3 Xbox Game Pass Games We Are Enjoying Over the Weekend (Oct. 10-12)

After Microsoft's recent announcement of Xbox Game Pass membership changes, featuring a price increase for the top tier to $30 monthly, numerous subscribers are looking for fresh methods to get the most from their membership. For those keeping their membership or thinking about joining, here are this week's picks.

Our selected titles include a acclaimed JRPG, a charming indie journey, and a brilliant puzzle game scheduled to depart from the service soon.

Persona 4 Golden

Among the top methods to get your money's worth from Game Pass is by diving into a extensive, captivating RPG — and Persona 4 Golden fits that description perfectly. You take on the role of a high school student who has relocated to the sleepy rural town of Inaba. During the day, your goals include forming new friends, working part-time jobs, and managing schoolwork. By night, you work to solve a chilling serial murder case by exploring strange locations themed around your friends' inner fears.

With a memorable group of heroes, tactical battle system, impeccable visuals, and a storyline packed with twists, Persona 4 Golden is considered a masterpiece for many reasons. It also features a incredibly addictive cycle that will have you playing late into the night, repeatedly.

Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato

While big releases like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a primary attraction for the service, the platform also highlights smaller indie gems. A perfect example of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Inspired by Spirited Away, this charming independent adventure is a fantasy journey rooted in Latin American culture. Players join Miho, who, after helping his grandma make soup, is pulled into a colorful realm filled with potato-stealing frogs and various eccentric animals.

Sopa plays out like an educational PC game from the 1990s, as Miho solves puzzles and helps the realm's residents by collecting an inventory of objects. Even if it's a little unpolished, Sopa is a sweet little experience that proudly showcases its appreciation for the region's culture.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is scheduled to leave Game Pass on October 15, leaving only a few days to play it via subscription — and you definitely must. Studio Geometric Interactive crafted one of the finest puzzlers of recent years in the 2023 release Cocoon. Its central gameplay element revolves around transitioning among worlds within additional dimensions, and often you'll transport those realms, in the form of colorful spheres, alongside you.

While it lacks direct instructions, everything about Cocoon's puzzles is built in a highly intuitive way, yet they will challenge you as well. 2023 was a massive year for video games, so it's no surprise if Cocoon was a bit missed by many players. We should rectify that while we can.