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Microsoft Rewards wouldn’t open today so I moved on to the Game Pass stuff. Then I played from the bottom of my list of installed games sorted by file size. It seems generally that the smaller the file size the more casual the game. This also means easier achievements, and so I was able to retake first place for the month amongst my Xbox friends.

State of Decay 2 (Xbox Game Studios): Gladly I played this survival zombie game again for a Game Pass Quest. I had to put the beatdown on two feral zombies. It took a while because they are uncommon. They run around on all fours and are a little harder to stop. I really enjoy this game, but I made myself stop once I got two.

Fallout New Vegas (Bethesda Softworks): Installed and booted it but didn’t need to do anything else for the points. I left it installed to play later. I wonder now if I'll get the points just starting the game streaming on my phone? I'll have to try that. 

Royal Tower Defense (Prison Games): I got a few more levels into it and unlocked upgrades to most of the towers. It’s a solid tower defense game.

Lost Artifacts: Soulstone (8floor Games): Played another section of 10 levels or so directing my workers to chop wood, pick up resources and rebuild things. I’m still optimistic that I can 100% this game eventually.

Zuma Revenge (PopCap Games): I played this a good long time. I decided I would stop if I lost a boss battle or lost a regular level 3 times. I managed to get into the last set of levels in adventure mode. I mostly try to compete with Rangergirl (old gamertag from the X360 days of Tamson here on Pixlbit). He beats me most of the time as I noticed on the leaderboards, but I got him on a few levels. I’m so happy with this game that I downloaded the original Zuma to play another day and see if I can get farther than before.

Gnomes Garden: Lost Kingdom (8floor Games): I did only 6 levels because they seemed to be taking much longer than in previous games in this series. I think the maps are larger and the objectives more complex. There’s more to build too.

Farm Together (Milkstone Studios): Got about half the diamonds I need for one of the last 7 plots of land I need to unlock. I play until I’ve harvested all the diamond producing things and then plant as much as I can with whatever money I have left and leave it for another day.

Reus (Soedesco Publishing): I played a 30-minute round. They have it timed which is annoying to me, but you can pause the game while directing your titans to build things. It is becoming complex because you need to place resources next to each other that are sympathetic in order to boost production. You also use acquired abilities to change resources into ones that specifically boost certain resources. You do all this to aid humans in their building projects, which also have time limits. It’s fun though. It took me a few minutes to remember the controls. When jumping through so many games, it’s a mental juggling act to get all the controls right in each one.

SNK 40^th Anniversary (Other Ocean): I watched the rest of the museum slide shows for all the games in the collection and many others. One was Sky Adventure. It’s a vertically scrolling shooter. You pilot a biplane or WWII fighter/bomber. It reminded me a lot of Sky Shark, and so I desperately wanted to play it but it’s not playable. I wonder what the point is of including unplayable games in the museum section but at least I know of it now. There is some bonus material to check out still and I’d like to take another shot at Crystalis next time.