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After Microsoft's recent news of Xbox Game Pass subscription updates, featuring a price increase for the top tier to $thirty monthly, numerous members are looking for new methods to maximize their membership. For those keeping their membership or thinking about joining, here are this week's recommendations.

Our selected games feature a beloved Japanese role-playing game, a delightful indie journey, and a superb puzzle game scheduled to leave the platform shortly.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

One of the top methods to get your money's worth from Game Pass is by diving into a extensive, captivating role-playing game — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that bill exactly. Players take on the role of a teenager who has just moved to the sleepy rural town of Inaba. By day, your goals involve making new friends, taking on part-time jobs, and managing schoolwork. By night, you investigate a chilling string of murders by exploring strange dungeons themed around your companions' inner fears.

With a memorable cast of characters, tactical turn-based combat, impeccable visuals, and a plot full of twists, 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, repeatedly.

Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although major titles like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a key selling point for the service, the platform also highlights lesser-known indie gems. A perfect instance of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from the animated classic, this charming independent adventure is a fantasy tale steeped in Latin American culture. Players join Miho, who, after helping his grandma prepare soup, is transported to a colorful world filled with potato-stealing frogs and other quirky creatures.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato plays out like an educational PC game from the 1990s, as Miho tackles challenges and aids the world's inhabitants by collecting an assortment of objects. Though it's a little rough around the edges, Sopa is a heartwarming small experience that proudly celebrates its appreciation for South America.

Cocoon

Cocoon is set to leave Game Pass on Oct. 15, giving you only a few days to experience it via subscription — and you absolutely should. Studio the creators designed one of the best puzzle games of recent years in the 2023 release Cocoon. Its central puzzle mechanic revolves around transitioning between worlds inside other worlds, and often you'll carry those realms, in the form of vibrant orbs, with you.

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