Three Game Pass Games We're Playing This Weekend (Oct. 10-12)
After the company's latest announcement of Xbox Game Pass membership changes, including a price increase for the Ultimate Tier to $30 per month, numerous members are looking for fresh ways to maximize their subscription. For those keeping their subscription or considering joining, here are this week's picks.
Our selected games feature a beloved JRPG, a delightful independent adventure, and a superb puzzler set to leave the service soon.
Persona 4 Golden
One of the best ways to maximize value from your subscription is by immersing yourself in a lengthy, engaging RPG — and Persona 4 Golden fits that description exactly. Players take on the part of a teenager who has relocated to the sleepy rural town of Inaba. During the day, your goals include making friendships, working part-time jobs, and keeping up with studies. By night, you work to solve a chilling string of murders by venturing into unique dungeons themed around your companions' deepest insecurities.
With a unforgettable cast of characters, strategic battle system, impeccable art design, and a plot packed with surprises, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is considered a masterpiece for good reason. It also features a incredibly addictive cycle that will have you playing past bedtime, night after night.
Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato
While major releases like Ninja Gaiden IV are a key selling point for Game Pass, the platform also showcases smaller games. A perfect example of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this charming independent adventure is a fantasy journey rooted in Latin American culture. Players join Miho, who, after assisting his grandma make soup, is transported to a vibrant realm filled with potato-stealing frogs and other eccentric animals.
Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato plays out similar to an educational computer title from the 1990s, as Miho tackles puzzles and aids the realm's residents by collecting an inventory of items. Even if it's a little unpolished, Sopa is a heartwarming little experience that openly showcases its appreciation for South America.
Cocoon
Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is scheduled to exit the service on October 15, giving you only a few days to play it via your membership — and you definitely should. Studio the creators designed one of the best puzzlers of this generation in the 2023 release Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its core puzzle mechanic focuses on moving among realms within other dimensions, and often you'll transport those worlds, in the form of vibrant spheres, alongside you.
Although it doesn't have direct instructions, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's challenges is designed in a highly natural way, yet they can test you as well. The year 2023 proved a big period for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was a bit overlooked by the masses. Let's correct that while we can.
