A drunken wizard offers you $20 million if you let him send you to the world of the last video game you played, and you survive for one year. Do you accept?

Cities: Skylines - no problem, it's a great place to live! ... As long as your house is near an evacuation shelter, on account of all the tornados and stuff.

Animal Crossing here I come.

Just beat Tears of the Kingdom. Great game. I feel like for a country embroiled in a magical apocalypse most places are super comfy and safe to live in. 20 mil? Easy money.

No, I am not participating in Mortal Kombat.

One way ticket? It's gotta be Pokemon. It's the isekai holy grail. Living there would be way better than any of the shitty games, imagine just the travel lifestyle alone. Food and healthcare are free and plentiful. You can make easy luxury money having your favorite critter beat the brakes off of some snot-nosed kid's rat.

Hell no, I played MyHouse.wad last. I would either die a horrible death and go mad in an inescapable empty hospital or I would just go mad from the rest of the game. I wouldn't even be able to trust the world when I got back.

Before that I played Detroit: Become Human. That one seems survivable to me. I'd just go about my day and be nice to everyone I meet.

I built a really nice city in Cities Skylines. I'd just be chilling.

Factorio.

THE FACTORY MUST GROW.

Project zomboid. Not a chance.

Star Citizen, I'd be lucky to surive a day without glitching into space and dying

I played Minecraft in peaceful mode, so, yeah, that sounds like a nice year long vacation actually.

Hard pass on the mortal kombat, but I might take the third offer if I could be functionally immortal and the world was expansive enough.

A. Heck yes the game is called Garden Paws and you can't die and get to tame adorable kitties and bunnies, pick flowers, etc. It's going to be a nice vacation. B. No way, I'll take the $20 million vacation. C. I'm still going with the first option.

Absolutely. I was playing Cities: Skylines.

I would spend that year driving around in my doughnut truck, working at Dino Oil or Healthy Weeds, enjoy my weekends at the parking lot or the bouncy castle, and run to high ground during the next tsunami.

After winning the cash I'd ask to be transported to the Ark universe, and then I'd spend the rest of my life in a glass mansion, training armies of dinosaurs to do my bidding.
JK, I'd probably spend the rest of my very short life running naked from a dilophosaur while screaming. Still more fun than reality.

Ok, I think i could survive being opressed by a tempermental child king who resets everything when he doesnt get his way for a year... unless that also resets the timer, i which case it's groundhog's day forever for me. Gimme the 20 mil, funny magic man.

A drunken wizard offers you $20 million if you let him send you to the world of the last video game you played

A year in an advanced human democratic Utopia prior to first contact with hostile aliens? I think I could manage that :)

(Stellaris)

I tell him that I am currently in a simulation and thus it must be the last game I played.

If I get a fat check that means this is all a simulation ;)

Warhammer Total war 2.

I'm not accepting.

Maybe if it was medieval total war I could get hired on as an assistant to someone, but total war has gone much more total war since then.

Mortal Kombat, not unless we allow corner trapping like in the 90s.

While being in Dark Souls 2 may sound bad, you technically can't die if you're branded with the darksign. So as long as I kept my sanity for a year, I'd be in the clear.

Euro Truck Simulator 2. ez clap.

Nah, I'm good! Seeing how random peasants seem to fare in the world of Diablo IV, I think I'm pretty likely to get stomped on by a big old demon.

Last game I played was PowerWash Simulator. So I think I’ll take that first offer.

Microsoft Flight Simulator.

I get to fly planes for a year, and then I get enough money to buy my own plane in real life? Yeah, I'm doing fucking AWESOME. Let's go!

War Thunder. If I don't have to go to battle, but just stay in the hangar it would be a easy twenty Mil. If I have to go into the warzone I'm fucked. For Mortal Combat, No. I would against the first guy running into my way. I will accept the bonus on my death bed.

Technically it was Pokemon as my 4 year old is now stuck because the last stage of the new open world game has actual story line to follow and he can't read. Was able to catch a hundred Pokemon, beat all gyms all by basically button mashing om which attack to do.

So yeah I'll take $20M as humans dont die in Pokemon.

No to MK. Game is rigged as everyone else has superpowers.

And the bonus bonus is a no go not because of not seeing anyone but because then I'd have money in that game world and that isn't very useful.

The last game I played was Pokémon Go. I’d survive…it’d be boring as hell but I’d survive, if Niantic survives haha that layoff was a bit scary for PoGo

I'm about to have the best year of my life living in Pelican Town

Days gone... Great game but those hordes are crazy, get me out of there

Diablo 4 - hell no.

Mortal Kombat - HELL NO

Leisure Suit Larry - hell yes 😈

Wastelands 3; that's a fuck no.

Bonus: depends on if it comes with super powers. If yes, then no. If no, then fuck no.

Bonus bonus: probably not, but I'd think about it for hours every night.

System Shock.

As a regular person in the world? Sure, no problem. It's not all that different from reality now, only the climate has effectively collapsed (..we're getting there, give it time), and it's functionally run by corporations (see previous). If I have to live on the station with SHODAN? Yeah, no, definitely not.

Before that was Skyrim, and I feel like I'd be pretty okay there; most people seem to go about their daily lives without dying horrible deaths. Prior to that, Death Stranding, and, again, most people just live quietly in their little bunkers, fuck around on social media, and complain about deliveries of GruHub and Amazon taking too long.

Hogwarts, and I think I could survive just fine even without magic. Even if I do end up squatting in a house or trying to get work in the Hogwarts kitchens with the house elves.

Uuuugghh... Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous is a dungeons and dragons campaign, set during a crusade against a growing Abyssal rift in the Prime Material.

Even with my meta knowledge, I'm not sure I like my odds. That's a dangerous fucking world man... I can't even hide somewhere, I'll need income to buy food somehow. Maybe I'll join a monastic order or something. Far from the rift. I give myself 5/10 odds of survival.

No.

Probably not.

Man, my niece swore to me that if I gave Elden Ring a try I wouldn't regret it. I think she owes me 20 million dollars.

I guess I'd try to survive on rowa fruit in the northeast of Liurnia of the Lakes, but I doubt I'd last for more than a day or two.

Been replaying Fallout New Vegas, but with mods. I might survive for a year, but I'd be playing the game entirely different. No sense in making a name for myself or picking sides in a war for the dam.

Paper Mario, ez dub

I would fucking love to live in Stardew Valley for a year.

Same as @HelixDab, System Shock would be bad, but as a regular person living in the world I could make it for $20 million. Citadel Station? Not a chance, not for all the money in the world.

Bonus Question: Fighting in a Mortal Kombat tournament? No. After a year of training I'm still going to die in the first round. No amount of money is enough.

Bonus Bonus Question: This previous questions were easy. This one's hard. I'm sure I could find a video-game world that would be pleasant to live in, potentially much better than our world, but I'd have to trade all of my family and friends for it. I'd strongly consider it if I found a world where I could be effectively immortal and have a good life as well—making it a very narrow set of options—but ultimately I'm not sure what my answer would be.

Yeah, I think I could survive in Ratchet and Clank.

And while on the subject: Dude, this game is seriously one of the best looking games I have ever played. It's like playing a legit Disney/Pixar film. I want to live inside it. It would be a dream come true to live inside a really good cartoon. 😄

absolutely; i believe the last game was some VR fishing game where you just hang out on a boat

Amnesia: The Bunker. Absolutely fucking not

I'm playing The Long Dark right now, so no thank you times 10. (It's a very hard survival game set in northern Canadian during winter.)

Oh boy, a year in Tears of the Kingdom… I might maybe last a year? If I settle in Hateno or somewhere settled?

Just completed Red Dead 2, and I've been thinking how cool it'd be... Would probably die of black lung pretty quickly though lol

Returnal, so I'd definitely survive but at what cost to my mental health.

Mario kart tour, so yes because people don't die in that. Definitely no to the bonus questions.

20 million $ to go back to 1939 yeah sure. Do I get to pick the country or how does that work?

But I say no to both bonus questions.

Need more info before I accept or not. Does time IRL freeze? Or do I miss a year of real life time?

If I miss a year then nah because that's logistical nightmares and a LOT of explaining. Plus all my stuff would probably be lost if I stop paying rent because I'm non existent for a year, including legal documents etc.

If IRL time stops though, yeah I'd take it. Last played Ensemble Stars which is a game about idols. So the world they live in is more or less just normal modern day Earth.

Anyway I need to know the situation with IRL while I'm gone, OP.

I would not take the further deals because I'm disabled for the first one, and because I have people and things I like IRL for the second.

Pillars of eternity. My party of 6 professional adventurers die all the time. Don’t think I’d do ok.

Bondee's Barnyard?

Bro I don't actually have to go to the restaraunt

Outer Wilds. Not sure what to make of this, but I guess I would be fine? (I'm not through yet, so please don't spoil anything in the comments)

The game before that would be Plague Tale: Requiem, and nah, I won't take my chances with that

If Chess counts, hell no. I suck at chess and they’re going to make me a pawn.

If its “real games”, then yeah I think I could live in Hateno Village for a year and be alright.

I already stress out keeping up with the workload and multitasking. A year in the world of Overcooked would be just another year.