Who doesn’t love playing video games?

Whether you’re of a more mature age and remember games like Pong and Space Invaders, or if you’re a modern gamer who loves the Call of Duty and FIFA games, pretty much everyone has, at some point, enjoyed the fun and escapism that video games offer.

So can you imagine being paid to play them? How cool would that be!

Believe it or not, that’s something that really could happen! We’d like to show you how – so have a look at our article of twenty-seven ways you could get paid to play video games…

27. Become A Professional Gamer

Okay, let’s start with a very obvious one – but one that, of course, is heavily reliant on you being exceptionally good at video games and by no means easy to make happen.

If indeed you are a talented gamer, you could look into the possibility of turning it into a career – because, yes, in this crazy world we live in today, that really is a thing!

The best way to give yourself a chance at succeeding in this field is to pick a game – namely one you consider yourself to be good at already – and become an expert at it. Then, build your reputation as both a skilled player and a team player and, hopefully, get picked up by an e-sports team.

26. Video Game Testing

The “classic” way of making money playing video games is to test them for a living – and there’s no reason whatsoever why you shouldn’t try to do it.

Game developers will pay testers to try out their games in a real player environment – and it’s the testers’ job to spot bugs and make suggestions on how to improve the game. As for salaries – wait for it – the national average pay for video game testers in the US is $67,813 per year! Yes, really!

But it really isn’t as easy as it sounds – testing is VERY thorough. You will have to explore every single corner of a game and test every scenario. For example, if a fighting game has twenty characters, you’ll need to play as all twenty of them against every other character several times – that’s a lot of fairly repetitive action.