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After Microsoft's recent news of Xbox Game Pass subscription updates, featuring a price increase for the top tier to $thirty per month, many subscribers are seeking fresh ways to get the most from their subscription. If you holding onto their membership or considering joining, here are this week's picks.

Our selected titles include a acclaimed JRPG, a charming indie journey, and a brilliant puzzler scheduled to leave the platform soon.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

One of the best ways to maximize value from your subscription is by diving into a extensive, captivating RPG — and Persona 4 Golden matches that description exactly. Players step into the part of a high school student who has just moved to the sleepy countryside of Inaba. By day, your goals involve forming friendships, taking on employment, and managing schoolwork. At night, you work to solve a chilling string of murders by exploring strange locations based on your companions' deepest insecurities.

With a memorable group of heroes, tactical turn-based combat, flawless art design, and a plot packed with twists, 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

While big titles like Ninja Gaiden IV are a key selling point for the service, the subscription also highlights smaller indie gems. A perfect example of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Inspired by Spirited Away, this charming independent game is a magical realist tale steeped in South American traditions. Players join Miho, who, after helping his grandmother prepare soup, is transported to a colorful world filled with potato-nabbing frogs and other eccentric animals.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato unfolds similar to an learning-focused computer title from the 90s, as Miho solves puzzles and helps the world's residents by collecting an inventory of objects. Though it's a bit rough around the edges, Sopa is a sweet small game that proudly showcases its love for South America.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is set to leave Game Pass on October 15, giving you only a few days to play it via subscription — and you definitely must. Studio Geometric Interactive crafted one of the best puzzlers of this generation in 2023's Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its core puzzle mechanic focuses on moving between worlds within other dimensions, and often you'll carry those realms, in the form of colorful orbs, with you.

Although it doesn't have explicit instructions, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's challenges is built in a highly intuitive way, yet they can challenge you as well. 2023 was a big period for games, so it's no surprise if Cocoon was somewhat overlooked by the masses. Let's rectify that now.