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Following the company's recent news of Game Pass membership updates, featuring a cost hike for the top tier to $thirty monthly, many members are looking for new methods to maximize their membership. If you holding onto their subscription or thinking about joining, here are this week's picks.

This weekend's games feature a beloved Japanese role-playing game, a delightful indie journey, and a brilliant puzzle game set to depart from the service soon.

Persona 4 Golden

Among the best ways to get your money's worth from your subscription is by diving into a extensive, engaging role-playing game — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that description exactly. You step into the part of a high school student who has relocated to the quiet rural town of Inaba. By day, your objectives involve forming new friends, working part-time jobs, 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 memorable group of heroes, strategic turn-based combat, flawless visuals, and a storyline full of surprises, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is regarded as 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

While big titles like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a primary attraction for the service, the platform also showcases lesser-known games. A great example of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this charming independent adventure is a fantasy journey rooted in Latin American traditions. You join Miho, who, after assisting his grandmother make soup, is transported to a colorful world populated by potato-nabbing frogs and other quirky creatures.

Sopa unfolds similar to an learning-focused computer title from the 90s, as Miho solves puzzles and aids the realm's residents by gathering an inventory of items. Even if it's a little unpolished, Sopa is a sweet small experience that proudly showcases its appreciation for South America.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon is set to exit Game Pass on October 15, giving you only a short time to experience it via your membership — and you absolutely should. Studio Geometric Interactive designed one of the finest puzzle games of recent years in 2023's Cocoon. Its central puzzle mechanic revolves around moving among realms inside additional dimensions, and often you'll transport those realms, in the shape of colorful orbs, with you.

Although it lacks direct guidance, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's puzzles is built in a very intuitive way, though they can test you as well. The year 2023 proved a massive period for games, so it's no surprise if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was somewhat overlooked by many players. Let's correct that while we can.