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After Microsoft's latest announcement of Game Pass membership changes, featuring a cost hike for the top tier to $30 monthly, many subscribers are looking for new methods to get the most from their subscription. If you keeping their membership or considering joining, here are our latest recommendations.

Our selected titles include a beloved JRPG, a charming indie adventure, and a superb puzzler scheduled to depart from the service shortly.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

One of the best ways to get your money's worth from your subscription is by immersing yourself in a extensive, engaging role-playing game — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition fits that bill exactly. You take on the role of a high school student who has just moved to the sleepy countryside of Inaba. By day, your objectives involve making new friends, working employment, and managing schoolwork. By night, you investigate a disturbing string of murders by venturing into unique dungeons based on your friends' inner fears.

With a unforgettable group of heroes, tactical turn-based combat, flawless art design, and a plot packed with surprises, Persona 4 Golden is considered a classic for good reason. It also boasts a highly addictive cycle that will have you playing past bedtime, repeatedly.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

While major titles like Ninja Gaiden IV are a primary selling point for the service, the subscription also showcases lesser-known indie gems. A great instance of this is Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from the animated classic, this enchanting indie game is a fantasy journey rooted in Latin American culture. You join Miho, who, after helping his grandma prepare soup, is pulled into a colorful world filled with potato-nabbing frogs and other quirky animals.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato unfolds like an educational PC game from the 1990s, as Miho tackles puzzles and helps the realm's inhabitants by gathering an assortment of items. Though it's a little rough around the edges, Sopa is a sweet little game that proudly showcases its appreciation for the region's culture.

Cocoon

Cocoon is scheduled to exit Game Pass on Oct. 15, giving you only a short time to play it via your membership — and you definitely must. Studio the creators designed one of the finest puzzle games of this generation in the 2023 release Cocoon. Its central gameplay element focuses on moving among worlds within other worlds, and often you'll transport those worlds, in the form of vibrant spheres, alongside you.

While it doesn't have explicit instructions, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's puzzles is designed in a highly natural way, though they will test you as well. 2023 was a big year for games, so it's no surprise if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was a bit missed by the masses. We should rectify that now.