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(Don’t buy them at full price through Microsoft Xbox Live Gold cards are sold at a discount here, with a current eBay deal taking a one-year membership down further.) I signed up for Xbox Live Gold, got Worms Battlegrounds for free at the same time as D4, and loaded them up. D4 normally sells for $15 on its own, so since a three-month Xbox Live Gold membership is only $20, you get three months of free downloadable software by spending five extra dollars. Microsoft published D4, and is literally giving it away as one of several Xbox Live Gold “Games With Gold” titles this month.

Released earlier this year for the Xbox One, it’s a murder mystery with fully 3-D graphics and a modern storyline. On the surface, Access Games’ D4 sounded like a “can’t lose” proposition. And in retrospect, just doing that in the first place would have been a lot easier. We wound up buying a classic board game she liked, instead. I’m sharing the story because it was a valuable learning experience, and how we handled it might help you get out of a similar jam. But for this week’s column, I decided to try something different: picking a niche, relatively unknown game that seemed on the surface to be a really good fit for my murder mystery-loving spouse, but didn’t wind up working out. Our prior Gaming For Couples articles have focused on “slam dunk” titles – games that are highly likely to appeal to both people in a couple for various reasons.
