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Xbox Digital Games: Tropico 5 - Penultimate Edition & Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

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  • Tropico 5 - Penultimate Edition
    • Return to the remote island nation of Tropico in the next installment of the critically acclaimed and hugely popular 'dictator sim' series. Expand your Dynasty's reign from the early colonial period to beyond the 21st Century, facing an all-new set of challenges, including advanced trading mechanics, technology and scientific research, exploration and multiplayer modes.
  • Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet
    • In this Insanely Twisted, 2-D action-adventure game, explore unique environments and battle bizarre creatures as you make your way toward the center of the mysterious Shadow Planet! Solve complex puzzles and upgrade your ship with alien technology as you fight to save your home world. Featuring both local and Xbox LIVE multiplayer game modes.
  • The Escapists 2
    • Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It's time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the life of an inmate in The Escapists 2, now with multiplayer! Have you got what it takes to escape?
  • Orcs Must Die!
    • Slice them, burn them, skewer them, and launch them - no matter how you get it done, orcs must die in this fantasy action-strategy game from Robot Entertainment.As a powerful War Mage with dozens of deadly weapons, spells, and traps at your fingertips, defend twenty-four fortresses from a rampaging mob of beastly enemies, including ogres, hellbats, and of course, a whole bunch of ugly orcs. Battle your enemies through a story-based campaign across multiple difficulty levels, including brutal Nightmare mode!Will you roast orcs in pits of lava, pound them flat with a ceiling trap, or freeze and shatter them with a slash? No matter the weapons and traps you choose, you're sure to have an orc-killing blast!

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Garbage month. come one xbox. Its december...
A World of Keflings [xbox.com] (Japan; Gold Required) & Hydro Thunder Hurricane [microsoft.com] (Saudi Arabia; Gold Required) are free for 7 more hours

These are still free too:

LEGO Batman 2 [xbox.com] (Gold Required)
Kingdom Two Crowns [xbox.com] (Gold Required)
Moving Out [xbox.com] (Gold Required)
Costume Quest [microsoft.com] (Japan)
de Blob 2 [microsoft.com] (Japan)
Stacking [microsoft.com] (Japan)
Ikaruga [microsoft.com] (Argentina)
SWOS [microsoft.com] (Korea)
MX Unleashed [microsoft.com] (Gold required)
Port Royale 3 [microsoft.com] (Gold Required)
The Maw [xbox.com] (Japan; Gold Required)
Don't know what all this talk about garbage is. Orcs Must Die is awesome.

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11-30-2021 at 10:50 AM.
11-30-2021 at 10:50 AM.
I love and played orcs must die while getting all the trophies minus the dlc which were ridiculously hard. I even bought orc must die 3 recently. Anyone looking to play the new one together- hit me up on Xbox. Look for user: isar.

p.s. if u want to buy orcs 3, look for it cheap on eBay. You can get it for about 10-12 instead of 30.
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11-30-2021 at 11:07 AM.
11-30-2021 at 11:07 AM.
I really wanted to like the Escapists games but never could get into them.
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jdclover
11-30-2021 at 11:48 AM.
11-30-2021 at 11:48 AM.
For the last month and a half or so, whenever I try to get the free games using a web browser I keep getting an error stating:

Try that again
Something happened on our end. Waiting a bit might help.

I have no issue getting the games on the Xbox directly though. Is anyone else having this issue?

Caveat: I don't know if this extends to buying non-free games as I haven't bought a Xbox game through the browser in quite some time.
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11-30-2021 at 12:36 PM.
11-30-2021 at 12:36 PM.
Quote from SlickDealio :
A World of Keflings [xbox.com] (Japan; Gold Required) & Hydro Thunder Hurricane [microsoft.com] (Saudi Arabia; Gold Required) are free for 7 more hours

These are still free too:

Your the best for the links!
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11-30-2021 at 03:19 PM.
11-30-2021 at 03:19 PM.
Quote from trevdewoody :
I personally had a lot of fun with Orcs Must Die!
I got it for PC as part of some humble bundle and it was an excellent tower defense game. The one issue with it was the comments from the evil sorceress are almost impossible to hear, so then the responses from the protagonist don't make a lot of sense.
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11-30-2021 at 05:27 PM.
11-30-2021 at 05:27 PM.
Quote from happygooddeal :
Garbage month. come one xbox. Its december...

Still better than ps plus games but that's not saying much 🥴
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12-02-2021 at 12:39 PM.
12-02-2021 at 12:39 PM.
Quote from jenius00 :
Don't know what all this talk about garbage is. Orcs Must Die is awesome.
Not sure how Orcs Must Die is playable . This required constant internet connection to their server which was taken down last year and replaced with Orcs Must Die 3


Is Orcs Must Die still playable?
Shutdown. Robot Entertainment announced in January 2019 that it planned to shut down the game's servers on April 9, 2019. The company had been running Unchained at a financial loss for several months, and with two new games in the works, decided to make the decision to close down its servers.
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12-02-2021 at 12:57 PM.
12-02-2021 at 12:57 PM.
Quote from aray0002 :
Not sure how Orcs Must Die is playable . This required constant internet connection to their server which was taken down last year and replaced with Orcs Must Die 3


Is Orcs Must Die still playable?
Shutdown. Robot Entertainment announced in January 2019 that it planned to shut down the game's servers on April 9, 2019. The company had been running Unchained at a financial loss for several months, and with two new games in the works, decided to make the decision to close down its servers.
Orcs Must Die Unchained is a different game. A competitive experiment that never really got off the ground. Came after the single player Orcs Must Die, and single/coop Orcs Must Die 2.
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brodogg1313
12-03-2021 at 12:29 PM.
12-03-2021 at 12:29 PM.
Games with bronze 🥉
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12-03-2021 at 05:37 PM.
12-03-2021 at 05:37 PM.
Quote from aray0002 :
Not sure how Orcs Must Die is playable . This required constant internet connection to their server which was taken down last year and replaced with Orcs Must Die 3


Is Orcs Must Die still playable?
Shutdown. Robot Entertainment announced in January 2019 that it planned to shut down the game's servers on April 9, 2019. The company had been running Unchained at a financial loss for several months, and with two new games in the works, decided to make the decision to close down its servers.
Still works. One of the greatest games of all time.
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12-04-2021 at 10:10 AM.
12-04-2021 at 10:10 AM.
Moving out is great
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12-05-2021 at 07:52 AM.
12-05-2021 at 07:52 AM.
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Still works. One of the greatest games of all time.
yeah.. someone pointed out to me Orcs Unchained was the online only version.

So.. I'll give this a try. Not sure how fun it will be in the later stages as it took more than one person to stop the flood of enemies breaking through multiple paths in unchained. Seems like it will be hard to control solo.
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12-15-2021 at 08:03 AM.
12-15-2021 at 08:03 AM.
Bonus games

Children of Zodiarcs via Japan
https://www.xbox.com/ja-jp/games/...1gsfjg78rs

Steredenn: Binary Stars via Korea

https://www.xbox.com/ko-kr/games/...ts3rk0kdrj

The King's Bird via Taiwan, was also free a few months ago

https://www.xbox.com/zh-tw/games/...z5057nl64c
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12-15-2021 at 01:04 PM.
12-15-2021 at 01:04 PM.
Thanks, didn't have these 2 games!


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Bonus games

Children of Zodiarcs via Japan
https://www.xbox.com/ja-jp/games/...1gsfjg78rs

Steredenn: Binary Stars via Korea

https://www.xbox.com/ko-kr/games/...ts3rk0kdrj
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12-15-2021 at 02:01 PM.
12-15-2021 at 02:01 PM.
redeeming through the webstore are NOT going through, for me. Same error, no matter which title of the games that are still in their redemption window. US, Japan, ect. Any idea?

Edit: I have, generally, had no issue redeeming from a web browser before. Nothing else is going through this time. The Xbox 360 games (using alternate link) redeemed with no isuue, after errors on the non 360 games. I'm at a loss on what's up.
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