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Following the company's latest news of Xbox Game Pass subscription changes, featuring a cost hike for the Ultimate Tier to $thirty monthly, many members are looking for new methods to maximize their subscription. If you holding onto their subscription or considering signing up, here are our latest picks.

This weekend's titles include a beloved JRPG, a charming indie adventure, and a superb puzzler scheduled to depart from the platform soon.

Persona 4 Golden

Among the best ways to get your money's worth from Game Pass is by diving into a extensive, captivating RPG — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition fits that description perfectly. Players take on the role of a teenager who has relocated to the sleepy rural town of Inaba. By day, your goals involve forming friendships, taking on part-time jobs, and managing studies. By night, you work to solve a chilling string of murders by exploring strange locations based on your friends' inner fears.

With a memorable cast of characters, strategic battle system, impeccable art design, and a plot packed with surprises, Persona 4 Golden is regarded as a classic for good reason. It also boasts a incredibly addictive gameplay loop that will have you playing past bedtime, night after night.

Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato

While major releases like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a key attraction for Game Pass, the platform also highlights lesser-known games. A perfect instance of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from the animated classic, this enchanting indie adventure is a magical realist tale steeped in South American culture. You join Miho, who, after assisting his grandma prepare soup, is pulled into a colorful realm populated by potato-nabbing frogs and other quirky animals.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato plays out like an educational computer title from the 90s, as Miho tackles puzzles and helps the world's residents by collecting an assortment of objects. Even if it's a bit unpolished, Sopa is a sweet small game that openly showcases its love for South America.

Cocoon

Cocoon is scheduled to exit the service on October 15, giving you only a few days to play it via your membership — and you definitely must. Studio Geometric Interactive designed one of the best puzzlers of this generation in 2023's Cocoon. Its core gameplay element focuses on moving between worlds within other dimensions, and frequently you'll carry those realms, in the form of colorful orbs, with you.

While it lacks direct instructions, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's puzzles is built in a very natural way, yet they can challenge you as well. 2023 was a massive year for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was somewhat missed by many players. We should correct that now.