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After Microsoft's latest announcement of Game Pass subscription updates, including a cost hike for the top tier to $thirty per month, numerous members are looking for new methods to maximize their membership. If you holding onto their subscription or considering joining, here are this week's picks.

This weekend's games feature a acclaimed Japanese role-playing game, a delightful indie journey, and a superb puzzle game scheduled to leave the service soon.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

Among the top methods to maximize value from Game Pass is by diving into a lengthy, captivating role-playing game — and Persona 4 Golden fits that description exactly. Players take on the part of a teenager who has just moved to the quiet rural town of Inaba. By day, your objectives include making new friends, taking on employment, and keeping up with studies. At night, you work to solve a disturbing string of murders by venturing into unique dungeons based on your friends' deepest insecurities.

With a memorable cast of characters, tactical battle system, impeccable visuals, and a storyline full of twists, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is regarded as a masterpiece for many reasons. It also features a highly engrossing cycle that will keep you up late into the night, night after night.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although big releases like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a key selling point for Game Pass, the subscription also highlights smaller indie gems. A great example of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this charming indie game is a magical realist journey steeped in South American culture. You follow Miho, who, after helping his grandma make soup, is transported to a colorful realm filled with potato-nabbing frogs and various quirky animals.

Sopa unfolds like an learning-focused computer title from the 90s, as Miho tackles puzzles and aids the world's inhabitants by collecting an assortment of objects. Though it's a little rough around the edges, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a sweet little game that proudly celebrates its appreciation for South America.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon is scheduled to exit the service on October 15, giving you only a short time to play it via subscription — and you absolutely should. Developer Geometric Interactive crafted one of the finest puzzle games of this generation in 2023's Cocoon. Its central puzzle mechanic focuses on transitioning among realms within additional worlds, and often you'll transport those worlds, in the shape of colorful orbs, with you.

Although it doesn't have explicit guidance, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's challenges is designed in a very natural way, yet they will challenge you as well. The year 2023 proved a big period for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was somewhat overlooked by many players. We should correct that while we can.