Steam

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 ......

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.

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? 😆

Thats a lot of categories. I've got "current", "Done with", "never again" and the uncategorized, since functionally that is my backlog.

mine is just

• Favorites
• Multiplayer games my girlfriend also has
• Everything else

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:

I go by main genre - so Action, Adventure, RPG, ARPG, Rhythm, VR, you get it.

Then a Beaten, Beaten 100%, Shelved, "The Bin", and a "Multiplayer" category. Games are allowed in multiple categories. The Bin does not hold many games, you've gotta earn being thrown in the trash.

That way, when I think, "I wanna play a Rogue Like" I don't have to recall all their titles or anything. Then my Steam Deck came around and the default big picture view makes my sorting... Mostly useless.

I currently have it sorted by year (I used some year date from Steam, but that isn't super accurate as I think it's the date it was added to Steam). I think I used Depressurizer?

I used to have it sorted by the Steam score, IIRC.

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"

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!

I could never be this organized, but good for you tbh

I stopped doing that after the first few hundreds... Now I'm at >5000 or so and only do a "bought to actually play" category 😁

I tried, but dynamic filters were not good enough, so i gave up.

Only have "Ready To Play", "All Played" and "Uncategorized" now.

Guess I'm kinda normal. I just install what I wanna play, filter by playable and store by last played.

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.

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

And here I thought I had a huge backlog.

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.

Goals. Holy, I know what I'm doing tomorrow instead of gaming.

• To Play
• Finished
• Unfinished (games I gave up on)
• Time Sink (unending games, roguelikes, etc)
• Multiplayer
• Multiplayer (5+)
• Local Multiplayer

I actually like that... Mostly I have categories for genres, publishers, and planning for playing (not like I actually follow it...) but I like some of yours and will probably adopt them