so much to organize, damn you humble bundle

  • vger@lemmy.mlEnglish
    54·
    4 days ago

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

      • vger@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21·
        3 days 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.

  • ToastyMcButterscotch@lemmy.world
    141·
    3 days 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

  • Moog Muskie@lemmy.zip
    3·
    3 days ago

    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? 😆

    • atmur@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      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.

  • arglebargle@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    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 …

    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      2 days 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.