How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps

By Andrew Rowe

Book Overview

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

"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 left for him to save.

And so, Yui Shaw sets out with an ambitious plan. A ten-step plan.

She'll find a way to obtain the Hero's legendary sword. She'll earn obscure classes, gain levels, and increase her skills. She'll travel to the meticulously-crafted dungeons that seem designed for one specific Hero to complete. And, if she's truly (un)fortunate, she might even find a fairy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 166820942X
• ISBN13: 9781668209424
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: S&s/Saga Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

So Much Fun!

This was a entertaining read! Nice and light LitRPG which brought me back to being a kid watching my brothers play their video games because I loved seeing the story brought to life (I wasn't much a player but I always wanted to see how the story would play out). So I knew all the games that this book got inspiration from and that brought added joy. I loved the twist that this book brought with Yui Shaw seeing the problem with the cycle of Demon King she was born in and how the domination of the Demon King was going so fast that the Hero would not be born in time to stop the total subjugation of the world, so she took the initiative to save the world her own way. Complete with out of the box choices like being a Bag Mage, killing slimes for experience, going through the dungeons out of order, and make companions out of other outcasts. It was so great with lots of humor (like slimes destroying wardrobes, pretending cloaked ninjas are not royalty helping heroes, and really silly names for the villain). It was total fun and I loved the twist at the end. My only complaint is that I need to know what Yui Shaw will be doing next, now that the true cause of all the death and destruction is revealed! It was a nicely quick and fun read and the added afterword was also interesting. I would love a companion novel and I will definitely add Andrew Rowe to authors that I need to read more of their works and keep an eye out for new books! I am very glad I got the chance to read this wonderful tale of interesting and out of the box heroes which was just what was needed for this world!