Scholarly attention often follows technological novelty. While recent debate has focused heavily on artificial intelligence, this paper turns to a phenomenon with established generational reach: digital gaming. Now exceeding the economic scale of film and music combined, gaming has become a primary environment in which younger generations encounter structured worlds, moral systems, and shared symbolic frameworks. Existing scholarship has examined religious representation within games. Far less attention has been given to the possibility that gaming itself functions as a formative cultural environment shaping religious imagination. This paper therefore shifts the analytical lens from religion in games to the relationship between gaming and religion in contemporary societies. Drawing on classical theories of religion alongside work on lived religion and mediated communities, the paper argues that persistent synthetic worlds familiarize participants with cosmological structures: teleological narratives, moral alignment, ritual repetition, and communal belonging. Rather than proposing causation, the paper identifies a historically distinctive convergence: the first generation raised within globally shared, rule-governed environments is emerging at a moment when indicators suggest stabilization, and in some contexts modest revival, of religious interest across parts of the West. Environments that have already shaped a generation provide firmer analytical ground than rapidly mutating technological tools. Gaming thus offers a vantage point from which to reconsider assumptions about secularization, symbolic formation, and the conditions under which religious meaning becomes plausible. By foregrounding gaming as a civilizational rather than merely recreational phenomenon, the paper calls for sustained engagement between religious studies and one of the most consequential cultural developments of the early twenty-first century.