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Following Microsoft's latest news of Game Pass membership updates, featuring a price increase for the Ultimate Tier to $thirty per month, many subscribers are looking for new ways to maximize their membership. If you keeping their subscription or considering signing up, we present our latest picks.

This weekend's games include a beloved Japanese role-playing game, a delightful indie adventure, and a brilliant puzzle game scheduled to leave the service shortly.

Persona 4 Golden

One of the best ways to maximize value from Game Pass is by immersing yourself in a lengthy, captivating role-playing game — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition fits that description exactly. Players step into the part of a high school student who has relocated to the quiet countryside of Inaba. By day, your objectives include forming friendships, working employment, and managing studies. By night, you work to solve a chilling string of murders by venturing into unique locations themed around your friends' deepest insecurities.

With a unforgettable cast of characters, strategic turn-based combat, flawless visuals, and a storyline full of twists, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is regarded as a masterpiece 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

Although major releases like Ninja Gaiden IV are a primary selling point for Game Pass, the subscription also showcases lesser-known games. A perfect example of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Inspired by the animated classic, this enchanting independent adventure is a fantasy tale steeped in South American culture. You follow Miho, who, after helping his grandma make soup, is transported to a colorful world populated by potato-nabbing frogs and other quirky creatures.

Sopa unfolds similar to an learning-focused PC game from the 1990s, as Miho tackles challenges and helps the realm's inhabitants by collecting an assortment of items. Though it's a bit unpolished, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a sweet small experience that proudly showcases its appreciation for the region's culture.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is scheduled to leave the service on Oct. 15, giving you only a few days to play it via subscription — and you definitely should. Developer Geometric Interactive crafted one of the finest puzzle games of this generation in the 2023 release Cocoon. Its core puzzle mechanic focuses on moving among worlds inside other worlds, and often you'll carry those worlds, in the shape of colorful orbs, alongside you.

While it lacks explicit instructions, everything about Cocoon's puzzles is designed in a very natural manner, though they can challenge you as well. The year 2023 proved a massive year for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was somewhat missed by many players. We should correct that now.