14 Games That Give You The Absolute Best Bang For Your Buck
14 Games That Give You The Absolute Best Bang For Your Buck is the focus of a new gaming update, and the useful part is understanding what has actually changed or been announced. We're here to investigate why, and help you play more while spending less.
What Happened
As such, paying $70 (or more) each time a new game comes out is simply not feasible for the vast majority of us. Each one of these titles offers a robust experience–one that will keep you coming back for well over 50 hours and could very easily be the sole title you buy and play over several months. And sure, MMOs aren't for everyone, but with FFXIV, it's free to find out if that's the case for you. — Jessica Cogswell The Sims 4 Sure, it'll cost you around $1,200 to buy all of The Sims 4's numerous pieces of DLC, but you might be surprised to know that The Sims 4 itself is available for the low, low cost of… nothing! Following a decade's worth of free updates–and the creation of an extremely robust mod market–the base version of the game is actually pretty fun to play, offering a streamlined yet satisfying experience that proves why the game remains the de facto life sim after all these years. Vampire Survivors is one of the ultimate "number go up" games, and is always available for a "number go low" price. — Jessica Cogswell Hades Few games make dying as fun as Hades, a game in which you play as the son of the titular god of the underworld, Zagreus, who is fed up of living under his temperamental father's thumb.
What Players Need to Know
Sure, these games are fantastic and feature a ton of content and replayability, but we wanted to ensure some threshold was set in place prior to curating this list. Final Fantasy XIV's free trial is a frankly absurdly good deal, hence the reason its players can't stop evangelizing it, myself included. And, if you do play and find it a bit too sparse for your liking, rest assured that EA often runs a deal where you can bundle an expansion, a game pack, and a stuff pack at a reduced price and many overarching sales that offer massive discounts on just about all of the game's DLC. — Jessica Cogswell The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete Edition You've probably been told a million times that you should play The Witcher 3, but let's go ahead and make that a million and one, just for good measure: You should play The Witcher 3. On top of being one of precious few games that blends meaningful open-world design and masterful storytelling (to resounding success, I might add), it's also incredibly fun to play and offers well over 100 hours of gameplay–and that's without factoring in all the Gwent that awaits you. With dozens of unforgettable characters, narrative-driven gameplay that is molded through player choice, and plenty of action (both on the field and in the bedroom), the Mass Effect trilogy is a space opera that no gamer should miss. — Jessica Cogswell Vampire Survivors Sure, Vampire Survivors might not be a visual spectacle, but it doesn't have to be when playing it feels as phenomenal as it does.
Additional Context
We're here to investigate why, and help you play more while spending less. Although games themselves are technically cheaper than ever before, it's no secret that our average disposable income has diminished significantly.
Thankfully, there are a ton of fantastic games out there that don't require a second mortgage or Klarna account to start playing. We've rounded up 14 games that, we believe, give you the absolute best bang for your buck.
And while we do firmly believe that playtime does not equate to value, our focus here is on providing options for those who have little to spend and would like something that is both great and can occupy a lot of their time.
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Gaming has never been more expensive. We're here to investigate why, and help you play more while spending less. Welcome to GameSpot Cheap Week. Although games themselves are technically cheaper than ever before, it's no secret that our average disposable income has diminished significantly. As such, paying $70 (or more) each time a new game…
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