They’re in order of likelihood of being played. Craig is a mate of mine who I play with when time permits.

  • Malix@sopuli.xyz
    36·
    8 months ago

    I just use dynamic collections, eg. group games by their store-tags, eg. arpg, fps, puzzle, walking-sim, online-coop… etc, whatever I consider handy when going through all of it.

    Sure, the categories have a lot of overlap, but I don’t mind, the games list is a disaster anyway (>1300 games on account… yea.).

    I used to maintain my own categories, but at some point the number of games started to be too much to do it by hand.

    edit: One of the better features is to group games with online-coop with friends who have it too. Makes it a lot easier to find the next adventure to start after few beers.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
      8·
      8 months ago

      This is how I go about it, too. I also use the favourites feature to self-curate games to reduce choice anxiety when I want to play something.

      Whenever I buy a game, it gets favourited, whenever I’m done with a game, it gets unfavorited.

      If I play some game a lot or feel like playing some game when I have time, I favourite it.

      This way anytime I want to play, I have a short list of games to consider, instead of trying to look through my whole library.

      • Malix@sopuli.xyz
        1·
        8 months ago

        yea I do also use the favorites (and two other manual lists), but thats about it. Mostly I just use the “last played” view of the library and hide games which aren’t installed locally.

  • ClaireDeLuna@lemmy.world
    27·
    8 months ago

    I tried to sort by genre too many times and failed due to how specific some games get. So now they are sorted by completion.

    I also have a huge word document that has a very detailed, color-coded checklist of every game I have sorted alphabetically & by franchise, this was made so I could include any games from my other devices.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      12·
      8 months ago

      What’s in “DONE - DIDN’T LIKE”? I’m curious as to what you’ve finished despite not really digging it!

      • ClaireDeLuna@lemmy.world
        10·
        8 months ago

        “Done” doesn’t always mean complete, generally that’s where games go that I didn’t finish, never returned, and don’t plan on ever playing again.

        But to answer your question

        Far Cry: horrible update, AI is broken, don’t care to fix it

        Far Cry Primal: Didn’t hate it but I didn’t love it, caused major eye pain too so I couldn’t play long.

        Penumbra: Requiem: Abandoned the vibes of the previous two penumbra games which were the precursors to the amnesia games, didn’t enjoy the puzzles either.

        Planet Centauri: Development Hell, no interest anymore.

        Sniper Elite: weird funky controls just not enjoyable for me got about midway through before tapping out.

        We happy few: mostly abandoned by the devs, game suffered due to being rushed.

        Out of those I beat 3, the rest I either didn’t make the return window or kept for library collection reasons.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          4·
          8 months ago

          Fair! I’ve tried but haven’t been able to get into Far Cry games. I intend to try 3 again. Loved the first two Penumbras, but I’ve never heard of Requiem. I hella feel you on the controls of Sniper Elite, also.

          • ClaireDeLuna@lemmy.world
            4·
            8 months ago

            For me personally 3-5 were solid Far Cry titles! I haven’t beaten 2 yet though. They are “AAA” titles and the corporate parts show, especially in 5. But I love the sandbox environments and the stories are dumb fun imo. Great “brain off” games (stealth is fun too)

    • Bob@feddit.nlOP
      6·
      8 months ago

      I do like the use of square brackets to abuse the alphabetisation.

    • Okami@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Saving for reference. You’ve got a good thing going here. I need to steal some of your ideas for my own collection.

    • darkstarEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      This is amazing! May I please copy your system? :')

  • funkless_eck
    22·
    8 months ago

    I think you’ll find my naming scheme perfectly cromulent.

  • southernbrewer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    8 months ago

    Wow am I the only gamer who had no idea you could organise games into groups in steam? It never even occurred to me to look for this feature

    • shneancy@lemmy.world
      7·
      8 months ago

      i had them organised once upon a time but then i switched laptops and the categories didn’t transfer so i just, never did that again

      • qpsLCV5@lemmy.ml
        1·
        8 months ago

        same happened to me, super annoying.

        there’s third party tools that seem to be able to back up your categories and restore them, so for anyone who’s put an effort into the categories and doesn’t want it to disappear, look into it. personally i didn’t trust these third party tools enough, so now i only have automated categories, and favorites for the stuff i care about right now.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      3·
      8 months ago

      Yeah seriously the only two categories I have are favorites (games that are installed), and everything else (games that aren’t installed).

    • EddoWagt@feddit.nl
      2·
      8 months ago

      You can even sort them conditionally, so I have a folder with games I haven’t played and it updates automatically

  • ares35@kbin.social
    141·
    8 months ago

    mine would go something like:

    stuff i play: 1
    stuff i used to play: 3
    stuff i got just because it was cheap: 983785789567