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As many of us have, our Steam libraries have grown so much over the years that we have a huge backlog of games to play. It is hard to keep track of which game liked/disliked.
I see options like hide this game or putting games into collections, I'm interested in how do you keep track of the good and bad games? Games you would like to eventually come back to?
I dont.
I used to categorize manually, finished games going into beaten-replayable, beaten-100%, beaten-done playing, open-done with, etc.
Dynamic Libraries are helpful for sorting, but not a replacement for manual categories. A major down side of the dynamic library feature is thst it relies on the game page to be accurate to the games feature set. Often there are games that get a tag or feature thst is just false. This does not a good tool make.
I did that. I just make whatever categories make sense to me. All of the Star Wars games are in a category, all Valve games are in one as well. And so on.
Um, alphabetically?
I split mine into a few categories:
I only keep the playing list expanded and relatively small to avoid choice paralysis.
I honestly didn't even know you could. With just over 100 games I've never felt the need to though, I can wade through them pretty easily and remember what I have.
I have my Steam Library organized by genre. FPS, RPG, RTS, ect. Then I have a backlog category where I put the games I know I want to get around to playing eventually and a Completed category for games that I've finished and am probably not going to go back to.
I have 4 main collections. I have favorites, multiplayer games that I play with friends, games that I have yet to finish but do plan on playing, and then games that I've finished. The unsorted stuff are games that I don't plan on playing. Maybe I'll get to the unsorted stuff someday, but not for the near future.
It's simple enough for me to understand and manage.
I use playnite
I've got about two dozen collections dedicated to various single store tags, or combinations of tags, most of them genres, but a few like "multiplayer" "co-op", etc.
I've never grouped them based on my opinion of them, but I do like that idea, and may start doing it now.
I organize by game release year. Not when it was released on steam or even PC but whenever that game was initially released on any platform. From 1997 to 2023.
I put it in respective collections:
Not doing it
I add games I plan to play or might play in the coming year(s) to favorites and then collapse the non-favorites tab.
I sort by the 2 games I play and the a section for all the games I brought, never played or downloaded.
games beaten, and games not beaten. Simply like that
In my case, it's even worse due to using other services too. What I end up doing is noting everything on digital sheets like LibreOffice, and trying to organize in a way that makes sense.
For the most part, I don't. I do have two custom filters tho. One for classic FPS (IE "boomer shooters") and one for Fromsoft games.