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After the company's recent announcement of Xbox Game Pass subscription changes, featuring a price increase for the Ultimate Tier to $thirty per month, numerous members are looking for new methods to maximize their membership. For those keeping their membership or thinking about signing up, here are this week's picks.

This weekend's titles feature a beloved JRPG, a charming indie adventure, and a brilliant puzzler scheduled to depart from the platform shortly.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

One of the best ways to get your money's worth from Game Pass is by diving into a lengthy, engaging RPG — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that bill exactly. Players step into the role of a teenager who has just moved to the sleepy countryside of Inaba. During the day, your objectives include making new friends, working employment, and managing schoolwork. At night, you work to solve a disturbing string of murders by exploring strange locations themed around your friends' deepest insecurities.

With a unforgettable group of heroes, strategic battle system, impeccable art design, and a storyline packed with surprises, Persona 4 Golden is considered a masterpiece for good reason. It also features a highly engrossing cycle that will have you playing late into the night, night after night.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

While major titles like Ninja Gaiden IV are a key attraction for the service, the subscription also highlights smaller games. A perfect example of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Inspired by the animated classic, this enchanting indie adventure is a fantasy journey rooted in Latin American traditions. You join Miho, who, after helping his grandma make soup, is pulled into a colorful world filled with potato-nabbing frogs and other eccentric animals.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato unfolds like an learning-focused computer title from the 90s, as Miho solves challenges and helps the world's inhabitants by gathering an assortment of items. Even if it's a little unpolished, Sopa is a sweet little experience that openly celebrates its appreciation for South America.

Cocoon

Cocoon is set to leave Game Pass on Oct. 15, leaving only a few days to experience it via subscription — and you absolutely must. Developer the creators designed one of the best puzzle games of this generation in 2023's Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its central puzzle mechanic revolves around moving between worlds within additional worlds, and frequently you'll transport those realms, in the form of colorful orbs, with you.

Although it lacks explicit instructions, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's puzzles is designed in a highly intuitive way, though they will test you as well. 2023 was a massive year for games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was a bit missed by the masses. We should correct that now.