Game Hoarders: how do you organize your games?

I have major categories like adventure (point & click), FPS, RPG, strategy and so on. The clear candidates go there. That reduces the main 'pool' a bit and makes it easier for me to pick a new game when I feel like playing a certain kind of game. I'd never try to categorise them all, but I think/feel like this works.

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Games I tend to come back, I use the favorites feature.

Games I'm playing right now, right-click the Steam tray icon and launch them that way.

For the rest I just CTRL+F in the Steam Library. Anything more than that usually just turns into a lot of work or a giant mess.

• Playing Now
• Waiting (TWD2 is there)
• Later
• Not Played Yet I (high priority backlog)
• Not Played Yet II
• Not Played Yet on Steam
• Finished
• Won't Play

-Games

-Not Installed

-Non Steam

-MODS

-Betas and Demos

-Cracked

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I go by genre. In some cases where I have ton of games like the 800 Sam & Max titles I put them all in their own category. I also do this for Valve games.

Casual/Puzzle is over saturated. If it's 2D, pixely, indie, whatever, I put it in that category. A lot of those games should probably be in other categories. Action/Adventure is getting crowded too, I should probably add a Sandbox category for games like GTA and others.

Games (uncategorized) is basically where I keep all the retard shit like betas, mac versions, old versions like gfwl batman, duplicates like company of heroes, etc.

I have my games in categories basic and simple: Favorites (here i have my games currently playing), Completed (here i have my games completed haha) Non-Steam and uncategorized (all of games uninstalled) and.. Ta-da!

Here's my strategy. I don't really care about categorizing by genre. I categorize about what I care about most: when or if I'm going to play it.

• 1 - Current (what I'm working on, the "1" is so it stays on top alphabetically. I try to keep this to around 3-5 games.)
• Awaiting (this is huge)
• Boring (things I've tried but I don't see ever playing again)
• Complete but more (finished games that I might want to go back to)
• Completed
• Evergreen (Games I don't feel have an ending or games I can get a quick play whenever. E.g. Starbound, Spelunky, FTL)
• Maybe (stuff I don't think is good enough for Awaiting, but haven't tried yet to stick into Boring)
• Multiplayer (Mostly Evergreen type stuff that is pick up and play multiplayer. E.g. TF2, Awesomenauts)
• Nocategory (dead betas, tests, non-game stuff)

I categorise my games based on how I obtained them, so there's a shitton of categories
For starters, there's a Miscellaneous category for games I got mostly from Steam Store purchases, there's an Indiegala Giveaways for keys snagged from the "spam every 5 minutes 1 entry", there's a category for each bundle I've ever gotten

I put a special category for Valve though XD

I used to have In Progress, Anytime, New, Unfinished, Finished, Problems, Dislike, Early Access, Mac Versions, and anything that wasn't installed wasn't categorized. Unfortunately, while checking out the Depressurizer software for auto-categorizing Steam games, I made a mistake and lost all my categories. :( Since then, I've let Depressurizer set up categories based on how Steam classifies the games, because why not? Mine are gone and I don't want one humongous unsorted list. I don't think this auto-categorizing is ideal for me though, so I'm wondering if I can eventually take the time to combine it with my previous system in some way.

Simply using Steam "Subs" as user created tags/folders cos most of the games are a part of Steam subs...

Alphabetically. Haha

Never thought about categorizing my games... but now I think I need "SHIT" category just to avoid looking at some titles by accident. :)

• Installed
• All games

That is the only 'organizing' I use.

By general genre. And then alphabetically within genres. Both in steam (duh) and on shelves. The same as I organize my DVDs.

1. I will never play this
2. Maybe I will play this ( not installed)
3. (Default) Games ( all installed)

Pretty much like that. link

• My favorite games.
• Games I haven't gotten time to play yet, but have cards (which I leave on when I go to work).
• Games with no apparent story or plot, but which are fun to play. (separated in an achievement and no-achievement section.)
• Games that are played online (2 sections separated too).
• Games that are on playfire right now.
• Games I have yet to complete (achiev and no-achiev section)
• And finally, games I haven't played or installed yet, which is the vast majority of my library.

I'm far too busy to do too much, so I only have a few lists.
Backlog Attack
Now Playing
NOPE
Trading Cards

Backlog Attack is for the games I'm going to review soon, NOPE contains all of the stuff that I dislike, and Trading Cards is for the ones that I need to play so that I can collect their cards. ^_^

i don't really sort much besides using favorites and putting bundle games in a bundle group

a small note to you tho, you can add a game to multiple categories, so you don't always have to choose

I love
I like
I hate

All my stuff which I never want to play goes in I hate.

Gave up years ago, thats how :-D!

Right now it is in three categories based on where they are installed, Hard Drive, PC, and Uninstalled, but I think I might switch it to genres.

Favorites = playing

Main Categories:

• 01 Want (to play)
• 02 Maybe (extended backlog)
• 03 Done (great games, for replay/dlc/mod/trophy)
• 99 Gone (for good)

Categories:

Completed: Games I already played through and probably won't play again.
Demo: Game demos, free weekend, other useless junk.
Humble Bundle: I called this category "Humble Bundle", but it actually just contains every bundles I own.
Non-Steam: Non-Steam games, duh.
Not Installed: Games I haven't installed yet.
Updates Required: Games that require updates, or games that are not yet fully downloaded.
Games: Just everything else.