3 Xbox Game Pass Titles We Are Enjoying Over the Weekend (October 10-12)

After Microsoft's recent announcement of Game Pass membership changes, featuring a price increase for the top tier to $30 monthly, numerous subscribers are looking for new ways to get the most from their subscription. If you keeping their subscription or considering signing up, we present this week's recommendations.

This weekend's games feature a acclaimed JRPG, a delightful indie journey, and a superb puzzle game scheduled to depart from the platform shortly.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

Among the best ways to maximize value from your subscription is by immersing yourself in a extensive, captivating RPG — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that bill exactly. Players take on the role of a high school student who has just moved to the quiet rural town of Inaba. By day, your goals include making new friends, working employment, and managing studies. At night, you work to solve a chilling string of murders by exploring strange locations based on your friends' deepest insecurities.

With a unforgettable cast of characters, tactical turn-based combat, flawless art design, and a storyline packed with twists, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is considered a masterpiece for good reason. It also features a incredibly engrossing gameplay loop that will keep you up past bedtime, repeatedly.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

While big titles like Ninja Gaiden IV are a key selling point for the service, the subscription also showcases smaller indie gems. A perfect example of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from the animated classic, this charming indie adventure is a magical realist tale steeped in South American traditions. You join Miho, who, after assisting his grandma make soup, is transported to a vibrant realm filled with potato-stealing frogs and various eccentric creatures.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato plays out similar to an educational computer title from the 1990s, as Miho solves challenges and helps the world's inhabitants by gathering an assortment of items. Though it's a little unpolished, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a sweet little game that openly showcases its appreciation for South America.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is scheduled to exit the service on Oct. 15, giving you only a short time to experience it via your membership — and you definitely should. Studio Geometric Interactive designed one of the finest puzzlers of this generation in the 2023 release Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its central gameplay element revolves around transitioning between worlds within other worlds, and often you'll transport those worlds, in the form of vibrant spheres, with you.

While it doesn't have explicit guidance, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's puzzles is designed in a highly natural manner, though they will test you as well. 2023 was a big period for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was a bit overlooked by the masses. Let's correct that while we can.