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What are some of the best mini-games youve played? (games inside games) (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently played Alien Isolation, and I noticed all of the “hacking” she does on doors and computers are different types of games, like press the button at the right time, or match the images within a timer, etc.

A lot of games have these mini-games, and I was wondering which you think are the best? Or at least, didn’t get old fast?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I have a few.

PGR3, a Xbox360 racing game, contains Geometry Wars 1 and 2 as mini games. YT Link

Celeste contains the entirety of Celeste Classic (PICO-8) as an easter egg in one of its levels. YT Link

Xenogears, a PS1 JRPG game, contains a battle arena minigame, and I spent a few hours on that as a kid. YT Link

Machinarium's Gomoku/5 in a row minigame is so much fun, I played it with my friends at school when we didn't want to listen to our teacher :) By the way, I really recommend Machinarium to every fan of old school point-and-click games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Geometry Wars was the best! And in each Project Gotham the had a new version!