Like most of us, I have way too much game I want to play and in many device (PS5, PC Anbernic etc) and while I try to manage everything in my head, it's getting difficult to keep everything on track.
I tried google sheet and notion but everytime I face some random issue who mess up my listing or got stuck on how the site work.
I try to have a table with many rows listing for exemple in which platform I have the game, if I download it etc. And some overview by platform for exemple, I feel like it's probably too complicated.
So how do you guys manage your backlog ?

EDIT : Blaeo seems nice but is too community focus for me, my goal is not to motivate me to finish my backlog, but just listing it for many device in a same place with personnal add on depends on the device (like for my anbernic add a column to mark if I skrap it or not for exemple)
Playnite may be good but I'll look further into it
Feel free to suggest not game focus software like productivity stuff to make list with the possibility to adapt it as you like

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BLAEO — Backlog Assassins Extraordinaire
https://www.backlog-assassins.net/

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Blaeo
https://www.backlog-assassins.net/

But honestly i just use steam and move my played games to a collection. Blaeo is just there for me as an excuse to do stuff instead of finishing my backlog (and it is mandatory for pop)

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Hey Great question!
I manage my tiny backlog with BLAEO with an additional userscript added called BLAEO+

Check this recent post out for nice suggestions. I think Playnite will be useful for you. Maybe you will get fresher ones to add to them in this post :)

Edit: The power of BLAEO!!! 3 comments in a minute!😆

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Wow guys 3 comment on a few minute for the same site, with such a high regard on BLAEO I have to check it lol, Thanks for the suggestion :)

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Its connected with Steamgifts and specifically categorizes games you have won here.
So reading the title my first thought was "this cant not be about BLAEO".

But yes +1 for BLAEO also from me.

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It's a good site, but it's not usable if you have thousands of games in your library, like I do.

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Nothing is useful then. Especially if you have thousands of uncategorized games already

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The only issue is that it seems really steam focus and for my anbernic it's a bit of an issue, like specifically for it I want to be able to create my own rows like if I skraped the game for exemple, I made that on notion for exemple
https://preview.redd.it/same-database-but-separate-from-each-other-v0-eoyywe43edde1.jpg?width=1612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5b1fe68cafa480522f8ceac57013479c24315841

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I totally get you regarding the Anbernic.
I'm trying on Playnite to see if one of the plugins is able to scan my external HDD of the games, but haven't gotten round to it yet (1st attempt had failed). Because if we can automatically get all of them into Playnite, we can pretty much do all kinds of sorting, notes, filtering, random selection, etc, on top of simply updating your play status.

Or, if you're ok with completely manual additions to your database, there are sites like backloggery (I use this a very long time ago, and recently dug it up again) or igdb (I don't use it, but it seems to have a decent library that you can add somewhat conveniently).

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We're on the same boat my friend, both site seems interesting, even if backloggery is ugly and tacky as hell, Playnite can be an option I think, but I will dig deeper on that. I'm beginning to think I'll just use a lame excel page and call it a day lol

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I just put wins in their own "Wins" category in Steam and randomly pick a couple occasionally. Does anyone know if BLAEO imports library categories you created on Steam?

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I use a text file that I keep on my desktop and a copy of it on my pendrive and on google disk.

I just wrote all the games that I own that I also own all DLCs for and are no longer being worked on so there will be no new DLCs and patches and updates and I pick something from my list depending on what type of game I wish to play at that time.

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Do you have a lot of games ? It's not a huge work to maintain ?

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Creating a list was some work to be done.

But then after I play or 100% the game from the list I just delete this game from the list and ad a tag to it in my steam library either 100% or played.

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I can recommend Backloggd, using it a lot myself but I'm also gonna join BLAEO now.
You can create lists and tag your games on Backloggd and it has games from all platforms, so it might be fitting for what you are looking for.

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