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Island Builder: A Town Building LitRPG
When Henry Folsom is isekaied into a small island surrounded by endless sea, he’s given the rare Harbormaster class, built for managing ships, shaping trade routes, and transforming a dying settlement into a thriving power.
The problem? His new island is beyond broken docks, a malfunctioning lighthouse, barely any villagers and no defenses whatsoever. And the sea around it is full of monsters and other dangers.
With his burgeoning skills, Henry begins to rebuild from the sand raising structures, earning XP, and rallying people to his cause.
But prosperity also brings enemies and soon the island is on the map for all to see, for better or worse.
Perfect for fans of village building, crafting, and cozy-but-dangerous LitRPG, Island Builder is the start of an epic adventure. By the author of CivCEO.
The problem? His new island is beyond broken docks, a malfunctioning lighthouse, barely any villagers and no defenses whatsoever. And the sea around it is full of monsters and other dangers.
With his burgeoning skills, Henry begins to rebuild from the sand raising structures, earning XP, and rallying people to his cause.
But prosperity also brings enemies and soon the island is on the map for all to see, for better or worse.
Perfect for fans of village building, crafting, and cozy-but-dangerous LitRPG, Island Builder is the start of an epic adventure. By the author of CivCEO.
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580 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 2, 2026
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January 29, 2026
A bit on the stupid side
Henry gets dropped on an island that supports a tiny village, and because it’s a LitRPG, he gets assigned a character class that’s in charge of the town. The villagers are a bunch of ineffectual sad sacks who apparently are incapable of doing anything to improve their town without an outsider to tell them what to do. Everyone immediately behaves like Henry owns the island.
The world has magic and gods, but mostly it’s a cartoon version of the 18th century Caribbean, with sailing ships and lots of pirates.
Unfortunately for a book that prominently features battles between sailing ships, the author literally doesn’t know a ship’s bow from the stern. Seriously, he repeatedly refers to the front of a ship as the stern.
That, in a nutshell, captures what’s wrong with this book. The author doesn’t know the subject matter.
There’s some discussion at one point of ship design that’s childishly silly in how bad it is, ships carry ridiculous weapons with arbitrary game-inspired abilities that in no way resemble actual cannons, he jumbles ship class names so galleons are smaller than frigates, and ships carry crews that are far, far too small. Ship-to-ship battles don’t resemble fighting of the period at all.
There are several ship battles in the book, all of which Henry’s side wins easily, despite always being seriously outmatched. Most are over in a few paragraphs, though the last one does drag on for a chapter.
The town-building aspect isn’t much better than the ships. It’s game-ified and abstract, everything gets built far, far too quickly and takes almost no materials, and the economy makes no sense.
Henry gets dropped on an island that supports a tiny village, and because it’s a LitRPG, he gets assigned a character class that’s in charge of the town. The villagers are a bunch of ineffectual sad sacks who apparently are incapable of doing anything to improve their town without an outsider to tell them what to do. Everyone immediately behaves like Henry owns the island.
The world has magic and gods, but mostly it’s a cartoon version of the 18th century Caribbean, with sailing ships and lots of pirates.
Unfortunately for a book that prominently features battles between sailing ships, the author literally doesn’t know a ship’s bow from the stern. Seriously, he repeatedly refers to the front of a ship as the stern.
That, in a nutshell, captures what’s wrong with this book. The author doesn’t know the subject matter.
There’s some discussion at one point of ship design that’s childishly silly in how bad it is, ships carry ridiculous weapons with arbitrary game-inspired abilities that in no way resemble actual cannons, he jumbles ship class names so galleons are smaller than frigates, and ships carry crews that are far, far too small. Ship-to-ship battles don’t resemble fighting of the period at all.
There are several ship battles in the book, all of which Henry’s side wins easily, despite always being seriously outmatched. Most are over in a few paragraphs, though the last one does drag on for a chapter.
The town-building aspect isn’t much better than the ships. It’s game-ified and abstract, everything gets built far, far too quickly and takes almost no materials, and the economy makes no sense.
February 21, 2026
Wow… just don’t read this.
I am not even sure I can catalog all the problems here… the characters have no depth, the world makes no sense, the last paragraph of the chapter setting up the next chapter over and over…
Ok, characters first:
We are told on this small island they have 25 people. We meet 5? And they are all sad backstory given up hope until no personality new guy shows up to lead! Instead they are even less than pegs to be dropped into roles. Six are assigned as labourers to make things (because video game elements check) and that’s it. They are just numbers on a mental page.
The world is so poorly thought out. The cannons do hundreds of points of damage (because video game) and even the command occurs in 30 second intervals… because video game. But then abilities take 5 seconds off load time and some things are measured in DPS. But as it takes an interval to do stuff that’s 30 seconds of damage.
The hero, new to the world, can see stats and so on. The people who live in this world know the stats. Yet the foes act like they don’t know what the stats mean. Sailing into the wind to attack a fort with a 500 foot range penalty halving their guns effectiveness so that they can be shot to pieces to give our hero the win is stupid foes.
When the guy goes look for wooden planks drifting onto the beach to do repairs I kinda got sad. When the author calls that driftwood instead of flotsam I sorta hate read the rest of the book. It’s not a good one for lots of the little reasons suggesting the research on any of this was maybe watching a movie while doing something else. Things aren’t right and the excuse of ‘video game like!’ seems to be a desperate cry.
But as I was hate reading it, the way the author would Monty Python out of each chapter really got to me. Basically each chapter is a sketch, a scene and setting. We are trying to get cannons off sunken ships, for example. Only to be fired upon by a surface vessel and the chapter ends with hero pulled out of the water. Next scene is talking to the people on the board, interrupted by a message from the town. Next scene is talking to the people in town only to have…
No stakes, no characters, no tension and no logic.
I am not even sure I can catalog all the problems here… the characters have no depth, the world makes no sense, the last paragraph of the chapter setting up the next chapter over and over…
Ok, characters first:
We are told on this small island they have 25 people. We meet 5? And they are all sad backstory given up hope until no personality new guy shows up to lead! Instead they are even less than pegs to be dropped into roles. Six are assigned as labourers to make things (because video game elements check) and that’s it. They are just numbers on a mental page.
The world is so poorly thought out. The cannons do hundreds of points of damage (because video game) and even the command occurs in 30 second intervals… because video game. But then abilities take 5 seconds off load time and some things are measured in DPS. But as it takes an interval to do stuff that’s 30 seconds of damage.
The hero, new to the world, can see stats and so on. The people who live in this world know the stats. Yet the foes act like they don’t know what the stats mean. Sailing into the wind to attack a fort with a 500 foot range penalty halving their guns effectiveness so that they can be shot to pieces to give our hero the win is stupid foes.
When the guy goes look for wooden planks drifting onto the beach to do repairs I kinda got sad. When the author calls that driftwood instead of flotsam I sorta hate read the rest of the book. It’s not a good one for lots of the little reasons suggesting the research on any of this was maybe watching a movie while doing something else. Things aren’t right and the excuse of ‘video game like!’ seems to be a desperate cry.
But as I was hate reading it, the way the author would Monty Python out of each chapter really got to me. Basically each chapter is a sketch, a scene and setting. We are trying to get cannons off sunken ships, for example. Only to be fired upon by a surface vessel and the chapter ends with hero pulled out of the water. Next scene is talking to the people on the board, interrupted by a message from the town. Next scene is talking to the people in town only to have…
No stakes, no characters, no tension and no logic.
March 3, 2026
Wonderful idea, meandering plot and powers, Ai slop
This series, at first glance, has a fantastic principle idea. But the author, and I confer the title of author so loosely that it might as well fall off, has utilized AI to such a degree that that we as readers often have to try and piece together what the hell is going on while there is always some kind of explosion to take us into the next chapter, instead of.... idk just being in the next chapter.
Progression is Insane, plot has potential, but raises so many questions that are never addressed in any meaningful way, such as How The Hell does the population of the harbor feel about being compelled to work without being consulted by the horror of a system that overruled their autonomy??? Who cares! Number go up. And in this case, number go up with the assistance of AI spreadsheets, which truly make this litrpg/prog series truly unbearable to read.
This series, at first glance, has a fantastic principle idea. But the author, and I confer the title of author so loosely that it might as well fall off, has utilized AI to such a degree that that we as readers often have to try and piece together what the hell is going on while there is always some kind of explosion to take us into the next chapter, instead of.... idk just being in the next chapter.
Progression is Insane, plot has potential, but raises so many questions that are never addressed in any meaningful way, such as How The Hell does the population of the harbor feel about being compelled to work without being consulted by the horror of a system that overruled their autonomy??? Who cares! Number go up. And in this case, number go up with the assistance of AI spreadsheets, which truly make this litrpg/prog series truly unbearable to read.
March 2, 2026
Slow decline
This story slowly gets worse and worse, when it first started people actually had to do things and the system was only utility but the system got more and more unrealistic, the MC would rather sling drugs,compromise and all but bend over for most problems. This MC does not act like a man who has gotten a second life after death. This MC is afraid of any conflict or friction.
This story slowly gets worse and worse, when it first started people actually had to do things and the system was only utility but the system got more and more unrealistic, the MC would rather sling drugs,compromise and all but bend over for most problems. This MC does not act like a man who has gotten a second life after death. This MC is afraid of any conflict or friction.
February 18, 2026
Seems like it was written by a 12 year old, if that.
The author lost me on page 11. Where a dock "sloops" downwards to the ocean. If the author is making that kind of mistake that early in the book, I don't see that the book will get better. I don't think this is AI just because an AI for all its faults, knows the difference between sloop and slope.
The author lost me on page 11. Where a dock "sloops" downwards to the ocean. If the author is making that kind of mistake that early in the book, I don't see that the book will get better. I don't think this is AI just because an AI for all its faults, knows the difference between sloop and slope.
April 13, 2026
It’s OK if you don’t know anything
This is a book about a harbor master that has sea battles and sailing in a bunch of other stuff you might do at sea. Go ahead and guess how many times the word “starboard” shows up? Would you believe me if I told you zero?
This book is well written don’t get me wrong, at least from a technical perspective. I didn’t notice any typos. It was very easy to read. But it really feels like the author is poorly educated.
My point about starboard might seem out of focus, but let me explain what I mean. Stauber is a very basic nautical term that should be present in any book about sailing. The fact that it is not in this book to me shows that the author took no attempt to really research what they were writing about.
That you might not appreciate that observation with only that point of reference so allow me to give more. There is at one point in the book when they talk about the speed that a vessel is traveling and they say that the vessel is traveling 500 feet for every 30 seconds. For anyone interested that’s about 11 miles an hour. Henry responds to the speed saying that it is “pretty fast.” for a ship of that size during that time period 11 miles an hour would not have been considered pretty fast. It would’ve been well below maneuvering speed let alone travel speed.
At another point the main character sets up a trade mission in which the vessel has to travel 1700 miles in nine days. That is absurdly slow. For anyone wondering that’s an average speed of 8 miles an hour. That’s wake zone speeds. Across the OCEAN. For the trip back, they get an upgrade that lets them come back in 4 days. That 18 miles an hour. That’s much more respectable, but also, the upgrade is just “knowing where they are going.” dimension the fact that the vessel coming back is going to be many times heavier than the vessel was arriving.
This is also completely ignoring Henry’s lack of ability to make deals or talk to people. Which wouldn’t be a problem, if the author wasn’t acting like Henry is really good at it. It’s totally fine for Henry to not be good at any of the tasks that he’s needing to do. In his past life, he was just a hardware store employee. But the author is acting like he’s doing a great job and there are so many occasions where I’m just looking at his decision-making process and wondering if I was taking crazy pills. Only for the author to be like “this was great!”
Oh also the whole “order is actually evil and chaos is the true good” thing is tried and tired. It’s not so bad in this one, but the “philosophy” the author uses to make the case REALLY sucks.
This is a book about a harbor master that has sea battles and sailing in a bunch of other stuff you might do at sea. Go ahead and guess how many times the word “starboard” shows up? Would you believe me if I told you zero?
This book is well written don’t get me wrong, at least from a technical perspective. I didn’t notice any typos. It was very easy to read. But it really feels like the author is poorly educated.
My point about starboard might seem out of focus, but let me explain what I mean. Stauber is a very basic nautical term that should be present in any book about sailing. The fact that it is not in this book to me shows that the author took no attempt to really research what they were writing about.
That you might not appreciate that observation with only that point of reference so allow me to give more. There is at one point in the book when they talk about the speed that a vessel is traveling and they say that the vessel is traveling 500 feet for every 30 seconds. For anyone interested that’s about 11 miles an hour. Henry responds to the speed saying that it is “pretty fast.” for a ship of that size during that time period 11 miles an hour would not have been considered pretty fast. It would’ve been well below maneuvering speed let alone travel speed.
At another point the main character sets up a trade mission in which the vessel has to travel 1700 miles in nine days. That is absurdly slow. For anyone wondering that’s an average speed of 8 miles an hour. That’s wake zone speeds. Across the OCEAN. For the trip back, they get an upgrade that lets them come back in 4 days. That 18 miles an hour. That’s much more respectable, but also, the upgrade is just “knowing where they are going.” dimension the fact that the vessel coming back is going to be many times heavier than the vessel was arriving.
This is also completely ignoring Henry’s lack of ability to make deals or talk to people. Which wouldn’t be a problem, if the author wasn’t acting like Henry is really good at it. It’s totally fine for Henry to not be good at any of the tasks that he’s needing to do. In his past life, he was just a hardware store employee. But the author is acting like he’s doing a great job and there are so many occasions where I’m just looking at his decision-making process and wondering if I was taking crazy pills. Only for the author to be like “this was great!”
Oh also the whole “order is actually evil and chaos is the true good” thing is tried and tired. It’s not so bad in this one, but the “philosophy” the author uses to make the case REALLY sucks.
March 31, 2026
The premise is tailor-made for me, and I expected to really enjoy this one. Unfortunately while overall I liked it, and will read the next in the series, there were a few flaws that meant it didn't work as well as I'd hoped. For me it's a solid 3 stars but no higher.
First and most obvious is the pretty shoddy research - as others have pointed out, writing a book heavily based on naval combat without bothering to find out that the stern isn't the front of a ship does not make a good impression. There are other elements that show this same lack of preparation.
Progression is also way too fast. I think that to some extent this is a familiar issue with litrpg - make it too slow and you risk boring your readers with nothing happening, or frustrating them with one failure after another. But make it too fast and everything seems too easy, as well as often leading to power inflation where opponents also have to constantly get stronger which can reach absurd heights. But for my money the author here doesn't strike the right balance, and within the two weeks that the book covers the island progresses by leaps and bounds.
There's also not a lot of tension in the story, it never really feels as though there's any risk of any serious danger. The overfast progression doesn't help on this front.
Hopefully the next book will make improvements in at least some of these areas.
First and most obvious is the pretty shoddy research - as others have pointed out, writing a book heavily based on naval combat without bothering to find out that the stern isn't the front of a ship does not make a good impression. There are other elements that show this same lack of preparation.
Progression is also way too fast. I think that to some extent this is a familiar issue with litrpg - make it too slow and you risk boring your readers with nothing happening, or frustrating them with one failure after another. But make it too fast and everything seems too easy, as well as often leading to power inflation where opponents also have to constantly get stronger which can reach absurd heights. But for my money the author here doesn't strike the right balance, and within the two weeks that the book covers the island progresses by leaps and bounds.
There's also not a lot of tension in the story, it never really feels as though there's any risk of any serious danger. The overfast progression doesn't help on this front.
Hopefully the next book will make improvements in at least some of these areas.
January 20, 2026
I wanted to like this book, I liked the concept and the nautical theme, but the writing fell flat. First off, about 20% of this book is just stat tables, most of which is irrelevant to me as a reader (I don't need to know the full list of buildings you can make at level 3 when you're at level 1 and can't even access them). The numbers and stats all just blurred together. The main character is a Generic Protagonist that has no personality, no character flaws or strengths. To make up for that we *did* have some interesting characters on the island, and that kept me semi-interested. The whole book was just too gamefied, I felt like I was reading someone describing someone's actions on a Twitch stream. Honestly, the only times I enjoyed the book where when we stepped AWAY from the stats and actually interacted with the world (ex. the dryad, the drunken pirates), but there were just too few of these moments. (And keep in mind, this is coming from someone who avidly plays city builder games and is always reading LitRPGs).
April 6, 2026
A just-fine townbuilding LitRPG. It scratched an itch for me, and does some things pretty well (fleshing out the island inhabitants of note, some worldbuilding, an interesting System with a lot of promise for the future - especially in terms of factions on the island), but other parts don't make much sense. The control Henry seems to have over the lives of others via the System is absolutely wild. For example, he just sets people to tasks and... never engages with them, they're just faceless numbers. Other times, skills seem to shift the wod entirely in ways that make something happen (like a population boom). The way he manages the island rather than The Mayor, while somewhat explained, also seems convoluted. And then there's the naval battles. Those do make sense, but they're just so dull. I was enjoying this story enough, but the final battle literally put me to sleep a few times over a few nights. I'm not sure if I'll continue, but there was enough to keep me interested in maybe learning more.
January 17, 2026
Island Builder is a story about making an island into a full fledged city. It's not there yet by the end of this book, but it's getting there. When you have lazy previous admins, relegious factions, pirates, mythical creatures, and a whole lot more, it certainly seems like an insurmountable task, but the main character does an admirable job of keeping everything moving in the right direction, and by the end of the book, he's managed to fight off multiple invasion fleets, raise the level of the island, and (almost) get all the comforts of home.
If you like building LitRPG stories, this one isn't a bad choice.
If you like building LitRPG stories, this one isn't a bad choice.
April 5, 2026
I enjoyed this so much. Again, the litrpg genre hits the right spots. Super quick read. Not much action happened. Well kind of. There was a lot going on. Henry is trying to rebuild a whole island and population. He gets sent to the world of Valice with no preparation and no idea where to start. He takes it in stride which honestly made me giggle. Henry doesn't seem to be bothered that things can kill him or that he's in charge. The world feels tailor made for him. Im not sure if its what the author expected or wanted but it worked. I love all the side characters but as of now, there aren't really villians. I dont think that will last long. Im ready for book 2 now.
January 23, 2026
Pretty Good Read
I really enjoyed reading about Henry. I enjoyed the character, but I didn't like his stance on not killing in a world where he was going to have to do it eventually. In some he was too idealistic and naive when dealing with some people and situations, and he inserted himself when he shouldnt. But the other characters were well written and definitely likeable or written well enough to not be liked. Im definitely going to check out book 2, since this was written well enough to pique my interest.
I really enjoyed reading about Henry. I enjoyed the character, but I didn't like his stance on not killing in a world where he was going to have to do it eventually. In some he was too idealistic and naive when dealing with some people and situations, and he inserted himself when he shouldnt. But the other characters were well written and definitely likeable or written well enough to not be liked. Im definitely going to check out book 2, since this was written well enough to pique my interest.
April 16, 2026
The action is all over the place.
Feels like the writer has ADHD
Muddled garbage of a plot.
This book could have been interesting and good, if someone else wrote it.
Nothing makes sense.
Why would you send a decoy boat to get eaten by a Kraken, if afterward you don't send a real boat through? WTF is the point of a decoy boat when there is no real boat? Who the fuck sent the decoy? Why would they all cheer when a decoy boat gets destroyed by a Kraken? Shit makes no sense.
Goes from one stupid action scene to the next.
DNF 23%
Feels like the writer has ADHD
Muddled garbage of a plot.
This book could have been interesting and good, if someone else wrote it.
Nothing makes sense.
Why would you send a decoy boat to get eaten by a Kraken, if afterward you don't send a real boat through? WTF is the point of a decoy boat when there is no real boat? Who the fuck sent the decoy? Why would they all cheer when a decoy boat gets destroyed by a Kraken? Shit makes no sense.
Goes from one stupid action scene to the next.
DNF 23%
January 25, 2026
More like 4.5 ⭐
I really enjoyed this book, though I will say that the formatting for the stats when reading on Kindle was a bit annoying. However the story itself was good. It dragged here and there, but that's to be expected when you have an RPG setting. There's just no getting around the boring waiting around regardless of whether that's in a book or actually playing an RPG 😅.
I really enjoyed this book, though I will say that the formatting for the stats when reading on Kindle was a bit annoying. However the story itself was good. It dragged here and there, but that's to be expected when you have an RPG setting. There's just no getting around the boring waiting around regardless of whether that's in a book or actually playing an RPG 😅.
February 14, 2026
An interesting transmigration harbor building story
The story is interesting so far, with most of the main action at sea, but some on the island, too.
I like that the grammar and spelling in the story are mostly good!
A tiny nitpick: The front of a ship is the bow, and the back (in the aft direction) is the stern. When facing the bow (to the fore), port is to the left and starboard is to the right. :)
The story is interesting so far, with most of the main action at sea, but some on the island, too.
I like that the grammar and spelling in the story are mostly good!
A tiny nitpick: The front of a ship is the bow, and the back (in the aft direction) is the stern. When facing the bow (to the fore), port is to the left and starboard is to the right. :)
April 13, 2026
This is why I shouldn't have access to Kindle Unlimited. I read any litRPG that sounds even vaguely interesting. 😭 either way this one was fairly decent. It was stat heavy but the stats weren't very interesting to me, and there were so many different menu systems.
The main character wasn't obnoxious and there wasn't a romance so those are definite bonuses. The side characters were interesting. I'd actually rate this a 3.5 with a chance I'd read the sequels.
The main character wasn't obnoxious and there wasn't a romance so those are definite bonuses. The side characters were interesting. I'd actually rate this a 3.5 with a chance I'd read the sequels.
January 11, 2026
very stay heavy
This was a bit too heavy on stats for me. A large portion of the “story” is just tables of data and options. I am impressed that the author can manage that much information but for me as a reader I was overwhelmed. There was enough in the story to get me through but I am not sure I will stick with this series.
This was a bit too heavy on stats for me. A large portion of the “story” is just tables of data and options. I am impressed that the author can manage that much information but for me as a reader I was overwhelmed. There was enough in the story to get me through but I am not sure I will stick with this series.
January 19, 2026
I was told as a young lad to finish what you start.
I normally enjoy these litrpg stories - but this one was pretty bad.
First of all - it was written in the first person - which is sort of a tell - that Mr Karevik is new to the writing game.
Secondly , it followed the standard - slacker in a dead end job dies - is reincarnated on a deserted island with 7 or 8 people and in just three weeks builds up the island's port capabilities, battles pirates, negotiates with strange creatures both above and below the sea.
Thirdly - there is a magic element that comes into play whenever the author gets stuck on a problem.
If you have insomnia - this might be the ticket.
I normally enjoy these litrpg stories - but this one was pretty bad.
First of all - it was written in the first person - which is sort of a tell - that Mr Karevik is new to the writing game.
Secondly , it followed the standard - slacker in a dead end job dies - is reincarnated on a deserted island with 7 or 8 people and in just three weeks builds up the island's port capabilities, battles pirates, negotiates with strange creatures both above and below the sea.
Thirdly - there is a magic element that comes into play whenever the author gets stuck on a problem.
If you have insomnia - this might be the ticket.
January 24, 2026
A mediocre settlement builder with boring characters. The ensemble cast is brought in quickly and then quickly forgotten. The main character has no bearing and could be exchanged with anyone else without consequence. The story is heavy-handed and very much on rails. The farther I read, the worse it became.
February 8, 2026
It is different and I was hooked!
This is a different kind of Isekai / LitRPG book. It’s more of a town management with a but of naval warfare. The author wrote this in such a way that it was interesting. Of course there were times when I just skimmed over the stats.
I already purchased the sequel and will be reading it next.
This is a different kind of Isekai / LitRPG book. It’s more of a town management with a but of naval warfare. The author wrote this in such a way that it was interesting. Of course there were times when I just skimmed over the stats.
I already purchased the sequel and will be reading it next.
February 10, 2026
A lot of Stat Blocks
It was a great read with good plot and characters. They were well flushed out, however with the number of characters in the story, it was hard to keep track of them. There was also a lot of blocks of information on ships and choices for upgrades. Eventually I just had to start skipping pages worth of text.
It was a great read with good plot and characters. They were well flushed out, however with the number of characters in the story, it was hard to keep track of them. There was also a lot of blocks of information on ships and choices for upgrades. Eventually I just had to start skipping pages worth of text.
February 22, 2026
A super naive settlement builder story.
DNF at 18%
Bread comes from the bakery and doesn't need farms, alcohol seemingly just materialises, people work for free (while the Mc got paid), etc.
The plot forgot about his link breaking if he leaves the island astonishingly fast..
In the end the plot was too childish for my taste.
DNF at 18%
Bread comes from the bakery and doesn't need farms, alcohol seemingly just materialises, people work for free (while the Mc got paid), etc.
The plot forgot about his link breaking if he leaves the island astonishingly fast..
In the end the plot was too childish for my taste.
May 1, 2026
I enjoyed this book a lot. I love the building up aspect of starting from scratch and slowly building up the town/island. As an avid LitRPG reader, haven't really gotten into reading town building series however, I am happy to have picked this up. Hits on all the right spots for me. I look forward to continuing this series.
January 20, 2026
A great read.
I really enjoyed reading this book. It was fun and engaging. The story and characters were incredibly interesting and entertaining. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next. This book is definitely worth checking out.
I really enjoyed reading this book. It was fun and engaging. The story and characters were incredibly interesting and entertaining. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next. This book is definitely worth checking out.
January 23, 2026
Awesome book
Great fun read, great unique characters, cool navel battles, empire building, action, and some real comedy moments. Has plenty of stats and unique use of magic. Only thing missing was a little romance. Highly recommended.
Great fun read, great unique characters, cool navel battles, empire building, action, and some real comedy moments. Has plenty of stats and unique use of magic. Only thing missing was a little romance. Highly recommended.
February 8, 2026
Building a port, how hard can it be?
Probably will annoy people. I found if you ignore all the possible builds listed and concentrate on what the portmaster selects the story line moves at a good rate. Enjoyable.
Probably will annoy people. I found if you ignore all the possible builds listed and concentrate on what the portmaster selects the story line moves at a good rate. Enjoyable.
February 13, 2026
I think the MC is fine and the world is okay. But I don’t like the constant reviews of the stats. Who cares! Also the fact that he kills a bunch of people and it barely registered with him. Is he phycotic. Also the mixing up of ship classes and artillery was annoying.
January 11, 2026
Great book
I absolutely loved the book. I think there is a little too much info when it comes to combat stats, but other than that. Very good book.
I absolutely loved the book. I think there is a little too much info when it comes to combat stats, but other than that. Very good book.
January 11, 2026
Great start of a series
If you are a fan of resource management, town building, and turn-based warfare games, you will love this book. Well written and interesting.
If you are a fan of resource management, town building, and turn-based warfare games, you will love this book. Well written and interesting.
January 22, 2026
good
An interesting story with fun action and good world building that I will be sure to keep reading more of.
An interesting story with fun action and good world building that I will be sure to keep reading more of.
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