3 new Xbox Game Pass games to try this weekend (October 18-20)

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While the first half of October was fairly light on new Xbox Game Pass additions, the back half of the month is a lot more exciting. Of course, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is the month’s biggest release, but that’s still a week away. Meanwhile, this week saw two great RPGs and an excellent indie game hit Microsoft’s subscription service. If you’re wondering what you should be playing this weekend, all three of these new Xbox Game Pass additions are worthy of your time.

South Park: The Fractured But Whole

While this year’s South Park: Snow Day was a disappointment, the two Ubisoft-published games that preceded it narratively are stellar. One of those, the superhero-themed South Park: The Fractured But Whole, just came to Xbox Game Pass. This game perfectly captures the handcrafted look of the show with its art and the franchise’s crass humor through its increasingly ridiculous story about Cartman, a new kid, and their other friends pretending to be superheroes. It’s a surprisingly well-made grid-based tactical RPG, making it a significantly better game than it may seem on the surface.

South Park: The Fractured But Whole is available across PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Cloud Gaming with a Game Pass subscription. It’s also on Nintendo Switch and part of the PlayStation Plus Extra game catalog on PS4.

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Donut County

Some of the best indie games take one charming idea and explore it to its fullest. Donut County is one such game, as players control a hole that gets bigger whenever something falls into it. Developer Ben Esposito found so many clever ways to utilize this mechanic, both for puzzles and to create some Kata