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Following the company's latest news of Xbox Game Pass membership updates, featuring a price increase for the Ultimate Tier to $thirty per month, numerous members are seeking new methods to get the most from their subscription. If you holding onto their subscription or considering joining, we present this week's picks.

This weekend's titles feature a beloved JRPG, a delightful indie adventure, and a superb puzzle game scheduled to depart from the service shortly.

Persona 4 Golden

One of the best methods to maximize value from your subscription is by immersing yourself in a extensive, engaging role-playing game — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that description perfectly. You take on the role of a teenager who has just moved to the sleepy countryside of Inaba. By day, your goals include forming friendships, taking on employment, and managing studies. By night, you work to solve a disturbing string of murders by exploring unique locations themed around your companions' deepest insecurities.

With a memorable group of heroes, tactical turn-based combat, flawless visuals, and a storyline packed with surprises, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is considered a classic for many reasons. It also features a incredibly engrossing gameplay loop that will keep you up past bedtime, night after night.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

While major releases like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a primary attraction for the service, the subscription also showcases smaller games. A great instance of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this enchanting independent game is a magical realist journey steeped in Latin American culture. Players join Miho, who, after assisting his grandma prepare soup, is transported to a vibrant realm filled with potato-nabbing frogs and various eccentric animals.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato plays out like an educational PC game from the 1990s, as Miho solves puzzles and helps the world's inhabitants by gathering an inventory of objects. Even if it's a little unpolished, Sopa is a heartwarming little experience that openly celebrates its love for the region's culture.

Cocoon

Cocoon is set to exit Game Pass on Oct. 15, leaving only a few days to play it via your membership — and you absolutely must. Studio the creators crafted one of the finest puzzlers of recent years in the 2023 release Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its central gameplay element focuses on transitioning among worlds within additional dimensions, and often you'll transport those worlds, in the shape of vibrant orbs, alongside you.

While it doesn't have explicit instructions, everything about Cocoon's puzzles is built in a highly natural manner, though they can challenge you as well. 2023 was a big year for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was a bit missed by the masses. We should correct that now.