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After Microsoft's latest news of Game Pass membership updates, featuring a price increase for the top tier to $thirty per month, many members are looking for new ways to get the most from their subscription. If you keeping their membership or considering signing up, here are our latest recommendations.

This weekend's titles feature a beloved Japanese role-playing game, a delightful independent journey, and a superb puzzler scheduled to leave the platform soon.

Persona 4 Golden

One of the best methods to get your money's worth from Game Pass is by immersing yourself in a lengthy, captivating RPG — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition fits that bill perfectly. You take on the role of a teenager who has just moved to the sleepy countryside of Inaba. By day, your objectives involve forming friendships, taking on employment, and keeping up with studies. By night, you investigate a chilling serial murder case by exploring strange dungeons themed around your companions' deepest insecurities.

With a unforgettable group of heroes, strategic turn-based combat, flawless visuals, and a plot full of twists, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is considered a classic for good reason. It also features a incredibly addictive gameplay loop that will keep you up past bedtime, repeatedly.

Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato

While major titles like Ninja Gaiden IV are a primary selling point for Game Pass, the platform also highlights smaller games. A great instance of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from the animated classic, this charming independent adventure is a magical realist journey rooted in Latin American culture. Players follow Miho, who, after helping his grandmother prepare soup, is pulled into a colorful realm populated by potato-stealing frogs and other eccentric creatures.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato plays out like an learning-focused PC game from the 1990s, as Miho solves challenges and helps the realm's residents by collecting an assortment of items. Even if it's a bit rough around the edges, Sopa is a heartwarming small game that openly showcases its appreciation for South America.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon is scheduled to exit Game Pass on October 15, giving you only a short time to play it via your membership — and you definitely must. Studio the creators crafted one of the best puzzle games of this generation in 2023's Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its core gameplay element revolves around moving among realms within other dimensions, and often you'll carry those realms, in the shape of colorful orbs, alongside you.

While it lacks direct guidance, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's challenges is designed in a highly intuitive way, yet they will challenge you as well. The year 2023 proved a massive period for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was a bit overlooked by the masses. Let's correct that while we can.