For the price of two big studio games, you can buy yourself a pair of running shoes, DND dice, a few books, watercolor and paper, and have some money leftover. It's not that you can't afford it, it's that the way capitalism is designed makes you too exhausted to have a hobby.
Piracy is free
Do you even know how expensive it is to sleep these days?
Check your privilege please.
Foraging is free and you end up with really delicious free food (if you're careful, otherwise death).
Which type of music do you like?
Any leftist/Marxist/LiberationTheology type songs that you like?
If you (or any passerby) happens to like German hip hop, I can only recommend Pöbel MC.
Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture: An avantgarde black metal album about the evils of Capitalism.
i dunno, hardware to play games on can get pretty expensive
There's plenty of games with low hardware requirements
naahhhhh.......... (i play 2D games)
considering most aaas are junk these days, this is a great out.
for anyone looking for a cheap hobby, try coding, there are plenty of free resources to learn, and you can get started on almost any computer (or even an android phone!)
or.. just take up knitting. (I'm a CS student)
Have you tried walking?
origami, reading, going on walks
All of these can be done for free
I tried doing origami for free once, the library wasnt very impressed
You may not want to hear this but if this describes you it simply means you're an uninteresting person.
List your hobbies