I just hide everything I don't want to play again. "Favorites" means "games I am playing right now". I have one real category of my own, which is "Finished", and actually means "maybe I beat this, or maybe I just got close enough and watched the ending on Youtube." Very few games are actually visible in "Finished" because mostly I don't replay games, so if I beat something, it goes into "Finished" and then gets hidden.

I have

1. "Pile of Shame" (started, never finished out of boredom, too long of a list tbh)

2. "Goated" (Always installed and ready to play, something like Sekiro, DS3, MHW)

3. "Co-op" (Couch Co-op Games for when friends are coming over. Having them in an extra list is easier to choose from)

The Rest ist unmanaged. Oh and I also just hide a game if it's a one-playthrough-only thing and I am finished.

• Favorites (13)
• Hall of honor (1)
• Local Multiplayer (6)
• Trash Bin (11)
• Uncategorized (92)

(Hall of honor as of now contains "Brothers: A tale of two sons", game brought me to tears so I created the category, shoved it in there and never played it again.)

I would play with Craig too

I have three categories:

• Completed
• In Progress
• Uncategorized

They go into In Progress when they're installed.

They go into completed when I've finished them. Either 100% achievements or completed to my own satisfaction if no achievements.

If I lose interest and uninstall they drop back into Uncategorized until I'm ready to pick them up again.

The games in progress I mark as favorites, I have “Finished” and “Play Next” categories, and I have a big dump category called “Won’t Play”.

Aside from that, I have some big categories for collections of old games from humble bundles and steam sales, like legacy Myst, Wizardry, or Sierra games, or like Star Wars game collections.

I have no category for games I play often, I have "played" for games I likely won't play again. And I have "shitty trash" for well those. I also have uber trash for sacred 3 and two worlds

Favorites - Games I'm playing very frequently
Bugged - Games I might try again if specific bugs are fixed.
Classic - Games I play less frequently but still plan to again
Couch - Games that would only be fun to play on a couch with friends. if I had a couch. or friends.
Doze - Games that require tweaks to proton to work on my Linux desktop.
Meh - Games I'm not playing again.
Old - Finished games I'd only install again if it had a massive update.
Testing - Uncategorized games I haven't made up my mind on.

Currently:

• VR
• Uncategorized

Soon to be added:

• Linux (tested/works on)

We have to categorise?

Working on it - Stuff I'm in the middle of

Leeloo Dallas Multipass - Anying that is 2 or more players

Done Did - Games that I've done did

Then title groupings for anything with 5 or more installments.

Didn't even know I could do that :') thanks

I'll come back to this when I sorted them... although I really do like your system.

• Now Playing (Has exactly one game mostly, or zero, when I close the game)
• Everything else

The boring way.

I have 25 games on steam so I don't need to organize them
I joined steam in 2009

• Favorites (I'll play again after finishing) (21 games)
• Completed (I've finished and probably won't play again) (430 games)
• Dead Games (online games that are literally unplayable due to servers going down) (3 games)
• TBD (I haven't finished yet) (140 games)

Completed also includes things I decided weren't worth playing anymore, mostly from bundles back in the day. Stuff like Fallout Tactics and some of the XCOM spinoffs.

Needs a "morally obligated to never play again" for Spec Ops and OneShot

Looking at some of these... I'd never even considered sectioning them by genre - mine's mostly by physical location - if I want to play that game, where's it already installed?

So there's :
Desktop, Laptop, Deck Internal, Deck SD1 (and SD2, 3 & 4 for removable SD cards)

Then like most people, I've got a "Complete" and a "Maybe [person's name]" for ones the missus might enjoy.

The only sort of grouping is "Wheel Games", which is basically driving games, but the type you want to play with wheel & pedals, not just a controller. My wheel and pedals aren't set up permanently, so when they are set up, I pretty much only play all the Euro Truck/Bus Sims, Dirt Rally, F1, Revhead, BeamNG sort of games etc.

A few games in my favorites and the rest is uncategorized (i only have like 20 games though so that's not much of a problem)

I use genre categories to which I assign games I have completed.

I just have installed and finished. Also emulator categories created by emudeck

i either group them by genres, or by series/franchises, or by developers.

with some stupid category names, of course.