Crota (The Gods' Game, Volume I): A LitRPG novel Kindle Edition

*Note: There are minor formatting issues noted: A persistent grey background, and sometimes heavily shrunken tables. The author has said he’s fixed it, but the corrections may not have pushed to everyone.This is a pretty good slice of life story about a guy accidentally summoned to a RPG game world to partake in a game of some trapped gods. That last part doesn’t really come into play in book 1 but is setup for the series. This novel is mostly about how the main character (MC) survives on this hostile world, figures out best to use the RPG progression system, and levels. He is dropped in hostile territory, starts out at level 1, but has to figure out a way to beat monsters that are level 7 and higher.The game mechanics in the story are pretty detailed and there are lots of notifications, character sheets, spell descriptions, item descriptions, and loads of info about the game mechanics. Even more important, the author does a good job of describing the MCs reasoning for choosing one power over another that gives insight into his gaming choices and preferred play-style.The only real minor complaints about the story: 1) It takes an awfully long time to get to the RPG game world. The main character (MC) doesn’t get there till about the 30% mark. Everything prior to that is either setup of the premise or details about character creation. 2) The author introduces a lot of characters in cut away from the MCs story. But most of those characters aren’t ever seen again, at least in book 1. They may be developed later in the series, but here they just feel a bit abandoned. Neither issue ruins the story or anything though.Overall, a fairly fun slice of life story about a guy dropped into an RPG world and seeing how he survives.Score: 7.4 out of 10

This is a really standard opening for a story like this, including the races and the skills. There is a little bit of the larger story, but the great majority of this book is the main character solo learning the rules of the game. I’m curious to see if he will develop a good story after laying this foundation.

Loved it.

Cider has begun a very complicated but fast paced plot. His characters are vivid and gritty. I have two grandsons that would love this series. Well, on with the games!

Some of the comments are put off by the statistics posting. Well, this is LitRPG, a story where statistics are basically central to the story.**Spoilers**On the plus side, the author did an excellent job bringing the character up from 0-10. The character wasn't Ultimate with the Awesome Sword of Awesomeness, and what I found truly delightful was the utter lack of grammar issues. Too often gamers that think they can write will set up something and wonder why the world shuns their efforts -- having the pride and decency to invest in proper English is a boon to the reader that cannot be underestimated.The worldbuilding is pretty good, sort of a combination between The Land series (by Aleron Kong) and the Emerilia series (by Michael Chatfield). Good stat balancing, excellent design of realm, and a fair introduction; if somewhat cliche. However, things become cliche because they work.Negatives would include brevity in the introduction; it's very short for a beginning piece, and seems added as a well-worked-upon afterthought. The character of Sara is ... key. That much can be told, but barely developed outside of maybe three paragraphs, one of which lacks her inclusion entirely. The Overseer figure reminds me a great deal of the Emerilia series, albeit with a more impersonal approach.Overall, I'd give it a 3.5 out of 5, but since it's the first essay into the art, I'll round up. Welcome to the party Mr. Vider; hope you can be followed soon!

These are simplistic stories written for the very young readers.

This is what I crave when I am looking for good LitRPG. It has a wonderful system, amazing plot, interesting characters and breathtaking scenes. I wish more poeple would give this series a chance because once you get into the God's Game you never want to leave. The first book takes a little while to get started but it is on audible if that helps. However, once it gets going it does not stop and you never want it to. I have read every book that is out and I check every month hoping the next will be out. There are five installments out so far and more on the way. This series gets better with every page and you will not be able to put it down.

The book was good, but short. Also, there were way too many charts. Every aspect of battle had chart prompts detailing dodge, damage, resist, etc. It really slowed down combat and broke up the realism.

I have no qualms with the majority of this book except one part: For some reason, the author insists on adding too many commas to sentences. Every now and then, you'll get a sentence, like this one, that has far, too many commas, in it.These little moments are really jarring for me, and ruin what is otherwise a good story.But overall, it's a very nice lone-survival style LitRPG which doesn't bore you at all.

Quite enjoyed the story but Kiran the MC is poor , for someone with a gaming background he makes a lot of dumb mistakes and spends far to much time second guessing himself.

characters are fun and being developed nicely, story arc is enjoyable and onthe whole s series that is shaping up very nicely.looking forward to buying the rest

After having read all 5 God's Game books in just as many days, I dont regret a minute of lost sleep. The story and worldbuilding is one of the best and most consistent I have seen in the genre so far and the writing is exellent.The pace is slow, but it doesn't drag or feel like its artifically prolonged. Instead, the writing allowes you to dive into the world and appreciate all the nuances of its system, gods and characters. To often, I have read series where the author crammed all the good ideas into the first book, making later books feel repetitive and unoriginal. Instead, the series manages to set a consistent pace for the character and story progression.The MC has advantages without beeing OP, is clever and creative without making everyone else seem exeptionally dumb and is belivable as a good guy who still has to make tough choices. Rohan Vider managed to create a character that is flawed and real, yet equiped to change the world and grow as a person.The LitRPG aspect is very well done, there are however a lot of stats. Some reviewers consider them too much, but I felt they fitted in nicely and never impeded the flow of the story. I did skip over some of them, but dont feel like they are filler, instead they made it very easy to follow the growth of the MC. I would, however, nor listen to this particular series on audio, since I fear that amount of stats would not work well with that format.All in all a great read and a true gem in the genre!

The story is good, the statistics kill it! LitRPG authors should realise that readers read, they don’t spend hours immersed in role playing games. On the other hand I think there is a limited number of serious role players who would take time out to read! Easily solved problem; cut out most of the statistics in LitRPG books! I know of one author who did this and achieved much greater success. Please take the advice to heart and your books will be much more interesting instead of putting a large number of your readers into comas!