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After Microsoft's latest announcement of Game Pass subscription updates, including a price increase for the top tier to $30 per month, numerous members are seeking new ways to maximize their membership. If you keeping their membership or thinking about signing up, here are our latest recommendations.

This weekend's games feature a acclaimed Japanese role-playing game, a delightful indie journey, and a superb puzzler set to leave the service shortly.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

Among the top methods to get your money's worth from Game Pass is by diving into a extensive, engaging role-playing game — and Persona 4 Golden matches that description perfectly. You take on the part of a teenager who has just moved to the sleepy rural town of Inaba. During the day, your objectives include forming new friends, working employment, and managing schoolwork. By night, you work to solve a chilling serial murder case by exploring strange locations themed around your companions' deepest insecurities.

With a memorable group of heroes, strategic battle system, impeccable visuals, and a plot full of surprises, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is considered a classic for many reasons. It also features a highly addictive gameplay loop that will have you playing late into the night, repeatedly.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although major releases like Ninja Gaiden IV are a primary attraction for Game Pass, the subscription also highlights lesser-known indie gems. A great example of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Inspired by Spirited Away, this charming independent adventure is a fantasy journey steeped in Latin American traditions. You follow Miho, who, after assisting his grandmother prepare soup, is pulled into a vibrant world filled with potato-nabbing frogs and various quirky animals.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato unfolds similar to an learning-focused PC game from the 90s, as Miho tackles challenges and aids the realm's inhabitants by gathering an assortment of items. Though it's a bit rough around the edges, Sopa is a heartwarming little experience that openly showcases its love for the region's culture.

Cocoon

Cocoon is set to exit the service on October 15, leaving only a few days to play it via your membership — and you absolutely should. Developer the creators crafted one of the best puzzlers of this generation in the 2023 release Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its core puzzle mechanic revolves around transitioning among realms inside other worlds, and frequently you'll carry those realms, in the form of vibrant spheres, with you.

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