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After the company's latest news of Xbox Game Pass membership updates, featuring a price increase for the top tier to $thirty monthly, many subscribers are looking for new ways to maximize their membership. If you holding onto their membership or thinking about signing up, here are this week's picks.

Our selected titles include a beloved JRPG, a delightful indie journey, and a superb puzzler set to depart from the platform shortly.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

Among the best ways to get your money's worth from your subscription is by diving into a lengthy, engaging RPG — and Persona 4 Golden fits that bill perfectly. Players step into the role of a teenager who has relocated to the sleepy rural town of Inaba. By day, your objectives involve forming new friends, taking on part-time jobs, and keeping up with schoolwork. At night, you investigate a disturbing string of murders by venturing into unique locations based on your companions' inner fears.

With a memorable cast of characters, strategic turn-based combat, impeccable art design, and a plot full of surprises, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is regarded as a masterpiece for good reason. It also features a highly addictive gameplay loop that will keep you up late into the night, repeatedly.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although big releases like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a key attraction for the service, the subscription also highlights lesser-known indie gems. A perfect instance of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this enchanting independent game is a fantasy tale rooted in Latin American culture. You join Miho, who, after helping his grandma prepare soup, is pulled into a vibrant realm filled with potato-nabbing frogs and other quirky creatures.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato plays out similar to an educational computer title from the 1990s, as Miho solves challenges and helps the world's inhabitants by collecting an inventory of objects. Even if it's a little rough around the edges, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a heartwarming small game that openly showcases its love for the region's culture.

Cocoon

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is scheduled to leave the service on Oct. 15, leaving only a few days to experience it via your membership — and you absolutely must. Developer the creators crafted one of the best puzzle games of this generation in 2023's Cocoon. Its central gameplay element revolves around transitioning between worlds within other worlds, and frequently you'll transport those realms, in the form of colorful orbs, alongside you.

While it doesn't have explicit guidance, everything about Cocoon's challenges is built in a very intuitive way, yet they will challenge 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 the masses. We should correct that now.