How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps

Andrew Rowe

Language: English

Publisher: S&S/Saga Press

Published: Sep 30, 2025

Description:

The LitRPG bestseller releasing in a stunning new deluxe hardcover edition, now with a new Afterword.

"How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps is an endlessly inventive and entertaining love letter to all of us underdogs who spent countless hours with a game controller in hand, daydreaming about how we would save the realm." —Matt Dinniman, New York Times bestselling author of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series
For thousands of years, there has been a cycle: a Demon King rises and conquers, and a Hero is reborn a hundred years later to defeat him. Each time, civilizations are ground to dust beneath the Demon King's hordes, but humanity has remained secure in the belief that a Hero of legend will always save them. There's just one slight problem. It's only been twenty-three years since the Demon King's latest rise, and this time, he's already conquered more than half the world. If humanity simply waits for the Hero's return, there may be no world...