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After the company's latest news of Xbox Game Pass membership updates, featuring a price increase for the Ultimate Tier to $thirty per month, many members are looking for fresh methods to get the most from their subscription. If you keeping their membership or thinking about joining, here are our latest recommendations.

This weekend's games include a acclaimed JRPG, a delightful indie adventure, and a superb puzzler scheduled to depart from the service soon.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

One of the top ways to maximize value from your subscription is by immersing yourself in a extensive, engaging RPG — and Persona 4 Golden fits that bill exactly. Players step into the part of a high school student who has relocated to the sleepy rural town of Inaba. During the day, your objectives involve forming friendships, working employment, and managing studies. By night, you work to solve a disturbing string of murders by exploring strange locations based on your companions' deepest insecurities.

With a unforgettable cast of characters, strategic battle system, impeccable visuals, and a storyline full of surprises, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is regarded as a classic for good reason. It also boasts a highly addictive cycle that will have you playing past bedtime, night after night.

Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although big titles like Ninja Gaiden IV are a key selling point for the service, the subscription also highlights lesser-known games. A great instance of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from the animated classic, this enchanting indie adventure is a magical realist journey steeped in Latin American traditions. You join Miho, who, after assisting his grandmother make soup, is pulled into a vibrant world populated by potato-nabbing frogs and other eccentric animals.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato plays out like an educational computer title from the 1990s, as Miho tackles puzzles and helps the realm's residents by gathering an assortment of items. Even if it's a little unpolished, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a heartwarming little game that openly showcases its love for South America.

Cocoon

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is set to leave Game Pass on Oct. 15, giving you only a few days to play it via your membership — and you definitely must. Developer the creators crafted one of the finest puzzlers of recent years in 2023's Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its central gameplay element revolves around transitioning between worlds within additional worlds, and often you'll transport those worlds, in the shape of vibrant orbs, with you.

Although it doesn't have direct instructions, everything about Cocoon's puzzles is designed in a very intuitive way, though they can test you as well. 2023 was a massive year for games, so it's understandable if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was somewhat overlooked by many players. We should correct that now.