XBox Update: February 2025

Well for 2025 I made the resolution to 1k a game a week. For the most part it’ll be games off my backlog although there may be some new ones I throw in there.

I’m sure the majority will be ones where I only need a few achievements but others may require a grind etc.

Anyway every Sunday I start a new game to 1k meaning I need to be done one by then. So the year started on Wednesday so I decided to start it then.

Week 1: On the Road. I started and completed this on the Sunday. I was actually sick as fuck with COVID at the beginning of the year. Sunday afternoon rolled around and I still needed my 10k steps. I planned to pop on the treadmill, get the steps while grinding the few Coffee Talk achievements I needed. However that game isn’t on the Cloud – which I thought it was.

Looking at the games on the Cloud I saw On the Road on there which would take about 90 minutes to complete. Same amount of time for my steps so I went with that. Was actually a neat little story based game I quite enjoyed it.

Week 2: Space Science Investigations. TA released a list of 10 free games which were also easy to get 1k in. I actually had plans for Coffee Talk this week, but this game allowed me to get achievements in a few of the TA challenges like “achievements with 25 gamerscore” and “achievements starting with S” so I said fuck it and went with that.

Week 3: Maquette: Bit of an annoying one as I had to do it on the Monday. I had beat Puzzle Quest 3 on Sunday thinking that would count, alas it didn’t as I have some DLC and my completed games dealio factors that in. It was late on so I was like screw it Maquette is a game that requires precision and no point rushing it. Anyway wrapped that one up on the Monday.

Week 4: BroForce: My gameplaying is often based around what is leaving Gamepass. This was one of the games. Played it for a bit, kinda fun. Then I did the whole cheat code deal on PC to make it a lot easier. So sue me.

Week 5: Football Manager Console 2024 This was a stresser as I read that the achievement “get all other achievements” was glitched. Thankfully it wasn’t. Been playing that off and on for the past couple months and qutie upset I missed out on FM 2023 console I gotta say.

I had COVID at beginning of month as mentioned and then it took me 10 days to get running again so I started playing Xbox on the treadmill. I played New Super Lucky’s Tale which I hope to 1k each day. Got a few chivos in that.

My buddy Vin also introduced me to Balatro and dear GOD that is addictive. At 11/31 achievements in that I don’t see me EVER 1king that but it’s still fun just playing it.

That’s pretty much it. Played some eFootball which is free and fun, got The Walking Dead: Michonne going which is fine to play on Treadmill when I run and that’s about it.

Gamerscore: 401,323 – I wrote down the wrong # last month not sure what I got h ere
TA Score: 686,873 (+17593)
Achievements: 401,323 (+251)
TA Ratio: 57.30% (-+0.24%)
100% Games: 167 (+6)