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After Microsoft's latest announcement of Xbox Game Pass membership updates, featuring a price increase for the Ultimate Tier to $30 monthly, numerous members are looking for new methods to maximize their subscription. If you holding onto their subscription or thinking about signing up, here are our latest picks.

This weekend's games feature a beloved Japanese role-playing game, a delightful indie journey, and a brilliant puzzle game scheduled to depart from the service soon.

Persona 4 Golden

One of the top ways to maximize value from your subscription is by diving into a extensive, engaging RPG — and Persona 4 Golden fits that description perfectly. Players take on the role of a teenager who has just moved to the sleepy countryside of Inaba. By day, your goals involve making new friends, working employment, and managing schoolwork. By night, you investigate a chilling string of murders by venturing into strange dungeons themed around your companions' deepest insecurities.

With a unforgettable group of heroes, strategic battle system, flawless art design, and a storyline packed with surprises, Persona 4 Golden is regarded as a masterpiece for good reason. It also boasts a incredibly addictive cycle that will keep you up late into the night, night after night.

Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although big titles like Ninja Gaiden IV are a primary attraction for the service, the platform also highlights lesser-known indie gems. A great example of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Inspired by the animated classic, this charming independent game is a fantasy journey rooted in Latin American culture. You join Miho, who, after helping his grandma prepare soup, is pulled into a colorful world filled with potato-stealing frogs and other quirky creatures.

Sopa plays out like an learning-focused PC game from the 1990s, as Miho solves puzzles and helps the world's residents by collecting an assortment of objects. Even if it's a bit unpolished, Sopa is a heartwarming small game that openly celebrates its love for South America.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon is scheduled to exit the service on October 15, giving you only a short time to experience it via your membership — and you absolutely should. Studio Geometric Interactive crafted one of the best puzzlers of this generation in 2023's Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its core gameplay element focuses on transitioning between realms inside other dimensions, and often you'll transport those realms, in the shape of colorful spheres, alongside you.

While it doesn't have direct guidance, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's puzzles is designed in a very intuitive manner, though they will challenge you as well. The year 2023 proved a massive period for games, so it's understandable if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was somewhat overlooked by the masses. Let's correct that while we can.