The Completionist Chronicles Books in Order
Part ofDakota Krout Books in OrderSee The Completionist Chronicles books by Dakota Krout in order, with short summaries, reading help, and background on Joe's long LitRPG adventure.
Last updated: July 2, 2026
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Publication Order
14 books
Regicide
by Dakota Krout
2018
Joe's growing reputation brings rumors, enemies, and a team of misfits whose talents fit his own in dangerous ways. As he pushes toward a stronger class, he may also be helping start a war.
Ritualist
by Dakota Krout
2018
After a life-changing real-world accident, Joe enters Eternia and discovers a hidden Ritualist class that makes him both valuable and hunted. He wants every quest, every secret, and every edge the system will give him.
Raze
by Dakota Krout
2019
As humanity flees toward Eternium and pressure builds on every front, Joe tries to solve problems one fire at a time. Base building, politics, and enemies who want him contained make that impossible to do quietly.
Rexus
by Dakota Krout
2019
While Joe is busy elsewhere, Jaxon heads off on his own side adventure and discovers that low charisma can make every encounter more dangerous, and more ridiculous. This one shifts the spotlight but keeps the same world and momentum.
Ruthless
by Dakota Krout
2020
Joe's rise has made him impossible to ignore, and the next stretch of his journey is shaped by war, politics, and hard tradeoffs. Power is still there for the taking, but it comes with a harsher price.
Inflame
by Dakota Krout
2021
Joe's world keeps darkening just as his own plans start taking shape. To protect what he has built, the Ritualist has to push deeper into dangerous conflicts and hope he can extinguish a growing catastrophe.
Implode
by Dakota Krout
2022
With the Dwarven Oligarchy collapsing under war pressure, Joe is tasked with getting its living history to safety. Saving a proud people is hard enough, but convincing war-loving dwarves to retreat may be even worse.
Invent
by Dakota Krout
2022
Joe's recent victories have made him impossible to ignore, so he steps out of the war's spotlight and back into quests, class secrets, and consolidation. Unfortunately, even lying low in Eternia has a way of attracting trouble.
Tenacity
by Dakota Krout
2023
Joe escapes with the battered Dwarven Oligarchy into Jotunheim, a giant-haunted world where even survival takes construction magic and nerve. Building a refuge is hard, but making it visible may be worse.
Thesaurize
by Dakota Krout
2023
After a brutal battle, Joe and Novusheim rebuild bigger, stronger, and deadlier than before. Then an urgent mission drags him back into the frozen wilds, where trusting the wrong person could undo everything.
Thunderplump
by Dakota Krout
2023
Joe's defenses are finally working, right up until Novusheim grows too large to stay unnoticed. An endless horde and a legendary monster turn success into the setup for a siege.
Untapped
by Dakota Krout
2025
Joe reaches the Tower of Ritualists and gets what he wanted, experts, answers, and a way to improve, then is sent away again on a punishing quest. His return sparks retaliation that has been building for years.
Uncapped
by Dakota Krout
2026
Joe's new channels and ritual-built foundation need one last push to become permanent. But while he fights to stabilize himself, a Mythic core and an ancient deadlock threaten to tear Vanaheim apart.
Unmapped
by Dakota Krout
2026
A catastrophic surge leaves Joe's mana channels ruined and his skills in pieces. To recover, he has to rebuild himself from the inside out and attempt rituals that could change both his fate and the wider world.
Series background & context
The Completionist Chronicles starts with Joe, a man who gets a second shot at life by entering Eternia, a game world that is a lot less game-like than it first appears. What looks like an escape quickly turns into a permanent commitment, and Joe discovers that his rare Ritualist class is the kind of power that attracts the wrong kind of attention. From the opening book on, the series is built around secrecy, experimentation, and the simple fact that Joe cannot stop trying to see what the system will let him get away with.
That urge to test everything is the engine of the series.
Joe is not just trying to survive. He wants to complete quests, understand hidden mechanics, collect unusual skills, and pull every possible advantage out of Eternia's rules. The books lean hard into progression, but they do it through curiosity as much as combat. Joe levels up, crafts, experiments, builds, negotiates, and occasionally breaks things in ways that feel half brilliant and half reckless.
The setting keeps widening as the series goes on. What starts as a class-and-guild story grows into something much bigger, with racial politics, faction wars, world travel, settlement building, and threats that spill well beyond a single quest line. Joe's choices matter to his team, then his town, then whole populations. The scale rises fast, but the books still keep their eye on the small, crunchy details that LitRPG readers usually come for.
There is plenty of humor here, too. Krout likes puns, odd class interactions, and side characters who make even the tense stretches feel a little less severe. Jaxon, who gets the spotlight in Rexus, helps show another side of the world and keeps the series from feeling too locked inside one point of view. Even when the stakes get heavy, the tone usually stays lively.
If you are deciding what kind of LitRPG this is, think system-heavy, quest-driven, and steadily more ambitious. There is combat, but there is also a lot of planning, building, theory-crafting, and figuring out how one strange ability might connect to ten others. Joe wins as often with persistence and weird lateral thinking as he does with raw force.
That makes The Completionist Chronicles a good fit for readers who enjoy long arcs, visible progression, and a protagonist who treats the world like one giant puzzle box. The books get bigger, stranger, and more politically messy as they go, but the heart of the series stays the same: Joe wants to see everything, finish everything, and master a world that would really prefer to stay partly hidden.
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