Prefer games like Factorio or Rimworld that you can get many 100s of hours from.

Not to mention that not all gaming hours are equally fungible.

There can be shorter narrative games where a given hour is worth more (to me), so the higher per hour cost is justified.

To you perhaps. Cinema is less than half that cost here and even then I go less than once a year because I don't really feel like most films that come out are worth bothering to see given the combined effort and cost.