Steam

I don't use them

I think that's part of why you have a backlog.

In all seriousness though, I have a couple lists for like "Workshop" and "Souls like," otherwise it's just sorted by what's installed and most recent.

I do have a favorites list though.

I categorize them based on their franchise. But if they're not part of any franchise or they're the only game I have they'd just be uncategorized.

Goals. Holy, I know what I'm doing tomorrow instead of gaming.

No I already have a full time job.

I just have a finished one where I move them after I finish the story or I'm done with a game.

• Installed
• Finished
• VR
• Borked Anti-cheat
• Everything else

• To Play
• Finished
• Unfinished (games I gave up on)
• Time Sink (unending games, roguelikes, etc)
• Multiplayer
• Multiplayer (5+)
• Local Multiplayer

Ooh, emojis? The possibilities!

my dad's garage is like this

I am in awe of your organization.

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.

I think I must use them wrong.

My categories are mostly used to organise by where they're installed - so Desktop, Laptop, Steam Deck Internal, Steam Deck SD Card 1, SD Card 2 etc. If I want to play that game, where's it already installed?

The only category that relates to the games content is "wheel games" which is driving games that work well with wheel/pedals/gearstick.

I'm not organizing 1200 games. Nor will I ever play them all lol.

I dont have this many lists. I keep mine as finished, currently playing, broken and then some dynamic lists based on category such as rougelike, horror etc

I have an "immediate backlog" of 5 games, about 30 in my "primary backlog," and about 60 in my "backlog." I promote or demote based on vibe and try to play 1 game at a time. I also have a tight curation of favorites and Steam Deck bangers.

• Favorites
• Backlog
• Completed
• Uncategorized

I only have 3: -TO PLAY -BANGERS -Uncategorized

I just have unplayed, installed locally, and good games.

I often forget to update the good games folder so it's iffy as to whether or not all of my good games are in there yet at any given time.

Poor VR, all the way at the bottom below shovelware.

I am somewhat bad about organizing on Steam. All I have for categories are pretty much games I got for free, paid for indie titles, paid for non-indie titles, and emulators. Would be better if I better organized them, but I wouldn't know where to start and would most likely procrastinate on it indefinitely because of the number of things I have in library.

I just sort my library by rating to see what I'll play next.

I feel you bundley pain. I have: favourites, check in future/ early access, completed, currently paying, deck games, escape rooms, games for my wife to try, horror, humble games to try, local multiplayer, multiplayer, new need to try, played kinda sucked, puzzle, RPG, RTS, shooter, sofa games, VR games.

New need to try is for the humble bundle games I'm actually interested in and the humble games to try is for the ones which are just extras.

Why would you sort the ones you're uninterested in?

I sort mine by genre, plus a couple categories that overlap with others like "Space" or "No Killing" because sometimes I get in the mood for a particular quality. I don't have an active category, instead I uninstall games that I don't see myself playing in the near future and then use the "Ready to Play" button to see the active ones. Installing games encourages me to do something else, and the limit on how long it'll be helps, "Do chores for an hour while your game installs" is a lot easier for me than just "Do chores." Ideally, I try to limit my installed games to 10 so that I think more about what I actually want to play, I'm not always disciplined about it.

I categorise them by genre, but only those I've played. Everything else is unsorted and my backlog is whatever I have installed and uncategorised.

I don't use categories, but I do keep a tab open with this loaded with my Steam ID. It uses all the tags games have on Steam so you can see if you have a 2D Sci-Fi Souls-like if you want.

How is your early access category so small?

So what are the 4 Souls-likes in your backlog?

Shooting boomers is not very nice.