The end of the year is upon us, and that can only mean the return of the Square Enix Holiday Surprise Box. For $10, Square Enix gives you a bundle of games worth $80, but you don’t know what is in it until after you buy it. It’s a surprise box. To give you an idea on the caliber of items that might be available, here are the contents of last year’s box:
- Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris (2014)
- Thief (2014)
- Final Fantasy XIII (2014)
- Life is Strange: Episode 1 (2014)
- Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn (2014)
The box also came with coupons. This year’s box is promising 7 titles worth $80 plus a store coupon for a bundle that is “too good to miss out on.” Given that the box tends to come with games released in the prior year whose price/sales have declined, coupled with the fact that Square Enix didn’t release a whole lot in 2015, I am going to make my predictions for what will appear in the box.
- Hitman: Episode 1
- Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward
- Murdered: Soul Suspect
- Lara Croft GO
- The rest of Life is Strange (or part of it)
- Final Fantasy Type-0 HD
- Just Cause 3
Games likely to be out of the question (but not completely omitted) are those still selling for full price, or near full price, like Rise of the Tomb Raider which technically is a 2016 release as it came out on PC in January. I threw in Hitman because the first episode is basically at the same point of being the demo that Life is Strange was at this point last year. Expect the first episode to go free to play at some point in 2017 if recent trends continue.
What would you like to see in Square Enix’s 2016 Holiday Surprise Box? There are no wrong answers, unless your answer is Kingdom Hearts III.
(Source: Square Enix Press Release)
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