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Contagium

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Forgot the name of it, but some pen and paper RPG is referenced over and over again in POE2. Now that I think of it, may have been more of a strategy board game, but the inhabitants took it pretty seriously
 

Trashos

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In Fallouts you can gamble. In New Vegas, for example, you can play casino games. Not strictly RPGs then (although the outcome is based on your Luck rating), but they are thematic.
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It has already been mentioned that in Underrail you find a game on a PC that is called... Underrail! Generally, Underrail has quite a few instances where on an abstract level you play a game within a game. For example, there is a warehouse where your character uses a remote to control a robot and make it solve a puzzle.

Maybe not exactly what this thread is about, but I though I should mention it because it is interesting. It reminds me of a Cervantes' technique where he tries to place a lot of thick layers between the reader and the content. Like, in Quixote, he often claims that this is not a story he came up with, but a story that someone told him, and that someone heard it from someone else, and that someone else found it written on some book he happened to discover. What Underrail does in that warehouse reminds me of this.


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IIRC, in Wasteland 2 you find Wasteland 1 on some PC. I do not remember what happens when you click on it.
 

Wunderbar

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Shilver

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JRPG, but .//hack GUs on the PS2 had a card game called Crimson VS. It was really fun and a challenge to rank no.1 on the ladder. "Players" would mention it in the game too. Always thought that was unique and come back to it occasionally especially now with the PS4 port.
 

Abelian

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I'm not sure this example counts since it's not a game in-universe: in Level 5 of Watcher's Keep in BG2, the spirit warrior maze puzzle is in the form of a text-based adventure.

 

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