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After the company's recent announcement of Game Pass membership updates, featuring a cost hike for the top tier to $30 monthly, many subscribers are seeking fresh ways to maximize their subscription. For those keeping their membership or thinking about signing up, here are our latest picks.

Our selected games feature a beloved Japanese role-playing game, a delightful indie adventure, and a brilliant puzzle game set to leave the service soon.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

One of the best ways to maximize value from Game Pass is by immersing yourself in a lengthy, engaging role-playing game — and Persona 4 Golden matches that bill exactly. Players step into the part of a teenager who has relocated to the quiet rural town of Inaba. By day, your goals involve forming new friends, working part-time jobs, and keeping up with schoolwork. At night, you work to solve a disturbing serial murder case by exploring unique dungeons themed around your companions' inner fears.

With a memorable group of heroes, strategic battle system, flawless visuals, and a storyline full of surprises, Persona 4: The Golden Edition is regarded as a classic for many reasons. It also features a incredibly engrossing gameplay loop that will have you playing past bedtime, night after night.

Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato

While major titles like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a key selling point for Game Pass, the platform also highlights smaller games. A great example of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from Spirited Away, this charming indie game is a fantasy tale steeped in Latin American culture. You follow Miho, who, after helping his grandmother prepare soup, is transported to a colorful realm populated by potato-nabbing frogs and various eccentric creatures.

Sopa plays out like an learning-focused computer title from the 90s, as Miho solves puzzles and aids the world's residents by collecting an assortment of objects. Even if it's a bit unpolished, Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato is a heartwarming little game that openly celebrates its love for the region's culture.

Cocoon

Cocoon is set to exit Game Pass on October 15, giving you only a short time to experience it via your membership — and you definitely should. Developer the creators designed one of the best puzzlers of recent years in 2023's Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its central gameplay element focuses on transitioning among worlds inside other dimensions, and frequently you'll transport those worlds, in the shape of colorful spheres, with you.

Although it lacks explicit guidance, everything about Cocoon's challenges is designed in a very natural way, yet they will challenge you as well. 2023 was a massive year for games, so it's understandable if Cocoon was a bit overlooked by many players. We should rectify that while we can.