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After the company's latest news of Xbox Game Pass membership updates, featuring a price increase for the top tier to $thirty monthly, numerous members are looking for fresh ways to maximize their subscription. For those keeping their subscription or considering joining, we present this week's recommendations.

This weekend's games include a beloved JRPG, a delightful independent journey, and a brilliant puzzle game set to leave the platform shortly.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

Among the best methods to get your money's worth from your subscription is by diving into a extensive, captivating RPG — and Persona 4 Golden fits that description exactly. Players step into the part of a teenager who has relocated to the sleepy countryside of Inaba. During the day, your objectives involve making new friends, working employment, and managing schoolwork. At night, you investigate a disturbing string of murders by venturing into unique locations themed around your companions' deepest insecurities.

With a memorable cast of characters, tactical battle system, flawless art design, and a plot full of twists, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is regarded as a masterpiece for good reason. It also boasts a incredibly addictive gameplay loop that will keep you up late into the night, repeatedly.

Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although major releases like Ninja Gaiden IV are a key selling point for Game Pass, the platform also highlights lesser-known indie gems. A perfect example of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from the animated classic, this enchanting indie adventure is a magical realist journey rooted in Latin American culture. Players join Miho, who, after helping his grandma prepare soup, is pulled into a vibrant world filled with potato-nabbing frogs and various eccentric animals.

Sopa plays out similar to an learning-focused computer title from the 1990s, as Miho solves challenges and helps the realm's inhabitants by collecting an assortment of items. Though it's a little unpolished, Sopa is a sweet small game that openly celebrates its love for the region's culture.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon is scheduled to leave the service on Oct. 15, giving you only a few days to experience it via subscription — and you definitely should. Developer Geometric Interactive designed one of the best puzzlers of recent years in the 2023 release Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its central gameplay element revolves around transitioning among realms within additional dimensions, and frequently you'll transport those worlds, in the form of colorful spheres, with you.

Although it lacks direct instructions, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's challenges is built in a very intuitive manner, though they will test you as well. The year 2023 proved a big year for games, so it's no surprise if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was somewhat overlooked by the masses. Let's correct that while we can.