Deleting games from your library

I just use the categories in Steam to filter out games I don't want to play.

Well you can easily create catogary in your library

If you delete it from your account, you can still recover it even though it says 'permanently'. I've used this function quite a lot ;)

You can just hide them in a category you never would touch, no need to delete anything. What if, in a year or so, you decide to try some of them, but they are gone then?

Every time I think about buying something, I look at my library.
Then I usually don't buy something. :)

Also in case this is informative, I think removing the games from your library makes you ineligible for booster packs. Incorrect information.

I have been considering to add a "low priority" category to my library. That's as close as I'll ever get to recognise I'll never play some games, otherwise I'm still living in the fantasy that I'll eventually play through my entire backlog.

If i can re-add games in my lib with cards.

Don't delete games from your library unless you really dislike the game.

Just hide them.

Poll needs more options.

"No, deleting games is unnecessary."

for what deleting? you can sort them by doing a "favorite" list in your library

You don't need to delete them. Right click on game, set categories, check "hide this game in my library" box at the bottom. You wont see it anymore and it wont show on your profile. Don't do this with games you have won here.

The only time I ever thought about deleting a game from my library was, when I learned that I could have an uncut version of Left 4Dead 2, if someone outside of Germany would gift it to me - and I delete my cut version of it prior.
But as far as I knew you have to write a support ticket for this and this just made me think: Who really cares about absurd suddenly vanishing zombie corpses?
Is there a chance to do it without having to deal with Steam support?
For now I'm using a lot of categories, but this is of course a bunch of work to start with...
But after stalking your profile I just realised, that - even with family sharing - I only have half of your games, so perhaps I can't really imagine how big your problem really is ;/

Instead of hiding games and risking to run into problems with SteamGifts thinking game is not activated, you can just create a Category called something like "Hidden Games", or "Trash" and put any games you are not going to play there. They will still appear if you search by name, but you can just ignore any game in that category.

Nah, I'd never do that. Don't really get the concept of a cleaner virtual library. It's just screen space. That said, I'd probably be willing to stand more clutter than many if it was all physical copies too as I kind of like mess and chaos.

Kind of like to think that I might pass my account on to someone else one day. Perhaps I'll lose interest, perhaps I'll get diagnosed with a terminal illness. I don't have children yet, but if I do in the future then they would be obvious candidates.If Steam still exists then, I think it would be nice for the recipient to get as big a choice of games as possible. If they want to delete stuff then they can.

I do not understand the point of deleting games from a digital library when you can merely hide it. It is your money though, so you are free to do as you wish with it.

I deleted a few games with very negative reviews. I like having nice games in my library when I look at what to play next.

I wonder how to remove games? I got Victory Command which is not working anymore, so why is on my library though.

Yep, had two large rounds with Support back then, removed a few on my own since. Mostly bundle stuff or games I realised I won't ever finish. The total is somewhere around 30 removed.

As it stands right now, deleting a game doesn't delete anything of it, other than its presence in the library.
And it's completely reversible with a few clicks anyway.
Before, I blindly activated any game from bundles, even those I knew I'd never touch (especially if they had cards);
but now that I know of Steam Gifts, I'll give away here what doesn't interest me.

No deleting, more valuable account;D

Games in the library don't ask for food or water, keeping them doesn't hurt you in the least, whether you do play them or not. The only problem would be having a hard time fining a game, but that can be easily solved by categorizing.

Something else to consider... What if you delete a game you won here on SG? Does it count as if you didn't activate the gift? I was thinking about deleting Nosgoth once the servers shut down... Sorry for hijacking, thought it might be relevant to your question.

i did get rid of my xbox 360 and over 60 game. some of wich where really good. but the reason is that i had already finished all those game and i was porting over to PC in favor of steam