so much to organize, damn you humble bundle

  • vger@lemmy.mlEnglish
    55·
    2 months ago

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

      • vger@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21·
        2 months 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.

  • Kazumara
    14·
    2 months ago

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

  • ToastyMcButterscotch@lemmy.world
    141·
    2 months 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

    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      2 months ago

      Same here. I do use 2 dynamic collections: Installed Locally and Full Controller Support. That’s basically just to make it easier to pick stuff to play from the couch.

      Otherwise it’s all in one big bucket, but it’s a searchable bucket, so that’s fine.

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

  • fsxylo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    71·
    2 months ago

    I’m migrating away from steam and starting my library over.(Moving away from accounts and drm) So in the future my library will only have games that I have actually played and will play.

    Yeah I’m buying games twice but no one likes captain hindsight.

    • atmur@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      I mean, if you’ve already paid for the games in the past, and you’re going totally DRM free anyway… I feel like you’re morally all good to go sailing.

      • fsxylo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        Modern games are a pain in the ass and the download speeds are horrible. I’d rather just buy them and download the game in 2 hours.

        I don’t mind supporting the devs I like, anyways.

    • TheTux@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 months ago

      That’s pretty cool! If you don’t mind me asking, how are you doing the migration? Last I’ve checked, most games on steam are sold on there & perhaps other consoles & platforms, but rarely as a direct download from the publisher/dev. The only ones that come to mind are Factorio & Starsecter. So how are you building that library?

      Unless your using GoG, itch (which would be limiting I’d think), or piracy (which from another comment you implied you weren’t doing?), I don’t see how this would be practical.

      Not trying to throw shade, just really curious.

      • fsxylo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Pretty much just GoG. Most of the games I want to continue playing are on there.

        If not that, then looking for FOSS alternatives(Like instead of minecraft I have VoxeLibre)