It promises more than a thousand planets to visit, a space-station city of awe-inspiring proportions – and space fights that feel exciting. By day, you explore a run-down, heavily Ghibli-inspired island, befriending the community and crafting quirky trinkets out of the things that you find there. By night, you sell those things to cats at the weekly night market. Inside each world are nestled several more. This puzzle game, from some of the minds behind the superlative Limbo and Inside, challenges you to bend your brain in heretofore unknown ways as you flit between worlds, solving puzzles in one to change the shape of another.

Nintendo's brilliantly fun and untouchably cool take on the shooting game involves kids who can transform into squids and octopuses to swim through lakes of paint, splattering the level (and the opposing team) with colour to clinch victory. In the works for many years now, Session aims to be the realistic skateboarding game that skate fans have been missing since EA's Skate series died a death in 2010. Dispensing with the mad tricks and unrealistic airtime of, say, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Session makes even landing a trick into a challenge. This will be the final Fifa-licensed game from EA Sports, the developer who has been making the king of football games for nigh on 30 years, and also the first to feature the women's game at league level, alongside the women's World Cup. Come for one last kickabout, if you can ignore the moral iffiness of the money-grubbing Ultimate Team mode.

An indie game set in a beautiful lake town with a small cast of locals. Driving around and delivering mail in 1980s Oregon is not exactly the usual video game fantasy, but this looks like a calming, intriguing tale about a woman temporarily escaping urban life to revisit her roots. Alex Chen moves to Colorado to start a new life in an achingly hipster town, but soon finds that this place has its problems, too – and must reckon with the death of her brother. A coming-of-age story in which you can read people's emotions and make choices that influence the interpersonal dramas that unfold. This is a wonderfully surreal party game that caters to the attention span of the internet age, with quickfire challenges that have you racing to squeeze toothpaste or collect gems or tweeze armpit hair from marble sculptures.