Yup, £6.99.

It has 96% Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam.

And it's now been cut to £3.49. Luckily I ummed and ahhed. Yoinking at that price.

That was timely. So, whatcha think of it?

For short bursts, I just load up Binding of Isaac:Rebirth. From a bare start, you can reach the first end game boss in 20 minutes and even when you've unlocked the other bosses and endings, a full run still takes less than 45 minutes. Plus it's more fun than stressful as long as you steer clear of the more masochistic characters and game modes. Plus the lack of a story and the randomly-generated layouts means there's nothing to try and remember and pick back up between sessions.

To be fair, for longer gaming sessions, I also load Isaac up too, so I'm perhaps a little biased.

Not sure Binding of Isaac is a world I particularly want to lose myself in though. It's an unsettling place at the best of times.

Have edited the first post with all titles suggested so far, for my own reference as much as anything.

If I stop playing for a little while I often forget what I'm meant to be doing when I return to an adventure game* (see Grim Fandango which I keep returning to and then giving up on).

Having said that, Day of the Tentacle did provide one of my gaming highlights of last year, so you may be onto something.

*Another criterion: must be suitable for an idiot.

I started playing Witcher 3 while I was off over Christmas, I like that you can dictate the pace of it, and the fact that quests have a suggested level so you can just mooch about wandering between the little question marks on the map or pick up a couple of quests off the notice boards in the villages or go through the main story. I like dipping in and out of games like that, sometimes you find with open world/quest based games that the main story dominates too much and can be a difficult path to get off once you start on it. I keep looking at Far Cry thinking I might quite like that, too.

Shadow of Mordor became too samey for me after a little while. The world isn't huge and there's nothing much outside the main story, other than various ways to kill orcs within different time limits. Fallout is great, I love those games. Although not so much Fallout 4... It got a bit tiresome and I had no desire to keep going back to it, unlike Fallout 3 and New Vegas. But that could be because Fallout 3 was the first open world RPG I'd played so it was a totally new game play experience to me in a totally new setting. I played probably 100 hours on both of those.

What else have you played over the last few years that you really enjoyed ?

I'd say that Far Cry 3 was more enjoyable than Far Cry 4, I bet it's dirt cheap now too.

arse, I already did do done Far Cry 3. Enjoyed it enormously.

Far Cry 4 is still great, I just Vaas.

Not sure Binding of Isaac is a world I particularly want to lose myself in though. It's an unsettling place at the best of times.

The Long Dark. But I think he described that as the tensest thing he'd ever done.

I heard it was pap.

Shame really, as it would be a game world I'd love to play in.

I loved mad Max, reckon it will fit your criteria pretty well too. I say, don't miss it out, it's cheap as chips now.

A kiss.

A rose.

So we talked you into playing a game you had?

Ti- nah.

Exciting update!

Far Cry 4 continues to be a joy. This may be because i haven't touched the campaign at all, and I'm just having a jolly time wandering the mountains, hunting for skins, freeing hostages, taking bell towers, overrunning outposts. It's great. I've heard Primal has a greater focus on hunting and base building, so that has jumped from being a game I couldn't give a hoot about to a must-buy at some point in the future.

Undertale: I've faltered on this. I've been playing in bursts on the train, but the simple logistics of playing on a laptop on an often packed train has inhibited my progress. I will finish it though.

Broken Sword 5: thanks to Mr Russell for this recommendation. Got it cheap in the PSN sale and am playing on the Vita. Gorgeous visuals and sound. It's a lovely world to escape to on the train.

They don't seem to age either if you want to go back and play the earlier ones.

I enjoyed BS1 & 2 but stopped when I played 3 on the Xbox. Felt like a misstep, like when Monkey Island went 3D (was that the Telltale version?)

Incidentally, best Monkey Island? Having just looked through the Monkey Island wikipedia page, I think I enjoyed Curse of the most. Certainly the most lovely, visually.

Monkey Island 2 has always been my favourite.

I always liked the first one. MI2 was a bit sprawling

Reader, I chose Far Cry 4.

And what an excellent choice it is too (and free, because I already owned it).

Definitely the tonic I needed. I'm loving just diving in, bezzing around on a quad bike to do a bit of hunting, liberate some signal towers, pick up whatever mission I stumble across.

Ubisoft still needs to stop letting hyperactive teenagers write their Far Cry scripts, because the relentless effing and blinding grates quickly. But I can live with it.

Hoping my grappling hook gets some sort of mechanised upgrade at some point, because it feels cumbersome and un-fun at the moment - while everything else in the game seems to be geared at fun. Being able to launch off from your starting hub from a choice of zip lines, hang gliders and quads is pleasingly generous.