Over the years, mini-games have become an entertainment center for all types of players, both experienced and casual. Playability is what makes them so addictive as they don't require so much skill, but some may have exceptions.

Many developers secretly include mini-games in the codes of their video games, which can be discovered by chance or by taking a series of steps. Regardless of how they are found the purpose of these is to engage the player to spend infinite hours trying to culminate it.

Even sometimes these found mini-games become so popular in the video game industry that they release a complete game of the same, having an excellent reception by players, forming large communities in many parts of the world.

Below, I'll show you some mini-games found in certain games that impressed their players because of their playability, graphics, music and level of addiction they could cause you.

Project Gotham Racing 2 was an incredible video game with its exclusive moment for the Xbox console. Its graphics, cars, races and many other things made it a very high competition for other games of the same genre. However, there was a really addictive mini-game called Geometry Wars.

This minigame makes a reference to the classic Asteroids but in a great way, because despite having similarities with the gameplay the impact that has its various colors, levels and frenetic speed that this can have makes it become one of the most outstanding challenges in this type of games.

Geometry Wars became so famous that it was later released in other sequels of the game, until it became an independent video game released for Xbox One called Geometry Wars 3.

Almost the entire gamer community knows that StarCraft 2 is a game that there is no need to describe it in any aspect, its incredible plot, gameplay among many other things have made a large crowd of people tend to play it. In certain missions we can access an arcade machine in which we can play Lost Viking.

This is a really addictive shooter with an excellent difficulty curve, really impressive enemies, amazing graphics and a lot of weapons that make the gameplay exciting. Despite being a mini-game it has all the tools to be an individual game in the future.

From a certain moment in several installments of Call of Duty you could find mini-games which each of them had an impressive success, however, there is one that came out in a certain way from the main gameplay offering the player a game a little different but really shocking, this is Dead Ops Arcade.

This mini-game is like an Easter Egg inside the Call of Duty Black Ops, that is to say, to discover it you must do a series of steps since it is hidden. This is a shooter where we handle a soldier who must defend himself from multiple hordes of living dead or also known as Zombies.

We'll find a variety of weapons that allow us to instantly eliminate multiple enemies, grab tanks, helicopters and more. In addition, its graphics, music and gameplay make it a high quality mini-game surpassing many video games of its genre.

These were some minigames that are inside big videogame franchises, surely you have come across some of them, there are many more that are really interesting, but we will leave it for a next time.