Organising your Library

Why did you add me to the blacklist?

I don't organize, I use this to search for something specific :
http://www.lorenzostanco.com/lab/steam/

I keep it simple. I have favorite, played,to play,not interested.
The first one could go anytime though. It's like a hall of fame

Cheap < Bronze < Silver < Gold are my categories for games !

I organize by genre, but try to choose only the most representative category (or at least the one most relevant to me). Games I've finished are hidden in a Completed category.

I organize more or less by interest, Favorites > Now Playing > Up Next > Demos > Completed > Revisit > Garbage, with a few extra categories thrown in (play with my kid, stuff I won on steamgifts and really should play soon, etc).

What I really wish Steam had was a way of sorting the library by Steam user review score (not metascore); isn't that such an obvious thing to do? I haven't checked in a while, but last I checked there wasn't even a third-party tool that was easily able to do that. (I use SteamDB to do it now, but it really should be less tedious ...).

And what I also want is for Steam's search to exclude games I already own, grrrr. Every Monday, checking the weeklong deals involives clicking through pages and pages of already-owned search results ...

I organize it by these categories:
Completed (100%d and beaten games without achievements)
Beaten (Completed story without 100%)
Unfinished
Won't Play
Everything else.

It's the BLAEO style and it's been pretty useful in my opinion.

Bump :)

Bump!

I have: Completed (the games with 100% achievements), Completed no cards, Completed no achievements(So I can check easily if that changes sometime), Started, and the rest is uncategorized (a few are hidden because I don't intend to play them).
Edit: Oh wait, I have a category for Hidden Object games too :D
Most of the time I have it set to only show installed games though.

Here are my categories:

• 01. PLAYING (well, games I am currently playing)
• 02. TO PLAY 1 (aka games I want to play soon)
• 03. TO PLAY 2 (other games that have yet to be opened)
• 04. WHY NOT (games I have only played once or twice but don't feel the urge to open again, or games I'll only play if friends play them, or games I'm not really interested in but are not trash)
• 05. PLAYED (games I have finished, any %)
• 06. JUNK w/ CARDS (games I am not interested in playing at all, but still have cards)
• 07. JUNK (other games I'm not interested in playing at all, and don't have cards)
• 99. COUCH (games for playing local coop, can belong in any of the above categories)

The numbers force the categories to appear in this exact order. So whenever I open my library, the first games I see are the ones I want to play the most. And when friends come and we want to play local coop, I just have to jump to the very last category to see all the local coop games I want.
Of course this classification requires to be updated on a regular basis. Everytime I open a game for the first time, I move ot to PLAYING or WHY NOT, and everytime I complete a game, I move it to PLAYED, etc.

I tried genre but it was too complicated, some games have multiple genre and I did not wanted to have them twice in the list.7

So now it sorted by which year they've been out.
And also a special category for games i don't want in my library, but i got them in a steam bundle or a single activation key....

I organize my games into four categories. Games, Games I need to finish, Finished, Trash.

I tried organizing it by genre, but gave up because there are so many multi-genre games out there. And organizing ones library by tags seems like a terrible idea. Steam keeps recommending me what I guess are dating sims, because I've played a tactical shooter recently, which had the "simulator" tag. I've been recommended call of duty games because people keep tagging them as RPGs, and I keep getting recommended children's games because people keep tagging them as "horror".

So my current sorting system is as follows:
Beaten
Garbage
Multiplayer online
Other.

I like to keep it very simple. I have 2 categories:
Done - everything I have finished 100% with a little bit over 100 games in it
Playing - everything I have started but not finished yet with another 100 or so games in it

Everything else is just not categorized. I actually used to have more categories than this for a while, but I very much disliked it and went back to my old system. I also wish I could get rid of the VR category, but noooooo Volvo has to push that bullshit up everyone's arse.

I sort them into four major categories:

• games I'm currently playing (can take me months to get through some)
• how much I want to play them (low and high priority)
• those that I have already played (either on steam or on another platform if I own it in on two or more)
• those I will never play (basically idle trash. I try to keep this at a minimum because I have no interest in being a collector and seeing games I dislike in my library makes my eyes bleed)

I only have two categories, nope for games that I couldn't get to run or were truly terrible, and next for the list of games I'd like to install and play next, which is largely games I owned before having a computer that could play them or are sg wins I haven't got to yet

• Alt Account (reserved for games with hard achievements that I don't want them to decrease my completion percentage)
• Completed (reserved for games that I've reached 100% completion on)
• No Achievements (reserved for games without any achievements)
• Rage Quit (reserved for my mistakes, starting games I can't 100% complete decreasing my completion percentage)
• Stealth Unplayed (reserved for stealth games that haven't been touched yet, it's my favourite genre so it gets its own category)

Rest of the games, just a few really, are in "Games" category. I could maybe add 1-2 more categories, especially for a particular genre my library has a lot of but I still haven't gone through with this decision. It is evident that achievement hunting plays a huge part in how I categorise my library.

I organize by interest level. I have following categories:

• bad / uninteresting (games that sucked or I'm simply not interested in)
• done (completed games I don't plan to play again)
• good (completed games which I will likely play again)
• junk (beta versions, old versions, some multiplayer versions, etc)
• todo / test (games I want to play or at least try)

I have a "multiplayer only" category and a "not interested" (=shity stuff I got in a bundle) category. then all the other games are divided in "played" and "to be played" gategory. I dequeue games from "played" by acquisition date and I usually keep only three games installed: an action/shooter, a RTS/gestional and a racing. that allow me to fully enjoy a game before starting one from the same genre. the problem with this is that often I buy a game but I wont be able to play it for a few months (usually a lot), but it's better than always play the games you like the most and forget about the others or installing tens of games and really enjoy or appreciate any of them.

I never bothered organizing that mess tbh ...

Tho i just play dota nowadays anyway :P

Jokes aside , i have pretty good idea as to what games i own , and which one of them are there cause i wanted to play them + im a lazy fucker so i just look at the banners and click on which one looks fancier :P

i tried it one time. it was way too much work. i abandoned that idea quickly. and at that time i had like 2k games. i have 7k games now. absolutely impossible! ^^

all i do is i put all games i want to play in my favorites list. and delete them after i beat them. that's enough organization for me.

chaotic bump

Games I've completed, and games I've played in the past, but not on Steam. Everything else is just there in alphabetical order. But I have hundreds, not thousands of games.