I was sitting at 456 games wishlisted before starting to clean them. I've started wishlisting and purchasing games in Steam around 4-5 years ago, if you wonder how that list got so big! What lead me to do this was, seeing unfamiliar titles when checking giveaways for wishlisted games, some things I noticed were:

  • There were a lot of games I wouldn't make time to play if I won them.
  • Looking at most of the games, I realized that I would need a fortune to clean this list, and more time to play them all!
  • There were a lot of Nuclear Throne copies, which made me think, would I delete them if I won the original Nuclear Throne?
  • Some games I didn't even remember when I added them, it felt like it was the first time seeing the title/splashes.
  • Some games, I couldn't figure why I added them. Shortly after I realized it might be for emoticons/backgrounds, I used to collect them back then.
  • Some games I added way back in 2014-2015, were still in Early Access! What a surprise that is!
  • Some games actually went from being paid to free?! Why wasn't I made aware of this?! (Looking at you H1Z1, though you no longer interest me)
  • Some games I really wanted back then were pricey and in early release, seems they released! (Looking at you, Sunless Sea and RimWorld)
  • There was this! (Check image)

Wow, that took some time! And the final count is, 271 wishlist items! Those are still games I would play, I suppose. If you similarly have a long list of wishlist items, do give this a try yourself!

Update: Sad choo-choo.

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I usually do - mostly by realizing that a wishlisted game of mine ended up mostly negative since I added to my WL.
Though I generally use it as a reminder, especially for smaller, easier to forget titles. Hard to forget that I want ti get and play Nier Automata sometimes in the future. But the many (good-looking) free to play games, or sub-2€ titles are just so many, it's better to write up the good ones somewhere :)

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I already did. I think most of my wishlist is DLC.

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