Organize my library in steam

3 categories ; good , bad and ugly

I'm a little obsessive. Here are my categories:
Section 1 is based on current achievement status.
1A: Completed
1B: Clean up (Games that I have a few achievements left, but can be time consuming or annoying to get)
1C: In progress
1D: Multiplayer (Games I will probably never complete due to multiplayer achievements)

Section 2 is the backlog.
2A: Tier 1
2B: Tier 2
2C: Tier 3
2D: Tier 4
2E: Nope

Section 3 refers to Steam ratings.
3A: Overwhelmingly Positive
3B: Very Positive
3C: Mostly Positive
3D: Positive
3E: Mixed
3F: Negative
3G: Mostly Negative
3H: Very Negative
3I: Overwhelmingly Negative

Section 4 Whether or not the game has achievements.
4A: Achievements
4B: No Achievements

Having all these categories makes it easy for me to look up information using the search bar, so I got that going for me, which is nice.

i have 3 categories: 1 get free, 2masterpiece, 3 others

Mine is like this:

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i got the following categories:

• action
• adventure
  -card/board
• classic
• indie/retro
• physics/sandbox
• puzzle
• quiz
• racing
• rpg
• shooter
• simulation
• stealth
• strategy
• survival
• tower defense
• trash
• unknown

I use:

Completed - Beaten/got all achieves
Dismissed - What I'm not interested in playing, ever
Free - F2P games that i want to check out

I stay mostly on:
Installed

The rest of games are there but I will play them eventually... I once tried to do what you're doing but I think it is too much of a work that is not worth at all... Besides, almost all games can be categorized in so many different categories it would be pretty messy to me still.

1. Use Depressurizer, a nifty tool for quickly categorizing games in your Steam library. Link.
2. Keep it simple. Like the example you already typed. Action, Racing, FPS, MMO...
3. Decide whether or not you want to multi-categorize (put games in multiple categories at the same time) or not, BEFORE categorizing. Otherwise you might get lost into your categories. :P

Personally, these are my categories:

• Completed (Games I've completed and don't plan on playing again.)
• Demos/Junk (Free weekends, demos...)
• Dump-And-Pick Zone (Lots of small indie games that look interesting but that I don't know if are good or not.)
• Must Play (Games I should really get to playing or that I am currently playing. Mostly contains my downloaded games.)
• Not Played (Games I haven't tried yet.)
• Games (Everything else. Mostly games I have played in the past but haven't categorized.)

This is pretty outdated. I used to have all my downloaded games in the "Games" category. But when my hard drive died and I got a new one, I never bothered to re-categorize. Lazy me.

"Bugs / Suggestions"?

I organize them by the source I acquire them from so I can keep track of how I got them. There are so many bundles and giveaways running nowadays that after a while I completely forget when I got some games :)

no categories for me which with my game count ain't that good, but i won't make categories now either :D

Use Depressurizer

It is a software that "auto-categorize[s] your games for you".

Favorite, Master piece, Normal, Hided

i just organize them by alphabet

"Looks amazing" - games that look great, have great reviews but I haven't played it (and that I do want to play)
"Terrible"
"Bad"
"Ok"
"Good"
"Amazing"
"Valve games": Cs, TF2, HL, etc
"Star Wars"
"Games I should see": games I haven't played
"Currently playing"
"My favorite games"

• Games with potatoes
• Others

I've begun to sort mine. Does someone know if the categories carry over when I migrate to a different machine?

To contribute to the topic:

Backlog
Games I currently play
Games I enjoyed
Games I liked
Games I'm never touching again
Games that are meh
Games that I finished
Games that I want to finish
Games when I'm bored
Multiplayer Games
Potpourri

• Installed

• Perfect

• Progress On Achievements

• With Achievements Uninstalled

• Without Achievements Uninstalled

Thanks, great ideas