The Flame in the Flood is worth trying
If youāve got Xbox Live Gold or Game Pass Ultimate, hereās your regularly scheduled reminder to make a note to redeem some free-with-your-sub games. The March 2022 Xbox Games with Gold freebies wonāt be claimable until Tuesday, but the official lineup is out, and itās probably going to elicit a āhuh?ā or two ā or maybe even a āzuh.ā
Xbox is giving out an old SpongeBob game that I (and I imagine plenty of you) have never heard of called Truth or Square. It might be worth a look if Battle for Bikini Bottom wasnāt enough, especially if youāve got kids who love these sorts of licensed platformers. Iām skimming through an under-three-hour ālongplayā on YouTube as we speak.
Interestingly (to me, anyway!), this Xbox 360 game was one of the titles that showed up in Microsoftās final Xbox backward compatibility push in November 2021.
When these free games will be up for grabs:
- The Flame in the Flood (Claim from March 1ā31)
- Sacred 2 Fallen Angel (Claim from March 1ā15)
- Street Power Soccer (Claim from March 16āApril 15)
- SpongeBobās Truth or Square (Claim from March 16ā31)
Street Power Soccer is likely another question-mark ā itās an arcade-style street soccer game, so, not something we see every day. On the flip side, Sacred 2 is an action-RPG for people who are okay with going back to older games in the genre and are looking for lots of content. Thereās a time and a place, for sure. I call it the semi-mindless zone.
That said, the highlight for Xbox Games with Gold in March is definitely The Flame in the Flood, a roguelike survival game with some memorable āpost-societal Americaā atmosphere to soak up as you make your way down a river. Watch out for critters.
Itās months like these that explain why I have so many random games in my library. Theyāre games Iām totally never going to touch, sure, but itās nice to have āem.
Published: Feb 24, 2022 8:00 PM UTC