Prime Gaming - March 2023 | Phenixx Gaming

Another month and another time to swear the name of Jeffrey to whichever gods you believe in. Though to be fair Clarkson’s Farm season 2 was once again a treat over on Prime Video. It seems it is true that annoyingly we’re continuing this weekly drip of games on a Thursday instead of just doing the whole monthly thing. As usual, there is a bunch of in-game guff for games such as Fallout 76, Forspoken‘s technicolor dream coat, Candy Crush Soda Saga, and Destiny 2, but also you can get the Ogre Mercenaries DLC for Total War: Warhammer II.

We’ll start off with the headliner of the month available on the 2nd, Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition. Coming ahead of the third game’s release later this year, the 1998 original developed by BioWare received a small facelift in 2012 to run on more modern PCs. Though it is still very antiquated, fans of classic RPGs or games of that style (like Tyranny) will be at home straight away. As a way to get a refresher on the series or a kickstart for those of us that missed the original BioWare series (assuming we’ll see the second game too) this is a good thing. However, I don’t have the 30-90 hours to play.

Moving on to the second game and the second collection for the month, it is actually a repeat of what we saw during Epic’s free games a couple of weeks ago. Sadly, that’s an “issue” we’ve seen once or twice before with Prime. Available from the 9th you can pick up the thriller/walking-sim Adios.

This is not a particularly long game, as I completed it while writing up my piece the other week, Adios is a solid idea for a film to explore morality but in terms of a game, it lacks that punch. For the most part, you are walking around doing some jobs you do on a farm, talking to your mafia handler, and not really doing much gameplay-wise.

The second game available on the 9th is Bossa Studios’ I Am Fish, an evolution of the idea that was I Am Bread. Where you would try to quite literally toast yourself in I Am Bread, 2021’s I Am Fish has you on a quest to Finding Nemo your goldfish self back into the sea. Ok, admittedly you aren’t just a goldfish as you also get to play as an Exocoetidae, piraña, and a Tetraodontidae too. There isn’t much to say about I Am Fish because it is summed up very easily but it is the one I am most excited about throughout the month.

Often I have to drag a whole paragraph out of what is effectively a beige wall, and well, the game available from the 16th is Faraway 3: Arctic Escape. A casual puzzle game in a series we’ve all gotten through Prime, the series was first released on mobile and later on PC with Prime being the focus for those releases it seems. Arctic Escape in particular has not yet been released on Steam. It is odd that it is the only game available on the 16th of March, but the reality is we’re doing this single game one week and then two the next week.

Onto the 23rd, Book of Demons is a Rogue-like deckbuilding dungeon crawler RPG, stop me if you’ve heard that one before. With a very nice paper-craft art style, the 2018 hack & slash title does have one thing that actually interests me. However, truth be told, nothing is jumping out to call for my attention with Book of Demons. This game is something that I think is more for those who fit in a niche, rather than appealing to the widest possible audience. That happens to be a good thing, but it is difficult to talk about when you don’t care too much for it.

The second game for the 23rd is actually something I’ve fully reviewed on Xbox One, Peaky Blinders: Mastermind. Founded on the idea of the Birmingham-based BBC (and Netflix) period crime drama, Mastermind focuses on a more time-based Commandos style of gameplay: Isometric tactics focused around puzzles.

Though I can’t for the life of me enjoy the show (it bores me to death), the game was reasonable enough for a modern tie-in title. Oddly enough however, Peaky Blinders: Mastermind has been removed from all of the online storefronts for PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, and Steam. Because of that, it could be the last time to pick up the title.

The proverb in comedy usually goes “start with your second best and end with your best,” so what is available for the 30th of March must be really special, right? City Legends: Trapped in Mirror – Collector’s Edition is a hidden object title that you’ll find in abundance over on Big Fish Games’ website and in PCs owned by grandmothers. Released last August on Steam, the Collector’s Edition only means you get wallpapers, the soundtrack, a bonus chapter, and a strategy guide. I’ve got a feeling that’s something that will be skipped quite easily by a few people this month.