Most - SimCity 4. I don't remember buying the CD but countless hours later I can say it was worth it.

Least is really hard. Like you have to really really fuck up a game for me to not like it. Three come to mind. Cities Skylines 2. Mortal Kombat 1. Starfield. Both games coming after two of my all time faves. I spent 500+ hours in CS1. If you can't tell city builders are my jam. So for me to actively despise a city builder is pretty condemning of the quality of the game. That's my problem with Skylines 2.

MK1 I powered through the story and had no desire to play any other part of it. It was a buggy incomplete mess. The roster was a step back from MK11 IMO. The game play was supposed to address the main complaints of how slow and limited MK11 was. They did that by adding a gimmick instead of going back to the MKX formula. MK1 is just a failed mess of a game.

I would have forgot about Starfield if not for seeing it in my Steam library just now. Mechanically this game fucking blows. I really hate some of the design decisions they made in the game. Like oxygen frequently stopping you from sprinting early game. The menu designs. Space flight. It's all so baffling to me. They really fumbled the ball.

Check your local library, can rent console games for free!

RE9 is probably on the lower end for me. Was excited and paid full price and didn't even get more than an hour into a second run before I got bored. The game is good but a depressing amount of it is basically on rails, kind of like the Beneviento house in RE8.

For 70 fucking bucks, it needs to ship with a mercenaries mode or seriously different NG+ mode. Insanity stops being interesting as soon as you get the blood collector and start making OP backstab injectors again and ironically showcases how actually rather unobservant most enemies are.

Compare that to games like Abiotic Factor, which are half the price (and I paid less than that because I got it during its 0.9 early access patch) and I've clocked hundreds of hours in or games like WoW or FFXIV which have clocked several thousand hours each.

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 approaches infinity enjoyment, 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.

Vampire survivor. $4.

1000+ hours. Of just staring at pretty colors.

Bought every single DLC to continue supporting them.

Fallout 3 or New Vegas. I can't remember which cause they're both pretty close in overall hours played.

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.

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.

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.

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 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: 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

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

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.

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.

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.

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