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Surviving the Game as a Barbarian · review

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Top reader Dec 2, 2025 · 2 min read
↑ Recommended
10 /10

Barbarian: "I'm son of Jandel, Bjorn! Who are you?" Some human: "Hello Bjorn, my name is Hans..." Barbarian: "VEHELLA!!!!" *barbarian smash* Cat girls? check Elf girls? check Mage girls? check Strong dangerous girls? check Dragon girls? check The story doesn't start very interesting, but the introduction is needed for a solid worldbuilding that centers the story around our MC, the Barbarian Bjorn, son of Jandel. How will Bjorn survive & tackle this game world & will he ever be able to go back to his original IRL world? All that without being exposed as an Evil Spirit (= gamer). Evil Spirits are mercilessly executed by the local game NPC's upon discovery. Evil Spiritsare known to be ruthless towards the NPC's. The concept of Evil Spirit brings an extra layer of intrigue for the reader later down the line which I will not spoil here at all.

There are plenty of colorfull side characters, but the story focus always sticks to Bjorn. You always get to explore the world & mostly meet other characters from his POV.

As the story progresses and the reader gets acquainted with all the other characters, comedy flourishes in the banter between the characters.

The art is pretty good, there's a big diversity in monsters since everybody only gets XP once for every type of monster they beat, I'm pleasantly surprised to see many well drawn monsters who do look dangerous and ferocious.

Some fair critique would be that the pacing sometimes suddenly goes pretty fast without delving deeper in character interactions. & When it does, it isn't always executed in a meaningfull & gracefull way.

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