Easy Gamerscore: The 27 quickest game completions from the latest Xbox sales

By Luke Albigés,
This week's Xbox sales are here, and there are a decent amount of quick and/or easy games in there if you're in the market for a speedy Gamerscore boost. Here's the full list, before we dive into the simplest, cheapest, and best of the bunch...

Quickest Xbox Game Completions from the latest Sales

Game Sale Price Completion Time TA Ratio Discount
Crimson Spires 0-1 hour 1.04 30%
Little Mouse's Encyclopedia 0-1 hour 1.05 40%
Outbreak: Epidemic Definitive Edition
• in Outbreak Co-Op Anthology		 0-1 hour 1.09 30%
Outbreak: Epidemic
• in Outbreak Co-Op Anthology		 0-1 hour 1.09 30%
Microsoft Mahjong (Windows 8)
0-1 hour 1.10 0%
Whispering Willows 1-2 hours 1.10 75%
Obsurity (Windows) 1-2 hours 1.11 10%
Hidden Through Time 1-2 hours 1.12 50%
Tales from the Borderlands 1-2 hours 1.13 25%
Shiro 1-2 hours 1.24 10%
MONOPOLY Plus 1-2 hours 1.31 70%
Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown 1-2 hours 1.36 67%
Clocker 2-3 hours 1.14 70%
Strike Force 2 - Terrorist Hunt 2-3 hours 1.25 35%
Bright Memory 2-3 hours 1.51 20%
NAMCO MUSEUM ARCHIVES Vol 2 2-3 hours 1.65 75%
ARCADE GAME SERIES: Pac-Man
• in ARCADE GAME SERIES 3-in-1 Pack		 2-3 hours 2.42 50%
The Inner World 3-4 hours 1.17 80%
My Memory of Us 4-5 hours 1.54 80%
Desert Child 4-5 hours 1.66 55%
Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection 5-6 hours 1.57 75%
Gnomes Garden 6-8 hours 1.38 70%
Remothered: Tormented Fathers 6-8 hours 1.58 70%
Momonga Pinball Adventures 6-8 hours 1.72 67%
Castlevania Anniversary Collection 6-8 hours 1.78 75%
Uno 6-8 hours 1.84 60%
Almost There: The Platformer 6-8 hours 2.87 90%


Crimson Spires

xbox quick completions

This week's easiest game on sale looks to be visual novel Crimson Spires, with 12 achievements that can all be unlocked in a little over half an hour. As the tiny 1.04 ratio suggests, this won't even put up the slightest challenge, although that's a good chunk of change to part with for less than an hour of entertainment. Not that you even stand to get too much of that, going by the 2.5/5 community rating...

Almost There

xbox quick completions

Almost There is the cheapest game from this selection, with a massive 90% lopped off its usual price point. The fast-paced platformer looks and feels like an even more basic N+, and it sits at the upper end of what can be considered a quick completion (especially in this day and age) with an estimate of 6-8 hours and a ratio of 2.4. Again, a 2.7/5 user rating isn't exactly glowing, but seeing as this one is mere pennies, it might be worth a punt all the same.

Castlevania Anniversary Collection

Castlevania Anniversary Collection art

With Castlevania Advance Collection finally arriving last week, what better time to recommend its precursor? Castlevania Anniversary Collection brings together (almost) all of the classic vampire-slaying Konami games from yesteryear in one package and is this week's highest-rated sale title with a well-deserved 4.4/5 score. It's another 6-8 hour completion estimate and while you might expect a collection of eight famously quite tough retro games to be harder and take longer, most of the achievements can be earned quicker by using each game's password system to jump right to the end.

You can view the full list of the games discounted in the latest Xbox sale here.

Will you be picking up any of these titles for a quick Gamerscore boost? Let us know below!
Luke Albigés
Written by Luke Albigés
Luke runs the TA news team, contributing where he can primarily with reviews and other long-form features — crafts he has honed across two decades of print and online gaming media experience, having worked with the likes of gamesTM, Eurogamer, Play, Retro Gamer, Edge, and many more. He loves all things Monster Hunter, enjoys a good D&D session, and has played way too much Destiny.
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