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After Microsoft's latest announcement of Xbox Game Pass membership updates, including a price increase for the top tier to $30 per month, numerous subscribers are looking for new ways to get the most from their membership. If you keeping their membership or considering joining, we present our latest picks.

This weekend's games feature a acclaimed Japanese role-playing game, a charming indie adventure, and a brilliant puzzle game set to depart from the service shortly.

Persona 4 Golden

Among the best methods to get your money's worth from your subscription is by immersing yourself in a extensive, captivating role-playing game — and Persona 4 Golden fits that bill exactly. Players step into the part of a high school student who has relocated to the quiet countryside of Inaba. By day, your objectives include forming new friends, taking on employment, and managing schoolwork. By night, you investigate a disturbing string of murders by exploring unique dungeons based on your companions' inner fears.

With a unforgettable cast of characters, strategic battle system, flawless visuals, and a storyline full of twists, Persona 4 Golden is considered a masterpiece for good reason. It also features a highly addictive gameplay loop that will have you playing past bedtime, night after night.

Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although big releases like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a key attraction for Game Pass, the subscription also showcases smaller games. A great example of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this enchanting indie game is a magical realist journey steeped in Latin American traditions. Players follow Miho, who, after helping his grandmother prepare soup, is transported to a colorful world filled with potato-stealing frogs and other quirky animals.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato unfolds like an learning-focused computer title from the 90s, as Miho solves puzzles and helps the world's inhabitants by collecting an inventory of items. Though it's a bit rough around the edges, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a sweet little game that proudly celebrates its love for South America.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is scheduled to exit Game Pass on Oct. 15, giving you only a few days to experience it via your membership — and you definitely should. Studio the creators designed one of the finest puzzlers of this generation in 2023's Cocoon. Its central gameplay element focuses on moving between realms inside other dimensions, and frequently you'll transport those realms, in the form of vibrant spheres, with you.

Although it lacks direct instructions, everything about Cocoon's puzzles is designed in a highly natural manner, yet they can challenge you as well. 2023 was a massive year for video games, so it's no surprise if Cocoon was a bit missed by many players. We should rectify that now.