In the apocalypse, the first weapon he’ll have to upgrade is himself.
The end of the world as we know it couldn’t come at a worse time for Adrian.
One minute, he’s an operations manager who’s overseeing a construction job in the wilderness. The next, an unknown energy force changes the very nature of life itself, from the smallest organism to the top of the food chain. The earth’s surviving inhabitants, its environment, and the very laws of physics have all undergone fundamental transformations.
Many of those changes aren’t pretty. Plenty of them are deadly.
Luckily for Earth, this has happened to other species before, and everyone receives an interface that survivors of similar events have used to navigate through an alien landscape.
Adrian’s going to need every advantage he can get. He’s stranded in the middle of nowhere, there are days, maybe weeks of travel between him and his family, and in a world full of monsters and mayhem, survival means beating the learning curve…
My Opinion: 370 pages, $6.99, Available On Kindle Unlimited
Besides a slightly off-putting start, the RPG Apocalypse story was rather good. There’s a good mix of detailed skill/magic system building and fighting. The slower solo fighting in the beginning mixes well with the later community development and group fighting with it all culminating in a big exciting fight. The only thing missing from the Apocalypse side of things was probably the terrible nature of humanity rearing its ugly head at the limited resources and breakdown of the law.
On the game mechanic side, it's a mixed bad since not everyone in the RPG apocalypse has the same system. Some got a standard interface which was more like a class system, while others got a more advanced interface that leveled base stats more slowly but provided better advice, and let the person customize their build with dedicated work and greater long term benefits. Overall though, either system was very well developed and there was a nice effort by the players to exploit their builds just like real gamers would.
Overall, the story is a good mix of action and apocalypse adventure that I think most LitRPG readers would enjoy.
Score: 7.7 out of 10
Alpha Physics! Book 1: Wagga: A LITrpg Apocalypse, changed earth progression fantasy