so much to organize, damn you humble bundle

  • Moog Muskie@lemmy.zip
    3·
    2 days ago

    The majority of backlogs being in “other” is because you bought hundreds of games you don’t remember buying or what genre they are, right? 😆

    • atmur@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Mostly games that don’t fit into an existing category that I don’t feel like creating a dedicated category for. Like I could create a stealth category for Thief and Hitman, but it would only contain those two games. Then there’s games like Transistor, Cloudpunk, Spiritfarer, etc where I just don’t know how I could even categorize them.

  • vger@lemmy.mlEnglish
    53·
    3 days ago

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

      • vger@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21·
        2 days ago

        We’re not buying games, we’re categorizing games. Again, the game we’re playing is called “Game Categorization, the Game,” and it costs nothing to play it.

  • ToastyMcButterscotch@lemmy.world
    141·
    3 days 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

  • BigPotato@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    2 days 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.