Including DLC, micro transaction purchases, etc. If you got a game for free, please also list your non-infinite next best.
For me it’s Team Fortress 2. $100 total spent on hats and the Orange Box back in the day, 4200 hours plus of fun, meaning 2.3¢ AUD per hour. Initially I thought DotA2 would be my best but it turns out I’ve spent a lot more money in that game than I thought…
My worst is God of War: Ragnarok. Bought it full price for $95 AUD, only played 2 hours and hated it, meaning $47.50 AUD per hour.
Tormentor❌ Punisher
Bought it on chrono(gg) for $1 and have something like 500 hours in it. Made it to number 2 on the global HardMode leaderboard.
Both one of the most difficult and infuriating games I’ve ever played, but one of the most skill-based and almost infinitely playable… Crazy considering it’s a 2d top down arena based shooter.
Any game I’ve pirated hits infinity enjoyment per dollar, and honestly i can’t remember a game i’ve paid money for and didn’t get a good ratio of enjoyment out of. Probably something I haven’t played yet? Yapyap, i haven’t touched yet because my friends flaked, so i’ll pick that one.
Fallout 3 or New Vegas. I can’t remember which cause they’re both pretty close in overall hours played.
Vampire survivor. $4.
1000+ hours. Of just staring at pretty colors.
Bought every single DLC to continue supporting them.
Minecraft is obviously up there, as is TF2 like you. Factorio is very high for me, relatively low cost and many hours sunk into it.
My current worst is probably Baldur’s Gate 3, I bought it to play with a friend but we’ve only done one session so far.
I had the same experience with BG3. It feels more like a single player game in a way, in multiplayer it felt a bit awkward with the story moments. My partner kept skipping cutscenes, and making weird story choices that often led to genocide. Which I suppose is peak chaotic neutral murder hobo DnD behaviour, but the game really isn’t balanced around murder hobo 😂. I kind of was just held hostage and had to sit there while they talked to people and I had no idea what was going on. I’m planning to try again in single player eventually.
Diablo 4…
Garry’s Mod, 10 dollars and 6000 hours logged.
I have wasted so much time in Satisfactory. Bought it on sale in 2020 I think, whenever it came to Steam.
Now get your downvotes ready, because the game that has been a waste of money for me is No Man’s Sky. Its just… not fun. Its repetitive. Im sure there is some obvious thing somewhere that I’m missing that makes the game fun but so far it’s hidden behind hours of grinding.
NMS is the perfect game for a specific kind of person. Unfortunately that person isn’t me either. I’m glad some people like it though, and it seems well made
I think NMS is excellent, and not for me. I love logistics and puzzles. NMS is mostly exploration and combat. Their attempts at logistics and crafting are paltry, despite showing huge promise. Oh well. Maybe some day.
Best: Minecraft (bought at the Beta price), Counter Strike: Source, Counter Strike Global Offensive (I bought it before it became free), Rome Total War, Anno 1602, Age of Empires 2. I have hundreds of hours in all of these. Technically the last three were bought by my father originally, but I think I re-bought them all on digital platforms later.
Worst: Tom Clancy Division 2 (because it’s shit and full of adverts), Monster Hunter World (because it never worked for me properly), Dragon Age 2 (just didn’t like the style of top down gameplay).
Hmmm…
There are a few but my time tracker are all off for various reasons.
Minecraft, Skyrim, Conan Exiles, Rimworld, Baldurs Gate 3, XCOM2, Fallout 4, Civ 4. Cyberpunk might be in here.
Lots old games without trackers are likely in here. Final Fantasy Tactics has got to be really high on this list… Maybe FF3/6… Mario RPG?
All of these are easily at about 1000 hours now. I’ve played them for actual enjoyment. The best deal is likely Minecraft as I got that during my Indev… Skyrim I may have bought twice so that might be the worst deal of these.
As for the worst, hmmm. Maybe sometime like one of the more recent farcry. I guess a franchise game could count. Like ones that never really improve anything but I play cus friends or something. Like Forza Horizon. It’s not complete dogwater, but I have giving them money for it.
No Man’s Sky. Seems like getting good RNG is the difficulty of the game.
I got Rollercoaster Tycoon on the front of a Cereal box. I’m still playing that copy decades later… i think I’m working on dollar per decade rather than dollar an hour here
Most…is probably The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. That game came out when I was 3, I still have the original cartridge and it still works, and I still play that game to this day.
Least is probably going to be Where The Water Tastes Like Wine. I discovered the soundtrack first on Youtube, and then decided to try out the game. It’s a dialog heavy game, they put a lot of emphasis on the presentation and voice acting, and it’s idiotically slow. It puts a page of dialog up that you’ll have read before the voice actor starts talking. If you open the pause menu and Quit the game, IT TALKS MORE. I hit Alt+F4 and haven’t looked at it s ince.
I had bought two games at the same time, I played one of them for a few weeks before getting around to looking at WtWTLW, so I couldn’t refund it.
Most: Terraria on PC. I paid $5 during their first big sale on Steam and have like 500 hours in it so $0.01/hr (1¢/hr )
Least: Spawn for the PS1. I got a special launch version that was $60. I hated it after 20 minutes and was full of regret. That’s $180/hr
Most…probably Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. Bought it when it first came out, and as soon as I beat it, when the credits finished I created another character. I must have beat the game over a dozen times on OG Xbox, 360 and Xbone (I still have the original disc).
Least? Maybe Bioshock Infinite which I bought full price at launch and probably made it less than 1/3 through before I put it away and never touched it again. That or Returnal, I bought a used copy for maybe under $15, played a couple hours before throwing the game away because of how much I hated it.
I have tried so hard to like Returnal. But the constant starting completely over EVERY SINGLE FUCKING TIME just gets so old.
