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There's some true regarding a number of commercial, generic and fill-out season anime tropes about Kami was Game ni Ueteiru.

The main character is generic in appearance, he's surrounded by side characters who are, of course, beautiful girls romantically interested in him at different levels, and he has average behavior seen in virtually all kinds of shows today. It doesn't go all the way through generic, but it's almost there.

The series started very slow and with a boring story, I remember dropping it many times, and sometimes, when I was watching, I was so distracted that I couldn't remember half of what had just happened.

What ... surprised me, when I started re-watching at bedtime, was that the last third of the 13 episodes showed a whole different and interesting pace. If they maintained that kind of level it would be awesome, but given the current format, I can give only 7/10.

For ppl saying it's a copy of No Game no Life (another one I dropped), I think it's just incidentally, as the theme is game-related.

Pedro Gaião
Author, storytelling student and book-writer.

There two types of entertainment most people would find questionable: one is represented by the average Russian citizen watching Rio's regional soccer championship (the lowest professional tier possible, played by neighborhood dudes) because the World boycotted your national tv. The other is watching a Japanese chicken-raising show on the international tv service because you're drunk with your roommates. The first you only do for lack of anything better, the other because you're embracing the joke.

Some people try to fit Hidden Dungeon in the second group, but it doesn't. Appearing in this God-forsaken hellhole means you're likely reconsidering this anime after dropping it in its ... launching season, or you want to laugh after seeing how this is bad. This anime is fully ecchi, no-story, inconsistent with no purpose: basically that beach filler episode, but for a whole's anime season. Does it mean it's ecchi-good, at least? Well, not really, it's rather embarrassing, though arguably it pushes further than most ecchi anime do. That said, it only makes sense if you have 12-years old or if you are degenerate beyond reparation.

The female characters' design is probably the only good thing about this anime, as its adventure-themed fantasy or dungeon exploring is really useless. However, as the MC gathers more and more waifus to his harem, the female characters themselves become less and less developed as there are too many of them orbiting him. Oh yes, in its very very end, it gets really interesting. That's it.

Hidden Dungeon was aired near Isekai Cheat Magician and the infamous Mommy-Isekai (Okaa-san Online) and it shares a similar dislinking of the community that's hardly unjust. However, this anime manages be worse than both, which at least have some idea to stick around no matter how questionable they are. Hidden Dungeon is a 24-minute experience for small seconds of ecchi scenes with cute waifus, does this really worth your time?

I dropped this anime twice before renovating my interest after I finish my graduation and started working, mostly at home office (don't judge me plz, I still score the daily quota).

It was the perfect occasion for rewatching a bunch of anime that made me sleep or that couldn't keep my attention years back (boring anime is actually good for insomnia issues, btw). Perhaps the fact I'm older and have actual responsibilities changed my perception (27 now, +/- 24 before), but I didn't feel the anime the way I did earlier: I'm not that judgmental now.

In fact, the main character and his friends' design ... is fairly acceptable, the scenarios are not to be despised really (it's even based in a white-blue philter Constantinople, which got a small smile for my Historian's side) and of a boy and a girl being isekai-ed was fairly innovative by that time. Although difficult to watch at first, it gets better as the episodes pass, and the 12th ep. + OVA really makes you miss the anime, ironically.

Yet, everything they say about this anime is true: by reason of benchmarking everything executives noticed it works is right there: unnecessary ecchi and close-ups, harem, overpowered MC, archetypal virgin/ashamed MC who somehow gets lots of random female attention (thanks for nothing Kirito), main supporting char/lover being nerfed without reason for the MC showup etc. The plot has everything to be at least an average anime (as an old book writer I kinda have higher standards for any media consumption, but this is rare in anime), the character development is non-existent for some reason (it had potential) and the fights range from poor, non-sensical, badly animated and disappointing to "ok, but lost potential". In fact, the whole sum of this anime is loss of potential, and I'm not sure where the problem lies, necessarily: every season has to have fill-the-hole animes, a relatively successful Light Novel or Manga that gets a season while the producers don't have high expectations. It's a "now or never" moment for underappreciated authors.

Much of the effort, attention, and budget goes to the big announcements. Perhaps Isekai Cheat Magician had good source material but poor execution for anime because it was filling an available hole. I mean, the battle animation speaks for itself. I could quote a special case of WTF moment where (SPOILER ALERT) the waifu green-haired assassin, Anastacia, is hit by a dragon's fire and she appears with just BLOOD while dying, not burnt or nothing. Seriously? It's so bad I couldn't even be sure if she actually died before showing her grave. (SPOILER ALERT).

Everybody hated the choice of killing her, especially given how the anime loves to have the genocidal enemies survive for the most ridiculous reasons. I will not point out all the obvious benchmarking and how generic some things are, but perhaps it could have been greater if the whole anime market today wasn't full of isekai.

As a relatively old young person in his late 20s, I do recommend this anime: for watching on the bus, when you're not doing anything etc, like a podcast. Otherwise this will probably disappoint you; but, I mean, people like a stretching pirate's show, who knows if you're going to like this. The source material, HOWEVER, might be a particularly good source for seeing, must see.