so much to organize, damn you humble bundle
I only have 3: -TO PLAY -BANGERS -Uncategorized
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Yes, I've got then by genre, completed, to be played, "butt ugly indies" and "devil's lettuce approved"
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.
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.
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? 😆
Mostly games that don't fit into an existing category that I don't feel like creating a dedicated category for. Like I could create a stealth category for Thief and Hitman, but it would only contain those two games. Then there's games like Transistor, Cloudpunk, Spiritfarer, etc where I just don't know how I could even categorize them.
Thank you for giving me inspiration of what to do with that feature!
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 could never be this organized, but good for you tbh
Whoa I don't even know you can categorize steam games like this, thanks for showing
- To Play
- Finished
- Unfinished (games I gave up on)
- Time Sink (unending games, roguelikes, etc)
- Multiplayer
- Multiplayer (5+)
- Local Multiplayer
Poor VR, all the way at the bottom below shovelware.
Very much intentional since I don't own a headset at the moment. If I ever get one again, I'll give the category an emoji to push it back towards the top lol
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.
Goals. Holy, I know what I'm doing tomorrow instead of gaming.
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.
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
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.
So what are the 4 Souls-likes in your backlog?
Sekiro, Code Vein, The Surge, and Steel Rising.
Honestly the first three are candidates for the "Dropped" category, I've started and given up on them before. I want to give them each one more chance at some point.
Would be a shame to drop Sekiro. Definitely one of the hardest souls games but very redeeming once you get the hang of it.
Code Vein is very rough around the edges but has a cool art style and interesting boss designs. Also has a banger soundtrack by Go Shiina, best known for Demon Slayer. Some of the boss themes go really hard. Pretty good in coop but probably wouldn't have finished it alone.
Did not enjoy The Surge and did not play Steel Rising.
My problem with most Souls-likes is the slow/clunky (for lack of a better word) combat. I've bounced off Code Vein, The Surge, and Elden Ring (which was a refund instead of a backlog) over this. I want to try them again with an open mind at some point though, just with adjusted expectations.
Sekiro on the other hand I really liked the combat of, the reason it got backlogged is because I got tired of fighting through all the grunt enemies between deaths to bosses/mini-bosses. I like difficult bosses if I can immediately try again upon death (a la Furi), but it felt like Sekiro was wasting my time in comparison because I had to GET to the boss again for each attempt. The grunts didn't pose enough of a challenge to be interesting, just enough to slow me down.
I'm not sure if that's a common thing throughout the game, or if it was just in the areas leading up to the point where I stopped, but I am definitely planning on giving it another shot either way. It's been a few years since I last played it.
Most Souls-likes are slow and methodical, if that's not your thing you probably won't have fun with any of these except Sekiro. I would not call the official ones (Dark Souls, Elden Ring, ...) clunky but many of the "copies" certainly can be.
but it felt like Sekiro was wasting my time in comparison because I had to GET to the boss again for each attempt. The grunts didn't pose enough of a challenge to be interesting, just enough to slow me down.
You can rush past most enemies on your way to the boss and the difficult ones usually have a respawn point close but this is a problem with many From games. I bounced off Dark Souls 1 and Sekiro for similar reasons the first time I played them.
If you enjoy the boss fights you might enjoy Kannagi Usagi? It's essentially a carbon copy of the Sekiro bosses in a boss rush mode and with an anime skin. I have seen even the biggest Sekiro haters enjoy that one. Also, it's free and short. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2551500/__KANNAGI_USAGI/
How is your early access category so small?
I avoid early access in general, so I've only ended up with a handful from game bundles.
I just sort by recent and that's it 🤷♂️ if it falls off and I forget about it, I guess it's gone
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.
It would be cool to see an export of that game list by category.
Dunno if steam has any way of doing that
I'm late to the party, but I've categorized them by year. If I feel nostalgic, I just browse the top of the list.
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 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.
And here I thought I had a huge backlog.