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Following Microsoft's latest news of Xbox Game Pass membership updates, featuring a price increase for the top tier to $30 monthly, numerous subscribers are seeking new ways to maximize their subscription. If you holding onto their membership or considering signing up, here are our latest picks.

This weekend's games feature a acclaimed Japanese role-playing game, a charming indie journey, and a superb puzzle game scheduled to depart from the service soon.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

One of the top methods to maximize value from Game Pass is by immersing yourself in a lengthy, captivating role-playing game — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that bill perfectly. You take on the part of a teenager who has just moved to the quiet rural town of Inaba. During the day, your objectives involve making new friends, working part-time jobs, and managing studies. By night, you work to solve a disturbing string of murders by exploring strange dungeons themed around your companions' inner fears.

With a memorable cast of characters, strategic battle system, flawless art design, and a plot packed with twists, Persona 4 Golden is regarded as a masterpiece for good reason. It also features a incredibly addictive cycle that will keep you up late into the night, repeatedly.

Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato

While big releases like Ninja Gaiden IV are a primary attraction for the service, the platform also showcases lesser-known indie gems. A great instance of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this enchanting indie adventure is a fantasy tale rooted in Latin American culture. Players join Miho, who, after helping his grandmother prepare soup, is transported to a vibrant world populated by potato-stealing frogs and other eccentric creatures.

Sopa unfolds similar to an educational computer title from the 90s, as Miho solves challenges and aids the world's inhabitants by collecting an inventory of items. Though it's a bit rough around the edges, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a sweet little experience that proudly celebrates its appreciation for the region's culture.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is scheduled to leave Game Pass on Oct. 15, giving you only a short time to experience it via your membership — and you absolutely must. Developer the creators designed one of the best puzzlers of recent years in the 2023 release Cocoon. Its core gameplay element revolves around moving among realms inside other dimensions, and often you'll transport those realms, in the shape of vibrant spheres, with you.

While it lacks direct guidance, everything about Cocoon's puzzles is built in a very natural way, yet they will challenge you as well. The year 2023 proved a big year for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was somewhat missed by many players. We should rectify that while we can.