🔗 Share this article

After the company's latest announcement of Game Pass subscription updates, featuring a price increase for the Ultimate Tier to $30 per month, many subscribers are looking for fresh methods to maximize their membership. For those keeping their membership or considering joining, we present this week's picks.

This weekend's titles include a acclaimed Japanese role-playing game, a charming indie journey, and a brilliant puzzle game set to depart from the service shortly.

Persona 4: The Golden Edition

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: The Golden Edition fits that description exactly. You step into the part of a teenager who has relocated to the sleepy rural town of Inaba. During the day, your goals involve making friendships, taking on employment, and managing studies. By night, you work to solve a chilling string of murders by exploring unique dungeons themed around your companions' deepest insecurities.

With a memorable cast of characters, strategic turn-based combat, flawless art design, and a storyline full of twists, Persona 4 Golden is considered a masterpiece for many reasons. It also boasts a highly addictive cycle that will have you playing past bedtime, night after night.

Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although big titles like Ninja Gaiden IV are a key attraction for the service, the platform also highlights lesser-known indie gems. A great example of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Inspired by Spirited Away, this charming independent adventure is a magical realist journey rooted in Latin American traditions. You join Miho, who, after helping his grandmother prepare soup, is transported to a vibrant world filled with potato-stealing frogs and various eccentric creatures.

Sopa unfolds like an educational PC game from the 90s, as Miho solves puzzles and helps the world's inhabitants by collecting an inventory of items. Though it's a little unpolished, Sopa is a heartwarming small experience that openly showcases its love for South America.

Cocoon

Cocoon is scheduled to exit the service on October 15, leaving only a short time to experience it via your membership — and you absolutely should. Studio Geometric Interactive crafted one of the best puzzle games of this generation in 2023's Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure. Its central gameplay element revolves around transitioning between worlds inside other dimensions, and frequently you'll carry those realms, in the form of vibrant spheres, with you.

Although it lacks direct instructions, everything about Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure's challenges is designed in a highly natural way, yet they will challenge you as well. The year 2023 proved a massive year for video games, so it's no surprise if Cocoon was somewhat overlooked by the masses. We should rectify that while we can.