so much to organize, damn you humble bundle
I’m late to the party, but I’ve categorized them by year. If I feel nostalgic, I just browse the top of the list.
Steam has categories?
There are categories? My 446 entries are just kind of there, alphabetically.
Man, calling them “backlogs” seems like a very unhealthy way of thinking about it. They’re games you play for fun and enjoyment, not work you’re behind on.
My categories are: Games I shall play one day: just all the games I haven’t given a fair shake yet and would like to get around to at some point.
Games I am playing: games that I am actively playing, usually with some activity within the last month
Games I am done with: games I no longer want to play for whatever reason. Used to be “Games I have completed” but that didn’t make much sense with multiplayer games or roguelikes, and it worked better for games I hadn’t completed and just could not be arsed to complete.
Free games: games I have gotten for free and so have no plans to play.
Also have one for online multiplayer games and one for local multiplayer for when friends want to play something
Most of the time tho I just use the sort by recent and only installed bittons since those are the games I want to see anyway
Steam user since the early days, and no categories here. Why bother. Thousands of games, too much work.
Same thing with profiles, like what do I need that shit for?
Edit: I do want to say, I admire your organization.
… New Years resolution to say something nice a lot more often, we call could use it …
Steam has the ability to create dynamic collections which is great for larger libraries
Oh I know they exist… I have thousands of games. Category: games.
Same here. I do use 2 dynamic collections: Installed Locally and Full Controller Support. That’s basically just to make it easier to pick stuff to play from the couch.
Otherwise it’s all in one big bucket, but it’s a searchable bucket, so that’s fine.
Dishonored 3? Where did you find that one already?
It’s a category that has 3 items: Dishonored, Dishonored 2 and Dishonored: Death of the Outsider.
This is the most logical
I hope that someday this will be automatic
I would do this.
And then only play Rocket League.
Thank you for giving me inspiration of what to do with that feature!
I’m surprised I didn’t see it mentioned here (unless I missed it) but I use the “hide game” function liberally. Anything I’m not interested in, gave up on with no chance of trying again, completed with no desire to revisit, or won’t touch for any other reason just goes away, out of sight. It helps give a real sense of progression through your collection and you can pare it down to favorites you would likely revisit and things you have yet to play. And the hidden tab is easily viewable if you ever want to look at everything for any reason like rethinking putting a particular game in there.
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i have 3 categories:
hentai
not hentai
stupid
The majority of backlogs being in “other” is because you bought hundreds of games you don’t remember buying or what genre they are, right? 😆
Mostly games that don’t fit into an existing category that I don’t feel like creating a dedicated category for. Like I could create a stealth category for Thief and Hitman, but it would only contain those two games. Then there’s games like Transistor, Cloudpunk, Spiritfarer, etc where I just don’t know how I could even categorize them.
mine is just
- Favorites
- Multiplayer games my girlfriend also has
- Everything else
Thats a lot of categories. I’ve got “current”, “Done with”, “never again” and the uncategorized, since functionally that is my backlog.
VR and non-VR for me.
I’m migrating away from steam and starting my library over.(Moving away from accounts and drm) So in the future my library will only have games that I have actually played and will play.
Yeah I’m buying games twice but no one likes captain hindsight.
I mean, if you’ve already paid for the games in the past, and you’re going totally DRM free anyway… I feel like you’re morally all good to go sailing.
Modern games are a pain in the ass and the download speeds are horrible. I’d rather just buy them and download the game in 2 hours.
I don’t mind supporting the devs I like, anyways.
Good for you. That’s the way. I’ve only ever bought one game from steam and it cost me $0.99. Most of my games are from GOG where I can actually download the .exe file because I should be able to, because I own the fucking game. I know there are drm free games on steam, but I’ve always liked GOG. I have a bunch of games .exe files backed up in several places. I also have a bunch of PS4/PS3/PS2 games, physical copies.
Valve has made it so I can game entirely on linux. I remember when Steam started and I hated it, I didn’t want an account. But after all these years its been nothing but ways that benefit me.
I like GOG but they can’t be bothered to even create a library tool. Yes third party ones exist, but you would think they could at least try.
And in the end, if it all goes away, it was just games. Not like I couldnt get them back if I really tried, and if you really wanted to do something about it, you CAN archive your steam library.
That’s pretty cool! If you don’t mind me asking, how are you doing the migration? Last I’ve checked, most games on steam are sold on there & perhaps other consoles & platforms, but rarely as a direct download from the publisher/dev. The only ones that come to mind are Factorio & Starsecter. So how are you building that library?
Unless your using GoG, itch (which would be limiting I’d think), or piracy (which from another comment you implied you weren’t doing?), I don’t see how this would be practical.
Not trying to throw shade, just really curious.
Pretty much just GoG. Most of the games I want to continue playing are on there.
If not that, then looking for FOSS alternatives(Like instead of minecraft I have VoxeLibre)
Makes sense, very cool
Only one custom category for the best indie games.
But I dont really need it since I uninstall games I dont play and my library view is filtered to installed only:
