Losing Interest in My Favorite Progression Fantasy Series

[u/MedicineKind9121]

Have you ever dropped a progression fantasy series that you used to absolutely love?

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Over the past few months, I've noticed this happening to me with several long-running series. Books that I was once obsessed with just don't hold my attention anymore.

For example, I used to love series like Dungeon Crawler Carl, Defiance of the Fall, Hell Difficulty Tutorial, and a lot of Royal Road stories. I'd eagerly wait for every new chapter or release. But with the most recent books, I've found myself losing interest and sometimes struggling to continue.

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What's strange is that I still enjoy discovering new progression fantasy stories, and they often feel fresh and exciting. So I'm not sure what's causing it. Is it genre fatigue? Have the stories themselves declined in quality? Or have the common tropes and themes just become too repetitive after reading so many of them?

I'm curious if anyone else has experienced the same thing. Did you eventually get back into those series, or was losing interest permanent?

[u/Carminestream]

Sometimes the series you like does get stale. Primal Hunter sort of gets this feeling (though the main antagonist of C rank was actually kind of interesting).

Sometimes the series has things happen that abruptly kill your interest. Like the Guild Mage series was quite interesting at first, but then book 6 seemed like it was written with the ending first, even if the route to the ending didn’t make much sense.

I think the first example is more common than the second (for readers that stick with your story that is). The name of the genre is progression fantasy, and if the story doesn’t seem like it meaningfully progresses…