Welcome back to our PC Game Pass Suggestions series, where we look for smaller games worth adding to your weekend plans. Halloween might be over, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t extend the feeling throughout the weekend. So, we’re going with a missing person, a stranded spaceship and a roadside attraction that really should have stayed closed. Bring your thinking cap for the first one and your running shoes for the last. The spaceship might require a stronger stomach.
If you are new here, what is Game Pass? Think of it as “Netflix for video games.” It is a service that gives you unlimited access to hundreds of great games for one monthly fee. For a lot of gamers, us included, it’s a great way to try new types of games and find unexpected favorites without spending extra money. Speaking of which, what are the games that you should try this weekend?
Our latest recommendations:
The Séance of Blake Manor: Everybody Has Something to Hide
A hotel full of mystics preparing to speak to the dead sounds like a difficult place to investigate a disappearance, but that’s the job facing private investigator Declan Ward. Set in Ireland in 1897, The Séance of Blake Manor asks you to question guests, examine your surroundings and, of course, connect evidence in your journal before confronting suspects.
Be prepared to jump into investigative actions that advance time, while people follow their own schedules. It’s a game where deciding where to go and whom to approach matters. We’d put this first on the list for players who enjoy carefully working through a mystery. The comic-book presentation and Irish folklore suit the Halloween occasion, and there’s plenty of opportunity to stick your nose into other people’s business. Please expect our review soon!
- Premise: Find Evelyn Deane before a mysterious séance takes place.
- Mechanics: First-person investigation, questioning, deductions, environmental puzzles and time management.
- Atmosphere: A gothic hotel mystery drawing on Irish mythology and Victorian spiritualism.
- Ideal audience: Patient detectives who enjoy gathering evidence and following leads.
- Developer / publisher: Spooky Doorway / Raw Fury.
Mouthwashing: The Worst Company in Space
Mouthwashing is the more established indie name in this selection, but its arrival on PC Game Pass makes this a useful moment to catch up if it passed you by. Five crew members are stranded aboard the freighter Tulpar, with dwindling supplies and no rescue coming.
The first-person adventure follows their deteriorating situation through exploration, environmental details and encounters with the people trapped aboard. Its crude, retro visuals accompany a deeply unpleasant story about isolation and the crew themselves. We’d suggest this for readers who want a disturbing narrative to pick apart, though the graphic imagery makes it a very different proposition from a light evening of Halloween spooks. Keep the plot summaries closed for this one.
- Premise: Follow five crew members stranded aboard a wrecked space freighter.
- Mechanics: First-person exploration and environmental storytelling.
- Atmosphere: Claustrophobic psychological horror, surreal imagery and graphic violence.
- Ideal audience: Adults who enjoy bleak, character-focused horror stories.
- Developer / publisher: Wrong Organ / CRITICAL REFLEX.
Terrible Lizards: Keep Those Legs Moving
A broken-down car leaves you near Dalton’s Dinos, a deserted roadside attraction in New Mexico. Then a voice on the telephone asks for help finding a missing child. It’s 1992, help is far away, and the creatures inside have rather different plans for your visit.
Terrible Lizards combines first-person horror with parkour: running, jumping, climbing, sliding and wall-running are your tools for escaping pursuit. There are no weapons, so survival depends on movement and finding a way through the environment. Notes, tapes and recordings fill in the attraction’s history along the way. We’d point players who enjoy chase sequences towards this one, especially if standing still and waiting for danger sounds considerably worse than scrambling over everything in sight.
- Premise: Investigate a deserted dinosaur attraction while searching for a missing child.
- Mechanics: First-person parkour, pursuit sequences, exploration and collectible story clues.
- Atmosphere: Isolated roadside horror with creatures constantly threatening your escape.
- Ideal audience: Horror fans who prefer active movement and evasion.
- Developer / publisher: WDR Studios / Digital Pajamas.
We hope one of these finds its way into your weekend plans. Leaving the lights on is perfectly acceptable. We won’t tell anyone.
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