Why Playing Video Games before Reading A Book Is The Best Way To Read.

Luke J Barnett
5 min readJan 31, 2020

Is there a better match than video games and books? The visual and the literary smashed together. There’s obvious ones, the Witcher video games and the books and now even the Netflix series. Metro 2033 and the now staple survivor games of the same name. Video-games and their adaptations go hand in hand which makes sense.

This week though, I stumbled across a new way to enhance my “internal movie” while reading

By matching the right videgames with the right books you create significantly more vivid and immersive reading experiences.

Video Games and Books Collide

Rockstars 2018 Red Dead Redemption 2 took home an assortment of Game of The Year awards. It has received many, many accolades for its story; gameplay and well realised rendition of the wild west or what was left of it at the turn of the 19th century.

I, like most people were sucked into the immersive experence it provided; from shooting bandits to rustling cattle and eating packets of biscuits from the shelves of old homesteads.

This deep world held my interest for a good couple of months until a new fancy game came to knock it off my most played list. I didn’t return to the wild west untill I picked up a copy of Cormack…

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Luke J Barnett

Stoic parenting, compassion based leadership and coffee.