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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.
I just have installed and finished. Also emulator categories created by emudeck
Haha! I'm not the only one with categories that are just "friends name"
Currently:
Soon to be added:
Wouldn't games under Craig and Would play with Craig again overlap? Unless Craig has currently playing games.
They're games we've not got around to yet or not finished yet, whereas the "would play" is ones we're more or less done with but might come back to in the distant future. We don't get to do it very often because we live in different timezones and he's got two young chiddlers.
I have no category for games I play often, I have "played" for games I likely won't play again. And I have "shitty trash" for well those. I also have uber trash for sacred 3 and two worlds
I have three categories:
They go into In Progress when they're installed.
They go into completed when I've finished them. Either 100% achievements or completed to my own satisfaction if no achievements.
If I lose interest and uninstall they drop back into Uncategorized until I'm ready to pick them up again.
Something similar.
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
Finally it's specific categories about how it makes me "feel".
The valve tags are better if i want granular.
The games in progress I mark as favorites, I have “Finished” and “Play Next” categories, and I have a big dump category called “Won’t Play”.
Aside from that, I have some big categories for collections of old games from humble bundles and steam sales, like legacy Myst, Wizardry, or Sierra games, or like Star Wars game collections.
A few games in my favorites and the rest is uncategorized (i only have like 20 games though so that's not much of a problem)
Needs a "morally obligated to never play again" for Spec Ops and OneShot
Didn't even know I could do that :') thanks
I'll come back to this when I sorted them... although I really do like your system.
Its a little more convoluted than I'd like. I Should really merge things like Meh/ Package deal/Discontinued/kinda done though
I used to have a category called "maybe pile" but it didn't make sense to me to stick it near the top.
Edit: same with one called "abandon all hope ye who enter here".
Honestly, I didn't really bother ordering them. I tend to only go trough my games when I'm either looking for something new to play (in which case I already kinda know what I want) or when I'm super bored, and then I'm gonna go trough most tabs anyway.
It's mostly just nice to have the junk filtered out ^^
I use genre categories to which I assign games I have completed.
Favorites - Games I'm playing very frequently
Bugged - Games I might try again if specific bugs are fixed.
Classic - Games I play less frequently but still plan to again
Couch - Games that would only be fun to play on a couch with friends. if I had a couch. or friends.
Doze - Games that require tweaks to proton to work on my Linux desktop.
Meh - Games I'm not playing again.
Old - Finished games I'd only install again if it had a massive update.
Testing - Uncategorized games I haven't made up my mind on.
Working on it - Stuff I'm in the middle of
Leeloo Dallas Multipass - Anying that is 2 or more players
Done Did - Games that I've done did
Then title groupings for anything with 5 or more installments.
Implies:
I Don't categorize
Looking at some of these... I'd never even considered sectioning them by genre - mine's mostly by physical location - if I want to play that game, where's it already installed?
So there's :
Desktop, Laptop, Deck Internal, Deck SD1 (and SD2, 3 & 4 for removable SD cards)
Then like most people, I've got a "Complete" and a "Maybe [person's name]" for ones the missus might enjoy.
The only sort of grouping is "Wheel Games", which is basically driving games, but the type you want to play with wheel & pedals, not just a controller. My wheel and pedals aren't set up permanently, so when they are set up, I pretty much only play all the Euro Truck/Bus Sims, Dirt Rally, F1, Revhead, BeamNG sort of games etc.
I did also use to have lists for my laptop and hand-me-down PC, and one called "need a better computer", but my laptop's since given up the ghost and I have a better computer.
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.
I tried that, but most genre folders have become pretty useless over time because they're either too similar to each other or somehow games found their way into wrong ones
I just organize them in 3 categories for me:
Did I get the game for free?
Did I actually purchase said game?
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.
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).
