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After Microsoft's recent news of Game Pass subscription changes, featuring a price increase for the top tier to $thirty monthly, numerous members are seeking new ways to maximize their subscription. If you keeping their subscription or considering signing up, here are this week's picks.

Our selected games feature a acclaimed Japanese role-playing game, a charming indie adventure, and a brilliant puzzler scheduled to leave the service soon.

Persona 4 Golden

One of the top methods to get your money's worth from your subscription is by diving into a lengthy, captivating role-playing game — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition matches that description exactly. You take on the part of a teenager who has relocated to the quiet countryside of Inaba. During the day, your goals involve forming new friends, taking on part-time jobs, and keeping up with studies. By night, you work to solve a chilling serial murder case by exploring unique locations based on your companions' inner fears.

With a memorable cast of characters, tactical battle system, flawless visuals, and a storyline full of surprises, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is regarded as a classic for good reason. It also boasts a highly addictive cycle that will keep you up past bedtime, repeatedly.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although big titles like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a primary selling point for Game Pass, the subscription also showcases smaller games. A perfect instance of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Inspired by Spirited Away, this charming independent adventure is a fantasy tale steeped in Latin American culture. Players join Miho, who, after helping his grandmother make soup, is transported to a colorful realm populated by potato-stealing frogs and other eccentric creatures.

Sopa plays out like an learning-focused PC game from the 90s, as Miho solves puzzles and aids the realm's inhabitants by collecting an inventory of items. Even if it's a bit unpolished, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a sweet small experience that proudly showcases its love for the region's culture.

Cocoon

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is set to exit Game Pass on Oct. 15, giving you only a few days to play it via subscription — and you definitely must. Developer the creators designed one of the best puzzle games of this generation in the 2023 release Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its central puzzle mechanic focuses on moving among worlds within other dimensions, and frequently you'll carry those worlds, in the form of colorful spheres, alongside you.

Although it lacks direct guidance, everything about Cocoon's challenges is built in a very intuitive way, yet they will test you as well. The year 2023 proved a big year for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was somewhat missed by many players. We should correct that while we can.