Ready Player One

Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction (scifi) novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, set in a dystopia in 2045, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality game, the discovery of which would lead him to inherit the game creator's fortune and the game itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Player_One (then a 2018 movie)