There’s a pretty good Solitaire game built into the Zachtronics game Shenzhen IO.
Almost every Zachtronics game had some kind of solitaire. There’s an android app that has a collection of them.
I loved the Chao Garden in the Sonic Adventure games.
Sonic Adventure 2 on Dreamcast was peak Sonic. Those things in the controller had a minigame within a minigame for extra costumes and food for the chao.
It’s always fishing.
Loved the fishing in FF15.
Burger Flipper in Selaco.
You need to find a datapad with the game on it, and it’s just a stupid auto-clicker, but damn if it doesn’t scratch that itch in the monkey brain for “number go up.”
Plus, Selaco, the base game, is really damn fun.
Who are you so wise in the ways of gwent?
borderlands science in borderlands 3 is probably my all time favourite mini-game in a video game
I hate minigames, the only one i tolerated was Gwent in Witcher 3.
Same. I’m playing GTA San Andreas on mobile (through Netflix if you interested) and while the game holds up, all the minigames suck ass. I’m likely not going to complete a single one. Maybe I’ll cave and do burglaries for infinite sprint, but probably not.
The Wolfenstein 3D minigame contained within Wolfenstein The New Order is probably the best one I’ve come across. I may be biased though since Wolfenstein 3D is probably one of my Top 5 all-time favorite games.
In DOOM Eternal you can play through all of DOOM and DOOM 2 at the Slayer’s desk in the fortress. I dig that
That’s a really nice touch
Everything runs Doom, even Doom!
I honestly really liked the Zen garden in Plants vs Zombies
Sonic Adventure 2 has a pretty decent adventure platformer built into it
The surprisingly deep copy of Balatro in “Dave the Diver” is pretty good.
Nobody mentioned Yakuza? Any modern game in the series? (Edit: Ok, one guy did)
A guilty pleasure of mine is Majima Construction from Yakuza Kiwami 2, which is one if the few RTS I like. It’s unbalanced, and not even functioning properly, but it’s simple fun. I associate most RTS with commanding large squads of units and resource management, and a watered down version with few specific characters and one/two resources felt like a less overwhelming entry point into the genre.
Any love for DOOM 3’s Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3? It was so dumb but I will admit to loving the way you interact with computers and terminals in DOOM 3
Legend of the Mystical Ninja has a Gradius style video game inside of it that was so good that when I quit playing it I had completely forgot I was inside another video game.
Mario Party 5 has a side game (not a mini game) called Card Party that is good enough to be its own mobile game.
I loved the Showtime crashes in Burnout Paradise. I know most people would say that it was a sorry excuse for a replacement to the Crash mode that came before in the previous Burnout games, but I never played any other than Paradise so I can’t compare
