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They're in order of likelihood of being played. Craig is a mate of mine who I play with when time permits.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hmmm, I'd like to see Craig's list.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Let's see Paul Allen's card.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

i either group them by genres, or by series/franchises, or by developers.

with some stupid category names, of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What if I only have 4 games?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I don't really need more than that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I just have Favorites (all games installed, steam or non-steam), playlist (games I want to play but haven't installed yet), and finished games.

Everything else is mixed together to search through when I'm looking for something specific (coop, etc).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I just leave mine in the recent activity sort, and then use the search bar when i want to play something that i havent played recently

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Something similar.

  • play soon
  • done but revisit
  • Done and meh
  • Done and complete

For example - "done and complete" is Portal 2. Great experience, but no reason to just replay it. "Done and meh" could be games where I gave up trying.

Then it's

  • Steam Deck only
  • Play with wife
  • Play with kids
  • Pc only

Finally it's specific categories about how it makes me "feel".

  • Chill-like - vampire survivors, or farm games, or Satisfactory
  • Action-like - fps, action games. Doom or Horizon Zero Dawn
  • Story - strong narrative. Like Nier automata, or Witcher 3

The valve tags are better if i want granular.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

My "to start" tab would be waaaaaaay too long to be useful as a category lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I have:

  • favorites
  • want to play
  • multiplayer
  • beaten
  • all achievements
  • uncategorized
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

1 - currently playing 2 - favorites (contains games that I often replay, even if I finished them) 3 - next up 4 - finished (games that I finished, I.e. i saw the credits of) 5 - completed (games that I finished and have 100% achievements on) 6 - abandoned (tried the game, didnt click with it, unlikely to be picked up in the future)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I put the games I care about into genres. There's a lot in my library I don't really bother with though and I just lump that in its own category.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Putting how many games I have in each category in brackets since your screenshot included that info and I think it's interesting data to include.

I have "Uninterested" [7] as a category for games I will probably never play. "Backlog" [33] for games I haven't started, but do eventually want to play. "Story Started" [25] for games that I have started playing but haven't finished the core story or made it to the credits of (some of these games have been in this category for years). A "Playing" [7] category for a few games from the "Story Started" collection that I consider as games I'm actively playing. And a "Story Complete" [91] category for games that I've at least reached a credits screen or otherwise finished the core game/story.

If I enjoy a game a lot, through multiple playthroughs (or at least expect to return for another playthrough at some point) it gets added to my Favorites [14].

And then there's the 280 games in the Uncategorized list, I have played a bit of some of them, but for most of them I'd want to start over from the beginning rather than continue from where I left off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I have to play, playing, done i dont think i have any unsorted rn

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I group them by general type. Shooters, Rts, Turn-based, rpg, platformers, puzzle etc. And then there's a separate category for games that suck. Like a category of shame, to always remember the lows of humanity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Might have to adapt this for my own use

Could be something to spend hours on, you know, instead of playing Horizon ZD, Jedi Survivor, Life is Strange, Tell Me Why, or the Tomb raider series.

And those are just the story based

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I just organize them in 3 categories for me:

  1. Did I get the game for free?

  2. Did I actually purchase said game?

  3. Is it an emulator?

It's a mess, but it's better than no organization because it makes the list feel more organized than it actually is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've got a category for the rating (/10) I give any games I've finished, as well as the following:

  • Dropped
  • Shelved
  • Won't play
  • In progress
  • Backlog
  • Software

These categories don't overlap (ie, I don't give ratings to games I haven't actually finished, even if this means I dropped them with no intent to play them again)

Work pretty nicely for me and it's nice to be able to easily point to games I'd recommend to my pals

And the "wont play" category is largely just games that were in bundles, that I don't care for, or games that I thought I'd want to play but became uninterested in them before I got around to them

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