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Following Microsoft's latest announcement of Game Pass membership changes, including a price increase for the Ultimate Tier to $30 per month, numerous members are looking for new methods to get the most from their membership. If you keeping their membership or thinking about signing up, here are our latest recommendations.

Our selected titles feature a acclaimed Japanese role-playing game, a delightful indie journey, and a brilliant puzzle game set to leave the service soon.

Persona 4 Golden

Among the best methods to get your money's worth from Game Pass is by immersing yourself in a lengthy, engaging role-playing game — and Persona 4 Golden fits that bill exactly. Players take on the part of a high school student who has relocated to the sleepy countryside of Inaba. By day, your objectives include forming friendships, taking on part-time jobs, and managing schoolwork. By night, you investigate a chilling string of murders by exploring strange locations themed around your friends' inner fears.

With a memorable group of heroes, tactical battle system, flawless art design, and a plot full of surprises, Persona 4 Golden is regarded as a masterpiece for many reasons. It also boasts a highly engrossing cycle that will keep you up late into the night, night after night.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although major titles like Ninja Gaiden IV are a key selling point for Game Pass, the subscription also highlights smaller indie gems. A perfect instance of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Inspired by Spirited Away, this enchanting indie game is a magical realist tale steeped in Latin American traditions. You join Miho, who, after helping his grandmother make soup, is pulled into a colorful realm populated by potato-stealing frogs and various eccentric animals.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato unfolds like an learning-focused computer title from the 1990s, as Miho solves challenges and aids the realm's residents by gathering an inventory of objects. Though it's a little unpolished, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a heartwarming small game that openly celebrates its love for the region's culture.

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure

Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure is scheduled to exit Game Pass on October 15, leaving only a few days to play it via subscription — and you absolutely should. Studio Geometric Interactive crafted one of the finest puzzlers of recent years in 2023's Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its core gameplay element revolves around moving between realms inside additional dimensions, and often you'll carry those realms, in the shape of colorful orbs, alongside you.

Although it lacks direct instructions, everything about Cocoon's puzzles is designed in a highly natural manner, though they can test you as well. The year 2023 proved a massive year for games, so it's understandable if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was somewhat missed by the masses. Let's rectify that while we can.