Sorting Steam

haha no there isn't, just give up and use the search bar.

trust me, it'll work out long-term.

just trust me.

e: added italic words for clarification, as seen below. my brain must've farted while posting, since i didn't notice until just now.

I have not figured out a way to do that yet, sorry for not helping. It is possible that one simply can not do that.

For me there are just 2 created folder 1) Playing 2) Finished

You can't i guess.

Installed and no notinstalled...works for me xD

Don't use folders besides installed and not installed. I find they just get in the way.

i dont get the point of those groups, if you want to play one game, you have them organized alphabetically, you can find it easily

You also lose any folders you've created if you sign into a computer without them. Instead of syncing, Steam just loses its shit and removes them all. Completely worthless function, ignore it until they improve it.

I would also welcome multiple groups.

I only have 2 custom groups:

• Completed
• Multiplayer

Maybe Valve will improve sorting in the future =)

I have:

• Betas/Others
• Indie
• Never play
• Games

Well... having more then 550 titles in steam is painfull. I acctually have folder "Never going to play" xD With TONS of indie-bundle games in it (like Ironclad collection etc) D:

not really a way to do it within Steam since a game can only have one category - only way I see is use folders / shortcuts (sort them just in Windows or whatever OS you use instead of Steam) you can always add background images to the folders to make it look more Steamish but until Steam allows putting a game in more than one category that's the only way I know of

after sorting about 20 games i gave up on the crappy system steam has build in... and here you are looking for a even bigger workload :D

Steam really needs to add Tag support.

Check these threads: 1, 2, 3. And there are even more threads about it :)

Maybe by creating two shortcut files, and switching between them (not really great but should work?).

C:Program Files/Steam/userdata/(some numbers, steamid?)/config/shortcuts.vdf
Make a copy like "shortcuts sort 1.vdf" of your first sort after exiting steam.
Than sort the other way, exit steam, copy shortcuts.vdf again and name it shortcuts sort 2.vdf (or something).
This way you can always copy and rename the sort you want back to shortcuts.vdf and thus load that sort.
Put a shortcut to the config map somewhere you can easily find it.

This should work (?) though I guess you'd need to edit the files every time you add a game, and there'd be a lot of switching between files that's not very convenient.

You could just split up each of the categories into sub-categories...

Misc - endless
Misc - beaten
Misc - unbeaten
Indie - endless
Indie - beaten
Indie - unbeaten
Alfas & Betas - endless
Alfas & Betas - beaten
Alfas & Betas - unbeaten
etc.

It's not ideal, but it works for what you're trying to do within the limits of the features that steam offers.

I really wish it was possible to add sub-categories in categories, or just be able to have tags so that games could be in multiple categories, but unfortunately I'm rather certain it's not do-able as of now. According to Steam, I've got 584 games, and I like to sort by genre. I want to sort by more genres then there is space to fit it in my screen at a glance. Such a pain.

All I can suggest is add a category for beaten games, and a category for endless games, and toss all your games in those 2 categories. They're probably not going to end up being filled too much. Unless you complete more games than you have uncompleted, then instead of beaten games category just have an unbeaten games category. I'm sure you would've figured that out if you tried it anyways =)

The best way to sort is by the following categories (in no particular order): 1. To play 2. Already completed 3. Don't want to play and 4. Currently playing. If you try to sort by categories and genres, you'll go nuts because so many overlap. I tried doing the genres thing, then just removed them all and left them in alphabetical, heh.

My groups