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Following Microsoft's recent news of Game Pass membership changes, featuring a price increase for the Ultimate Tier to $thirty monthly, numerous members are looking for new ways to maximize their membership. For those keeping their membership or considering signing up, we present this week's recommendations.

Our selected games feature a beloved JRPG, a delightful indie adventure, and a brilliant puzzler set to leave the platform soon.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

One of the top ways to get your money's worth from Game Pass is by immersing yourself in a lengthy, engaging RPG — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that description perfectly. Players take on the part of a teenager who has relocated to the sleepy rural town of Inaba. During the day, your goals involve making new friends, taking on part-time jobs, and keeping up with studies. At night, you work to solve a chilling serial murder case by exploring strange dungeons themed around your companions' inner fears.

With a memorable group of heroes, tactical turn-based combat, flawless visuals, and a plot packed with twists, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is regarded as a classic for many reasons. It also features a highly addictive cycle that will have you playing past bedtime, night after night.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although major releases like Ninja Gaiden IV are a key selling point for Game Pass, the platform also highlights lesser-known indie gems. A great instance of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from the animated classic, this charming independent adventure is a magical realist tale steeped in Latin American culture. Players follow Miho, who, after assisting his grandma make soup, is pulled into a colorful world filled with potato-stealing frogs and other eccentric creatures.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato plays out similar to an educational computer title from the 1990s, as Miho tackles puzzles and helps the realm's inhabitants by collecting an assortment of objects. Even if it's a bit rough around the edges, Sopa is a heartwarming small experience that proudly showcases its appreciation for South America.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is scheduled to leave Game Pass on Oct. 15, giving you only a short time to experience it via your membership — and you definitely must. Developer Geometric Interactive designed one of the finest puzzle games of this generation in 2023's Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its core gameplay element focuses on transitioning among realms within additional dimensions, and frequently you'll transport those worlds, in the form of colorful spheres, with you.

While it doesn't have explicit instructions, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's challenges is built in a highly natural manner, yet they can challenge you as well. The year 2023 proved a massive year for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was a bit overlooked by the masses. We should rectify that while we can.