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Following the company's latest news of Xbox Game Pass subscription changes, including a price increase for the top tier to $thirty per month, many members are seeking new ways to maximize their membership. If you keeping their membership or thinking about signing up, here are our latest recommendations.

This weekend's titles include a acclaimed JRPG, a delightful indie adventure, and a brilliant puzzler set to leave the platform soon.

Persona 4 Golden

One of the best ways to get your money's worth from Game Pass is by immersing yourself in a extensive, captivating role-playing game — and Persona 4 Golden fits that description perfectly. You step into the role of a teenager who has relocated to the quiet rural town of Inaba. During the day, your goals involve making new friends, taking on employment, and managing studies. At night, you work to solve a disturbing string of murders by exploring unique locations based on your friends' inner fears.

With a unforgettable cast of characters, tactical battle system, impeccable art design, and a plot packed with surprises, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is considered a masterpiece for many reasons. It also features a highly addictive cycle that will keep you up late into the night, night after night.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

While major titles like Ninja Gaiden IV are a primary selling point for the service, the subscription also showcases smaller indie gems. A perfect instance of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Inspired by Spirited Away, this charming independent adventure is a fantasy tale steeped in South American culture. Players follow Miho, who, after helping his grandma make soup, is pulled into a vibrant world filled with potato-nabbing frogs and other eccentric creatures.

Sopa unfolds similar to an learning-focused PC game from the 1990s, as Miho tackles puzzles and aids the world's inhabitants by gathering an assortment of items. Though it's a little rough around the edges, Sopa is a heartwarming small experience that openly showcases its love for South America.

Cocoon

Cocoon is set to exit Game Pass on Oct. 15, leaving only a short time to play it via your membership — and you absolutely should. Developer Geometric Interactive designed one of the best puzzlers of this generation in 2023's Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its central gameplay element revolves around transitioning between realms inside other dimensions, and often you'll carry those worlds, in the form of vibrant orbs, with you.

While it doesn't have explicit guidance, everything about Cocoon's challenges is designed in a very intuitive way, though they will challenge you as well. The year 2023 proved a massive period for video games, so it's no surprise if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was a bit overlooked by the masses. Let's rectify that now.