Steam's library is out of control

I absolutely agree - during the past 2.5 years I just had to add more and more games to the hidden list, because they were cluttering up the site. Recently I had another time when I hid so many games, simply because I had the ones I was interested in, so the remaining ones on SG were the ones I didn't like and the ones I hadn't know yet - so I opted towards hiding the no-no games so at least I have a chance of finding new, potentially interesting games, which is kinda working.
Also about lots of (bad games) on Steam - for example Indiegala got just bloated those freshly released indies with really questionable qualities - I think IG features more new, mediocre games recently than some years' collective game palette in the past.... There are still good games, but the pile of shit around them is growing incredibly fast

btw in 2017 they will release almost 1000 games in a month :3

I found that steamgifts is actually a very good filter. It's pretty much the only source I use nowadays to learn about new games. I don't really care about not being the first knowing about the new hype before it starts but I'm pretty sure I learn about every hype at one point through steamgifts.

Here on steamgifts I pretty much only look at my wishlisted games. I have to many I want to play for the next couple of years anyway ;)

More porn and digital homicede pls thanks wait what....

I agree its gone out of control so many games that are just complete trash (Don't look at my library pls).
They really need to change the way greenlight works to much nonsense gets through by ways like "Groupees" or "Gleam"

Same thing here. I used to know every game released. Now I don't even bother. I just check the store page from time to time and the trending stuffs, and still. Now I happen to learn about the somewhat interesting games from the unfiltered SG list and add them to my WL from there, and set the WL or search filter to enter GAs.

The community wishlist page could do the trick. "Just" poke CG to add hiding of owned and hidden games (or find someone to write a script for that). And the most important: hide game button.

Well.. a good indie game like torch light 2 was found on steam and gain a lot fan and sales easily a few years ago.
Now a good indie game like starward rogue get completely lost in the sea of garbage.

Best part in the video is 9:33 I laughed so hard.... but that's the sadly truth ;(

Since it became an option I've pretty much been searching for giveaways only by Wishlist. (Though that's more to do with me feeling like I have too many games rather than there being too many games available.) A few days ago I had to kill some time so I decided to see how many games I'd have to hide from the first page of "All" giveaways so that there would be giveaways only for games I would be slightly interested in and might have entered for if my backlog wasn't monstrous. That took me hours! :/

Since then I kept occasionally clearing up the front page of... underwhelming stuff, and more of them that I hadn't seen yet just keep popping up...

But when Humblebundle doesn't release a new bundle on Tuesday, everyone's crying. Or re-bundles. Or no 'more games coming soon'.
They did it for years.. one could be thankful for the past, but no - everyone got used to it and expects it now.
Now it seems as if they don't find as many gems as earlier anymore, though the amount of games is growing exponentially. Blame them?
I can only hope that all those new indie developers are learning by doing with more good games in the end, but for some the card fees will be enough.

Base numbers equal $100 times 4,200 just to get a game on Steam. while that isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things for Steam, it's not pennies either. Add in cards and sales and yeah... But don't we want Steam to stick around? If they go belly up, those of with a crapton of drm games are going to storm the castle. :-p

The Sun and Moon

Not the BEST option, but every now and then I check out tags for game genres I actually like and see whats been released lately. If you know you like horror/racing/rpgs/whatever, you can cut out a good portion of junk by just checking that tag once in awhile.

while i am a collector (and have been before the flood we are experiencing now) and love to collect games as a hobby, i agree that this has to stop. there is so much trash. and the good games suffer a lot from it (greatly reduced visibility). it's a shame. and i don't see a solution other than getting rid of Greenlight (or completely redesigning it in some way).

I've gathered a bunch of games of dubious (at best) quality, but I see what you're saying. Currently sitting at 3000+ hidden games and filtering out more each day.

What works for me is using sg++ addon and filtering out all games that are $5 or less. Since you can set it up to show group giveaways ignoring the base filter, if there is a $5 or less good game, chances are you'll see a giveaway for it in your groups and take notice of it and not just miss it completely because it's cheap.
This way you need to deal with 10s of mixed/mostly negative/ etc instead of 100s (and mostly on they days that Indie gala releases new bundles lol).

These days, there's a general perception amongst some users that Steam is the only real form of PC gaming. There's also still some of us believe that an essential part of PC gaming is the freedom for people to release and enjoy practically anything. Of course, we don't just fit neatly into these two categories, there's many other interests and factors too, and Steam is what you get when you try to appeal to everyone. It's an awkward compromise, and pretty much all of us are losing out in some way compared to the potential ideal, but on the other hand, it's a compromise we're all accepting too, because Steam's approach is one which has kept PC gaming relevant and strong, while also being respectful of the variety of PC gaming and gamers. Compared to what you'd expect from Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo, or Ubi/EA, we're not in a bad place really.

In an ideal world, GOG, itch.io and Desura would find a way to work together and create a client which supports, but works independently of, their respective stores - that for me would be a more serious alternative or complement to Steam and potentially lead to improvements on Steam too.

(Edit: I just realised I deleted the part of this post which actually related to the OP. :D What I mean though is that I'm personally happy for now that Steam is full of everything, because if it wasn't, then I'd feel like Steam's major presence had practically killed off an important part of PC gaming.)

I can hardly imagine sifting through over 6000 games to get to that list. After I reached about 200 on my blacklist I decided to whitelist games instead by adding them to my wishlist. Blacklisting games would be more beneficial if there were some notification when looking at a giveaway of a blacklisted game, such as when looking through a train.

This whole mentality is perplexing. It's like walking into your local supermarket and saying to the manager. I only use Heinz tomato ketchup, why do you stock 15 other brands, 3 of which are budget brands that taste horrible.

The answer is because people have different tastes and the world doesn't revolve around yours.

I mean, 70% of my Steam library occurred over the last two years.

So, whatever theya re deciding over there, it is working.

Shrug

EDIT: Also, I have about 6000 games hidden as well, but I don't look them all up. No way. When I scroll through the giveaway page, if I see some game I have never heard of, with a silly title, and some bad art, I block it. I only want games I want.

the age of a steam that reviews and publish a devs game is over,
soon we will have a gazilion curators that will review and grade any number of games in the store,
and steam will do a short of metacritic/agregate of all their curators reviews.
they will also provide how strong that metacritic/agregate is based on how many have reviewed it,
I was already hinted by Lord Gaben, but they still didnt follow suit
(a similar system to the one used on greenlight, but with more "profissional" voters)

I'm amazed you take your time to filter "All" games.

I don't look at it anymore, have big enough wishlist that along with "Recommended" its usually enough to spend my points.