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Restarting the Apocalypse

By: Michael Chatfield
Narrated by: Gary Furlong
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They lost the war once. They’re not letting it happen again.

The end of the world wasn’t fire and brimstone—it was guild wars, mutated monsters, collapsing kingdoms, and rifts to realms that should never have been opened. Len and Rick fought through all of it. They watched Harmonia fall. They buried their friends.

Now, they’ve been sent back—130 years before the collapse.

No stats. No skills. No allies.

Just two combat vets with tactical minds, brutal experience, and the complete knowledge of how the world ends.

Mana is only just starting to spread. Nations are still whole. The system is initializing.

Now is the time to prepare for what lays ahead, to build a foundation.
They aren’t here to survive. They’re here to win.

It's time to Restart the Apocalypse....

Restarting the Apocalypse is a gritty, high-stakes Regressor, LitRPG progression fantasy from international bestseller Michael Chatfield.

Expect deep crafting, tactical combat, earned power, and a system that punishes weakness. No cheats. No plot armor. Just two men fighting to rewrite the end of the world.

©2025 Michael Chatfield (P)2025 Michael Chatfield Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction War LitRPG

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Fantastic twist to the concept of the usual systems apocalyptic decent, can’t wait to listen to the second one 👌

Brilliant!

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So I really enjoyed this one. In fact, I went on straight to the second! I'm reviewing this in the hope for a third or more.

First off, the interplay between the main characters is good and a nice position to start from, their backgrounds are good if a touch melodramatic. But they're interesting and charismatic, the events they get involved with also in both at the start and end of the book seem logical and are entertaining.

Yes the middle of the book does focus on other characters for a short while but then the focus does return to our two heroes. I also had fun exploring these side groups and the world building. I feel like urgency could have been a bit more explained rather than telling us everythings going to be terrible, why was it so important to destroy an item etc. why exactly the ticking clock, more context or flash backs to certain events might be of value, but it's the authors journey not my own!

The author has a lot to do in a first books and I feel the fundamentals were established well. I feel like this one will be pretty great for military, political and magic tech steam early electric age shenanigans.

The narrator also seems to have fun with the book and adds a lot of character.

More mad alchemy please / individuals of this nature, who are a bit cracked. (I found this got into more of it's stride in the second book. one particular scene made me laugh out loud at such antics combined with the narrators performance).

Anyway, it was great fun and I loved it, I'm looking forwards to where the series goes!

I'm not really sure what some of the other reviewers are on about: A good lark, I really enjoyed it.

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Good start to a new series. It's not as action packed as I'd like however great storytelling. Will definitely get the next book.

Enjoyable

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I like these type of books but this just felt very much ok nothing fun. I like the 2 main characters but after a wile they're not having two struggle. Then it seems like a load of small filler stores.

just ok but felt flat

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I started this book after a few litrpg book sets. It felt well paced with out overly detailed stats. A nice world building experience. But I just felt confused, was there a book before this one that I was supposed to have read before book 1?! It then seemed that despite many years of battling, the decisions made by the mane characters seemed weird like they had no understanding of risk. Ultimately it didn’t work for me despite so many great characters, story concept and pace.

Confusing

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