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After the company's recent announcement of Xbox Game Pass subscription updates, featuring a cost hike for the Ultimate Tier to $thirty per month, many members are seeking fresh methods to get the most from their membership. For those holding onto their membership or thinking about signing up, we present this week's picks.

This weekend's titles feature a beloved Japanese role-playing game, a delightful indie adventure, and a brilliant puzzle game scheduled to depart from the service shortly.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

One of the best methods 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 perfectly. Players take on the role of a high school student who has relocated to the quiet rural town of Inaba. By day, your objectives include making new friends, taking on employment, and keeping up with studies. At night, you work to solve a disturbing string of murders by exploring unique dungeons based on your companions' deepest insecurities.

With a unforgettable cast of characters, tactical battle system, impeccable visuals, and a storyline packed with twists, Persona 4 Golden is considered a masterpiece for many reasons. It also boasts a incredibly addictive gameplay loop that will have you playing past bedtime, repeatedly.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

While major titles like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a key selling point for the service, the platform also highlights lesser-known games. A great instance of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Inspired by the animated classic, this enchanting indie game is a fantasy journey rooted in Latin American culture. Players follow Miho, who, after assisting his grandma make soup, is pulled into a colorful world populated by potato-stealing frogs and other eccentric creatures.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato unfolds similar to an learning-focused PC game from the 1990s, as Miho solves challenges and aids the world's residents by gathering an assortment of items. Even if it's a little unpolished, Sopa is a sweet little game that proudly showcases its love for the region's culture.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is set to leave Game Pass on October 15, giving you only a few days to play it via subscription — and you absolutely must. Studio the creators designed one of the best puzzlers of this generation in 2023's Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its core gameplay element focuses on moving between realms inside additional worlds, and frequently you'll transport those realms, in the shape of vibrant orbs, alongside you.

While it lacks explicit instructions, everything about Cocoon's challenges is designed in a highly natural way, though they can challenge you as well. 2023 was a massive year for video games, so it's no surprise if Cocoon was somewhat missed by the masses. We should correct that while we can.