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After the company's latest announcement of Game Pass membership changes, including a price increase for the top tier to $30 monthly, many members are looking for new ways to get the most from their subscription. For those holding onto their membership or considering joining, we present this week's picks.

Our selected games feature a acclaimed Japanese role-playing game, a delightful independent journey, and a superb puzzler set to depart from the service shortly.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

One of the top ways to maximize value from your subscription is by immersing yourself in a extensive, engaging RPG — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that bill perfectly. Players step into the part of a teenager who has just moved to the quiet rural town of Inaba. During the day, your goals involve making friendships, working employment, and keeping up with studies. At night, you work to solve a disturbing serial murder case by exploring unique dungeons themed around your friends' deepest insecurities.

With a memorable group of heroes, strategic turn-based combat, flawless visuals, and a plot packed with surprises, Persona 4 Golden is regarded as a masterpiece for good reason. It also features a incredibly engrossing gameplay loop that will keep you up past bedtime, night after night.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although big titles like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a key attraction for Game Pass, the subscription also showcases smaller games. A great instance of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this charming independent game is a fantasy tale steeped in Latin American traditions. Players follow Miho, who, after helping his grandma prepare soup, is pulled into a colorful realm filled with potato-nabbing frogs and various quirky animals.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato unfolds like an learning-focused computer title from the 1990s, as Miho solves puzzles and aids the world's residents by collecting an inventory of items. Even if it's a little unpolished, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a heartwarming little game that openly celebrates its love for the region's culture.

Cocoon

Cocoon is scheduled to exit the service on October 15, leaving only a few days to play it via your membership — and you definitely must. Studio Geometric Interactive crafted one of the finest puzzle games of recent years in the 2023 release Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its core gameplay element focuses on transitioning among worlds inside additional dimensions, and often you'll transport those worlds, in the form of colorful spheres, with you.

Although it doesn't have direct guidance, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's puzzles is designed in a highly intuitive way, though they will test you as well. 2023 was a big period for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was somewhat overlooked by the masses. We should correct that while we can.