Three Xbox Game Pass Games We're Playing Over the Weekend (October 10-12)
After the company's recent news of Xbox Game Pass membership updates, featuring a price increase for the top tier to $30 monthly, numerous subscribers are looking for fresh ways to maximize their subscription. If you holding onto their subscription or thinking about signing up, here are our latest picks.
Our selected games feature a acclaimed Japanese role-playing game, a charming independent adventure, and a superb puzzle game scheduled to depart from the service shortly.
Persona 4 Golden
Among the top ways to get your money's worth from your subscription is by immersing yourself in a extensive, captivating role-playing game — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that description perfectly. You step into the role of a teenager who has relocated to the quiet countryside of Inaba. By day, your objectives involve making friendships, taking on part-time jobs, and managing studies. By night, you investigate a disturbing serial murder case by venturing into unique locations themed around your companions' inner fears.
With a memorable cast of characters, strategic battle system, flawless art design, and a plot full of twists, Persona 4 Golden is regarded as a classic for many reasons. It also features a highly addictive cycle that will keep you up late into the night, night after night.
Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato
While big titles like Ninja Gaiden IV are a primary attraction for the service, the subscription also highlights smaller indie gems. A perfect example of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this enchanting independent adventure is a magical realist tale steeped in South American traditions. Players join Miho, who, after helping his grandmother make soup, is pulled into a colorful world populated by potato-stealing frogs and various eccentric creatures.
Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato unfolds similar to an learning-focused computer title from the 90s, as Miho tackles challenges and aids the realm's residents by collecting an assortment of items. Even if it's a bit unpolished, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a heartwarming small experience that proudly showcases its love for South America.
Cocoon
Cocoon is scheduled to leave the service on Oct. 15, giving you only a short time to play it via your membership — and you absolutely must. Studio Geometric Interactive crafted one of the finest puzzlers of this generation in 2023's Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its central gameplay element revolves around moving among realms within additional worlds, and often you'll carry those worlds, in the form of colorful spheres, with you.
Although it lacks direct guidance, everything about Cocoon's challenges is built in a very natural way, yet they will test you as well. The year 2023 proved a massive year for video games, so it's no surprise if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was somewhat missed by the masses. We should rectify that while we can.
