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? 😆

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.

I actually like that… Mostly I have categories for genres, publishers, and planning for playing (not like I actually follow it…) but I like some of yours and will probably adopt them

Mine is pretty similar, except I just throw my backlog into a big category called “Haven’t Touched”. Been meaning to make a separate folder for Early Access games I’ve temporarily dropped until they release.

I just sort by recent and that’s it 🤷‍♂️ if it falls off and I forget about it, I guess it’s gone

i have 3 categories:

hentai

not hentai

stupid

There are categories? My 446 entries are just kind of there, alphabetically.

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.

I currently have it sorted by year (I used some year date from Steam, but that isn’t super accurate as I think it’s the date it was added to Steam). I think I used Depressurizer?

I used to have it sorted by the Steam score, IIRC.

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

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 😁

It would be cool to see an export of that game list by category.

Dunno if steam has any way of doing that

Steam user since the early days, and no categories here. Why bother. Thousands of games, too much work.

Same thing with profiles, like what do I need that shit for?

Edit: I do want to say, I admire your organization.

… New Years resolution to say something nice a lot more often, we call could use it …

Thats a lot of categories. I’ve got “current”, “Done with”, “never again” and the uncategorized, since functionally that is my backlog.