This is a top 5 of my most played games. Pretty self explanatory. I'll also give a bit of a blurb about the game.

The only rule here is no idle/clicker games because A) There's not a lot to say about them and B) I often leave them open in the background while doing something else, so more than half of their hours are AFK hours.
Fun fact, If this wasn't a rule, 4/5 games on this list would be idle/clicker games!

What is $/Hr ratio? Good question! $/hr ratio is a measure of how "worth it" a game is. It is calculated by taking the total cost of the game (including microtransactions and DLCs) and dividing it by the total hours played. For example, if a game costs $1 and I get 10 hours of playtime before I lose interest, it has a $/Hr ratio of 1/10 or 0.1. For me, a rating of 0.3+ is terrible, 0.2-0.15 is good, 0.15-0.1 is great, and less than 0.1 is amazing.


Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op horde shooter/miner hybrid. Teams drop into missions to fight bugs and mine resources to meet their quota before racing to extraction. High amounts of customization and random cave generation mean endless gameplay opportunities.
DRG is a blast to play and has evolved greatly over its early access period. The devs care, the community cares, and its always fun to pick up the game and turn some aliens into thin green paste! 4 classes with different weapons and gear to master, 15+ perks to customize your gameplay (and unlike some games they aren't just "+3% movespeed" that doesn't make any difference at all), overclocks that change up weapons or just make them stronger, and lots of unexpected and hilarious moments!

Game Price: $30

$/Hr rate: 0.03 (Amazing), 0.05 (amazing) if you include the cosmetic DLCs I bought to support the devs, 0.07 (Still Amazing) if you include the price of the cosmetic DLCs I got for free as part of a community contest. And since I'm still playing, expect that to go down even further.

Dungeons & Dragons Online was my dream come true; A video game version of the tabletop RPG. Take on missions alone or with a party in a variety of campaigns and areas.
I'm honestly ashamed I've spent this much time in DDO. The game has some serious bugs and balance issues, some quests are extremely frustrating, and there is a lot of content behind paywall after paywall. I spent some money on microtransactions to unlock new races, classes, and quests. I spent $100 on this game, and I hate myself for it because of some serious issues. For one, Lag and networking issues kills ranged weapons, You have to grind the same missions over and over to level (but each time you do, you get a temporary exp penalty), and it gets extremely hard to solo content at higher levels, which sucks when there's nobody around at your level to run the missions you want to run because the community is divided by dozens of paywalls.

Game Price: Free

$/Hr rate: 0.3 (terrible) note that DDO is free, and microtransactions are optional. This number should probably be lower

Don't Starve Together is the multiplayer release of Don't Starve (no "together"). It's an unforgiving survival game requiring you to face a deadly world and... well... Survive!
I kind of stopped playing this one after a while because I did everything there was to do. Playing with randoms is only so good and playing with friends still gets old after a while. The vibrant modding community helps breathe more life into this game, but eventually even that gets old. Movement towards paywalled characters was the last straw for me.

Game Price: $15

$/Hr rate: 0.06 (Amazing), 0.15 (Good) Unmodded

Wildermyth is a party management sort-of-roguelike with turn based grid combat. Form a party of heroes, explore the wild lands, defeat enemies in challenging battles, and experience the story the world has to offer.
Wildermyth is a lot of fun, both for the story and the gameplay. Somehow, with only three classes, I'm still adding characters into my legacy and making them stronger. The stories play out surprisingly well given the completely random nature of all of the non-major plot points. The writing style is also unique, and it's a bit of an acquired taste, but it's not bad in the slightest. The characters feel remarkably human, and it strikes a good balance between humor and serious plot.

Game Price: $20.99

$/Hr rate: 0.08 (Amazing)

Terraria is a 2d sandbox survival game with an emphasis on exploring and combat. 237 hours is more than enough time to "do it all", but as of May 16th It is packaging in the external modding platform known as "TMod Loader" as free DLC, to bring the modding closer to the community. I have no idea what the mods are like, but I can only assume that it will get me to play more.

Game Price: $10

$/Hr rate: 0.04 (Amazing)