Need a Break from Silksong? 3 Game Pass Games to Play This Weekend (Sept 5–7, 2025)
Hollow Knight: Silksong just landed, and if you need short breaks between runs, here are three Game Pass games worth trying over the weekend of Sept. 5–7, 2025. Each pick is available on Xbox Game Pass and offers a different pace, from a quick, kinetic shooter to a sprawling RPG and a roguelike platformer.
- I Am Your Beast — a compact first‑person shooter from Strange Scaffold.
- Dragon Age: Inquisition — Bioware’s 2014 RPG, available via EA Play on Game Pass.
- The Rogue Prince of Persia — a new roguelike from Evil Empire with wallrunning and platforming.
I Am Your Beast
I Am Your Beast is a first‑person shooter from Strange Scaffold. The game puts players in the role of a retired, legendary shooter who is drawn back into conflict; instead of taking a final job, the protagonist targets the people trying to bring him back.
Gameplay includes fast, short levels where players shoot, throw empty weapons at enemies, catch guns midair, and chain movement and attacks. Moreover, the game emphasizes rapid weapon swaps and mobility rather than prolonged firefights.
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Dragon Age: Inquisition is a role‑playing game developed by Bioware and released in 2014. It is the predecessor to Dragon Age: The Veilguard; The Veilguard released in October 2024 and is a direct sequel to Inquisition.
On Game Pass, Inquisition is available through EA Play, which means access requires a Game Pass Ultimate membership that includes EA Play. The game combines tactical pause‑and‑plan mechanics with real‑time combat, and it features a party system with written companion characters and branching storylines.
Inquisition received multiple year‑end awards following its release and was widely noted for its world design and character writing. Consequently, many players return to it when a new Dragon Age title arrives.
The Rogue Prince of Persia
The Rogue Prince of Persia is a roguelike platformer developed by Evil Empire, a studio staffed in part by developers who worked on Dead Cells expansions. The game features wallrunning, tight platforming, fast-paced combat, and a progression system that resets runs while unlocking permanent upgrades.
The visual style is more cartoonish than Dead Cells, and the game includes a narrative arc with written characters alongside the roguelike gameplay loop.
All three titles are available on Xbox Game Pass as of the weekend of Sept. 5–7, 2025, and each offers a different session length and playstyle, so you can switch between them depending on how long you want to play between Silksong runs.
