Anyone else find gaming + audiobooks to be the ultimate relaxation?

After mentioning it in my own book recommendation request post and also mentioning it in a post about reading while having ADHD, I'm curious if anyone else here enjoys putting on a nice audiobook, maybe something new and exciting or a classic comfort book, and firing up a game to keep those idle hands busy? I also love to clean and do yardwork accompanied by an audiobook, but there's only so much house to clean and yard to mow, and I have countless worlds to get sucked into, damn it! So if you're like me, what are some of your go-to games? Obviously you don't want the game's story interfering with your book, so it's best to pick something with either light/no story or something with plenty of side content you can chew through. I love simulation games for this, whether it be Powerwash Sim, Stardew Valley, Headspace Shipbreaker, Viscera Cleanup Detail. Sometimes something like Factorio where I may occasionally need to pause my book to focus on planning out my assembly line, but mostly just plugging away at the daily grind. Or I'll go with a puzzle game like the many wonderful offerings from Zachtronics (Spacechem, Infinifactory, Opus Magnum, etc.) or something like Talos Principle, stuff where you can mull the solution over in a compartment of your mind while enjoying a good story. Or maybe just working my way through my 10th Elden Ring character. It's especially immersive if I find a book that fits with what I'm playing. Maybe some sci-fi while clocking in my days at the interstellar shipyard, some fantasy while this ginger hag reminds me for the thousandth time that she is indeed the Blade of Miquella, or trying to channel by proxy the problem solving talents of Mr Holmes while optimizing an assembly line for maximum efficiency. Or….whatever the fuck you'd listen to while pondering the existentialism of The Talos Principle. Maybe The Divine Comedy.

Who knows, maybe I'm barking up not just the wrong tree but the wrong dang forest with this post. God knows most book lovers I've met see things like video games as beneath them. But do drop a comment if you too partake in the comfy splendor that is being wrapped up in a blanket, controller in hand and headphones on as you let yourself drift into two worlds at the same time 😁