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Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted, a remastered tower defense game, is set to launch on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One, featuring 39 achievements worth 1,000 Gamerscore, with some returning from the original game and new challenges to explore, promising a comprehensive and engaging experience for players.
A rare Xbox demo for Beacon of Neyda has launched with its own achievement list, only the second such occurrence since 2016, featuring 10 secret achievements worth 1,000 Gamerscore, and will be available until September 30, 2025.
Ahead of its September 4, 2025, release, the upcoming Xbox game Hell is Us reveals a list of 40 achievements worth 1,000 Gamerscore, involving solving mysteries, closing timeloops, defeating various enemies, and upgrading weapons, providing players with a comprehensive preview of the game's challenges and content.
Ready or Not launches on Xbox with 1,530 Gamerscore, featuring challenging achievements including completing missions on hard, permadeath Ironman mode, and various tactical tasks, along with DLC achievements for full completion.
The article discusses the issue of exploitative triple achievement stacks in Xbox games, where developers release multiple identical versions of the same game to sell easy Gamerscore, and argues that Microsoft should use the Xbox Play Anywhere program as an opportunity to eliminate this practice and improve the quality of the Xbox store.
A new update for the free Xbox game Idle Wizard has been released, adding five quick-to-unlock achievements worth a total of 1,000 Gamerscore, with the potential to earn up to 4,000 Gamerscore across both Xbox One and Series X|S versions, encouraging players to revisit the game for easy rewards.
Idle Wizard, a free idle clicker game available on Xbox, offers players the chance to earn up to 2,000 Gamerscore in just a few hours through easy achievements, with separate achievement lists for Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One versions, making it an ideal quick completion for gamers seeking a Gamerscore boost.
Final Fantasy 16 has been released on Xbox Series X|S with a total of 69 achievements worth 1,095 Gamerscore, including 53 secret achievements, offering players various challenges and rewards.
The Xbox game Tech Glitch is currently available for free on the Microsoft Store, offering easy Gamerscore with 14 achievements worth a total of 1,200. The multiplayer game requires a second controller and can be completed in around three hours. It's unclear how long the game will be free, so interested players should grab it as soon as possible. Additionally, both the Xbox and Windows versions of Fallout 76 will soon be free for Amazon Prime subscribers.
Eighteen Xbox games, predominantly from publisher eastasiasoft, have received title updates that each add an easy 1,000 Gamerscore, continuing a trend that began in 2020. This practice has been controversial within the achievement hunting community, with some arguing it diminishes the value of Gamerscore. Despite Microsoft's attempts to regulate easy Gamerscore titles, developers seem to find ways to bypass these rules. The updates include games like Taco Tom 2 and Akinofa, and there's speculation that Microsoft might enforce stricter rules to curb this trend in the future.
Minecraft Legends receives a major update on Xbox, adding new content such as witches, a frog mount, and enemies, along with ten new achievements worth a total of 1,000 Gamerscore. The update introduces witches as recruitable allies, Cauldrons for buffing allied mob damage, and a Frog Mount with enhanced abilities. New enemies include the Piglin Clanger and Piglin Air Chopper. The achievements encourage players to explore the new content and engage in the game's custom campaign and versus feature. Minecraft Legends is praised as a fun strategy game but criticized for building controls, mob AI, and lack of depth.
The latest Xbox sale offers 50 quick completions to boost your Gamerscore, including games like Vengeful Heart, Pixel Gladiator, and The Darkside Detective. Vengeful Heart is a visual novel with 11 achievements that can be unlocked in under ten minutes, while Pixel Gladiator is a tower defense game with 15 achievements worth 2,000 Gamerscore. The Darkside Detective bundle includes two quick completion games that can be finished in around five hours. Game Pass subscribers can also find easy achievements in the Game Pass library.
The latest Xbox sale has 69 quick completions for gamers looking to boost their Gamerscore. Visual novel Vengeful Heart is the easiest completion of the week, while Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise is the cheapest quick completion on the list. Ravenous Devils is one of the highest-rated games on the list. The Xbox sale page allows filtering by genre and ratings. Game Pass subscribers can also check out easy achievements articles for more quick completions.
A member of the TrueAchievements community is attempting to earn 1 million Gamerscore in a speedrun, using easy title updates and quick completions. On the first day of the attempt, they earned a quarter of a million Gamerscore, but were temporarily banned by Microsoft for allegedly using unauthorized software to unlock achievements. The speedrun is fully mapped out with a spreadsheet featuring 772 games, and the player is aiming to get 600,000 of the 1 million Gamerscore target done this month. The player hopes to see Microsoft implement a policy change with the Xbox achievement system, as they believe things are starting to get out of hand.
Following Eastasiasoft's controversial move to update 18 games with easy 1,000G title updates, Ratalaika Games is considering adding title updates with achievements to some of its games. Ratalaika has a back catalogue of over 200 games, most of which have easy achievement lists that can be completed in an hour or less. It's unclear whether we will see updates for all of these games or none at all.