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

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.

I just bought it during the steam sale, what mods would you recommend?

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).

No Man's Sky. Seems like getting good RNG is the difficulty of the game.

Off the top of my head, there's one that adds more climbing handholds, one that tweaks katana usage to make it more viable...

Let me see if I can dig up a mod list after while and I'll get you a better idea

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.

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.

Still playing to this day. Looooove it and the modding community

Sven-Coop

It's a coop mod. When HL1 was released a guy named Sven immediately started working on a way for multiple people to play through the single player campaign together. He released it in January 1999 and a friend and I had been keeping tabs on the development and started playing on day one and I just....never stopped.

People started making maps for it right away and there are now tens of thousands of maps, with new ones still being released. It wasn't added to Steam until 2016, so I never had a way to track my hours (5000 since then). The player base was almost dead at that point but Steam brough it back to life and even now there's a couple hundred servers and probably 100-200 players at any given time.

I hop on most days to try new maps or just help players learn maps they don't know. I like giving them hints to figure out where secrets are, as secrets are kind of a staple for Sven-Coop maps. The range of maps is incredible. Action maps, puzzle maps, top down maps, side scroller maps, board game maps, racing maps, hangout maps, secret hunting maps, tribute maps, horror maps....everything.

Most serious gamers have a warm blanket game. Sven is mine.

Garry’s Mod, 10 dollars and 6000 hours logged.

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.

What made you change your perspective?

Hmm... which would you recommend?

Wow, well, that nails in the coffin for sure; I can't stand TBoI's atmosphere (I just think the environment is disgusting lol), don't really care about arena shooters much, and I typically hate action points which is why I could never tolerate anything remotely X-COM-like for long. Thanks for the heads-up!