Three Xbox Game Pass Games We Are Playing Over the Weekend (October 10-12)
After Microsoft's latest news of Game Pass subscription updates, featuring a price increase for the top tier to $thirty per month, many members are looking for fresh ways to maximize their membership. If you holding onto their membership or thinking about signing up, here are our latest picks.
This weekend's titles feature a beloved Japanese role-playing game, a delightful indie journey, and a superb puzzler set to leave the platform shortly.
Persona 4: The Golden Edition
One of the top methods to maximize value from Game Pass is by diving into a lengthy, engaging RPG — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that bill exactly. Players take on the role of a teenager who has relocated to the quiet rural town of Inaba. By day, your goals involve forming friendships, taking on part-time jobs, and managing schoolwork. By night, you work to solve a disturbing string of murders by exploring strange locations based on your friends' deepest insecurities.
With a memorable group of heroes, tactical turn-based combat, impeccable art design, and a storyline full of twists, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is considered a classic for many reasons. It also boasts a incredibly addictive gameplay loop that will keep you up past bedtime, night after night.
Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato
Although big releases like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a primary selling point for Game Pass, the platform also highlights lesser-known indie gems. A perfect example of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this charming indie adventure is a fantasy journey steeped in Latin American traditions. You join Miho, who, after assisting his grandmother make soup, is pulled into a vibrant realm populated by potato-stealing frogs and other eccentric creatures.
Sopa unfolds like an learning-focused PC game from the 90s, as Miho tackles puzzles and helps the world's inhabitants by gathering an inventory of items. Though it's a little rough around the edges, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a sweet little experience that openly celebrates its appreciation for South America.
Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure
Cocoon is scheduled to exit Game Pass on Oct. 15, giving you only a short time to play it via your membership — and you absolutely must. Studio the creators designed one of the best puzzlers of this generation in 2023's Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its central gameplay element revolves around moving between worlds inside additional dimensions, and often you'll carry those worlds, in the form of vibrant orbs, alongside you.
Although it lacks explicit instructions, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's challenges is designed in a very natural manner, yet they will test you as well. The year 2023 proved a massive period for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was a bit overlooked by the masses. We should correct that now.
