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After the company's latest news of Xbox Game Pass membership updates, including a price increase for the Ultimate Tier to $30 monthly, numerous subscribers are seeking new ways to maximize their membership. If you keeping their subscription or considering signing up, we present this week's picks.

This weekend's games feature a acclaimed JRPG, a charming indie adventure, and a brilliant puzzle game scheduled to leave the platform soon.

Persona 4 Golden

One of the top ways to get your money's worth from your subscription is by diving into a extensive, engaging role-playing game — and Persona 4 Golden fits that description perfectly. Players take on the part of a high school student who has relocated to the sleepy rural town of Inaba. By day, your goals involve forming new friends, working employment, and keeping up with studies. By night, you work to solve a chilling serial murder case by exploring unique locations themed around your friends' deepest insecurities.

With a memorable group of heroes, strategic battle system, flawless art design, and a plot packed with twists, Persona 4 Golden is considered a masterpiece for good reason. It also boasts a highly addictive cycle that will have you playing past bedtime, repeatedly.

Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato

While major releases like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a key attraction for Game Pass, the subscription also highlights lesser-known games. A great example of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this charming independent game is a fantasy journey steeped in Latin American culture. You join Miho, who, after assisting his grandma make soup, is transported to a vibrant world filled with potato-stealing frogs and other eccentric creatures.

Sopa unfolds similar to an educational PC game from the 1990s, as Miho tackles challenges and helps the realm's inhabitants by collecting an assortment of objects. Though it's a little rough around the edges, Sopa is a heartwarming small experience that proudly showcases its appreciation for the region's culture.

Cocoon

Cocoon is set to exit Game Pass on October 15, giving you only a short time to experience it via subscription — and you absolutely must. Studio the creators crafted one of the finest puzzlers of this generation in 2023's Cocoon. Its central gameplay element focuses on moving among worlds inside other worlds, and often you'll carry those worlds, in the form of vibrant spheres, alongside you.

While it lacks direct guidance, everything about Cocoon's challenges is built in a very natural manner, yet they can test you as well. The year 2023 proved a massive period for games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was somewhat missed by many players. Let's correct that now.