Let’s be real, Witcher 3 is just a Gwent launcher.
Also I’ve definitely played more Pazaak than KOTOR.
The surprisingly deep copy of Balatro in “Dave the Diver” is pretty good.
Maniac Mansion: day of the tentacle includes the full first maniac Mansion game on weird Ed’s computer in the room with him and the hamster
EverQuest /gems and /pizza
Triple triad card game from FF8? Also the card game in FF9, I forgot which is which.
I came to mention this one! I loved that card game as a kid!
Don’t know if it would count since it’s used in a couple levels, I think, but PVZ Reflourished, Caliginous Carnival. The levels where you essentially have to pay attention to the zombies beneath the hats and guess which is the weaker one in order to make the spawns easier to deal with. Rinse and repeat multiple rounds until you win. Would absolutely love to see that done more.
Also, along the lines of PVZ, iZombie is definitely up there for my favorite minigame in the series and in general. It absolutely sucks both versions of PVZ2 killed it (unless I’m wrong and the Chinese version still has the old PVP mode, but even then wasn’t nearly as fun as the original minigame, nor anywhere near as balanced when half the time you’d find other players had level 4/5 plants that instantly destroy everything in 0.001 nanoseconds).
