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Microsoft Rewards wanted three achievements from me so I dove into my casual stuff to get them. I only got two achievements because I'm somewhat far along in the games I played today which means achievements take longer to get. As I get to the last few achievements in a casual game, I just play it for a short time to make some progress and move along. Today, I got really into Lego Batman and never did get to my Game Pass stuff or my main game, Torchlight III. Sometime later this weekend I'll get to them I suppose. So here's a breakdown. 

Farm Together: Just harvested about 15k diamonds, halfway to my next land costing 30k. 14 left. I thought today it would be great if this game had some tractor racing. Maybe I'll make a track and anyone who visits can take me on. 

Gnome's Garden: A New Home: The remaining achievements are a little difficult and time-consuming so I'm just doing a few levels at a time. I got an end-game credit scroll today but haven't finished all the levels. I think I missed something in the occasional story screen that pops up. Sometimes I read them quickly and don't know what I just read. That's the thing with games sometimes, the gameplay is everything and the story is fluff to be ignored most of the time. 

Pinball FX3: I bought one of the Williams table packs and played the Circus Voltaire table across a few different modes like competition, tournament and single-player challenge. I didn't get an achievement but when I do it's largely by accident. It's difficult to get the ultimate combo on any particular table. I also played the No Good Gofer's table. It's a classic golf-themed table. 

Lego Batman: I'm back on my lego game playthroughs and returned to Lego Batman largely because I noticed in the store that I already own it through Games with Gold, only I don't remember it showing up in my owned library before today. The last time I looked in the store it told me it cost $20 so I rented it from the library. There was a massive update to the dashboard today so maybe a few glitches were fixed like the store recognizing games you already own through Games with Gold.

I downloaded it again and started playing. I finished episode 1, a villain episode and part of episode 3. I got two of my three needed achievements along the way. The game is pretty good only that sometimes the levels confuse me. I actually had to stop a level in episode 3 because I think I missed a clothing change for Robin along the way that made it impossible to progress. That something like that is possible seems to me a design flaw, but I'm enjoying it. 

That's a day of casual game hell. Tomorrow I might rise to the purgatory of Game Pass games and maybe even get into the heaven of first choice game.