December Began With TA Xmas Challenge Focus (Catch-Up)

The Xbox magnetic journey finally resumed after a huge hiatus with December as a testing month before hopefully fully magnetising in 2024. The month opened with the True Achievements 12 Days of Christmas Challenge and meant a wide range of games would be seen this month.

Play itself on December 1st began with the Game Pass simulation game of Coral Island which saw a solitary unlock for 20G. This was followed by the Windows re-completion of Lost Snowman which saw five unlocks for 1000G and brought the completions for 2023 to 89. Saturday 2nd saw Ghostlore utilised with two unlocks for 20G and the same outcome came on Forza Motorsport with two unlocks for 20G.

Sunday 3rd saw the return of Genesis Noir with a solitary unlock for 70G and later on play moved to Lego DC Super Villains with a single unlock for 10G and the Lego session continued into the new week with four unlocks for 40G on Monday with a long session later that day on Forza Motorsport which drove in seven unlocks for 105G.

Tuesday 5th saw another stint on Lego DC Super Villains with four unlocks for 40G before a return to Ghostlore with three unlocks for 60G. The day ended with a new addition to the game collection in Shadow Warrior 3 :Definitive Edition with three unlocks for 50G and the day's haul brought up 1550 unlocks on Xbox One in 2023. 

Wednesday 6th saw another seven unlock haul on Forza Motorsport for 100G and the week ended with a spell on Rare Replay with three unlocks for 45G and the 7-day total is 44 unlocks for 1640G.

Friday 8th saw a continuation of Rare Replay with four unlocks for 60G and Lego DC Super Villains returned with a mix of story missions and collectibles leading to 11 unlocks for 110G and the day ended with the surprise addition of Moving Out 2 which was a Free Play Days game and saw 12 unlocks for 220G. 

Saturday 9th saw a continuation of Moving Out 2 across the day with 16 unlocks for 780G and a completion ahead of the game exiting Free Days on the 11th and in being completed it meant the game became the 90th in 2023. 

Sunday 10th was the busiest day of the month so far with a total of eight game used across the day starting with Forza Motorsport which saw four unlocks for 70G before Gabriels Worlds posted a single unlock for 100G, Paradox Error and Reactor X2 both saw single unlocks for 200G ahead of Super Tennis Blast and Super Volley Blast both smashing in single unlocks for 30G and 20G.

Microsoft Solitaire Collection snapped up a single 30G unlock and on the game menu, I spotted a new version of Microsoft Minesweeper which led to seven unlocks for 295G and could have been more if not for a glitch on the Daily Challenges which is still to be fixed at the time of writing.  

A new week saw a small go on Gabriels Worlds with a single unlock for 100G on Monday 11th and was followed by the return of Genesis Noir on Tuesday 12th which saw the majority of the story played leading to 11 unlocks for 770G. The session extended into Wednesday 13th with the final three unlocks and 230G popping for completion. Dead End Job worked for six unlocks and 260G as did Super Volley Blast which saw five unlocks for 210G. The day ended with a single 30G unlock on Forza Motorsport as the TA challenge neared its completion. 

The True Achievements 12 Days of Christmas edged achingly close to completion on Thursday 14th and the day began with Zoo Tycoon and a single 15 G unlock before a move to the Windows version of Mushroom Savior which saw a single 200G unlock and then another move across to Rare Replay for a single 15 G unlock. Next up was Forza Horizon 5 with three unlocks for 45 before a swing to Super Tennis Blast which hit a single 20G unlock and the week came to an end with a stop on Lost Snowmen and a single 130G unlock. The 7-day totals were 95 unlocks for 4140G.