Best Xbox Game Pass games to play this weekend

Video game history is full of excellent titles that never got follow-ups. This weekend’s Game Pass picks focus on one-and-done projects — games and studios we wish had gotten another chance to build on their ideas. Sunset Overdrive arrived as a loud, brash send-off from Insomniac Games before the studio moved to Sony and became its de facto Marvel studio.

The open-world adventure revels in parkour and cartoon hyperviolence, set in a city overrun by chaos after a corporation’s contaminated energy drinks unleash a zombie-like threat. Beneath the mayhem, it’s also an earnest story about learning to thrive as the world falls apart.

Immortals of Aveum is a finely tuned shooter in unusual clothing: it swaps guns for magic and delivers top-tier FPS gameplay. The quippy dialogue and a story that doesn’t always dig deep aren’t its strengths, but the magic gunplay — three distinct spell types plus powers like shields and blast waves that turn protagonist Jak into an unstoppable force — makes it worth exploring on Game Pass.

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