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I reinstalled Microsoft Solitare on my phone and got an ad for their Mahjong game. I've been curious about Mahjong recently, so I installed the app. Both are free. It's pretty good and designed similarly to their Solitaire game with daily challenges, leveling, and several ways to play it. It's integrated with Xbox Live so I think I'll get achievements but I haven't gotten one yet. Let's take a closer look. 

I played several hours of this after a Game Pass weekly rewards quest asked me to. I was glad to because I was curious about it. I found it very enjoyable. I think the controls for shooting and using telekinesis powers are excellent. That alone can sell a game to me. I intend to keep playing it in the weeks to come, so let's take a deeper look. 

I finally bit on the sale for Civ VI, just under $20. I, and my gaming buddy, compared it to Civilization Revolution, the console version of Civ that came out in 2008, which we both liked a lot. Civ VI looks much the same but it is a few notches more complex, hence my friend didn't like it as much. He enjoys the military side of the game and I enjoy the growth of cities and areas of influence. Thus, I liked Civ VI more than he did. Well, let's take a closer look. 

This game has come up on Game Pass quests at least three times since I started Game Pass about a year ago. I've played it all three times. It's really grown on me. I've gotten a little farther each time. One of these days I'm going to take a stab at finishing it.

Oh boy, oh boy, it's comics day again! I found some good ones this time. I even had some Hope's Cookies too afterward. It's been a while since I did that. I was a little bit afraid of the sugar rush, but gladly it didn't happen. So let's see what I got as well as my progress with Doctor Strange Epic Collection Vol. 4.  

Ah, the Witcher games. I've always been interested but for whatever reason haven't played 1, maybe an hour of 2 and a couple of hours of 3. Since Witcher 3 is now on Xbox's Game Pass and has come up several times for rewards quests, I've dipped my feet in the Witcher waters several more times. I hope to play more, but for this blog, I thought I'd read up on the whole series and share some of it. 

I think last Sunday Farm Together broke my brain. I got so burned out redesigning my fields again that I thought I'd just quit it altogether and my whole routine of about 4 different categories of games. I decided on a "relevancy" approach and simplified it all to just one game, the newest I could find that I didn't have to pay an arm and leg for. So, I downloaded two games that looked interesting that just happen to be on Game Pass. Here they are.

I ran through my routine and again I got bogged down in Farm Together. I am making good progress though, so I think I have the end in sight. When it's done I can knock that off my list so I get more time with my main game. Anyway, here's a breakdown of the day's activities. 

Just a day of gaming with the usual titles of the last few weeks. I'll break it down.

In my recent inclusion of sports games into my regular gaming routine, I added a hockey game, NHL 20 from Game Pass. I was very tempted to add NHLPA '94, also available on Game Pass, but I wanted current players of which I know nothing because I haven't followed hockey since the Flyer's Hextall, Lindros, and the Legion of Doom back in the '90s (or was that the late '80s, I forget now).