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.

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)

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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 ;)

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

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.

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. 😄