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Following the company's latest announcement of Xbox Game Pass subscription changes, featuring a cost hike for the top tier to $thirty monthly, numerous subscribers are seeking new ways to maximize their membership. If you keeping their membership or thinking about joining, we present this week's picks.

Our selected games include a beloved JRPG, a charming indie journey, and a brilliant puzzler set to leave the service shortly.

Persona 4 Golden

One of the top ways to get your money's worth from your subscription is by immersing yourself in a lengthy, engaging role-playing game — and Persona 4 Golden fits that bill exactly. You take on the part of a teenager who has just moved to the sleepy countryside of Inaba. By day, your objectives include forming new friends, taking on part-time jobs, and keeping up with schoolwork. At night, you work to solve a chilling serial murder case by exploring strange locations based on your companions' deepest insecurities.

With a memorable group of heroes, tactical battle system, flawless art design, and a plot full of twists, Persona 4 Golden is regarded as a masterpiece for good reason. It also boasts a incredibly addictive gameplay loop that will keep you up past bedtime, repeatedly.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although major releases like Ninja Gaiden IV are a primary selling point for Game Pass, the subscription also highlights lesser-known games. A great example of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from the animated classic, this charming independent adventure is a fantasy journey steeped in South American culture. Players join Miho, who, after helping his grandmother prepare soup, is pulled into a colorful realm populated by potato-nabbing frogs and various eccentric animals.

Sopa unfolds similar to an educational computer title from the 1990s, as Miho solves puzzles and helps the realm's inhabitants by gathering an assortment of objects. Though it's a bit unpolished, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a heartwarming small game that openly showcases its appreciation for the region's culture.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is set to exit Game Pass on October 15, giving you only a few days to experience it via your membership — and you absolutely must. Developer the creators designed one of the best puzzlers of this generation in 2023's Cocoon. Its central puzzle mechanic focuses on moving between worlds inside additional dimensions, and frequently you'll transport those worlds, in the shape of colorful orbs, with you.

Although it lacks direct instructions, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's puzzles is built in a highly intuitive way, though they can test you as well. 2023 was a big period for video games, so it's no surprise if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was somewhat missed by the masses. Let's correct that now.