How do you organize your Steam library?
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Favorites are currently installed games I intend to play. Others are categorized into "beaten" or "unbeatable." There's also a hefty "unplayed" folder.
I've gone through and "permanently deleted" a ton of trash I've accumulated over the years via various bundles and freebies. You can always reinstate the license, and it just feels much better only scrolling through games I actually care about and appreciate. I also do custom artwork for most games and anything that doesn't have a clean vertical artwork. Other than that I just switch between full library and currently installed, that's it.
Collections are sorted alphabetically, so if you want your RPG collection you be above your Action collection, you can name them "1 - RPG" and "2 - Action," for example.
I don't really, except to put games in collections based on the bundle/sale I bought them in. This is so I can look at all the games I bought in a Steam sale a decade ago and feel despair that I've only played 7% of them.
Same for me. There was a time back over 10 years ago that I was setting a custom thumbnail for each game and installing Steam skins, but I don't do any of that now. I keep it simple.
- Now Playing
- Backlog
- Ongoing (Multiplayer/roguelike/non-story based games I play at least on a regular basis but not all the time)
- Replay (Games I finished but want to replay)
- Shelved (Games that I am done with for the foreseeable future)
Terribly.
Have it set to
To Play
Replay
Maybe
Beaten
Multiplayer
Then hide whatever stuff I'll never play (bundle stuff not for me).
It's not the worse but the "Maybe" section is way too unwieldy. Need to specify it somehow
Have it set to
To Play
Replay
Maybe
Beaten
Multiplayer
Then hide whatever stuff I'll never play (bundle stuff not for me).
It's not the worse but the "Maybe" section is way too unwieldy. Need to specify it somehow
Usually just have installed games showing. I do have a collection for "Completed Games" that I fill in any time I beat a game. Otherwise it's like 1000 games in uncategorized that I never view.
I have like 2500 games in there. I tend to add whatever I'm currently playing to Favorites and then when I know I'm done with it for a while remove it. Going too crazy organizing it seems like a lot when I'm really just there to launch games
I just hate how I turned on the dynamic collection setting and suddenly there's all these useless tags at the beginning of my games page and can't seem to turn it off
Steam is my main game library so I pretty much use it to track my gaming history. The filters and sort options are very useful.
The categories I have:
The categories I have:
- Backlog
- Completed
- Played - games that I gave up on for various reasons
- Play forever - games with no clear end, like Stardew Valley, Cities Skylines
- Good games - those that I completed and enjoyed
- Favourites - personal all-timers
Only 3 categories:
- Demos
- Games
- Hidden Games (Games redeemed from bundles I will never play or games I will never touch again)
- Demos
- Games
- Hidden Games (Games redeemed from bundles I will never play or games I will never touch again)
Mine is categorized by genre but I don't find that to be very useful. I mainly just use the Favorites feature as sort of a "currently playing"/"to play" list and decide what to install from there. I just use the search feature to figure out if I own a particular game.
Organize?
I mainly just scroll down the alphabetical list and make sure I install all my games owned that I don't ever play. (Have to keep buying bigger drives.)
I mainly just scroll down the alphabetical list and make sure I install all my games owned that I don't ever play. (Have to keep buying bigger drives.)
Backlog and uncategorized
Everything new I buy goes in the backlog and when I finish the game/lose interest it gets removed from the backlog and just has no tag on it
Everything new I buy goes in the backlog and when I finish the game/lose interest it gets removed from the backlog and just has no tag on it
