10 Games Hidden In Other Games

When you buy a game, you expect to get a single consistent experience. However, what if you could get two games for the price of one?

Well, although this might sound like a deal too good to be true, there are some titles that hide even more games inside of their data files.

While the main gameplay is exactly what you expect, if you know where to look, you can discover that the developers spent a considerable amount of time developing another experience on top of it, meaning that you can play two different games inside one singular title!

These are no simple mini-games or small sections experimenting with novel concepts, but rather something that was designed so thoroughly it could easily pass off as a separate title. Why these games are hiding inside different releases instead is anyone’s guess, but if you already own their host title, you might as well benefit from this bizarre case of game-ception.

Don’t miss out on these hidden games within games. They might just catch your attention more than the experience you technically paid for!

Catherine is an odd blend of a puzzle game, horror, and a tinge of dating sim. You play as a young man named Vincent, who struggles with his love life by day and then tries to survive deadly nightmares by night that continuously kill off unfaithful men around the city.

The gameplay loop and the platforming puzzles are both quite addictive, although some may complain that the game doesn't give you any means of practicing the tower-climbing sections in between Vincent's nightmares.

However, these people don't realize Rapunzel exists.

Rapunzel is an arcade machine hidden in the back of the bar that Vincent visits before each nightmare. The arcade is a 2D mini-game whose main purpose is to familiarize the player with some of the tactics that can prove useful in the real game, but if you play it for a little bit longer, you'll realize it's actually so much more! 

Despite the first few levels being tutorials, Rapunzel features dozens of unique levels, along with their own challenges and a story based off its namesake fairytale. 

It's basically a full 2D version of Catherine. In fact, it has so many levels, you can sink more hours into it than the game you technically paid for.