Deleting games from your library

I have deletted few games and sadly I can't do it with few more. As they were part of the bundle and I would delette games I want to have D:

I'm tidy, minimalist dragon and it annoys me that I have there few trashy games.

I would never delete any game - I just hide unwanted games. We already have things like trading cards, booster packs etc, we don't know what systems Valve may introduce in the future, maybe something else that will also let you get this sweet steam wallet. Generally the more games the more free monies for buiying even more games - and each game deleted = potential loss in the fuuture because of that ;) Why refuse free monies when you can simply hide all these freebie games you got? :>

Got a major backlog, like 700+ games that I still need to become booster-eligable from.
But I would still hide rather than delete...

Just hide them.

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I removed all games I owned from Digital Homicide and have absolutely no regrets.

I don't think you can delete games from your library, but you can always put them into categories, I have made a category for "must-play games" in order to have an easier time finding games I'm more interested oin playing and it made things easier.

You can also hide games in your library by going to "set category" and then "Hide this game in my library" (it can also be undone if you ever regret it) and then they'll apppear in the not easily accessible category of "hidden" (It can also be used if there if you have younger family memebers or kids, and you don't wat them playing something violent and such which is why this feature was included in the 1st place if I'm not mistaking).

Hope this helps.

I removed about 130 games over the last week, no regrets =D
Mostly a free games or games I would never play. I had them hidden, but I always get uncomfortable having things I'll never need.
The percentage of played and finished games got somehow better =)

I have a "trash" category for things like betas of games I own, and dota. I'd purge those from my account entirely if there was a way but I guess this'll have to do.

I've only wanted to remove one game from my library due to a weird circumstance. I was unable to activate Steam keys of Hitman Full Experience because I already owned the Intro Pack. But the support site always gives me errors when trying to delete the Intro Pack from my account. So I had to settle for just getting the Upgrade pack.

I wouldn't but I know someone that does and cut his library from 1.4k at peak to about 400+ now...

I did try the feature out of curiosity, since it's easily reversible :)

Yeah, I did it once, 30+ games. It was basically Digital Homicide games and games I got for cards.

But today I'm not sure I would've deleted all the games I did back then. I started to study game development on my own so I became interested even by the cheaper and bad ones as source of inspiration.

Now I can see even in the worse games something that interests me. Even if its a clever menu system or a cool character animation.

Before there were trading cards, I'd buy bundles, add the games I wanted to my library, and give the remainders away to Steam friends or drop the keys on FB or Twitter. I definitely had a lot less "clutter" in my library back then. Since trading cards were added, I tend to add a lot more games to my library, but instead of deleting them I toss them in a "Trash" category. I haven't deleted anything yet.

I only get rid of games that are trash and not worth playing.

And what about deleting games from Steamgifts? Will they be recognized as unactivated?

So far I haven't felt the need to delete a game from my library, since I don't activate, buy, or enter giveaways for games unless I at least plan on playing them at some point. That's the poll option I picked, though it's not strictly true. Once in a while I'll get something in a bundle, like Lift It, that I know I'm not going to play but I'll activate it anyway because I found it funny for like a minute. Never felt the need to delete, though.

I can't understand why you would want to delete a game, you don't have to play it, or install it, why delete it from your account?

Not sure if anyone has recommended this idea to you or not, but try this:
Make a second/new Steam account and download and play only games that you will like to that account, your other account (this account I guess) would be your account for other things like owning a lot of games and playing the games that are already owned to the account that you like. You can also do other things on this account, like trade and make it your non-gaming account. where your other account is a gaming account

Hopefully that made sense, but I just wouldnt delete any games because of the numbers themselves.

I removed Digital Homicide games and maybe a few other very bad ones but stopped midway since it's too time consuming.