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

But that game hardcoded Use/Action to E while also allowing E to be mapped to move forward.

What if I told you (insert Morpheus meme\)... that AutoHotkey may be able to force a remap? It could malfunction with some games but it usually works!

Man, Anomaly had soooo many bugs that I just couldn't get through even probably half of it (no idea of the length of the storyline). It had a lot of cool ideas but the execution even as of 1.5.x (can't remember by now) just worsened the farther I went, particularly with NPC teammates who just stood there while I was under attack by factions who they themselves had okay relations with. There were several other issues that were so immersion-breaking that I couldn't keep going.

Dang, I thought about Atomic Heart... Good thing I never went for it, I guess.

Not quite, factorio first released in 2012. They didn't get to Steam till much later. Also, it's not uncommon to have the game running or paused even if you're not playing.

My experience is not representative of the game as a whole. Like I said, I got filtered extremely early by the tutorial. The rest of the game is said to be much less linear, similar to Bioshock.

Hmm... I was going off Wikipedia which says 2020 - I guess the earlier release was an alpha.

In any case having your factories running in the background (overnight?) would quickly bump up those hours. Not sure it'd make for a very interesting stream though!

I can't say I have had any experience even close to that to be honest, but I would never advise anyone to play vanilla Anomaly. It's meant as a stable and unified platform for mods, and it does that exceptionally well compared to previous Call Of Chernobyl-based soups.

What I would recommend is installing one of the numerous pre-built modpacks that are one-click downloads and probably address all your issues and more.

Elite Dangerous is a game of grind. They have taken steps to reduce the grind in recent updates but it is still a grind fest.

For example, I took part in the Distant Worlds 2 expedition. I traveled across the galaxy and discovered worlds nobody else has ever seen. It was boring at times. It felt like a job at times. However, after months of grind, I was glad I did it. Distant Worlds 3 launched recently but I did not join. Once is enough.

I also earned enough rank to buy a Federal Corvette, and then sold it because I didn't get along with it. That was also a grind but I am glad I did it.

Don't get me started on unlocking engineers. Oh my God, that's a whole new level of grind. They have made it a bit easier since I started playing but it still a lot of work.

I know I'm not selling the game well. Unless you enjoy the grind, it really isn't something you would stick with. Doing anything is a slog and requires a bit of planning to execute. I must enjoy that or something.

Also, space. Who doesn't love space?

It might not necessarily be running. But factorio is a game that's very conducive to you hopping in for a few minutes at a time, so some players have it paused a lot of the time when they're alt tabbed instead of closing it.

Most, probably Skyrim. Across all platforms I’ve only spent around $80, and have around 5,600 hours in, so about 1.4¢ per hour.

Least is far harder. There have been several games I’ve spent $80 on that I played for a bit, didn’t like, and never touched again.

Honorable mentions for most:

Hitman: World of Assassination: 7.3¢/hr

Forza Motorsport 6: 5.2¢/hr

Fallout 4: 3.3¢/hr

Assassins Creed Odyssey: 4.5¢/hr

Oblivion: 10¢/hr

Halo MCC: 7.8¢/hr

Halo Reach: 8.2¢/hr

Rest of the Halo series is probably around 10¢/hr each if I were to guess but I don’t have hours tracked for the rest of them

Minecraft: 5¢/hr at a guess

For cheap games that I got a ton of enjoyment out of but maybe not necessarily a ton of playtime:
Gunpoint, The Silent Age, Celeste, Limbo, Inside, Stanley Parable, Monaco (I do actually have a fair amount of time in this one but don’t have hours tracked, maybe 20¢/hr but those hours were thoroughly enjoyed), Little Nightmares. Probably more I’m forgetting at the moment.

Ah I see. I've only played Mindustry (2D Java/ Android equivalent) and if I left that running overnight I'd wake up to complete devastation!

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.

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

Imperialist TR scum in my comments section?! The Vanu will see an end to your reign of terror, just you wait!

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.