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The Broken Build: A Slice-of-Life LitRPG Isekai
Matthew Cole had nothing. No future, no ambition, no reason to wake up tomorrow.
Then a mysterious website offered him a character creation screen with no limits. He stacked every broken ability he could a holy sword that steals life with every hit, experience gains multiplied a hundredfold, a 30% discount on everything he'd ever buy, and a teleportation spell that ignores walls.
The catch? He woke up in a medieval world where dungeons produce civilization's resources, monsters drop the cooking spices, and slavery is as common as bartering. Oh, and if anyone discovers his abilities, the empire will execute him for having the founding emperor's job class.
Alone, broke, and trying not to die, Matthew does what any rational person would. So he grinds the dungeon, learns the economy, and saves every copper coin toward the one purchase that changes
A wolf-girl with golden ears who can dodge any attack by a hair's width, who calls him Master, and who might be the first person in either world who actually needs him.
She was never supposed to matter this much.
The Broken Build is a slow-burn isekai fantasy with LitRPG progression, dungeon crawling, harem building, and a protagonist who's overpowered everywhere except the places that count.
Then a mysterious website offered him a character creation screen with no limits. He stacked every broken ability he could a holy sword that steals life with every hit, experience gains multiplied a hundredfold, a 30% discount on everything he'd ever buy, and a teleportation spell that ignores walls.
The catch? He woke up in a medieval world where dungeons produce civilization's resources, monsters drop the cooking spices, and slavery is as common as bartering. Oh, and if anyone discovers his abilities, the empire will execute him for having the founding emperor's job class.
Alone, broke, and trying not to die, Matthew does what any rational person would. So he grinds the dungeon, learns the economy, and saves every copper coin toward the one purchase that changes
A wolf-girl with golden ears who can dodge any attack by a hair's width, who calls him Master, and who might be the first person in either world who actually needs him.
She was never supposed to matter this much.
The Broken Build is a slow-burn isekai fantasy with LitRPG progression, dungeon crawling, harem building, and a protagonist who's overpowered everywhere except the places that count.
787 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 10, 2026
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March 26, 2026
I made it 20% of the way through this book before the MC was revealed to be too stupid to care about. It was already starting off farcical, but it went downhill from there.
The MC is a guy that is about as incel as an 18yr old can be. He's a loner that blames others for being lonely. He was bullied, so he took MMA classes. Now that bullies can't beat him, they ignore him, so he has no friends. Not sure why having bullies or losing them prevents him from having friends, but that's his logic. His dad used to beat him until he was big enough to fight back, so his dad now ignores him. Having zero friends, he's browsing a suicide website when he interacts with an ad. The ad looks like its for some game, so he plays with the RNGesus hoping for a great roll, and after hours, hits on 99, which he accepts. Then he proceeds to give himself skills that will make a game boring as hell because it would take zero effort to win. He accepts past the "If you accept this, your life here ends and there is no going back", and ends up in a new world.
In the new world, starts off as a level 1 peasant, and quickly gains level 1 thief for stealing a pair of sandals. Then a band of thieves show up to invade the small town he's in, the highest being level 41. After killing a single level 2 thief, he attacks and one-shots the level 41, then proceeds to kill the rest of the thieves because his magic sword is god-tiered. He goes with the local merchant to the bigger town to sell stuff, and sell off someone as a slave that tried to steal some of the loot. After making gobs of cash to his broken merchant skills, he goes back to the slave trader. And that's where the book goes down the toilet after circling the drain.
The slave trader brings out a beast woman to entice him to buy her. She's wearing loose flowing clothing that hides much of her body, but her boobs bounce a few times under them. And the MC can no longer follow the conversation. He has incel visions of buying a slave and sleeping with her, or buying 6 and having a harem. He's completely brain dead because of a bouncing chest.
Combine that with the writing quality, which was not good, and I couldn't take it. The author loves the use of the controversial "em-dash", but I won't accuse them of using AI. I think this book took human levels of bad to generate.
The MC is a guy that is about as incel as an 18yr old can be. He's a loner that blames others for being lonely. He was bullied, so he took MMA classes. Now that bullies can't beat him, they ignore him, so he has no friends. Not sure why having bullies or losing them prevents him from having friends, but that's his logic. His dad used to beat him until he was big enough to fight back, so his dad now ignores him. Having zero friends, he's browsing a suicide website when he interacts with an ad. The ad looks like its for some game, so he plays with the RNGesus hoping for a great roll, and after hours, hits on 99, which he accepts. Then he proceeds to give himself skills that will make a game boring as hell because it would take zero effort to win. He accepts past the "If you accept this, your life here ends and there is no going back", and ends up in a new world.
In the new world, starts off as a level 1 peasant, and quickly gains level 1 thief for stealing a pair of sandals. Then a band of thieves show up to invade the small town he's in, the highest being level 41. After killing a single level 2 thief, he attacks and one-shots the level 41, then proceeds to kill the rest of the thieves because his magic sword is god-tiered. He goes with the local merchant to the bigger town to sell stuff, and sell off someone as a slave that tried to steal some of the loot. After making gobs of cash to his broken merchant skills, he goes back to the slave trader. And that's where the book goes down the toilet after circling the drain.
The slave trader brings out a beast woman to entice him to buy her. She's wearing loose flowing clothing that hides much of her body, but her boobs bounce a few times under them. And the MC can no longer follow the conversation. He has incel visions of buying a slave and sleeping with her, or buying 6 and having a harem. He's completely brain dead because of a bouncing chest.
Combine that with the writing quality, which was not good, and I couldn't take it. The author loves the use of the controversial "em-dash", but I won't accuse them of using AI. I think this book took human levels of bad to generate.
February 10, 2026
plagiarism
This story is completely stolen work of Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World. The thief changed chacthers name some what but overall it’s word for word if the series it’s stolen form.
This story is completely stolen work of Harem in the Labyrinth of Another World. The thief changed chacthers name some what but overall it’s word for word if the series it’s stolen form.
March 15, 2026
Complete plagiarism
Unfortunately I didn’t read the reviews first, but I recognized the story from an anime. I got suspicious and when I did look at the reviews it was confirmed. This is a complete ripoff, almost word for word, of Harem in the hidden labyrinth of another world.
Unfortunately I didn’t read the reviews first, but I recognized the story from an anime. I got suspicious and when I did look at the reviews it was confirmed. This is a complete ripoff, almost word for word, of Harem in the hidden labyrinth of another world.
February 12, 2026
Stolen work.
Not only is this plagiarism, almost word for word, but the story itself is just bad and the writing even worse.
Not only is this plagiarism, almost word for word, but the story itself is just bad and the writing even worse.
February 14, 2026
Good run
This is a harem book but there is no sex for quite some time. System works well. The book grew on me and I am looking forward to the next one.
This is a harem book but there is no sex for quite some time. System works well. The book grew on me and I am looking forward to the next one.
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