Is being free to play in Love 365 worth it?

From my experience, the Love Choice stories tend to be better overall, though not universally. It really depends on your preferences and which characters or tropes you enjoy. The paid options usually unlock more emotionally satisfying scenes.

As for whether it's worth spending, that's honestly a personal call. It depends on how much you value the experience versus your budget and how you feel about mobile games potentially ending service one day.

I tend to think of it like paying for a nice meal at a restaurant. You're spending for the experience in the moment rather than something permanent. If you enjoy the story and the characters enough, it can feel worth it, but it's not necessary to have a decent time.

If you have a switch, I'd recommend getting the switch port of Romance MD for Oops I Said Yes for a feel of the general content of Love 365 stories.

I honestly don't recommend paid choice games and suggest just full visual novels as it can become a case of almost gambling with fictional money. Also I used to do it a lot with NTT solmare games and once they delete them, they are gone and so is your money. Which is why I sadly stay away from phone games.