FIRST PLAY TANUKI: PON'S SUMMER PC, XSX, XB1, NS

Summer may have gone already, but you can enjoy another slice of it in this game set in the idyllic Japanese countryside during the August festival season. There's just one problem: the shrine where this village's festival usually takes place has been left in neglect and disrepair, and its supposed guardian is Pon, a lazy tanuki (or raccoon dog).

- [Words Alan Wen]

Luckily, he's also rather adorable, communicating to the human locals just through emotes and his paws. And so, as this mischievous mutt, you'll be spending the month taking a job at the local post office, complete with a cute postie hat, doing deliveries and earning money to fix up the shrine in time for the festival.