Three Game Pass Games We're Playing Over the Weekend (Oct. 10-12)
Following Microsoft's latest news of Game Pass subscription updates, featuring a price increase for the top tier to $thirty monthly, many members are looking for fresh ways to get the most from their membership. For those holding onto their subscription or thinking about joining, we present this week's picks.
Our selected titles feature a acclaimed JRPG, a delightful indie adventure, and a superb puzzle game scheduled to leave the platform shortly.
Persona 4 Golden
Among the best ways to get your money's worth from Game Pass is by immersing yourself in a lengthy, captivating RPG — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that description perfectly. You take on the role of a teenager who has just moved to the sleepy countryside of Inaba. By day, your objectives include making friendships, taking on employment, and keeping up with schoolwork. At night, you work to solve a chilling string of murders by exploring strange dungeons based on your friends' deepest insecurities.
With a memorable group of heroes, strategic battle system, flawless art design, and a storyline full of twists, Persona 4 Golden is regarded as a masterpiece for good reason. It also features a highly engrossing cycle that will keep you up past bedtime, night after night.
Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato
While big titles like Ninja Gaiden IV are a key attraction for Game Pass, the platform also highlights smaller games. A great instance of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from the animated classic, this charming independent game is a fantasy tale rooted in Latin American culture. Players join Miho, who, after assisting his grandmother prepare 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 educational computer title from the 1990s, as Miho tackles puzzles and helps the world's residents by gathering an assortment of objects. Even if it's a little unpolished, Sopa is a sweet small experience that openly showcases its love for South America.
Cocoon
Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is set to exit the service 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 puzzle games of this generation in the 2023 release Cocoon. Its central puzzle mechanic focuses on moving between realms within additional worlds, and frequently you'll transport those realms, in the shape of vibrant spheres, with you.
While it doesn't have explicit guidance, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's challenges is built in a highly intuitive manner, though they will test you as well. The year 2023 proved a massive period for video games, so it's no surprise if Cocoon was somewhat overlooked by the masses. We should rectify that while we can.
