If you loved how Joe leans into the Ritualist class—drawing circles, stacking sigils, and min-maxing System prompts—then you'll click with Corin Cadence in Sufficiently Advanced Magic. Corin treats magic like engineering, using runic arrays and attunements to solve deadly tower trials with brains-first tactics. The way Joe optimizes rituals to break past his class limits mirrors how Corin exploits the rules of enchantments and wards to outthink monsters and puzzles. It’s that same satisfying, systems-heavy progression—just with a different flavor of arcane calculus.

You enjoyed how Ritualist carefully explains circles, components, and System interactions while Joe tests boundaries to squeeze out power. In Mother of Learning, Zorian mines a groundhog-day time loop to patiently master spellcraft, politics, and monster ecologies—turning the world itself into a lab. Like Joe’s iterative ritual upgrades, Zorian’s repeated runs let him refine enchantments, negotiate with mages, and map out threats with forensic detail. If you crave exhaustive, internally consistent world rules—and the payoffs that come from mastering them—you’ll be hooked.

Joe’s dry quips while grinding through System objectives are half the fun of Ritualist. Dungeon Crawler Carl brings that same razor-edged humor as Carl and Princess Donut descend floors packed with ridiculous bosses, twisted rules, and loot that begs to be exploited. Where Joe optimizes rituals, Carl exploits game show mechanics and leaderboard chaos—cracking jokes even as things get lethal. If you enjoyed laughing your way through Joe’s min-maxing and notification spam, Carl’s televised apocalypse will scratch the same itch.

In Ritualist, Joe sets concrete targets—unlock a ritual, complete a class quest, push a threshold—and grinds with purpose. Unsouled channels that same drive as Lindon pursues advancement step by step, setting milestones, finding loopholes, and refusing to accept his starting limits. The thrill of hitting a new tier in Joe’s ritual crafting maps perfectly to Lindon’s breakthroughs in sacred arts. If the mission-focused momentum of leveling and chasing the next build-defining upgrade kept you turning pages, this will, too.

If riding inside Joe’s head—tracking his Ritualist choices, watching the System dings, and hearing his internal commentary—was your jam, you’ll love following Jason Asano. He Who Fights with Monsters sticks close to Jason’s perspective as he parses ability text, stacks affinities, and turns oddball powers into brutal combos. Like Joe, Jason’s wit and constant tinkering with his build make the progression personal and engaging, keeping the focus on one mind steadily mastering a dangerous new world.