About the Series
An ancient alien race moves Earth’s survivors to a new world under twin suns and imposes RPG mechanics on them. Allistor, a gamer, survives and focuses on claiming and developing territory rather than pure individual power growth. He establishes strongholds, recruits survivors, manages resources, and expands his territorial holdings, essentially playing a real-time strategy game while also leveling his personal combat abilities. The progression is as much about the settlement as the individual.
The base-building focus makes this feel different from combat-centric system apocalypse series. Allistor’s advancement involves building construction, resource management, NPC recruitment, and defensive planning alongside personal stat growth. The territory-claiming system creates clear objectives: expand, fortify, upgrade.
This works for readers who enjoy system apocalypse with heavy base-building emphasis and want a long run to sink into. Six books are out, and no new book has appeared since 2022. The dual-track (personal + settlement) keeps things varied. The tradeoff: the writing is functional to a fault, serviceable prose with minimal stylistic distinction. Character development is basic. The base-building sequences can read like game menus rather than narrative. If you need literary quality or deep characters, this won’t provide them. If you want a system apocalypse base-builder, it delivers the loop consistently across six books.
Reading Order
- Shadow Sun Survival (2019)
- Shadow Sun Expansion (2019)
- Shadow Sun Rebellion (2019)
- Shadow Sun Progression (2020)
- Shadow Sun Unification (2021)
- Shadow Sun Consolidation (2022)
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