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How do you organize your Steam library?
(lemm.ee)
As many of us have, our Steam libraries have grown so much over the years that we have a huge backlog of games to play. It is hard to keep track of which game liked/disliked.
I see options like hide this game or putting games into collections, I'm interested in how do you keep track of the good and bad games? Games you would like to eventually come back to?
I have about 1000 games. I have 4 categories:
Developed - games I made for work and need fast access to for debugging and testing.
George's Games - which is my kid's games that is a dynamic category of full controller support, cooperative, local co-op. More George's Games - which again for my kid is a dynamic category of partial controller support with local co-op.
PlayThese - Games I recently bought and I am lying to myself I have time. Only has 4 games in it, most recent purchases end up in uncategorized anyways. These are just 4 immersive sims I bought in the holiday sale in 2022.
Uncategorized - 952 games.
How do I manage all of this? Well, honestly I just hit the little "ready to play games" button which only shows installed or streamable games. If it's not installed, I don't really care about seeing it. If I want to install something then I know exactly what it is. Although multiple times a friend will be talking about a game I should play. I'll be waffling going "I don't really need to buy another game." Then I will check the Steam store page and it will say I already own it. I don't know how, most of the time I've gotten a key from somewhere and it's not something I actively bought.
So really the categorization system is "is it installed?" and if it is, it's important.