100% Categorized my Steam library! (Lvl 5+ GA)

Hard work... congratulations!

Congratulation on reaching a milestone.

I use categories (examples: Won -very important to know which games i shoul play earlier...-, Shooter, Strategie, Pixel Titties, Puzzeln und knobeln, Beat Em'Up, HOG, VN...), partly hardware things like Controller and VR -partly because i started with that much later.
I am not finished with sorting all but i have done 2/3 (2k from 3k) in around 3 months.
I think i will be finished by that at the begin of the next year :o)

I had categorised all of my library into genres but they disappeared recently.
Now I am categorizing them again when I am bored...

I just made my own script using steam api.
I regroup all important information for all game, time play and i create 30 category (action, plateform, rpg, trash etc..)
Recent game play in favorite and more incoming maybe if i took time :p

I have categories for different genres and some for specific developers when I have a lot of their games or really like them. For instance I have 'Adventure (Point & Click)' but also 'Daedalic'. I don't put games in to more than one category (other than favourites) so it's usually quite easy to find something, although I do often forget what I labelled a game as every now and then.

363 games uncategorized
1511 games hidden

ouch :)

Like this: https://i.redditmedia.com/DShHMOmu2SraNpSyrS7Vcl2-mvstgFfee5AiCT5jduE.png?s=3cdbae02907e1bf8d4b2688c3b81631d

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/7sjl9h/this_is_how_i_categorize_my_library_with_2094/

i want to sort by genre too but i think it makes more sense to sort by status when there are too much games

Check the Screenshot!
1,2,3 are my favorites
Good and Trash are just to see all good and all trash so each game is in one of these.
Than i have a lot of categorys to keep track from where i got the game. Those category have Prefixes.
B- is Bought
F- Free/Gift
G- Giveaway

from time to time i use Depressurizer to organize my categories. Renaming and sorting a lot of Games goes much quicker with this tool.
For the rest of the filtering needs i use this website. It also can load multiple profiles to check wich games you have in common.

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Thanks for the GA!~

Here are my categories, some are quite broad or overlapping but what's important is that I know what to expect :p

I still havent finished categorizing tho >.<

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In my case, I have two categories:

• "need DLC" for games that I need DLC's for, I will throw there anything that has DLC's that I don't own;
• "desperately need DLC's" for the games that I am very interested in playing (or already play), but I don't have all the DLC's. and really want them.

Some time ago I also did a purge and hidden some garbage games.

I use 4 categories about how much I'm interested in playing the games, that's all. For everything else there is https://www.lorenzostanco.com/lab/steam/

I have 4-Player Local and Local Co-op categories. Makes them easier to find in Big Picture mode.
Oh, and I have a SteamGifts wins category, so I know which games to never play.

EDIT: I might try out Depressurizer. It looks like I can make a category based on tags or features, which should help with identifying all games with local multiplayer. :D

I have some categories (beaten/completed, finishacheivements, SGwins, unplayed SGwins, playing, started, wishlist unplayed) but most games are just in an 'unplayed' category.

It'd be nice to have automatic categories like 'has achievements', 'has cards', 'has local multiplayer', etc.

I've sorted a part of my library in the past, then I realized I don't see the categories if I log on another computer. Then I formatted and everything went back to a big long scrolling list.

I got tooo many categories but I've never had the patience to finally do i with all the games (as I add non-Steam games to Steam to have it all on one launcher)
I atm got 2430 uncategorised (includes emulators using Steam ROM manager to easily add them), Origin games, DOS games and so on.. But on cateogries I have
2D Adventure, 2D platformer, 3D adventure, 3D platformer, action, android (Bluestack emulated games), arcade, arena brawler, arena shooter, arpg, atari 2600, atari 5200, atari 7800, battle royale, beat 'em up, blizzard, browser based games, bullet hell, cards, clicker, closed games, completed, daily (games I tend to play on a regular basis, or just do daily quests), dreamcast, emulated (here I have everything emulated, android, consoles, DOS, doesn't matter), eroge ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), fighting, fps, gameboy, gameboy colour, gameboy advance, gamecube, genesis/md, GTA, hack & slash, hero shooter, hi-rez, hidden objects, horror, inventory (games that add stuffs on your Steam inventory, games I need to play in order to drop some items), jrpg, maxis, metroidvania, mmorpg, moba, monster slayer, mosa, ms-dos, nes, nfs (need for speed), nintendo 3ds, nintendo 64, nintendo ds, origin (games that rely on Origin and I need to configure with a .bat I wrote so when I click the game, it opens Origin, then opens the game, and when I close the game it waits 30s and closes Origin, so it doesn't say I'm still in the game.. It used to be easier but Origin removed the option to close when game ends), ps1, ps2, ps3, point & click, pokémon, psp, public test (all the test servers, wether lol, dota 2, smite, paladins, ow, if it is a server meant to test stuffs, it goes there), puzzle, racing, ranked (games I play ranked), removed steam (as a removed games collector.. Yeah), rogue-like, rpg, rts, sg (any game I won on SG and I haven't finished/played it yet), shoot 'em up, shooter, simulation, snes/sfamicon, sports, survival, tabletop, team-based shooter, television (mainly Kodi, and any other program I use to watch movies/series like popcorn time or stuffs like that), tes (the elder scrolls, all the games), the legend of zelda, top-down shooter, touhou, tower defense, tps, tribes (tribes games), turn-based, videos (games I have to make videos about/games I want to make videos about) and visual novels

Lol I got many categories.. I tried Deppresurize once and its an easy way to categorise but it relies on the Steam tags.. And those tags suck, so when I use it is mainly to manually add a bunch to a category

well i stopped doing it after 1.5k games, depresurizer would be a good idea but don't know how to leave my "finished" category <blush>

I have a dream to organize my library... but it's probably not going to happen. And I'm mostly okay with that.

I used Depressurizer to categorize mostly by HLTB times -- very imprecise, but almost completely automatic, see picture below (I guess I could do away with the "S" categories, but the HLTB times work well for me).

I also have a huuuuuuuuuuge spreadsheet with everything that ever came out on Steam and a lot more (currently at 27292 items, growing every week), where I highlight the games I have or had (almost 2000), and write down Genres, Publishers, Review Scores, etc. I usually look there when picking what I am in the mood to play. Keeping the spreadsheet is a (recognizedly weird) metagame on its own...

Cheers!

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after reading you went through and categorized your games i decided to follow suit. 365 in certain parts like hog for well hogs. point and click. story not story games but actual stories so visual novels. rpg and the rest like multiplayer or ones that didnt suit the others i put just well into game. i got like 70 free things sorted out to which will go once im finished with them not that i remember which ones are free or which i paid for anymore. my other games 46 of them are hidden ready for me to delete but of course im not silly so im farming the cards out before i delete them.

my lib is fully categorised and around 30% is hidden. tags are the genre and the year. used depressurizer at the beginning and now I maintain it manually, adding new categories to the steam ones and fixing errors. I love browsing by year!

I've got mine categorized by genre and by how many GB it takes to install-- a hold over from before I had an external hdd and thus was juggling my limited space. Now if I install a game I just take off the GB category and filter my client by Installed so I know what I'm currently playing. Hide the games that are 100% or that I tried and know that I'll never try again.

My RPG category is a bit of a mess since smth like half of my games belong to that cat, thinking of breaking it up to cRPG, aRPG, jRPG etc, but am too lazy to actually go ahead with it.