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Following the company's latest news of Game Pass membership updates, featuring a price increase for the Ultimate Tier to $thirty per month, many members are looking for fresh methods to get the most from their subscription. If you holding onto their subscription or considering signing up, we present this week's recommendations.

Our selected games feature a beloved Japanese role-playing game, a charming independent journey, and a superb puzzler scheduled to leave the service shortly.

Persona 4 Golden

One of the top methods to get your money's worth from your subscription is by immersing yourself in a lengthy, captivating RPG — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition fits that description perfectly. You step into the part of a teenager who has just moved to the sleepy countryside of Inaba. By day, your objectives involve making new friends, taking on employment, and managing schoolwork. By night, you work to solve a chilling serial murder case by exploring strange dungeons based on your companions' inner fears.

With a memorable group of heroes, tactical turn-based combat, flawless visuals, and a plot packed with surprises, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is considered 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

Although major releases like Ninja Gaiden IV are a key attraction for Game Pass, the subscription also showcases lesser-known games. A great example of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this enchanting independent adventure is a magical realist journey rooted in South American traditions. Players follow Miho, who, after assisting his grandma make soup, is pulled into a colorful world populated by potato-stealing frogs and various eccentric creatures.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato plays out like an learning-focused PC game from the 90s, as Miho solves challenges and aids the world's residents by collecting an inventory of items. Though it's a little unpolished, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a sweet small experience that proudly celebrates its appreciation for South America.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is scheduled to leave Game Pass on Oct. 15, giving you only a short time to play it via your membership — and you definitely should. Developer Geometric Interactive crafted one of the finest puzzle games of this generation in 2023's Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its central gameplay element focuses on moving between realms inside additional worlds, and often you'll carry those worlds, in the form of colorful orbs, with you.

Although it doesn't have direct instructions, everything about Cocoon's challenges is built in a very natural manner, yet they will challenge you as well. 2023 was a big period for games, so it's understandable if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was somewhat missed by the masses. We should rectify that while we can.