3 Xbox Game Pass Games We Are Playing This Weekend (Oct. 10-12)

After Microsoft's recent news of Game Pass subscription updates, featuring a cost hike for the top tier to $thirty monthly, numerous subscribers are looking for fresh ways to maximize their membership. For those holding onto their subscription or thinking about joining, we present our latest recommendations.

Our selected games feature a beloved Japanese role-playing game, a charming independent journey, and a superb puzzler set to leave the platform soon.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

Among the top ways to get your money's worth from your subscription is by immersing yourself in a lengthy, engaging RPG — and Persona 4 Golden fits that description exactly. You take on the role of a teenager who has just moved to the quiet countryside of Inaba. By day, your goals involve forming new friends, working employment, and managing studies. By night, you work to solve a disturbing serial murder case by exploring unique dungeons based on your friends' inner fears.

With a unforgettable cast of characters, strategic battle system, impeccable art design, and a storyline full of twists, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is considered a masterpiece for good reason. It also boasts a incredibly addictive gameplay loop that will keep you up past bedtime, repeatedly.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although big releases like Ninja Gaiden IV are a key selling point for Game Pass, the platform also highlights lesser-known games. A great example of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from the animated classic, this enchanting independent adventure is a magical realist tale steeped in Latin American traditions. Players follow Miho, who, after helping his grandmother prepare soup, is transported to a colorful world filled with potato-nabbing frogs and other eccentric creatures.

Sopa plays out like an learning-focused computer title from the 1990s, as Miho solves challenges and helps the realm's residents by gathering an inventory of items. Even if it's a little rough around the edges, Sopa is a sweet small game that proudly celebrates its appreciation for the region's culture.

Cocoon

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is scheduled to exit Game Pass on October 15, leaving only a short time to play it via your membership — and you absolutely must. Studio Geometric Interactive designed one of the finest puzzle games of recent years in the 2023 release Cocoon. Its core gameplay element focuses on moving between realms inside additional dimensions, and often you'll transport those realms, in the form of colorful spheres, alongside you.

While it doesn't have explicit guidance, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's puzzles is built in a highly natural manner, though they can test you as well. 2023 was a massive year for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was somewhat missed by the masses. Let's rectify that while we can.