Try these 3 Xbox Game Pass horror titles this weekend (June 21-23)

Another weekend is upon us, and you’re probably wondering which Xbox Game Pass games you should spend some time with over the next couple of days. Although Halloween is still several months away, the release of a new horror game this week means that I’m recommending some spooky titles from the Xbox Game Pass catalog this time around.

Of course, my first recommendation is that new game, which is developed by Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs developer The Chinese Room and is set on an oil rig. Once you beat that, I recommend you check out EA Motive’s remake of a sci-fi horror game classic, as well as a newer title from Striking Distance Studio that was inspired by that same game.

Still Wakes the Deep

The Chinese Room is known for games like Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, and it finally returned to the horror genre this week with the release of Still Wakes the Deep. It’s a Lovecraftian horror game set on a Scottish oil rig in the 1970s. The unique setting gives it a unique feel, making Still Wakes the Deep a prime example of how a striking setting can help make or break a game.

For fans of first-person horror games, it offers plenty of tense moments and scares, too. Even if you tend to not enjoy scary video games, Still Wakes the Deep has a Story Mode mode that decreases the likelihood of players dying to make it a little more approachable. It only takes around six to eight hours to beat this game, so you should be able to fit a full playthrough in this weekend.

Still Wakes the Deep is available through Xbox Game Pass on PC and Xbox Series X/S, but is out on PlayStation 5 as well.

Dead Space

2008’s Dead Space set a lot of standards for modern horror games with how it never took the camera off the player, featured gory fights against alien monsters, and found ways to make all the most necessary user interface elements diegetic within the game’s world. While you can play the Xbox 360 original through EA Play with an Xbox Game Pass