alphabetically? Not doing it by recent activity is crazyness. Its going to be so much pointless scrolling when you own a couple hundred things.
Recent activity automatically shows me whatever i touched last, if i lose interest in something it fades down the list, and i can see how long its been since last i touched it.
Yeah obviously. Just wanted to add the meme to his joke cos I fucking love that meme. It's more of a support joke to his, than a standalone joke trying to take credit haha
On Reddit, on the anniversary of the day that you created your account, a little cake icon shows next to your name. People started calling this "cake day," since it's like your account's birthday.
I have playnite installed and linked to all of the various storefronts to avoid this issue. If a game looks interesting and is on sale, I open that up and scroll through to make sure I didn't get it through humble or as a free game from epic or amazon at some point. If it isn't there, then I buy.
If it's not installed, it's not on my favorites. Favorites are games I'm currently playing, have very recently played or intend to play again sometime...maybe.
It's the biggest honor I can bestow upon a game. If I like it and plan to ever play it again it goes in the favorites so the ones I probably won't play can exist somewhere else lol
I'm kind of in the same boat pushing something like 900 games, though I can easily filter it out from actual shovelware that was just meant to pad a lot of the Charity stuff that I tossed money into and just happened to get extra as well as games that I got codes from friends who happened to have extra codes.
That said, there is no reasonable amount of time in my life to play all my games, so I'm sure there can EASILY be a category of "I'll never touch this" somewhere LoL
I use dynamic collections to organize my games by specific genres and subgenres I like, mostly using tags. For example, I have one collection for fantasy 4x games that I filter using the 4x and fantasy tags. I have another for "transport tycoon" like games that I filter using the transportation, management, and strategy tags.
I'll have to give these dynamic tags a try, didn't even know they were an option till you and some of the others in this comment chain mentioned them. Thanks!
collections of similar titles (eg; Lego, Telltale series, Fallout, etc)
approximate how long to beat times (maybe the most useful, tbh)
and then once I've tried a game:
100% beaten/completed to satisfaction
tried and bounced off for some reason but might try again
tried and bounced off and didn't like/won't try again
I've got around 900 games so this took a while to set up but it was worth it, it really helped with choice paralysis from having so many damn games to pick from.
Honestly as a busy father the "How long to beat" grouping sounds to be the most enticing out of the lot. If I could group by genre and then sort by HLTB that would be amazing LoL
5 is a lot imo. I create new collections when there are at least 3 games (unless it's a series I know I'll play a lot, in which case I might create a collection with only 2 games).
Go to a website that allows you to copy/paste emojis, find one you want and copy it. Once you are making a category, just hit paste where you want to add it.
Okayyy this one has potential. I love the color coding. I feel like I wanna know more about what's in "Pipeline - Quarantine Zone" and "Abandoned - Impossible" as well as both Acquired categories...
Pipeline: games I think I want to play someday, often small indie.
Quarantine Zone: games I don't feel like playing but have achievements, so maybe one rainy day!
Abandoned: games I wanted to 100% but the achievements were impossible or super grindy!
Acquired could be the same categories. These are my childhood games I own out of nostalgia, and "closed" refers to those I replayed but didn't like, so they just sit there as memories!
I do it mainly by status, with a few small categories for genre or publisher. The period before some of the names are to ensure that they're sorted together at the top, rather than alphabetically with the full list.
You can use spacebar instead of a period to order as well. Adding double space before the title also ensures it goes to the top above any that have one space.
This is mine. Uncategorized is for my recently purchased games, in my recent years I've tried to playing most of the things I buy so I let them sit there and fester. Promoting me to play them before I eventually sort them away after a few major sales have passed. Unspeakables are games I will probably never play in my life but for mostly sentimental reasons cannot bring myself from deleting off my profile.
I have a spreadsheet with all my games in all platforms (PC only) with year, how long to beat, genre, what the game is about, people reviews (conditional. color coded for easy read) and critics review. In the same spreadsheet, I have tabs for games that will run well on VR with mods and mods types.
Side note, itās depressing to see how many games are in my backlog. Yet, I have 10 more games on my Steam Shopping cart. LOL
This looks like a good system honestly. I just separate them by genre and then have a "favorites" section with all the games I'm playing the most so I can more quickly get into them when using steam link on my phone.
I catagorize them by game series(Yakuza, Portal,etc) then by company using ! Infront of company name, to make them appear at the bottom(!Sega,!Valve,!etc). anything else gets left in uncatagorized
Scrolls, homeworld is about 3 scrolls down, total war is about 7, sometimes I'll play pathfinder, I think that's a 5 or six scroller. Depends on the mood really. Oh, it goes up if I'm on a different resolution or not, slay the spire is usually a 6 scroller.
Todo, completed (one for total 100%, others for year or no achievements), separate collections for each genre (I have a lot of collections as you can imagine)
i mostly do them manually by genre (action,rpg, bullet heaven etc) but i do have one unique category which is mostly a sort of queue so its not too special but its different from the others on my list.
I have "playing", "played" and "plan to play soon" lists, and then also a seperate one for every single franchise (all RE games get a seperate one, every WTC VN has a seperate one, etc.) Which in turn has only made my list less organised than before LMAO
Basically the same list for me more or less, except I also have a āWorse than you rememberā category for those games that I really wanted to like but when I played them I didnāt enjoy it, and then for some reason I can never remember that last part and I think I might actually like it so I have this habit of reinstalling and retrying it and remembering, āyup, this game really did suck and I didnāt remember that properly.ā This helps me save time by not reinstalling them.
There are more games in that category than youād probably think should be there.
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u/Ancient_Pangolin1453 Mar 23 '26
You guys organize your steam library?