Microsoft Rewards & Xbox: How To Make 20,000 Points Per-Month

I’ve been using my points from rewards to pay for game pass since august of last year. I have it till December of this year already. You get a points break if you do 3 months. If you game everyday and check game pass quests and the rewards app it’s relatively easy. I also buy some games or utilize sales to get the big point drops. I really enjoy it because it incentivizes much game time and has me try new games.

If you are lucky enough to be in a region with this you need to use it. Last year I got $140 worth of stuff and I've already redeemed 9 months of GPU this year.

This only works in US and UK.
Doesnt work in my region (europe)

This is a great guide! I didn't realize you could get up to 20k a month (pending on your region). I've got some work to do! Thanks for sharing.

Yeah in Europe we can rack up 8000 points at most i think , not complaining though it takes little effort , and already claimed over 100€ of store credit the last 2 years I guess

Every 10 weeks if you constantly hit the weekly card you get 2.5k bonus which is nice

In my region I get around 5000 points monthly, except when there is the 10 week bonus of 2500 points.

Rewards are definitely the unsung hero on Xbox. I really wish PlayStation would adopt a similar scheme.

@Bleachedsmiles Yeah even Nintendo has one with their gold coins. I don’t get the same value out of it because it’s based on purchases only but it’s always nice buying a game using existing coin.

The Microsoft Rewards Points app is not available for Android is it?

I do quite well out of rewards points already. Got nearly 130k stacked up. I've not been selected for the Xbox app ones though

I don't get to 20k/month but I've been doing okay out of them, maybe averaging 15/month . My best tip, that I'm sure is well known, is the daily bing searches can all be done on mobile if you switch to desktop view (using Microsoft edge that is).

Since I got my series console in 2020 I've earned 300,000+ rewards points. Having this console and using rewards is definitely going to have paid for itself by the generation's end.

I need to find a good game to play that can get the "Play on PC with friends" reward more often. Something like a super quick online chess game where I'd lose in a few moves every time

There's also the Game Pass reward quests too that can earn you a fair chunk, but you need to play a bunch of different games and do challenges. So you need the time and inclination to switch between a bunch of games all the time.

I’ve racked up 33,400 points in 40 days! GP has been paid for two months. And the off cuts will be saved for games and hopefully some form of hardware. The amount of money I’m saving is huuuuuge. Thanks MS!!!

You can also do quests on game pass they release new quests on Tuesday. If you need help achieving these quests i would recommend ChickenPossible on youtube he puts out great guides every week on the easiest route to completion.

Don't get me wrong, I know this represents good value for a lot of people, but.... I just don't have the time to become such a slave to MS and their tasks every day, week or month. Some of them are designed to stack up, and if you miss a day you're back to square one too.

Literally just joined Game Pass Ultimate today for the first time (that three months for $1 offer was too good to pass up) and have been enjoying the little metagame with these quests. So this guide is actually useful for me.

I was worried being on PC would lock me out of a lot of these, since the wording specified "cloud gaming or download to console," but I downloaded a PC version of one of these and completed the GP reward just fine.

@Ralizah you should have stocked up your live to 3 yrs. Too late now, but when your 3 months runs out. Don't renew, let it run out. Then stock up your live, and then there will be a conversion charge. Can be as little as 1 pound or the equivelant of 1 month ultimate, 10.99 in UK. in 5 years i have paid 13.99 plus 5 years of gold from cdkeys at 37 a pop.
Food for thought guys.

@GarbonZoni Stocking up for a service I'm not even sure will be worth investing in long term doesn't seem advisable.

Anyway, it's possible I'll earn enough rewards points each month to just renew the service for free if I end up liking it. My plan, once GPU is up, is to use my points to sub to PC GamePass. No reason to pay for the more expensive option when I don't even own a modern Xbox.

Yeah mate i get you. It's more for people who are more invested, It's a no brainer if you get gold every year though. Good thing is having 3 years worth for price of 1 and a quid, all those reward points just go straight back into games i wanna own. I've made 200 quid in vouchers over last few years .

How to make 20000 points per month with Xbox :

Step 1: move to the US

Some punch cards that offer 500 points require an in-game purchase costing £7.99 e.g. Rogue Company x The Walking Dead - but this is not cost effective just to earn 500 points, and I would be surprised if players did this. Why? Does anyone know a (legal) way around this that does not involve real money?

@Stoned_Patrol You can just download the Edge app or Bing app and do most of the rewards there.

Does anyone know how long you can keep reward points for?

There are 2 other ways to earn Rewards points every day - the Microsoft Fitness Challenges (play 2 videos and earn 20 points for each one); and on the Shopping page where you guess the correct lowest cost of an advertised item and do this 10 times at 10 points per correct guess. There is a way of doing this without guessing - see chickenpossible/rewards hunter on youtube. Anyone know the least number of Rewards points I would need to purchase an X Box Series X console (£450) from Microsoft Store using rewards points only? Can I redeem all saved points in one go? [I have about 350,000 points]. To answer Snake-V5: I believe you can keep the points indefinitely as long as they are not redeemed for a X Box voucher.

I don’t go out of my way to do the achievement stuff, but just from doing the tasks on my phone while I’m the bathroom and opening the rewards app once or twice a week on my Xbox… I usually get about $10-$12 a month.

If I go out of my way to do the monthly challenges, then it’s closer to $14-15. Very solid.

@Stoned_Patrol If you download the Bing app, you can get access to the MS Rewards app through it. That's how I access it on my android phone.

One that seems to be missing is through the Bing app you can get 30 points a day reading news articles so that is another 900 points per month.

The play with friends 100 points always lags for me.

@Kaloudz get a friend to play stardew valley with you , it's a small download ( approx 800mb ) it doesnt need a high power computer and usually takes 10 mins and has done for months with me ,feel free to msg me on Xbox if u need me to make a lobby for you

@Martsmall Ah thanks my man, I may just do that if my new method falls through. I've tried jumping in a lobby for Age of Empires and that seemed to work. Before that I was doing it for Among Us but damn, the wait time was like, 45 minutes for the points to pop.

I've "bought" 3 controllers using reward points since last November! UK based and the points are there to be made. Got the blue camo controller, the OPIE one and the Starfield one. All cost me £0.

@Kaloudz yw matey I found stardew to be quickest , even when others haven't been working star dew has

@Martsmall Do you do that on PC or Xbox bro?

Pc , stardew is not cross compatible with Xbox

I start a game and send u invite , u sit and wait tell me when Ur play a pc game /play with friends pop

Oh and when u enter start a stopwatch I'll prove it's quicker

They take away the options to earn and lower the amounts each month.

So...I think Xbox is finally pumping the brakes on rewards points/offers. Suspiciously, I can't see Game Pass redemption options anymore. I usually add 3-months every 6 or so weeks. My membership expiration date is 11/2025.

Weekly treasure is over for a few weeks ago. I haven't seen it in rewards Xbox app since june 2023.

@FraserG

Have they stopped the final week of the month rewards? I'm not seeing anything but "earn and achievement" and "play a game pass game". Haven't they always (until now) ran every single week? Even for the weeks that lead into the beginning of a new month?

@FraserG Isn't that the truth 🤣 thanks for the heads up my man! 👊