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

submitted 10 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] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Many people love Stardew Valley so I gave it a go. It was fun for a couple of hours, but it doesn't really have any depth. But you can go to the tavern and hop on an arcade machine with a really fun minimalist twin-stick shooter called Journey of the Prairie King that's actually pretty great. It's fast paced and unforgiving, and I spent more time playing that than on actual farming and what not.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

SDV doesn’t have depth? 😳

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For me it was fun for like 5 hours, but I was massively let down after that. The combat is pretty basic so that got boring quickly, and the new maps pretty much didn't have anything new except new vegetables and enemies with new skins. You learn everything you need to know about the game in the first couple of hours and after that there's no challenge and no real reason to keep making money which makes the grinding pointless. It's a good casual game if you like decorating the farm but it's not my cup of tea.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s about the story, which takes game-years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok, that's a good point. I'm glad you enjoy that part of the game. I wasn't really interested in "talking" to NPC-s and giving them gifts so I skipped that part of the game and certainly missed what some people like the most about it. As I said, not my cup of tea.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

FYI half of the game's content is probably locked behind social interaction. Maybe that's a bad way of phrasing it, it's more like there are lots of different areas of the game (farming, exploring, dungeoneering, and socialising) and they all unlock more bits in the other areas. Either way you probably had a bad time as you were only getting a small slice of the game (though obviously that's fine if you weren't going to enjoy it anyway!)