get past the MC and his aditude towards the core. He basically treats her like dirt in his head. He doesn't actually treat her badly, but his inner thoughts make it seem like he would if he could.
• GreenKingRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  I read the original and up to 40 chapters of the current. I think I'd sum up my feelings as irritated. This is not a dungeon core novel. It has a dungeon and the title and summary suggest that it's going to be dungeon focused. But it is not. The main character spends more time out of the dungeon instead of in it. And based on experience most dungeon core novels have to expand to incorporate other characters and more world building. But this story accelerated at mach 10 to get out of the dungeon. I think that if the other had a different title and a more descriptive summary I'd enjoy the story more. I also probably wouldnt have read it. I came for the dungeon in the name not Vincent the master magician whose an isekai reincarnate in a pseudo medieval steampunk world with a pet dungeon on the side. Stories ok just not as advertised.
  Dungeon chapters: 8-10 out of 40
  Adventure chapters: <30 out of 40
  Still props to the author who is out here writing and letting us read for free. I think you really got the flow for storytelling but maybe a little self editing. Introduce elements of the world slowly instead of shoving the buffet of ideas out. I think it's a lot of massive story elements that needed way more time for introduction. If the pacing was slower and their was more arc centric focus.
  I want to add on that Ill still keep reading this and the authors future works as well because I think theres a lot of potential.
• Bluelightning42Royal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  Essentially my review can be summed up with the fact that I was looking forward to the premise and found its execution lacking and thus I'm looking at the whole series more harshly than I would otherwise.
  I really like dungeon core novels. I've read a whole bunch of them and can look past alot of minor annoyances as long as I like the actual dungeon building.
  Similarily I like programming and love the idea of a LitrRPG with a character properly programming thier [system]. Long story short for a better version of that last point find late delve chapters.
  My problem can be boiled down to this. This story is presented as programing focused, but the initial uses of his power are closer to "hacking" attributes instead.
  But, and here's the important bit. I wouldn't call this a "hacking dungeon" instead of a "programming dungeon". There's no effort involved in hacking the attributes - real hacking involves endless searching for vulnerabilities and then abusing those. This is the equivalent to being shown the attributes and moving them around with sliders while throwing out the odd programing term that doesn't really fit...
  This is the script kiddy version of hacking where the "hacker" is pushing a button to magically get the effect without any work.
  To make this whole scenario worse very little time is put into the programing aspect - several chapters are spent describing the loli dungeon and then the programing an army is condensed into what feels like a paragraph or two.
  SO. What could be done better? This portion is directed at the author and is genuinely written with the hope it will help them improve.
  Personally, this feels kind of like programing is described by people who don't know how to program...I'm trying not to be harsh but thats the simplest way I can describe it. And I do like the idea of the story you want to tell so I want to try and give a way it could be/could have been better presented.
  My recommendation would be to make it quite a bit more technical in