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

After Microsoft's recent announcement of Game Pass membership updates, including a price increase for the top tier to $thirty monthly, numerous subscribers are looking for fresh methods to maximize their subscription. For those keeping their membership or considering signing up, here are this week's picks.

Our selected titles include a beloved Japanese role-playing game, a charming independent journey, and a superb puzzler set to leave the service soon.

Persona 4 Golden

Among the best methods to maximize value from Game Pass is by immersing yourself in a lengthy, captivating role-playing game — and Persona 4 Golden matches that description perfectly. Players take on the role of a teenager who has relocated to the sleepy countryside of Inaba. During the day, your goals involve forming new friends, taking on part-time jobs, and keeping up with studies. By night, you work to solve a disturbing string of murders by exploring unique dungeons based on your companions' inner fears.

With a memorable cast of characters, strategic battle system, impeccable visuals, and a storyline packed with surprises, Persona 4 Golden is regarded as a masterpiece for good reason. It also boasts a highly engrossing cycle that will have you playing past bedtime, night after night.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although big releases like Ninja Gaiden IV are a primary attraction for Game Pass, the subscription also highlights smaller indie gems. A great instance of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this enchanting independent adventure is a magical realist tale rooted in Latin American traditions. You join Miho, who, after helping his grandmother make soup, is transported to a vibrant world filled with potato-stealing frogs and various quirky animals.

Sopa unfolds like an learning-focused computer title from the 1990s, as Miho tackles puzzles and aids the world's residents by collecting an assortment of objects. Though it's a bit rough around the edges, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a sweet small experience that openly celebrates its love for South America.

Cocoon

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is set to exit the service on October 15, giving you only a short time to experience it via subscription — and you definitely must. Studio Geometric Interactive crafted one of the finest puzzlers of recent years in 2023's Cocoon. Its core gameplay element revolves around transitioning among worlds inside other worlds, and often you'll transport those worlds, in the form of colorful spheres, alongside you.

Although it doesn't have direct guidance, everything about Cocoon's puzzles is built in a very natural way, yet they will challenge you as well. The year 2023 proved a big period for games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was somewhat overlooked by the masses. Let's rectify that while we can.