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After the company's recent announcement of Game Pass membership updates, featuring a price increase for the Ultimate Tier to $thirty monthly, many members are seeking fresh ways to maximize their membership. If you holding onto their membership or thinking about joining, here are this week's recommendations.

This weekend's titles include a acclaimed JRPG, a delightful independent adventure, and a superb puzzler scheduled to leave the service soon.

Persona 4 Golden

One of the top ways to maximize value from Game Pass is by diving into a extensive, captivating RPG — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that description perfectly. You take on the part of a teenager who has relocated to the sleepy rural town of Inaba. During the day, your goals include forming friendships, working part-time jobs, and managing studies. At night, you work to solve a disturbing serial murder case by venturing into strange dungeons themed around your friends' deepest insecurities.

With a memorable cast of characters, strategic battle system, impeccable art design, and a plot packed with twists, Persona 4 Golden is regarded as a classic for many reasons. It also features a highly addictive gameplay loop that will have you playing late into the night, repeatedly.

Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato

While big titles like Ninja Gaiden IV are a primary selling point for the service, the subscription also showcases smaller games. A perfect example of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this enchanting independent game is a magical realist journey rooted in South American traditions. You join Miho, who, after helping his grandma make soup, is transported to a colorful realm populated by potato-nabbing frogs and other eccentric creatures.

Sopa plays out like an educational PC game from the 90s, as Miho solves puzzles and aids the realm's inhabitants by gathering an assortment of items. Even if it's a little unpolished, Sopa is a sweet little game that openly celebrates its love for the region's culture.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is set to leave Game Pass on Oct. 15, giving you only a few days to experience it via your membership — and you absolutely must. Developer the creators designed one of the finest puzzlers of this generation in the 2023 release Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its core gameplay element revolves around transitioning among realms inside other dimensions, and often you'll transport those worlds, in the form of colorful spheres, alongside you.

While it lacks explicit instructions, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's puzzles is designed in a highly intuitive way, yet they can challenge you as well. The year 2023 proved a massive year for games, so it's understandable if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was a bit missed by many players. We should correct that now.