Organising your Library

Thanks for the table! :D

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Thanks for the giveaways :)
I actually only sort my games once I am done with them. All of the unplayed ones are just in the default "My Games" category and I usually only have about 30 installed at any one time for playing purposes. Once finished they go into Favourites (those I would play again), Finished (probably would not play again), "Just for Cards" (those I have tried and hated or been so inept at I gave up and idled instead) and "Rubbish" for the truly awful ones :). You have 4 pages of suggestions, would bet we all organise differently. Good luck sorting your own library :)

Only sorted alphabetically but with categories for each letter so it's easier to see division and I can get rid of ones that just mess it up (eg. Middle-Earth Shadow of Mordor lands under S for convenience, anything starting with The doesn't end up under T)

I've recently added the SG wins category, and now I have 3 groups, the other 2 being: the finished ones, and the 'stuck in limbo ones'

I've used Depressurizer in the past to create temporary categories for particular interests; e.g. a local co-op category during the holidays, categories for genres I want to explore, etc. I remove them when I'm done rather than maintain them.

I tried a simple set up of:

[completed]
[currently playing]
[play next]

So, anything that's a constant "I'll still be playing this when I'm 80" sorta thing, like Skyrim or Stardew Valley found themselves in the [currently playing], which could possibly have been tidier if I had a [perennial] category, but whatever.

The [play next] would be for when I got a new game and was excited about playing it, or for if I was bored of everything in the [current playing] and wanted something new.

Everything else was just left unsorted, because I'm not gonna spend an entire week sifting through games!

spoiler: this scheme lasted about 2 weeks, and now I'm back to just sorting by recent and complaining that I don't have any games to play, even though my library just passed 1000

Honestly, I do not organize it in a very special way - and I only have a few categories - 100%, SG wins, Gifts and Hidden Object. And this is working for me - because the games I win here or have been given me always have the priority. And as you can guess, there are not many games in the 100% category - I'm not very good at this. :)
Good luck in organizing your library in a way that would be most convenient for you and thank you for the shares.:)

i don't really organize them just put a mark to completed ones

I prefer a mix of genres (action, adventure, hidden object, puzzle, rpg, strategy, time management) and series (Resident Evil, Deus Ex, Serious Sam, GTA), with a separate one for unplayed games.
Not the neatest one, but it serves my needs.

Alphabetically "organised" here. ^^

I use genres, so I can pick a genre I feel like playing at that moment.

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For me, Ihave my favorites which is the games I currently play, then I have my need to play list which consists of games I've gotten/won/was gifted that I haven't yet played, Following that is my category of games I'm waiting for updates or releases from, my regular pool of games I'm furrently interested, and then my hidden folder for games I won't play/don't feel like playing for a long while (story based ones, for instance)/or need a break from.

Yick I tried to organize by genre once and made it to B before I ragequit. Now I just leave it at a category for installed games, finished games, games to play for youtube, and favorites.

The only category I actually use is "hidden", it consists of tons of random games I've got from mass giveaways on different sites (I'm a bit embarrased about that period, planning to delete most of them to make my library great again). Everything I've actually bought (or won here) is not categorized; anyway, it's maybe 20 RPGs and a little bit of other genres, everything else is adventure games. I may sort them by played / not played, but it wouldn't make much sense anyway: where would I put games I've played, say, 20 years ago and plan to return to in the nearest future (and so on and so forth)?

I use Depressurizer but I have a chaos anyway (a lot of categories), I hope that someday all games finish in the category of finished

• Favorites (the currently daily game that I play until finish it)
• AAA (any game that interest me to play soon, always have one installed for when I want to play another thing, this include several genres and sagas, the most of them pass to the favorite when begin a new game)

Then continue for genres but the principals are

• Action and Adventures
• Arcades
• Driving
• Casuals
• Vehicules simulation
• Strategy
• FPS (single player)
• FPS Online (coop and versus)
• Management
• Card and board games
• Suvival Games
• Fighting
• MOBAS
• Platformers
• Point and Click
• RPGs
• Sanbox (for me are game like Minecraft or Goat Simulator)

Also have other categories for characteristics like

• Steam Achievements (this category is more for games with the campaign-story finished but with some achievement missing)
• Steam Multiplayer (always have some games installed here)
• Steam Modables
• Steam Workshop
• Titles F2P
• Titles Canceled (or with multiplayer mode dead T_T)
• Titles Replayables and multi ending
• Titles Finished

Depressurizer 4life!
i have genres+finished games but i'm thinking about I feel likely to make some imperatives to best reviews games and erase negatives from library

I only have a couple of major categories, the most notable being "Installed" (pretty self explanatory), "Installed laptop" (yup, put a lot of thought into them), "backlog" and "Backlog short" (games under 10 hours, for if I want a short game to play). Other than that I got a couple of categories for the humble monthly bundles and some for events in one of the groups I'm in. I also have "Finished" and "100%" (either in-game or achievements).

But my library is kind of a mess right now, with a lot of games not sorted well or at all. I'm thinking about cleaning it up, but it will take quite some time. I'm probably going to rethink my categories and just delete all my current ones (except "Installed," that's a really usefull one to have).

Nice and tidy. Yes.

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Steam auto-sorts the games in alphabetical order, and that is my preferred style since I can find everything more easily.

I organize it by interest, have 5 categories - A++, A, B, C and Trash. It was time-consuming to manually sort 1500 games, but it was worth it.