Location from Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
What's left of Earth above the dungeon — a flattened, atmosphere-stripped wasteland that serves as a constant reminder of what was lost.
There is no going back up. The surface of Earth is a ruin — every structure collapsed, the atmosphere thinning, the temperature dropping. The Borant Corporation stripped the planet with industrial efficiency, harvesting materials to build the dungeon below and leaving the surface as a wasteland. Satellite imagery (available to the galactic audience but not the crawlers) shows a world of rubble and dust where cities used to be. For crawlers, the surface is a memory and a motivation. Everyone lost someone — most people lost everyone. The rage that fuels the best crawlers comes from looking at their stat screen and knowing that above it, somewhere in the collapsed wreckage, is every life they cared about. The system occasionally references the surface in its notifications with the same breezy corporate tone it uses for everything else, which is its own kind of cruelty. The surface can't be reached from inside the dungeon. It exists only as what you're fighting to avenge.
Also known as: the surface, Earth, topside, what's left