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After the company's recent announcement of Xbox Game Pass membership changes, featuring a cost hike for the top tier to $thirty monthly, numerous members are seeking new ways to maximize their membership. If you holding onto their membership or considering signing up, we present this week's recommendations.

Our selected titles feature a beloved JRPG, a charming independent adventure, and a brilliant puzzle game set to leave the platform soon.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

Among the top ways to get your money's worth from Game Pass is by immersing yourself in a extensive, captivating RPG — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that description exactly. Players step into the role of a teenager who has relocated to the quiet rural town of Inaba. By day, your objectives include making friendships, taking on part-time jobs, and managing schoolwork. By night, you work to solve a disturbing string of murders by venturing into strange dungeons themed around your companions' deepest insecurities.

With a memorable group of heroes, tactical turn-based combat, impeccable art design, and a plot full of twists, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is considered a classic for good reason. It also features a incredibly engrossing gameplay loop that will keep you up past bedtime, repeatedly.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although big titles like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a key attraction for the service, the platform also highlights lesser-known indie gems. A perfect example of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from the animated classic, this charming indie game is a fantasy journey rooted in Latin American culture. Players follow Miho, who, after helping his grandmother make soup, is pulled into a vibrant realm filled with potato-nabbing frogs and various quirky creatures.

Sopa plays out like an learning-focused PC game from the 1990s, as Miho solves challenges and aids the realm's residents by gathering an assortment of objects. Though it's a bit unpolished, Sopa is a heartwarming little game that openly showcases its appreciation for South America.

Cocoon

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is set to exit Game Pass on October 15, leaving only a short time to play it via subscription — and you definitely should. Studio the creators designed one of the finest puzzlers of this generation in 2023's Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its central puzzle mechanic revolves around transitioning between realms within additional worlds, and often you'll carry those worlds, in the shape of colorful spheres, alongside you.

While it lacks explicit guidance, everything about Cocoon's puzzles is designed in a very natural way, yet they can test you as well. 2023 was a massive year for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was somewhat missed by the masses. We should correct that while we can.