Which game did you get the most and least enjoyment per dollar out of?

Least - Hogwarts legacy: I bought it on sale mostly to "own the libs." My personality did a 180° in that same year so never opened the game again.

The 2-3 hours I spent felt like one huge tutorial, dialogue options just didn't matter, and also game didn't run great.

Most - Blade and sorcery: Modded the hell out of it daily. Also there was an update some time ago that doubled the native content.

Most: Factorio, by far

Least: The two I bounced hard off of I think was the '24 version of Microsoft flight sim? Loved Century of Flight in the past, but felt like the navigating the UI was oddly arcane and just couldn't be arsed to learn its eccentricities. Also GTA V. Do not get it, man. I really enjoyed San Andreas and the old Saints Row games, but GTA V was just boring for me.

BG3 was another that I didn't get a ton out of... Act 1 was great, but it fell off a lot after that imo. Every session felt like a slog (I actually like 5e, but it tends to get more slog-y by itself at higher levels imo). I just watched the rest on YouTube and didn't feel like I missed much in terms of experience. I get where people got into it though, the voice acting really was a treat and I did enjoy Act 1. But I felt like I went way over my usual dollar to fun ratio.

Most: Minecraft is up there, like many, especially for my kiddo. We both really like playing Golf With Your Friends together along with PinballFX. I'm pretty much done for good with it at this point but I put countless hours into New Vegas that I don't regret one bit. Similar story for Oblivion and Skyrim. Batman Arkham Knight is, maybe controversially, best in the series IMO and the only game I've ever 200%'d. Even at the price, RDR2 was one of the best experiences I've ever had in gaming. American and Euro Truck Simulators, CKII, Civ VI, Subnautica. I really liked Cyberpunk and put a lot of hours in there, but I came in well after the release kerfuffle and had no expectations. My wife plays the shit out of Disney's Dreamlight Valley.

bought CS:GO a decade ago on sale for like £3 and I still play it (ignore the cost of the cosmetics i bought)

Best would have to be PlanetSide 2. It's not the most hours I've put into a game, but it's up there, and now importantly it's the game that I most fondly remember my time playing. For a few years I ran ops with one of the oldest outfits in the game, and I still find myself remembering moments from those nights. It was a really cool community (maybe not as a whole, but certainly the people I was hanging out with) and we got up to a lot of really fun shit. I put maybe $100-200 into that game and got out experiences that genuinely changed me as a person.

Least would be Squad. I've never been able to make that game click. It's not like I don't play similar games, I've really enjoyed my time with Hell Let Loose, and Insurgency would be a very strong contender for my most bang for buck. Squad just... Doesn't work for me. And I don't really know why.

For now definitely Deadlock. It's free (for now) and no way to even spend money (for now) i played 900 hors for now and i don't think i'm gonna stop anytime soon.

Diablo 2 has been the best value by far, even accounting for purchasing it several times over the years, plus the more recent re-make.

More recently, Baldur's Gate 3 and Hades 2 have been amazing bang for my buck.

Worst might be Diablo 4. I played for a few hours and just couldn't get into it.

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

vivid stasis is most enjoyment, as i got over 100 hours of an amazing game for only 0 usd, resulting in NaN hours/usd

the least is probably dracomaton, which i got for 0 usd and it burned my motherboard

First, IMO enjoyment ≠ playtime

If it's about enjoyment, then Signalis takes the top spot. It was probably the cleanest purchase to end credits I've ever had in my life. Saw the store page on steam, bought it for 29.99, played through the game in 3 days. Never touched the game since and it is by a large margin the best game I've ever played.

For least enjoyment it must be the recent Warhammer Space Marine 2. Bought it for the Coop at full price (luckily just the standard edition). Extremely short and boring campaign and very repetitive and lackluster Coop mode. Wish I could get a refund but im already 7 hours in. The amount of games I've paid full price for in my life can be counted on two hands and this one definetly takes the price for most money and least enjoyment.

Bonus round: There are 2 games that, while I enjoyed at first and put 100s of hours in, have become so unbearably bad that I didn't even request a refund (even if I still could) but straight up deleted them from my account. Thats Helldivers 2 and Squad. I got both them for fairly cheap but even if I didn't. FUCK THOSE GAMES. They are the epitome of a waste of time.

Nothing will ever match Indar on a Friday night. TR forever!

Cyberpunk is one of the best games of the last 10 years. The Phantom Liberty DLC is essential storytelling. You won't regret it

POSTAL 2. I got it for a buck on GOG.

I really tried to like deadlock, but it turns out I'm extremely bad at aiming. Like I was a Pyro / Demo / Soldier / Medic player for a reason. There's not really a "low aim equivalent" character in recent online shooters... I still remember lock on beam Symmetra traps, those were good times.