The Noob Returns

Noobtown, Book 9

By: Ryan Rimmel

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

LitRPG fans: Noobtown is back!

In the ninth book in Ryan Rimmel's fantastical Noobtown series, Jim has a new threat to face. As he questions how to kill a nearly invincible Elder Demon, he also has to regroup his allies and try to fix his ailing War Badger. Can he do all that, considering it's also time to finally answer for his many crimes against chickens?

What happens when the main boss isn't the final boss?

Jim defeated the Dark Overlord, but that wasn't enough. The Dark Overlord was just a pawn for an even greater threat. Michael, the Elder Demon, has restarted the War in Heaven. Meanwhile, Jim was spending quality time with Shart, trapped in the Walker Orb. Now, Jim's allies are spread all over Ordinal, and the world is breaking apart.

In order to survive, Jim needs to rebuild his class, find his allies, and save the world yet again. His plans start small, but there are, of course, problems. A death cult has taken over Windfall, a Faceless Queen is running the Castle, and Badgelor has a cardiac issue that needs to be fixed sooner rather than later.

But Jim isn't defeated. He will save Windfall and the World. Because he's the Mayor of Windfall.

©2026 Ryan Rimmel (P)2026 Podium Audio

Noobtown is still over the top fun

New Noob, same as the old Noob. The main character is once again put into his favorite fish-out-of-water situation. He has new baddies to fight and old friends to mourn and others to save. There's revenge to be taken and yet a new level of weirdness to Ordinal. And don't forget the dck jokes. You can't forget the dck jokes.

Aethon audio wall breaks!!!

I love the connections ! Great book so far, keep them coming and I’ll keep listening !

We are so back!

I'm genuinely so happy, that this book released to audible. Thank you Ryan and Johnathan for all your hard work. Long live the Mayor!

Same old shit different title

Don’t get me wrong it’s a great listen but it’s the same story dialogue as the first three

The story is really having a rough time finding its stride

After the last book where so much happened and a general near full resolution of most of the plot points we get this one with only a single chapter in the last book priming the pump for it. The series had built up to such a strong madcap pace that I imagine that it was a struggle not to to take the next bit at a run, so it's slowed down with asides, jomes, pop culture references (some a bit of a tortured reach) and pointedly ignoring so many plot hooks to keep the word count down to allow more jokes and asides to remain in the texts.

This book felt like it needed to be more like the first few in the series: having a clear focus to set up the new story arc but instead chose a method that relied on a momentum that the previous book killed with all its resolved story lines, so it makes that pacing style fall flatter than it should, because there's really great stuff in there. It's hard to appreciate the lack of just asking simple natural questions about what happened isn't happening nearly as much as it should.

Maybe we'll get back to the solidity that spawned this great series in the next books, I hope we do. I think this is one of the weaker entries in the series though. The whole thing feels off and wrong footed.