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Following the company's recent announcement of Xbox Game Pass membership updates, including a price increase for the top tier to $30 per month, many members are looking for fresh methods to get the most from their subscription. If you holding onto their subscription or considering joining, here are this week's recommendations.

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

Persona 4 Golden

One of the top ways to get your money's worth from Game Pass is by immersing yourself in a lengthy, engaging role-playing game — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that description perfectly. You take on the role of a teenager who has just moved to the sleepy countryside of Inaba. By day, your objectives involve forming new friends, working employment, and managing schoolwork. By night, you investigate a chilling string of murders by exploring strange locations themed around your friends' deepest insecurities.

With a memorable group of heroes, tactical turn-based combat, flawless art design, and a plot full of twists, Persona 4 Golden is regarded as a masterpiece for good reason. It also boasts a highly engrossing cycle that will keep you up late into the night, night after night.

Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato

While big titles like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a primary selling point for the service, the subscription also highlights smaller indie gems. A perfect instance of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from the animated classic, this charming indie game is a magical realist tale steeped in Latin American traditions. Players join Miho, who, after assisting his grandmother make soup, is transported to a vibrant realm filled with potato-stealing frogs and other eccentric animals.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato plays out similar to an educational PC game from the 90s, as Miho tackles puzzles and helps the world's inhabitants by collecting an assortment of objects. Though it's a bit rough around the edges, Sopa is a heartwarming little experience that openly showcases its appreciation for South America.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon is scheduled to leave Game Pass on October 15, giving you only a short time to experience it via subscription — and you definitely should. Studio Geometric Interactive crafted one of the finest puzzlers of this generation in the 2023 release Cocoon. Its core puzzle mechanic revolves around moving among realms inside additional worlds, and frequently you'll carry those worlds, in the shape of colorful spheres, with you.

Although it lacks explicit instructions, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's challenges is built in a very natural way, yet they will challenge you as well. 2023 was a big year for games, so it's understandable if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was a bit overlooked by many players. Let's correct that while we can.