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A minigame, sometimes called a subgame, is a short video game often contained within another video game. A minigame is always smaller or more simplistic than the game in which it is contained. Minigames are sometimes also offered separately for free to promote the main game.

Minigames occur either as gameplay
Gameplay

Gameplay includes all player experiences during the interaction with game systems, especially formal games. Proper use is coupled with reference to "what the player does"....
 features or as Easter eggs
Easter egg (media)

A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, in-joke or feature in an object such as a film, book, Compact disc, DVD, computer program, web page or video game....
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A minigame, sometimes called a subgame, is a short video game often contained within another video game. A minigame is always smaller or more simplistic than the game in which it is contained. Minigames are sometimes also offered separately for free to promote the main game.

Minigames occur either as gameplay
Gameplay

Gameplay includes all player experiences during the interaction with game systems, especially formal games. Proper use is coupled with reference to "what the player does"....
 features or as Easter eggs
Easter egg (media)

A virtual Easter egg is an intentional hidden message, in-joke or feature in an object such as a film, book, Compact disc, DVD, computer program, web page or video game....
. In the latter case, they are often called "secret games". In the former case, the successful completion of such minigames may or may not be required to finish the encompassing game.

Minigame compilations

Some games, such as the WarioWare series
Wario (series)

The Wario series is a series of video games created by Nintendo starring the character Wario. It started with Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land, the first game with Wario as a playable character, and gained many sequels....
, some Cinemaware
Cinemaware

Cinemaware was a video game developer and video game publisher that released several popular titles in the 1980s based on various film themes....
 titles like Defender of the Crown
Defender of the Crown

Defender of the Crown is a strategy game computer game designed by Kellyn Beck. It was Cinemaware's first game, and was originally released for the Commodore Amiga in 1986, setting a new standard for graphic quality in home computer games....
, or David Whittaker's Lazy Jones
Lazy Jones

Lazy Jones is a computer game for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, MSX and Tatung Einstein. It was written by David Whittaker and released by Terminal Software in 1984....
, are made up of many minigames strung together into one video game. Some similar games, such as the Mario Party series, are considered party games, specifically developed for multiplayer. In party games, minigames usually involve performing an activity faster or collecting more of a specified item than other players to win.

See also

  • Casual game
    Casual game

    A casual game is a video game or online game targeted at a mass audience of casual gamers. Casual games can have any type of gameplay, and fit in any genre....
  • Casual gamer
    Casual gamer

    Casual gamer is a loosely defined term used to describe a type of video game player whose time or interest in playing games is limited compared with a hardcore gamer....
  • Party game
    Party game

    Party games are games which share several features suitable to entertaining a social gathering of moderate size.*The number of participants is flexible and fairly large....
  • Minigames of Final Fantasy
    Minigames of Final Fantasy

    The popular video game franchise has become known for its inclusion of one or more minigames as part of its core gameplay, beginning mainly with Final Fantasy VII....