Ace Attorney Trilogy

Play it on: PS4, Xbox One, Windows, iOS, Android
Current goal: Fall in love with Edgeworth all over again.
Buy it from: Amazon | Best Buy | GameStop

You could use your Game Pass subscription to play Starfield this weekend. But the epicureans among us will be spending the lull before Spider-Man 2 / Mario Wonder week on gentler fare. Capcom’s trilogy of visual novels about defense lawyer Phoenix Wright and his gaggle of weirdo buddies landed on Xbox’s subscription service at the end of last month, and the goofs and gaffes of this bizarre series have aged like a fine wine in the whopping 22 years since the first game’s release for the good old Game Boy Advance.

Each of the three games has five cases, which are split between an investigation phase in which you gather clues, and a courtroom phase where you interrogate witnesses. You can clear the simpler early cases in an hour or two, but don’t be surprised if you end up devouring the absurd stories well into the wee hours. Come for the pun-filled banter and batshit witness-stand meltdown, but stay for one of the greatest gay ships fandom has ever known—the simmering romance between Phoenix and pouty prosecutor Miles Edgeworth. — Jen Glennon

And those are our picks for the weekend starting Friday, October 13, 2023. What games are you playing this weekend?