Video Game Mini-games can be as popular as the Main Title

Mini-games can add a lot of extra value to a video game, regardless if it is a triple-A title or a simple game one buys just so that it can enrich their gaming library. Games like Final Fantasy, Assassin’s Creed, Dragon ball Kakarot and Red Dead Redemption have offered their audiences dozens of hours of fun, not just by having a long main story but also by coming with interesting mini-games. On many occasions, players will get the feeling that these games could have been stand-alone titles, despite the fact that they are categorized as mini-games or as side games.

Gaming, Movies, Series and Cross-Overs

Video games have been an inspiration for movie studios, physical game developers and developers of digital gaming alternatives. This does not only apply to the features of the main story of a game but also to a number of its mini-games. A successful video game can be an inspiration for gaming studios like Red Tiger Gaming, entertainment services like Netflix or HBO and for toy developers like Hasbro. At the same time, all of the above can be an inspiration for a video game developer focusing on the production of console games. This cross-over activity is not something that started recently. But ever since 2000, it has become a lot more noticeable.

When Digital Becomes Physical

Those that were born in the seventies, the eighties and the nineties will remember the popularity of physical board games. Friends and families would gather around the table or would sit on the carpet in order to play every decade’s popular board game. Some liked card games and puzzles, others like dungeon adventures and others liked playing Battleship. As the years went by and as technology started advancing, the gaming activity transitioned from a physical state to a digital state. For almost two decades, people have been using their mobiles or their computers in order to play their favorite games with their friends. However, there seems to be a new trend which drives players back to the physicality of gaming. In 2022 it is the digital games that transition into the physical gaming world.

Games like Gwent and Orlog from The Witcher and from Assassin’s Creed Valhalla can now be played in the real world. These two board games are sold in comic book stores and in stores selling collector merchandise from movies and games. This means that groups of friends can get together and play these games face to face without having to start the video game on their console or PC. The same applies to Triple Triad, Tetra Master and to Serendipity Poker from Final Fantasy and other mini-games that can be played during the gameplay of popular AAA titles.

The above games do not only attract fans of physical board games. Video gamers want to see more side games in available and upcoming computer and console games. Side games increase the gameplay value of a game, not only by prolonging the main game but also by giving players a reason to keep playing post-game or in NG+ stages.

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