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.

  • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Most enjoyment per dollar: I want to say RimWorld, but that shit’s expensive at over a hundred dollars for the base game plus expansions even during the rare times it’s on sale.

    So I’d have to say Terraria, which I bought for maybe fifteen bucks back at release when it had like three bosses and IIRC ended at Skeletron. Fifteen years of massive free content updates later, it’s a sprawling randomly generated Metroidvania with dozens of bosses and an endgame that barely resembles its beginning, and I’ve probably done a dozen full playthroughs over the years.

    That’s not even getting into the mods, with tModLoader being given the official seal of approval and letting you swap between a multitude of content overhauls from within the game itself.

    Least enjoyment per dollar would probably be Caves of Qud. It’s not a bad game, but I went in with sky-high expectations that it couldn’t possibly meet and I couldn’t bring myself to enjoy it for what it was; instead feeling frustrated at what it wasn’t (and didn’t try to be). It didn’t help that I regularly play freeform games like CDDA and Dwarf Fortress and the comparatively static structure of CoQ felt extremely restrictive in comparison.

      • Nyxii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        Make sure you’re patient with yourself! Qud is an amazing, unique experience, but patience is a must. I hope you have fun!!

        • Zarobi@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
          0·
          4 days ago

          I ended up trying it out. It reminds me a lot about what I loved about Elona back in the day, but way easier to understand and play (this is a good thing). Definitely wasn’t what I was expecting though! I quite enjoyed it, in that unique way where you’re both frustrated but also enjoying it for some reason. I played role play mode because I’m absolutely not doing hardcore mode. The game played ok on controller but it feels like you really need to play it with keyboard (right trigger + direction to move, left trigger + A + direction to interact with an item is criminal lol)

          I feel like I actually need to clear some brain space and play this game another time though. Like it feels like a big commitment rather than something you just throw on after work