Step 1: Limbo: A LitRPG Adventure

A Gamer's Guide to Beating the Tutorial, Book 1

By: Palt

Narrated by: Daniel Wisniewski

An ex-pro gamer's body and mind are on the line as he fights for his life in the Hell level of a mysterious "Tutorial" in this dark fantasy LitRPG.

Lo Fennrick is going to die. Maybe later this month, maybe this very week. Either way, the homeless ex–pro gamer is only going to avoid starving if he freezes to death first.

On a snowy New Year's Eve, Fennrick negotiates one last hurrah in a seedy internet cafe, but at the stroke of midnight, he receives a tantalizing invitation: "You have been invited to join the Tutorial." And when presented with the available difficulty levels, he makes the obvious choice: Hell.

Soon, Fennrick finds himself in frenzied, violent combat, and it's a toss-up as to which he'll lose first: his life or what little sanity he has left. With his criminal record, estranged family, and nonexistent future, he's ready to accept death.

But with monsters lurking in every corner, he's surprised to find himself battling all comers—human or otherwise—in a desperate attempt to save his own worthless self. Can Fennrick emerge from Hell with a single shred of his sanity intact—or will it be game over?

The first volume of the hit LitRPG horror series—with more than 750,000 views on Royal Road—now available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!

©2024 Palt (P)2024 Podium Audio

ok why do a feel like the mc is…

A meth head who is going through withdraw? after his mind breaks he ends up hallucinating a screen? gets taken to a mental hospital and proceeds to believe he was isekai’d … thats the vibe i’m getting from the book. step 1 of 12 steps? … i say your book is ok because its takes a lot of effort to write novels but … i like this genre and i’ve seen a mind break before and it is not pretty. if you like litrpg with powerful mc and righteous blah blah blah then i do not recommend this. If you like a mc who suffers from mental instability maybe a manic depressant and kind of dumb then enjoy … it can be a disturbing read or listen at points.

A must read for thrill seeking litrpg fans.

Too many stories don’t torture their isekai weak-to-strong MC enough. This story gets a lot closer to that ideal. Unfortunately, the main character is rewarded for this suffering, but most readers will enjoy this regardless.
Hilarious story, tear jerking moments, adorable psychopathic viewpoint, a fantastic (yummy) narration and likely to be the best litrpg you’ve ever read.
I strongly recommend this read to people who thought “the tutorial is too hard” was too easy and self-inserty. I also strongly recommend anybody reading this review to buy this book now.

This is madness

The main character got in his is own way to such a degree that it made it hard to finish the story. It was like there were two people instead of one when it came to interacting with the other characters. You would hear the main characters thoughts,thou deranged,be somewhat coherent. Then when he speaks or writes to others it was like a socially inept 12 year old who grew up with no supervision was speaking. This disconnect was clearly done to artificially add drama and/or extend the hell in hell difficult by isolating the main character. A lot could have been handled better if he just talk like a normal person or talk like the character that we experience in his head.

The story feels like torture porn at times but that is what you should expect given the title and description. So I wasn't bored with the story, which was nice . I wasn't completely turned off by the subject matter either despite it just being a race to the bottom at times. I just wish that the story moved in a direction of being more substantive about dealing with trauma instead of being a gore fest for shock value. The interpersonal dynamics between the main character and the shades was the step in the right direction. I just wish there was more of it that went somewhere.

Despite the subject matter this is hands down the best performance I've heard from Daniel ever. He really put a lot of effort in his narration which really made the hardcore elements of the story just hit you in the feels.

Loved it

Loved it this guy is absolutely insane and absolutely appalling in the best way possible

A great but weird book

The narrator was on point and the story was yummy too! More wordy word words

A entertaining book on madness

When I first started the book I was going into it with my view a bit soured by a negative review, calling it madness and cruelty for no reason and the fact the main character is probably hallucinating all of this. but as I got deeper in I realized that all this pain, all this suffering is deserved. yes he's kinda a terrible person, but God is it surprising funny to hear him rant about flowers for an entire chapter. so for good or for worse I will keep reading this series to the bitter bloody end, because goodness am I invested.

Ruined my chat rooms

Really sad to include chat rooms the worst part of games. It’s show the worst of us.