Sorting your game library

I sort them by Completed, Incomplete, Multiplayer, Crappy, and Misc.

You haven't seen the worst yet.

I just sorted by genre - FPS, RPG, Strategic, Action\Adventure, Driving, Puzzle, Indie and Crap.

I would sort them by genre, or something similar to what GoJays2025 said: "Completed, Incomplete, Multiplayer, Crappy, and Misc." - Hasn't there been like 2 other threads similar to this?

I have 4 categories: Unfinished, Finished, Endless (TF2, Beat Hazard, etc), and Bundle Fluff (games that came as part of bundles that I'm not interested in).

I have

Favorites-games i have beaten or played enough of (tf2/cs:s)

Currently playing-games I am playing currently lol

Must beat-

Must play more-Games I havent gotten full value out of yet to put into favorites

Scheiße-betas/tests/and dead multiplayer (dota 2 test, tf2 beta, hl2 lost coast, Dark messiah multiplayer)

Where I got it. "Build A Bundle, Grand Theft Auto Complete Pack, Humble Indie Bundle 2, Steamgifts, Ninja'd, etc."

• [+] FAVORITES
• 00a. Rescue Savegame
• 00f. Retired Favorites
• 00t. Tools
• 00u. Unplayed
• -01. Completed
• -02. Abandoned
• -03. Sequels
• -04. AAA Titles
• -05a. Indie Titles
• -05f. Indie Greats
• -06. F2P

I'm a regular Melvil goddamn Dewey of video games.

The numbers let me put the categories in the order I like, and the suffixes help sort "subcategories." Retired Favorites are games I liked but lost interest, or multiplayer games my friends might ask me to play. Hopefully I can phase out the Rescue Savegame category soon. The Tools category is unnecessary for people who don't mod or use non-gaming software regularly. These are all collapsed almost all of the time (except for Unplayed,) and with about 20 favorites, it keeps things looking very neat.

I also employ custom-titled Non-Steam games as de facto away messages/status updates. I may create another category for storing those.

I dont have that many games so i dont have any categories

Having and 'AAA' section for games you want to prioritize is always good.

I didn't even know you can sort them in groups...
Anyway, I just play 2-3 games at a time until I finish them. Makes it rather easy to keep track(the last 5 games you played are click-to-play options when you right click Steam in the toolbar) and keeps your skills sharp while you need them. Even with so many games, it shouldn't be too hard to know what genre any of them is... or to check, so IMHO grouping them by genre is rather pointless.

Completed
GOTG - (Games on the go, i.e what I'm playing now)
Crap
Unsorted

That's a whole lot of categories you got there, fr0x. Don't you get overwhelmed? Why not just sort by genre instead sub-genres.

I find the default alphabetic order to be the best...

Answered this question in another thread few months ago so I'll just copy-paste most of it with some updates:

001 Games - games I'm actually trying to complete/get achievements/whatever, installed on my disk and ready to play.

020 - simple games, not absorbing much time or attention to play them. If I don't want to play something bigger or I don't have enough time to start playing something seriouss (i.e. I have to leave in 15-20 minutes). I have no idea how to translate it's name to English, the only name of category I have in my native language.

021 Multi - multiplayer/co-op mainly titles.

030 Someday - games I'm going to install someday to play them.

040 Done - stuff I've already beaten/completed.

050 Too Epic - some of the games are too good for my laptop to play, they land up here.

060 Trash - games I'm never willing to play again.

I use this for few months already and so far it's... ok. Before I tried to categorize it with genres, but I kept changing things all the time. After that there was some variation of genres + this one above but after some time I simplified it to what you can see. When I posted this few months back I had a category of "Tower defense" games too but I abandoned it. Each category starting with three digits so it's in the order I want to, not the Steam wants = alphabetical. Also, it leaves some space to make sub-categories if I wanted to, like giving the genres of games, naming them 031, 032, etc.. Lame but no other way around if you want to.

Hope it could help.

I prefer series catalogs.

• Betas - All the various pre-release betas, along with the 2 permanent ones (TF2 Beta and Dota 2 Test).

• DRM - Games that I found have crap DRM after I got them. Probably will never install these.

• Exceptions - Source Filmmaker, The Ship Tutorial and the Mac versions of Civ 4 and its expansions.

• External Games - All non-Steam shortcuts.

• Free Games - All the free/FTP games, the ones that disappear from your library upon uninstall.

• Good - Games that I finished or am still playing, that are worth paying for.

• Mediocre - Games that I finished or am still playing, that are worth playing but not good enough to pay for.

• Terrible - Games that I finished or am still playing, that are not worth playing at all.

• Undecided - Games that I've installed, but haven't fully assessed the quality of yet.

• Unsorted - Games that I haven't installed yet.

• Installed
• Not Installed

...whats so hard about that?

my categories are actually where i got them from. most of them came from indie bundles, and they go into categories named indie ## - bundlename. i am slowly playing through them in the order i bought the bundles. the others i bought but haven't played go in a category named unplayed, and i start a few from there every now and then. once i start playing something i move it to currently playing, and when i'm done playing the single player part it goes to multiplayer, multi-coop, remaining achievements, complete, or quit. and that's all my categories.

I sort it like this.

Anything that doesn't fit in to a bundle or an episodic series goes into favorites.

I can't be assed to sorting everything out by genre. :|

• Games i won
• Games i bought

I only have: favourites, want to play and the rest

Well, i don't sort them, i just use the search feature.
It's the easiest, the most beautiful to look at, and the most efficient way to handle so many games.

[+]Favorites

[+]Games

Simple as that..

sorted by genre : AAA - god damn indies - gifts trades - bullshit - casual