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After Microsoft's latest news of Xbox Game Pass subscription changes, including a cost hike for the Ultimate Tier to $thirty per month, numerous subscribers are looking for fresh methods to maximize their membership. If you holding onto their subscription or thinking about joining, we present our latest recommendations.

This weekend's titles feature a beloved Japanese role-playing game, a delightful indie journey, and a superb puzzler set to depart from the platform soon.

Persona 4 Golden

Among the best ways to maximize value from your subscription is by immersing yourself in a lengthy, captivating role-playing game — and Persona 4 Golden matches that description exactly. Players take on the part of a teenager who has just moved to the sleepy countryside of Inaba. During the day, your goals include forming friendships, taking on part-time jobs, and keeping up with schoolwork. At night, you work to solve a disturbing string of murders by exploring unique locations themed around your friends' inner fears.

With a memorable group of heroes, tactical battle system, impeccable visuals, and a storyline full of surprises, Persona 4 Golden is regarded as a masterpiece for many reasons. It also boasts a highly engrossing cycle that will have you playing past bedtime, repeatedly.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

While major titles like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a key selling point for the service, the platform also highlights smaller indie gems. A great instance of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this charming independent adventure is a magical realist journey rooted in South American traditions. You join Miho, who, after helping his grandma make soup, is transported to a vibrant realm populated by potato-nabbing frogs and other eccentric animals.

Sopa plays out similar to an educational PC game from the 1990s, as Miho tackles puzzles and aids the world's inhabitants by collecting an inventory of objects. Even if it's a little unpolished, Sopa is a sweet small game that proudly showcases its appreciation for the region's culture.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is set to exit the service on October 15, giving you only a few days to experience it via subscription — and you absolutely must. Developer the creators crafted one of the finest puzzle games of this generation in the 2023 release Cocoon. Its central gameplay element focuses on transitioning among realms within other worlds, and frequently you'll carry those realms, in the form of colorful spheres, with you.

While it doesn't have explicit instructions, everything about Cocoon's puzzles is built in a very natural manner, though they will test you as well. The year 2023 proved a massive period for video games, so it's no surprise if Cocoon was a bit missed by many players. We should rectify that while we can.