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so much to organize, damn you humble bundle
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.
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)
I think that's part of why you have a backlog.
In all seriousness though, I have a couple lists for like "Workshop" and "Souls like," otherwise it's just sorted by what's installed and most recent.
I do have a favorites list though.
I am in awe of your organization.
Categories? I don't use categories. Just a single giant list! Also, I never clear out my email inbox and let it pile up into the thousands! And no one can stop me. MWHAHAHAA!
Do you have some time to hear about our lord and savior the 'sudo Recycle AI'
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:
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 have an _installed, a backlog in general, genre based dynamic categories, and a few special categories such as "bad games that should feel bad", "broke shit check for patch later" "GFWL Broken" and "games of lost interest"
No man sky was one of those broken games. Now I'm 65 hours into it.
It is always nice when a game can turn itself around
No I already have a full time job.
I just have a finished one where I move them after I finish the story or I'm done with a game.
Guess I'm kinda normal. I just install what I wanna play, filter by playable and store by last played.
I'm not organizing 1200 games. Nor will I ever play them all lol.
I was playing this game too much, with complex system which never actually encouraged me to play any of the games I have categorized (and I had similar system as OP). Please dear fellow gamers - don't fall into same trap =)
Now I have only 4:
I use recent sorting, which help a lot to mitigate any kind of lock on what to play today. It's more like recommendation
I am trying to free myself from finishing games 100% and avoid all side/boring activities, also now I'm free to pick whichever game I want, instead of planned (like work) consumption with previous system.
It has really brighten my playtime, now it feels more like joy than before.
Ooh, emojis? The possibilities!
Not Steam emoticons though, unfortunately.
What a miss by steam! I might finally have something to use them for
I think I must use them wrong.
My categories are mostly used to organise by where they're installed - so Desktop, Laptop, Steam Deck Internal, Steam Deck SD Card 1, SD Card 2 etc. If I want to play that game, where's it already installed?
The only category that relates to the games content is "wheel games" which is driving games that work well with wheel/pedals/gearstick.
I only have 3: -TO PLAY -BANGERS -Uncategorized
I have an "immediate backlog" of 5 games, about 30 in my "primary backlog," and about 60 in my "backlog." I promote or demote based on vibe and try to play 1 game at a time. I also have a tight curation of favorites and Steam Deck bangers.
Yes, I've got then by genre, completed, to be played, "butt ugly indies" and "devil's lettuce approved"
Whoa I don't even know you can categorize steam games like this, thanks for showing
I categorize them based on their franchise. But if they're not part of any franchise or they're the only game I have they'd just be uncategorized.
I dont have this many lists. I keep mine as finished, currently playing, broken and then some dynamic lists based on category such as rougelike, horror etc
I am somewhat bad about organizing on Steam. All I have for categories are pretty much games I got for free, paid for indie titles, paid for non-indie titles, and emulators. Would be better if I better organized them, but I wouldn't know where to start and would most likely procrastinate on it indefinitely because of the number of things I have in library.
I just sort my library by rating to see what I'll play next.
Poor VR, all the way at the bottom below shovelware.
Very much intentional since I don't own a headset at the moment. If I ever get one again, I'll give the category an emoji to push it back towards the top lol
I feel you bundley pain. I have: favourites, check in future/ early access, completed, currently paying, deck games, escape rooms, games for my wife to try, horror, humble games to try, local multiplayer, multiplayer, new need to try, played kinda sucked, puzzle, RPG, RTS, shooter, sofa games, VR games.
New need to try is for the humble bundle games I'm actually interested in and the humble games to try is for the ones which are just extras.
Goals. Holy, I know what I'm doing tomorrow instead of gaming.
I just have unplayed, installed locally, and good games.
I often forget to update the good games folder so it's iffy as to whether or not all of my good games are in there yet at any given time.
Why would you sort the ones you're uninterested in?
I sort mine by genre, plus a couple categories that overlap with others like "Space" or "No Killing" because sometimes I get in the mood for a particular quality. I don't have an active category, instead I uninstall games that I don't see myself playing in the near future and then use the "Ready to Play" button to see the active ones. Installing games encourages me to do something else, and the limit on how long it'll be helps, "Do chores for an hour while your game installs" is a lot easier for me than just "Do chores." Ideally, I try to limit my installed games to 10 so that I think more about what I actually want to play, I'm not always disciplined about it.
So what are the 4 Souls-likes in your backlog?
Sekiro, Code Vein, The Surge, and Steel Rising.
Honestly the first three are candidates for the "Dropped" category, I've started and given up on them before. I want to give them each one more chance at some point.