While neither Good Friday nor Easter are observed as Federal Holidays, a fair number of workers in the U,S. still get today or Monday off in observance of the holidays. If you’re one of the lucky ones, you know what a three-day weekend means: more time for gaming. (What else am I to do? Go outside? In spring?)
This week’s Xbox Game Pass recommendations spotlight some games that we can’t wait to get back to playing over this long weekend, including an open-world superhero adventure, a heartfelt Metroidvania, and a game you should really check out by now if you haven’t.
1 GTA 5
Grand Theft Auto 5 is about to leave the Game Pass library (…again). Rockstar’s open-world crime game has cycled in and out of Xbox’s games-on-demand service over the years. If by some chance you haven’t played it yet (via Game Pass or any other platform), well, you might as well give it a spin. Is this the last chance you have to play it at no extra cost ahead of GTA 6’s Nov. 19 release? Who knows! But it can’t hurt to test GTA 5 out, see what everyone’s talking about before the next game becomes the only thing they talk about. —Ari Notis
2 Batman: Arkham Knight
The wait for the next Lego Batman game has been a long one since its Gamescom reveal last year, but it’s almost here. Still, I want some Batman in my life pronto, and I could do a lot worse than revisiting Batman: Arkham Knight. While the Bat-Tank sections take up more time than you might expect, there is still plenty of time in Arkham Knight to glide around Gotham City as Batman, stealthily taking out unsuspecting criminals from the shadows or swooping down to clobber them right in the face. The combat is as fluid and rhythmic as the prior entries, and stringing together a large multi-hit combo never gets old. As Rocksteady pivoted to making the live-service Suicide Squad game after Arkham Knight and the WB Games Montréal-developed Gotham Knights was somewhat disappointing, Batman: Arkham Knight remains one of the best options for an open-world superhero game around. —Austin Manchester
3 Tales of Kenzera: Zau
