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After the company's latest news of Game Pass subscription updates, featuring a price increase for the top tier to $thirty per month, many members are looking for new methods to get the most from their membership. For those holding onto their subscription or considering joining, here are this week's recommendations.

This weekend's titles include a beloved Japanese role-playing game, a charming indie adventure, and a superb puzzler scheduled to depart from the service soon.

Persona 4 Golden

Among the best ways to get your money's worth from Game Pass is by immersing yourself in a lengthy, captivating role-playing game — and Persona 4 Golden matches that description exactly. You step into the role of a high school student who has just moved to the sleepy rural town of Inaba. By day, your goals involve forming new friends, taking on employment, and managing studies. By night, you investigate a disturbing serial murder case by venturing into unique locations themed around your friends' deepest insecurities.

With a unforgettable cast of characters, strategic turn-based combat, impeccable art design, and a storyline full of surprises, Persona 4 Golden is regarded as a masterpiece for good reason. It also features a incredibly engrossing cycle that will have you playing late into the night, night after night.

Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although big releases like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a key selling point for the service, the subscription also highlights smaller indie gems. A great example of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Inspired by Spirited Away, this enchanting indie game is a magical realist journey steeped in Latin American culture. You join Miho, who, after helping his grandma prepare soup, is pulled into a vibrant world populated by potato-stealing frogs and various eccentric creatures.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato plays out similar to an educational computer title from the 1990s, as Miho solves puzzles and aids the world's inhabitants by collecting an inventory of objects. Though it's a bit unpolished, Sopa is a sweet small experience that openly showcases its appreciation for the region's culture.

Cocoon

Cocoon is set to leave the service on Oct. 15, leaving only a short time to play it via your membership — and you definitely must. Developer the creators crafted one of the best puzzlers of this generation in 2023's Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its central puzzle mechanic focuses on moving between worlds within other dimensions, and often you'll transport those realms, in the form of colorful spheres, alongside you.

Although it doesn't have explicit instructions, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's challenges is built in a highly natural way, though they will challenge you as well. The year 2023 proved a big period for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was a bit missed by the masses. Let's rectify that while we can.