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Same. I dig through my digital stack of games I bought on sale and will probably never play until I find the one I was looking for.
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.
I mark the games I really like as favourites and have the option to show only the installed games turned on, that's it. I don't have time, will nor need to put everything into different categories.
Unsorted, favorites, beaten games, and a little category I call "shit games I'll never play again".
That keeps it organized enough and makes sure I remember which games I have played and hated so I don't bother with them again.
I just call that category "Meh." I also have a special category for those few games that I bought and never worked properly in Linux, but I hope one day will (mostly old DX9 stuff like Hexen II).
I needed something more strongly worded than meh, lol. I'd consider a meh category too. But these are games that made me actively angry to play :)
I need to add that last section
I sort by recently played and installed, so whatever I played or bought most recently is at the top, and no uninstalled games show up.
Um, alphabetically?
I split mine into a few categories:
- Backlog
- Playing
- Multiplayer
- Completed
- Junk (Usually filler from bundles)
I only keep the playing list expanded and relatively small to avoid choice paralysis.
There's the main 'folder/category/thing' every game is added to by default, one for favorites that's already built into Steam, and two more I added called "meh" and "shit".
The main folder acts as my unsorted/unplayed category, and Favorites/Meh/Shit covers pretty much everything else.
Favorites, Installed, Completed, Multiplayer, Will not play for a while
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.
Not doing it
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:
- ToDo
- Completed
- Gold & Completed
- Sim
- Casual
- Local Multiplayer ...
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.
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 sort by last played. Sometimes by user score if I feel like trying something I've had but haven't played yet.
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.
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.
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.