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.
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.