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Following Microsoft's recent announcement of Xbox Game Pass subscription changes, featuring a cost hike for the top tier to $thirty per month, numerous members are seeking new methods to maximize their subscription. If you keeping their subscription or considering joining, here are this week's picks.

This weekend's games feature a acclaimed Japanese role-playing game, a delightful indie adventure, and a superb puzzle game set to leave the platform soon.

Persona 4 Golden

One of the top methods to maximize value from your subscription is by immersing yourself in a extensive, captivating RPG — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that description perfectly. You step into the role of a high school student who has just moved to the quiet rural town of Inaba. During the day, your goals include making new friends, taking on part-time jobs, and managing schoolwork. By night, you investigate a chilling serial murder case by venturing into unique dungeons themed around your friends' inner fears.

With a memorable group of heroes, tactical battle system, impeccable art design, and a plot full of twists, Persona 4 Golden is regarded as a masterpiece for many reasons. It also features a highly addictive gameplay loop that will keep you up past bedtime, night after night.

Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although big titles like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a primary attraction for Game Pass, the platform also showcases lesser-known games. A perfect example of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this charming independent adventure is a fantasy tale rooted in Latin American culture. Players join Miho, who, after assisting his grandmother prepare soup, is transported to a colorful world populated by potato-stealing frogs and other quirky creatures.

Sopa unfolds similar to an educational computer title from the 90s, as Miho tackles puzzles and aids the realm's residents by gathering an assortment of objects. Though it's a little rough around the edges, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a sweet small experience that openly celebrates its appreciation for the region's culture.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is set to leave the service on October 15, leaving only a few days to experience it via your membership — and you absolutely must. Developer Geometric Interactive designed one of the finest puzzlers of recent years in the 2023 release Cocoon. Its central gameplay element focuses on transitioning among realms inside other worlds, and frequently you'll transport those worlds, in the form of colorful orbs, alongside you.

Although it lacks explicit instructions, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's puzzles is built in a very natural way, yet they can test you as well. 2023 was a big period for games, so it's no surprise if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was somewhat overlooked by the masses. Let's rectify that while we can.