Steam

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.

Thank you for giving me inspiration of what to do with that feature!

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.

• Favorites
• Backlog
• Completed
• Uncategorized

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 only have 3: -TO PLAY -BANGERS -Uncategorized

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.

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 could never be this organized, but good for you tbh

I just sort my library by rating to see what I'll play next.

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

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.

Poor VR, all the way at the bottom below shovelware.

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

Whoa I don't even know you can categorize steam games like this, thanks for showing

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?

And here I thought I had a huge backlog.

It would be cool to see an export of that game list by category.

Dunno if steam has any way of doing that

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.

I just sort by recent and that's it 🤷‍♂️ if it falls off and I forget about it, I guess it's gone

Mine is pretty similar, except I just throw my backlog into a big category called "Haven't Touched". Been meaning to make a separate folder for Early Access games I've temporarily dropped until they release.

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