Last year was an interesting one when it came to Xbox achievements, as Microsoft ended up making a few important rule changes after certain publishers began trying to make their achievements overly easy to acquire. In some cases, thousands of Xbox achievements were being stacked across multiple versions of the same game!
Even though those rules are in place, there's still a bit of controversy as we head into 2024. Today, True Achievements has picked up on 18 games that have each received a new set of achievements equalling 1,000G, all incorporated as part of title updates. The vast majority of these (16 of them) are from the indie publisher eastasiasoft, and because they've also had other updates in the past, a lot of these games now total 4,000G altogether.
These are the specific Xbox games that have all received these updates:
- #SinucaAttack
- Akinofa
- Blow & Fly
- Cake Invaders
- Cave Bad
- Color Pals
- Hatup
- Many Faces: Console Edition
- Null Drifter
- Paradox Error
- Pity Pit
- Project Starship
- Rayland
- Sissa's Path
- Squad Killer
- Taco Tom 2
- Takotan
- Void Gore
From what we can see, these all appear to be pretty easy achievements to acquire, but they don't necessarily break the rules that Microsoft put in place in 2023. For example, publishers need to avoid making all their achievements unlockable within a few minutes, while they also need to make players explore and engage with the game's content, and it's very possible that each of these titles is abiding by those requirements.
Nevertheless, it's definitely a controversial topic for Xbox achievement hunters, as these games make up tens of thousands of gamerscore altogether. There are some Xbox fans who enjoy playing titles like these and maximising their points total, but others clearly feel they're an unfair method of surpassing other Xbox fans on the gamerscore ladder.
It'll be interesting to see if Microsoft puts any additional rules in place as we progress through the year...