3 Xbox Game Pass Titles We're Playing Over the Weekend (Oct. 10-12)

After the company's recent announcement of Game Pass membership changes, including a price increase for the top tier to $30 monthly, numerous subscribers are looking for fresh ways to maximize their membership. If you keeping their membership or thinking about signing up, we present our latest recommendations.

Our selected titles feature a acclaimed Japanese role-playing game, a charming independent journey, and a superb puzzler set to leave the service shortly.

Persona 4 Golden

Among the top ways to get your money's worth from Game Pass is by diving into a extensive, engaging role-playing game — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that bill exactly. Players take on the part of a high school student who has relocated to the sleepy rural town of Inaba. During the day, your goals involve forming new friends, taking on part-time jobs, and managing studies. By night, you work to solve a disturbing string of murders by venturing into strange locations based on your companions' deepest insecurities.

With a unforgettable group of heroes, tactical turn-based combat, impeccable visuals, and a plot packed with surprises, Persona 4 Golden is considered a masterpiece for many reasons. It also features a highly engrossing gameplay loop that will keep you up past bedtime, night after night.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although big titles like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a primary selling point for Game Pass, the platform also highlights lesser-known indie gems. A perfect instance of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Inspired by Spirited Away, this charming indie game is a magical realist journey steeped in South American culture. Players join Miho, who, after assisting his grandma prepare soup, is transported to a vibrant realm populated by potato-stealing frogs and various eccentric animals.

Sopa unfolds like an learning-focused computer title from the 90s, as Miho solves puzzles and helps the realm's residents by gathering an assortment of objects. Though it's a little rough around the edges, Sopa is a heartwarming small game that openly celebrates its love for the region's culture.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is scheduled to leave Game Pass on Oct. 15, giving you only a few days to experience it via subscription — and you absolutely should. Studio Geometric Interactive designed one of the best puzzle games of recent years in the 2023 release Cocoon. Its core gameplay element revolves around moving among realms within other dimensions, and frequently you'll carry those worlds, in the form of colorful spheres, alongside you.

Although it doesn't have direct guidance, everything about Cocoon's challenges is designed in a highly natural way, though they can challenge you as well. 2023 was a big period for games, so it's understandable if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was somewhat overlooked by the masses. Let's correct that while we can.