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After the company's latest news of Game Pass membership updates, featuring a cost hike for the Ultimate Tier to $thirty monthly, many subscribers are seeking new ways to maximize their membership. If you holding onto their subscription or considering signing up, here are our latest picks.

This weekend's titles feature a acclaimed Japanese role-playing game, a delightful indie adventure, and a superb puzzle game scheduled to depart from the service shortly.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

Among the best methods to get your money's worth from Game Pass is by diving into a extensive, engaging role-playing game — and Persona 4 Golden fits that bill perfectly. Players step into the part of a high school student who has just moved to the sleepy rural town of Inaba. By day, your goals involve forming new friends, working employment, and managing studies. At night, you work to solve a disturbing serial murder case by venturing into unique locations based on your companions' inner fears.

With a memorable cast of characters, strategic battle system, impeccable visuals, and a plot full of surprises, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is regarded as a masterpiece for good reason. It also features a incredibly engrossing cycle that will keep you up late into the night, repeatedly.

Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although major releases like Ninja Gaiden IV are a primary selling point for Game Pass, the platform also showcases lesser-known games. A great instance of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this enchanting independent game is a magical realist journey rooted in Latin American culture. Players follow Miho, who, after helping his grandma make soup, is pulled into a colorful realm filled with potato-nabbing frogs and other quirky creatures.

Sopa plays out like an educational computer title from the 1990s, as Miho tackles puzzles and aids the world's residents by collecting an assortment of objects. Even if it's a bit rough around the edges, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a sweet small game that proudly celebrates its appreciation for South America.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is scheduled to exit the service on Oct. 15, leaving only a few days to experience it via your membership — and you absolutely should. Developer the creators crafted one of the finest puzzlers of this generation in 2023's Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its core puzzle mechanic focuses on moving among realms inside other dimensions, and often you'll carry those realms, in the shape of vibrant orbs, with you.

While it doesn't have explicit guidance, everything about Cocoon's challenges is built in a highly natural way, though they will test you as well. 2023 was a massive year for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was somewhat overlooked by the masses. Let's rectify that while we can.