Dungeon of Small Favors is a novel by Jim Mergenthaler, published under Mergify Studios. It is a fantasy comedy with psychological depth: 94,923 words across 25 chapters, with a complete audiobook edition narrated over 11 hours and 56 minutes. This page is the book's home on the Mergify Studios site — what the story is, how its editions stand, and where each one can be found.
When mundane office life collapses into a bizarre dungeon crawl, mild-mannered accountant Theo must navigate absurd quests fueled by repressed anxieties. He discovers the dungeon's architecture mirrors human neuroses, forcing him to confront his own imposter syndrome while helping others heal.
That premise runs through the book's chapter arc — from "The Spreadsheet That Ate Us" and "The Currency of Kindness" through "The Imposter Mirror," "The Favor Economy Lesson," and "The Nexus of Small Favors" to the closing chapter, "Beyond the Dungeon Walls." The office and the dungeon are the same place seen two ways: every quest is a small favor, every floor a feeling somebody at work would rather not name, and progress means helping the people trapped in it — including Theo himself.
Dungeon of Small Favors is written in English and complete in 25 chapters. Its official description places it as fantasy comedy with psychological depth — a dungeon crawl whose monsters are repressed anxieties and whose loot is the small kindnesses people owe each other. The book's records show it package-ready with its live cover approved, and its editions prepared for the wide channels Mergify Studios uses for its BookWorks titles rather than any single exclusive store.
The audiobook edition runs 11 hours and 56 minutes across the same 25 chapters, narrated by a synthesized voice: the complete Supertonic multivoice narration, disclosed as AI-synthesized on its listings as platform rules require. The audiobook is published on Kobo Writing Life at $18.95 (published November 4, 2026), and the same edition is in review at Google Play Books at $18.95. A five-minute retail sample drawn from the first chapter accompanies the listings.
The audiobook is live today on Kobo Writing Life at $18.95. The ebook, priced at $4.99, has been submitted to Google Play Books and is pending that store's account review — the same pending-review state applies to the Google Play Books audiobook listing. This page will be updated when those listings go live. Readers who start with the studio's other BookWorks title can also visit The Memory Broker, and the music side of the studio starts from the Mergify Studios homepage.
A fantasy comedy with psychological depth. Mild-mannered accountant Theo's mundane office life collapses into a bizarre dungeon crawl whose architecture mirrors human neuroses, and he has to confront his own imposter syndrome while helping others heal.
94,923 words in 25 chapters. The audiobook edition runs 11 hours and 56 minutes.
No — the narration is AI-synthesized (Supertonic multivoice), and the listings disclose that, with the narrator credited as "Synthesized voice."
The audiobook is published on Kobo Writing Life at $18.95. The ebook ($4.99) and the Google Play Books audiobook ($18.95) are submitted and pending Google Play's review.
Jim Mergenthaler is the author, and Mergify Studios — the independent American studio behind this site — publishes it as one of its BookWorks titles, alongside The Memory Broker.
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