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After the company's recent news of Game Pass subscription changes, featuring a cost hike for the top tier to $30 monthly, numerous members are seeking fresh methods to maximize their subscription. If you keeping their subscription or thinking about signing up, we present this week's recommendations.

Our selected titles include a acclaimed JRPG, a charming independent journey, and a brilliant puzzler scheduled to depart from the platform shortly.

Persona 4 Golden

Among the top methods to get your money's worth from your subscription is by immersing yourself in a extensive, engaging RPG — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition fits that description exactly. Players take on the part of a high school student who has relocated to the quiet countryside of Inaba. During the day, your goals involve making friendships, working part-time jobs, and managing schoolwork. By night, you work to solve a chilling string of murders by exploring strange dungeons based on your friends' inner fears.

With a memorable cast of characters, strategic battle system, impeccable art design, and a plot full of twists, Persona 4 Golden is regarded as a masterpiece for many reasons. It also features a incredibly engrossing gameplay loop that will keep you up late into the night, repeatedly.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although big titles like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a primary attraction for the service, the platform also showcases smaller games. A perfect example of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Inspired by Spirited Away, this charming indie adventure is a fantasy tale rooted in Latin American traditions. You join Miho, who, after assisting his grandmother prepare soup, is transported to a vibrant world filled with potato-nabbing frogs and various eccentric creatures.

Sopa plays out like an educational PC game from the 1990s, as Miho tackles challenges and helps the realm's inhabitants by collecting an inventory of items. Though it's a little rough around the edges, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a sweet small game that openly showcases its appreciation for South America.

Cocoon

Cocoon is scheduled to leave the service on Oct. 15, giving you only a few days to play it via subscription — and you absolutely should. Developer the creators designed one of the finest puzzle games of recent years in the 2023 release Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its core puzzle mechanic focuses on moving between realms within additional dimensions, and frequently you'll carry those realms, in the shape of colorful spheres, alongside you.

While it lacks direct guidance, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's puzzles is designed in a very intuitive way, though they will challenge you as well. The year 2023 proved a massive period for video games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was a bit overlooked by many players. We should rectify that now.