Three Game Pass Games We're Enjoying Over the Weekend (Oct. 10-12)

Following the company's recent announcement of Game Pass membership changes, featuring a cost hike for the Ultimate Tier to $30 monthly, numerous members are looking for new ways to maximize their subscription. If you keeping their subscription or thinking about signing up, we present our latest picks.

Our selected titles feature a acclaimed Japanese role-playing game, a delightful indie journey, and a brilliant puzzle game scheduled to leave the platform shortly.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

Among the top ways to get your money's worth from your subscription is by diving into a lengthy, captivating RPG — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that description exactly. Players take on the part of a high school student who has relocated to the quiet countryside of Inaba. By day, your objectives involve making new friends, working part-time jobs, and keeping up with schoolwork. At night, you work to solve a disturbing serial murder case by exploring strange dungeons based on your companions' inner fears.

With a memorable cast of characters, tactical battle system, impeccable visuals, and a plot packed with twists, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is considered a masterpiece for good reason. It also features a incredibly addictive cycle that will keep you up late into the night, repeatedly.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

While major titles like Ninja Gaiden IV are a primary selling point for the service, the platform also highlights smaller games. A great example of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from the animated classic, this charming independent adventure is a magical realist journey rooted in South American traditions. You join Miho, who, after assisting his grandmother prepare soup, is pulled into a colorful realm filled with potato-stealing frogs and other eccentric creatures.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato unfolds like an learning-focused computer title from the 1990s, as Miho tackles challenges and helps the realm's inhabitants by collecting an inventory of items. Even if it's a little unpolished, Sopa is a sweet little experience that proudly celebrates its appreciation for South America.

Cocoon

Cocoon is set to leave Game Pass on Oct. 15, giving you only a few days to play it via subscription — and you absolutely should. Developer the creators crafted one of the best puzzlers of recent years in 2023's Cocoon. Its central gameplay element revolves around transitioning among worlds within other dimensions, and frequently you'll transport those realms, in the shape of vibrant orbs, with you.

Although it lacks explicit guidance, everything about Cocoon's puzzles is built in a very natural manner, yet they can challenge you as well. 2023 was a massive period for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was a bit overlooked by many players. We should rectify that while we can.