so much to organize, damn you humble bundle

  • vger@lemmy.mlEnglish
    38·
    6 months ago

    Smart move, you’re playing Game Categorization, the Game for free on Steam’s dime.

  • ToastyMcButterscotch@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 months ago

    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

  • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 months ago

    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!

  • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    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.

  • fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
    English
    6·
    6 months ago

    I’m migrating away from steam and starting my library over.(Moving away from accounts and drm) So in the future my library will only have games that I have actually played and will play.

    Yeah I’m buying games twice but no one likes captain hindsight.

    • atmur@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      I mean, if you’ve already paid for the games in the past, and you’re going totally DRM free anyway… I feel like you’re morally all good to go sailing.

      • fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
        English
        5·
        6 months ago

        Modern games are a pain in the ass and the download speeds are horrible. I’d rather just buy them and download the game in 2 hours.

        I don’t mind supporting the devs I like, anyways.

    • penquin@lemm.ee
      3·
      6 months ago

      Good for you. That’s the way. I’ve only ever bought one game from steam and it cost me $0.99. Most of my games are from GOG where I can actually download the .exe file because I should be able to, because I own the fucking game. I know there are drm free games on steam, but I’ve always liked GOG. I have a bunch of games .exe files backed up in several places. I also have a bunch of PS4/PS3/PS2 games, physical copies.

    • TheTux@lemmy.ml
      1·
      6 months ago

      That’s pretty cool! If you don’t mind me asking, how are you doing the migration? Last I’ve checked, most games on steam are sold on there & perhaps other consoles & platforms, but rarely as a direct download from the publisher/dev. The only ones that come to mind are Factorio & Starsecter. So how are you building that library?

      Unless your using GoG, itch (which would be limiting I’d think), or piracy (which from another comment you implied you weren’t doing?), I don’t see how this would be practical.

      Not trying to throw shade, just really curious.

      • fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
        English
        1·
        6 months ago

        Pretty much just GoG. Most of the games I want to continue playing are on there.

        If not that, then looking for FOSS alternatives(Like instead of minecraft I have VoxeLibre)

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 months ago

    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:

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
    4·
    6 months ago

    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 😁

  • Oikio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    I was playing this game too much, with complex system which never actually encouraged me to play any of the games I have categorized (and I had similar system as OP). Please dear fellow gamers - don’t fall into same trap =)

    Now I have only 4:

    • WTP - want to play games, be them new or on repeat.
    • VR - same as WTP, but for VR.
    • Done - for games which are finished, but I have a feeling that I would like to recall them several years later.
    • Done-done - for games which I’m not going to ever play again. Either bad games, or which have fully fulfilled their purpose and there is nothing to do anymore.

    I use recent sorting, which help a lot to mitigate any kind of lock on what to play today. It’s more like recommendation

    I am trying to free myself from finishing games 100% and avoid all side/boring activities, also now I’m free to pick whichever game I want, instead of planned (like work) consumption with previous system.

    It has really brighten my playtime, now it feels more like joy than before.