i did this but didn't keep up with it. ended up with a big "unsorted" folder that occasionally has gems when i look through it

I just organize them in 3 categories for me:

1. Did I get the game for free?

2. Did I actually purchase said game?

3. Is it an emulator?

It's a mess, but it's better than no organization because it makes the list feel more organized than it actually is.

• Favourites

• artsy (for sorting all the pretentious crap)

And then the rest are sorted via genre tag.

I've got a category for the rating (/10) I give any games I've finished, as well as the following:

• Dropped
• Shelved
• Won't play
• In progress
• Backlog
• Software

These categories don't overlap (ie, I don't give ratings to games I haven't actually finished, even if this means I dropped them with no intent to play them again)

Work pretty nicely for me and it's nice to be able to easily point to games I'd recommend to my pals

And the "wont play" category is largely just games that were in bundles, that I don't care for, or games that I thought I'd want to play but became uninterested in them before I got around to them

• Favorites
• Playing
• Finished
• Valve complete pack
• Uncategorized

Might have to adapt this for my own use

Could be something to spend hours on, you know, instead of playing Horizon ZD, Jedi Survivor, Life is Strange, Tell Me Why, or the Tomb raider series.

And those are just the story based

I group them by general type. Shooters, Rts, Turn-based, rpg, platformers, puzzle etc. And then there's a separate category for games that suck. Like a category of shame, to always remember the lows of humanity.

I put the games I care about into genres. There's a lot in my library I don't really bother with though and I just lump that in its own category.

Putting how many games I have in each category in brackets since your screenshot included that info and I think it's interesting data to include.

I have "Uninterested" [7] as a category for games I will probably never play. "Backlog" [33] for games I haven't started, but do eventually want to play. "Story Started" [25] for games that I have started playing but haven't finished the core story or made it to the credits of (some of these games have been in this category for years). A "Playing" [7] category for a few games from the "Story Started" collection that I consider as games I'm actively playing. And a "Story Complete" [91] category for games that I've at least reached a credits screen or otherwise finished the core game/story.

If I enjoy a game a lot, through multiple playthroughs (or at least expect to return for another playthrough at some point) it gets added to my Favorites [14].

And then there's the 280 games in the Uncategorized list, I have played a bit of some of them, but for most of them I'd want to start over from the beginning rather than continue from where I left off.

I don't really need more than that.

I just have Favorites (all games installed, steam or non-steam), playlist (games I want to play but haven't installed yet), and finished games.

Everything else is mixed together to search through when I'm looking for something specific (coop, etc).

Something similar.

• play soon
• done but revisit
• Done and meh
• Done and complete

For example - "done and complete" is Portal 2. Great experience, but no reason to just replay it. "Done and meh" could be games where I gave up trying.

Then it's

• Steam Deck only
• Play with wife
• Play with kids
• Pc only

Finally it's specific categories about how it makes me "feel".

• Chill-like - vampire survivors, or farm games, or Satisfactory
• Action-like - fps, action games. Doom or Horizon Zero Dawn
• Story - strong narrative. Like Nier automata, or Witcher 3

The valve tags are better if i want granular.

What if I only have 4 games?

I have to play, playing, done i dont think i have any unsorted rn

Hmmm, I'd like to see Craig's list.

My "to start" tab would be waaaaaaay too long to be useful as a category lol

I have:

• favorites
• want to play
• multiplayer
• beaten
• all achievements
• uncategorized

tbh I could probably hide the other 97 games

1 - currently playing 2 - favorites (contains games that I often replay, even if I finished them) 3 - next up 4 - finished (games that I finished, I.e. i saw the credits of) 5 - completed (games that I finished and have 100% achievements on) 6 - abandoned (tried the game, didnt click with it, unlikely to be picked up in the future)

I just leave mine in the recent activity sort, and then use the search bar when i want to play something that i havent played recently