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Nouscraft
Nouscraft World 2: Royale
The AI game master wants peace and love.
The humans want power.
The Prisoner's Dilemma wants what all game theory math.
Billions are trapped in a shifting megastructure floating in space. Every seven days, the faction leaders ALLY or BETRAY. Cooperate and everyone advances. Betray and you steal everything. Drop to zero and you die.
Mindt has an agenda she's not sharing. Spencer has a granddaughter he needs to protect. And Beam -- blind in the real world, running the game's largest empire -- is about to learn that everything she believed was built on a lie.
Nuclear weapons. Space Invaders. Really angry clerks. And worst of all, physics.
The Royale begins. The only question is who betrays whom first.
Book 2 of a completed dark LitRPG trilogy. Multi-POV death game with morally gray protagonists, an AI game master running social experiments on humanity, and a Prisoner's Dilemma where the stakes are real. For fans of Dungeon Crawler Carl, Game of Thrones, and Red Rising.
The humans want power.
The Prisoner's Dilemma wants what all game theory math.
Billions are trapped in a shifting megastructure floating in space. Every seven days, the faction leaders ALLY or BETRAY. Cooperate and everyone advances. Betray and you steal everything. Drop to zero and you die.
Mindt has an agenda she's not sharing. Spencer has a granddaughter he needs to protect. And Beam -- blind in the real world, running the game's largest empire -- is about to learn that everything she believed was built on a lie.
Nuclear weapons. Space Invaders. Really angry clerks. And worst of all, physics.
The Royale begins. The only question is who betrays whom first.
Book 2 of a completed dark LitRPG trilogy. Multi-POV death game with morally gray protagonists, an AI game master running social experiments on humanity, and a Prisoner's Dilemma where the stakes are real. For fans of Dungeon Crawler Carl, Game of Thrones, and Red Rising.
520 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 31, 2025
About the author
Leonard Buford
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Leonard Buford is the author of the Nouscraft trilogy, a completed dark comedy LitRPG series where a rogue AI traps ten billion people in a deadly virtual reality game. Described as "Ready Player One colliding with Black Mirror, sprinkled with Dungeon Crawler Carl's chaotic energy," the trilogy blends dystopian sci-fi, zombie apocalypse survival, and progression fantasy with sharp social commentary
about AI, class warfare, and technology dependence.
By day, Leonard is a software engineer and the founder of Casting Call Club, a voice acting platform with over 3 million users. He wrote the 300,000-word Nouscraft trilogy as his debut fiction work, drawing on his background in technology to explore what happens when the systems meant to connect us become our prisons.
The complete trilogy — The Zombie Apocalypse, World 2: Royale, and First Past the Post — is available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
Leonard Buford is the author of the Nouscraft trilogy, a completed dark comedy LitRPG series where a rogue AI traps ten billion people in a deadly virtual reality game. Described as "Ready Player One colliding with Black Mirror, sprinkled with Dungeon Crawler Carl's chaotic energy," the trilogy blends dystopian sci-fi, zombie apocalypse survival, and progression fantasy with sharp social commentary
about AI, class warfare, and technology dependence.
By day, Leonard is a software engineer and the founder of Casting Call Club, a voice acting platform with over 3 million users. He wrote the 300,000-word Nouscraft trilogy as his debut fiction work, drawing on his background in technology to explore what happens when the systems meant to connect us become our prisons.
The complete trilogy — The Zombie Apocalypse, World 2: Royale, and First Past the Post — is available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited.
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August 3, 2026
love this LitRPG
I’ve been enjoying Nouscraft since finding it on casting call club. I really should go back and audition again. I’ve held off reading chapters in favor of the books because it was too tortuous to have to stop so soon each time.
The writing is excellent, the editors have done their job polishing, and I’m as hooked as I am on DCC.
I’ve been enjoying Nouscraft since finding it on casting call club. I really should go back and audition again. I’ve held off reading chapters in favor of the books because it was too tortuous to have to stop so soon each time.
The writing is excellent, the editors have done their job polishing, and I’m as hooked as I am on DCC.
June 26, 2026
I’ve got to increase my rating of the first book as this one turned into a deeper respect for the world building and character depths. Actually really got into this one!
April 11, 2026
fast paced and kept me guessing right up until the end. love the world building and the character progression (particularly Mindt).
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