Chattanooga author and illustrator Anthony Moffett delivers a sharp, surreal, and visually engaging narrative with Too Complex: It’s a (Enter Difficulty Setting Here) Life, a compact illustrated novel that blends satire, absurdist humor, and social commentary to examine the fine line between passion and self-destruction in gaming culture.
Set in a world where a massively popular online role-playing game dominates global conversation, the story follows Cody Redbond, a gamer whose life slowly collapses under the weight of addiction.
Achievements replace ambition, dopamine replaces discipline, and reality erodes while the digital world thrives. When eviction finally arrives, leasing agent Mavirna Holmes and property manager Corey Dwellen step into Cody’s apartment only to find it transformed into a nightmarish dungeon of filth, decay, and infestation.
Gamers themselves, Corey and Mavirna approach the chaos the only way they know how, treating the apartment as a real-life dungeon crawl. Their journey through pestilence and debris mirrors the very games that enabled Cody’s downfall, creating a layered narrative that is both comedic and unsettling…