Oh, man, sometimes it’s real gross. Sometimes its just evil. But GrimDark Gamelit always has the blood and guts to add a little color to dark worlds and darker games.
Get your galoshes on before you wade into these dark books. It’s about to get messy.
Kaiju Battlefield Surgeon by Matt Dinniman
From Amazon,
Fantasy meets horror in this gore-soaked [GameLit] tale of pain, violence, and big-ass monsters!
It had seemed like a dream offer. Paint a mural. $15,000. How could Duke not jump at the chance?
But it came with a catch, as these things often do. He had to first see what his client wanted him to paint.
A private server. A digital playground. An alliance of the world’s most sadistic, most depraved minds. A place to bring their prey, to hone their skills.
Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon. Survival horror. One of the most brutal, most terrifying full-immersion games ever made. A place where fantasy characters clash with technology, where giant monsters roam the hills, entrusted with protecting the gates of heaven from the demons who would tear it all down.
A game where one plays the last of the battlefield surgeons: a healer tasked with keeping the behemoths alive at all costs.
But on this server, they don’t care about the game. That’s not why they’re here. They’ve come because of the game’s most unique feature: Full pain. Realistic anatomy. The ability to bring their victims well beyond the body’s normal breaking point. And most importantly, the ability to bring them back and do it all over again.
Trapped in a bloody, merciless nightmare, Duke only has one goal. To survive. And in order to survive, he must play the game. He must win the game. And to do that, he must become the most cruel, most ruthless monster of them all.
Kindle Unlimited, 4.4 Stars, 658 pages
Audible, 4.2 Stars, 20 Hours and 9 Minutes
GoodReads, 4.01 Stars
Arise: Alpha by Jez Cajiao
From Amazon,
When you steal a hundred grand from some very bad people, the best way to survive is to stay small and quiet…
Possibly its not to save a pair of drowning girls, not go ‘viral’ on social media and certainly not to let the local police take your passport, trapping you on a small ‘party’ island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.
But Steve isn’t the average guy, he’s ex-military, ex-enforcer and ex-human. He’s a one man nanite fuelled nightmare for those that cross the line, and he’s decided that its time to clean up his act. He’s going to make up for the things he’s done, and save ‘the little guys’.
It’s a nice fantasy, but even he has to admit, it’s really just a justification, because he’s a very bad man, with horrifying abilities, and he’s only just learning what he’s capable of. He needs a reason to not go to the dark, and if thats hunting down the creatures of the night and beating them to death with their own femurs?
Well, he’s just the man for the job.
Stolen money. Greek Islands. Werewolves and Enforcers… what could possibly go wrong?
Book 2 was published on June 28, 2022.
Kindle Unlmited, 4.7 Stars, 382 pages
Audible, 4.7 Stars, 21 hours and 29 minutes
GoodReads, 4.58 Stars
Pyresouls Apocalyps by James T. Callum
From Amazon,
Reforge yourself in the flames of the past.
Ten years after the Collapse introduced the System, stats, and cosmic horrors upon Earth, the last surviving humans hang on by a thread.
With the Pyres that once empowered them snuffed out by the Burgon Beast, death on Earth is not just final. It’s guaranteed. Gone are the boons of Souls and Leveling.
What few survivors cling to life on a dying Earth are harried by supernaturally strong monsters that can only be harmed by rare sorcery and Guilt-soaked weaponry.
Jacob Windsor is no chosen one, not even a leader. He’s just a soldier trying to survive one more day. But when a once-in-a-lifetime chance arises for him to step ten years into the past and stop the apocalypse, he seizes it with both calloused hands.
To do so, he must face the source of the Collapse, Pyresouls Online.
Racing to Level up quickly and upgrade his equipment to withstand the coming threats, Jacob contends with bloodthirsty players and monsters alike while strategizing with his team in the future to navigate the dying realm.
Can Jacob discover the trick to stopping the Burgon Beast before anyone else can trigger the apocalypse, or will his every action darken the timeline further?
With combat, leveling, and gear enhancing mechanics, Pyresouls Apocalypse: Rewind is the first book of a new dark fantasy gamelit series from James T. Callum, the #1 Bestseller author of Beastborne Chronicles. Perfect for fans of the Dark Souls games, Powder Mage, and cosmic horror.
Book 2 of the series was published on July 1, 2021
Kindle Unlimited, 4.5 Stars, 458 pages
Audible, 4.6 Stars, 13 hours and 50 minutes
GoodReads, 4.3 Stars
Unbound by Gregory Blackburn
From Amazon,
A game too good to be true. A golden opportunity. A nightmare he can’t escape.
If Arthur Mallory plays one more steaming pile of garbage disguised as a virtual role-playing game, he might hang up his gaming hat for good. When he discovers the new “deep dive” game Worlds Unbound, he decides it might be worth a try. If it sucks, he’ll just return it the next day and cancel the financing.
The game is everything he could have wanted, even without elves or dwarves or character creation. The magic system has him hooked.
He’s willing to overlook the mangled sleep schedule and crippling nightmares if it means feeling that power running through his veins. But when an accident leaves his headset broken, he realizes he might be cut off from the magic – and the game – for good.
He’s not going to let that happen.
Book 3 was published on September 15, 2021.
Kindle Unlimited, 4.3 Stars, 492 pages
Audible, 4.3 Stars, 14 hours and 50 minutes
Goodreads, 3.77 Stars
Blight Leech by Ben Ormstad
From Amazon,
The high-leveled Blight Leech Kane Zerriah is out harvesting Blight from living beings when he finds the corpse of a dead orc.
Questioning how this is possible – considering orcs have been banished for over a decade – he’s suddenly ambushed by a group of brutal Orc Fire Shamans.
He soon suspects Queen Terrahee of foul play, but none of his guildmates want anything to do with his borderline paranoid suspicions…
In a parallel dimension – on the planet Earth – Ylya Thorli has finally had enough of a life overflowing with hardships. After one last gruesome event, she decides to escape the chains of misery by ending her own existence.
Ylya’s extreme levels of Blight seep through the dimensional border, drawing Kane’s attention. He tracks the sweet scent of her agony and watches her with great interest, wondering whether to harvest her essence, or grant her new life as a Blight Leech…
Published on May 1, 2023.
Kindle Unlimited, 4.6 Stars, 520 pages
Audible, 4.7 Stars, 15 hours and 9 minutes
GoodReads, 4.75 Stars
The Bones of Our Father by JD Glasscock
From Amazon,
Two brothers face the end of all they know as the Earth is absorbed into something called War World. On Earth they were up and coming duo competitors in ACS (Armored Combat Sports) and it is with those skills they just might survive. A [GameLit] Grimdark novel.
“My flesh knew what to do as I spun again, pushing off his huge body to set myself a few steps past his now exposed back, planting feet, arresting momentum, only to jack its kinetic energy into legs pushing off stone, axe lowered, behind me, coming forward in sync with my body, taut, muscles exploding as the axe came over my shoulder pistoning into the top of his head, planting a heraldic flag to the fuck-yous of history.”‘“Come on Dozer, let’s see what you and Daddy can do.” I pulsed what I wanted over the bond. The floodgates opened. He scraped his hoof in imitation of taurean improvosu, head lowered, billows of repressed loss from snorting snout, and he was off, a locomotive with only one destination and one purpose, carnage. I stepped a breath from his shadow, dialed in, 1-800-Die Fuckers Die.’
From Royal Road,
BOOK ONE, TWO, THREE AND FOUR AND SOON TO BE FIVE ARE ON AMAZON NOW, SO UNFORTUNATELY I NEEDED TO TAKE DOWN MOST OF THEM WITH KU EXCLUSIVITY.
BOOK ONE AND TWO AND ALSO A LOT OF THREE, FOUR AND FIVE ARE UP ON PATREON WITH A VERY LOW PAYWALL, $3, IF YOU WANT TO READ THEM.
Published on August 1, 2022.
Glasscock’s Patreon.
Glasscock’s Website, StormCrow Productions.
Kindle Unlimited, 4.4 Stars, 389 pages
Audible, 4.4 Stars, 5 hours and 32 minutes
Royal Road, Limited Chapters
GoodReads, 4.25 Stars
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