The 「と」 conditional to be used as "when"? i'm not entirely sure but remember that conditionals could be used to also mean "when" when in is that the case here? > **** would I be correct in translating the whole sentence as some along the lines of "gaming loving shut-in, satou kazuma's life life had the curtains closed too soon..... that was how it was supposed to be but, **when** he awoke, before his eyes was beautiful girl calling herself a goddess" ? it doesn't make much sense to mean _if_ here but I'm not too sure.

The structure of this sentence is a bit strange to me (maybe I'm just confused by punctuation).

Anyway, I guess that the __ you are discussing here is used just as in the usual type of construction (plain verb + ). So, in this case, I think that it's OK to translate it with _when_ in English, as this form generally describes a cause/effect kind of relationship.

Breaking it down in a very literal way, that part of the sentence probably could be translated as:

_(subject) opens/opened (his/her) eyes **and** (consequence)_.

Of course, in a more standard English we would probably change this structure using _when_ :

**_when** (subject) opens/opened (his/her) eyes (consequence)_,

which basically bears the same idea of cause/effect. I think this article might be also useful:

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