The game was Stardew Valley and after playing it for 120 hours, one player decided to buy his own farm and give it a shot himself. You can read the article here, if you want to know more.
Our own review was posted recently, here. And I can't say that I followed the same route. But I do live on about two acres of property, and we own chickens and rabbits. We have some fruit trees as well (our apple tree died last year, though

So what about you? Have any video games inspired you to change anything in your real life?