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After the company's recent news of Xbox Game Pass subscription updates, featuring a cost hike for the Ultimate Tier to $30 monthly, numerous subscribers are looking for new ways to get the most from their membership. If you keeping their membership or considering joining, we present our latest recommendations.

This weekend's games include a acclaimed 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 maximize value from your subscription is by diving into a lengthy, captivating RPG — and Persona 4: The Golden Edition fits that bill exactly. Players step into the role of a high school student who has relocated to the sleepy countryside of Inaba. By day, your objectives include making friendships, working employment, and managing schoolwork. By night, you work to solve a disturbing serial murder case by exploring strange dungeons themed around your companions' deepest insecurities.

With a unforgettable cast of characters, tactical battle system, impeccable art design, and a storyline full of surprises, Persona 4 Golden is considered a masterpiece for good reason. It also boasts a highly engrossing cycle that will keep you up past bedtime, night after night.

Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato

Although major releases like Ninja Gaiden 4 are a key attraction for the service, the subscription also highlights smaller indie gems. A perfect instance of this is Sopa - Tale of the Stolen Potato. Drawing from the animated classic, this charming indie game is a magical realist tale steeped in Latin American traditions. Players join Miho, who, after helping his grandmother make soup, is pulled into a colorful world filled with potato-stealing frogs and other eccentric creatures.

Sopa unfolds like an educational computer title from the 90s, as Miho solves challenges and aids the realm's inhabitants by gathering an assortment of objects. Even if it's a bit rough around the edges, Sopa is a heartwarming little experience that proudly celebrates its appreciation for the region's culture.

Cocoon

Cocoon is set to leave the service on October 15, giving you only a short time to play it via your membership — and you absolutely should. Studio Geometric Interactive crafted one of the best puzzlers of this generation in the 2023 release Cocoon. Its core puzzle mechanic focuses on moving between realms within other worlds, and frequently you'll carry those realms, in the shape of colorful spheres, alongside you.

While it lacks explicit guidance, everything about Cocoon's puzzles is designed in a highly natural way, yet they will test you as well. 2023 was a massive year for video games, so it's no surprise if Cocoon: A Puzzle Adventure was somewhat overlooked by many players. Let's correct that now.