Too many games?

I feel your pain. I use a 4TB raid-0 array for installing games and that's probably the problem. Too much HDD space.
Try Using SSD's only for installing games and you'll see that you get a lot more efficient in choosing which games to install.

• way more silent
• faster loading screens
• you end up saving money from not buying too many games you don't play.
• easier to choose when gaming. ;)

Sometimes it's best to just pick one basically at random and go at it. Just whatever pops into your mind first.

I often find that if I overthink it I end up wasting time trying to choose the perfect game for my mood. By then time I've settled on something, I've usually lost the initiative to play, the actual physical time to play, and I almost always end up second-guessing my choice as to whether it really is the best game for me to be playing right now given the so many other titles I looked at an passed up.

i like excel, in excel i have sorted games by realase date, marking green if game is alredy played, and random.org select games:D

there is never too many games

I'm under 30 unplayed now, but mostly it depends on my mood. I have a framework of a list set up on which games I want to play in what order, but it can be messed up by anything (for example, I recently had to realise that my poor old HD 6850 cannot really run an RTS on two monitors even at 30 fps, so I decided to postpone that until I get my new rig sometimes this year).

I have I think ... 3? categories of various forms of " play these! / play these soon / in progress " which is totally needless, but works at some level. I do scan my games every now and while, and if I find an intresting game I add it to one of these categories - then when I'm looking for something to play, I look at these categories first, and choose. So essentially I'm building and keeping up a "recommended" section of my own library. And as I progress, it changes, I add new games to it :)

Put in your username here: http://www.lorenzostanco.com/lab/steam/
After it is done loading, click the "short" tag. Click any other extra tags depending on your preference.
If the remaining games are lots of the ones you've already played, sort by playtime and go to the end (to the ones with zero hours).
If there are few remaining games, you can sort by user or metacritic rating to get an estimate of quality.

I need to keep a lot of my games download, cause I have VERY slow internet. [ For reference, when I installed FF13, it took 4 months to download. Even better part, only played like 5 minutes of it lol.

With the exception of a few bundle or free-key games, I only get ones I Intend to play. That said, gaming for me is mood-driven. I need to be in the mood to play, and to play that game. It really doesn't happen as often as others. I mean I LOVE Mass Effect, Loved 1, Loved 2, so much so I pre-ordered 3. Got it, then sat on it for over a Year before I ever played it. Though when I did I did a 1->3 straight through play-through.

When I do play, it depends on my mood. Eve Online the game I play most, as it's one of the few multiplayer games that doesn't go nuts over my connection speed and lag. When I go beyond that it's up to if I want just a few minutes of playtime, to sit there for hr, keyboard, controller, demanding close attention, very forgiving, etc. Thankfully I have a lot of games installed so there's always something. When in doubt I go for either a fav, or for one of my more recent games that I really wanted.

Trust me, it's nothing.

I actually use steam tagging for games I finished, for games I intend to play at some point (backlog), and everything else is in one giant trash I'm not interested to look at, unless actually looking for games for backlog category, but in this case I often look for specific game title, rather than them as a whole.

Pick maximum of 4 games for your "current" playthrough. For me it's currently - Fallout 4, MGS V, Civilization BE and South Park, which I finished recently so I have one more slot free. 4 is a magical limit and you can never get beyond it - if you want to play another game, finish one of the 4 current ones firstly.

I play games where I'm best at, where I have most fun or which I'm most happy at, it doesn't have to necessarily have all this three, I usually pick games where I get addicted or get interested too much, also I prefer having a friend while playing to share your experience and have some conversations during play, doesn't matter you play with him/her all the time, just have a friend to speak about something, doesn't necessarily need to have conversation about games all the time, it makes playing more comfortable and increases some fun, as well as takes away some strain, you might get bored or tired from playing games and focusing on certain game too much, so it's good to have something other to focus on sometimes.

I personally prioritize games in their length and replay value, as well sandbox games, rather than graphics quality, story or price.

Also I wouldn't spend money on short SP game which doesn't have active Coop or Multiplayer, doesn't matter how awesome the game it is, if I'm interested in story, I'd rather watch it in youtube. However if game is sandbox(For example like GTA series), and you can continue playing for fun after beating story missions, I'd then maybe change my mind, even better if it game has Coop/MP.

From observing your account, I'd recommend these games.
P.S The list isn't based on which games you should beat first, I explain this below.

1. Fallout series
2. F.E.A.R series
3. Mirror's Edge
4. Prototype
5. Assassin's Creed series
6. Just cause 2
7. Max Payne
8. Sanctum 2
9. Natural Selection 2
10. Terraria
11. Amnesia: The Dark Descent
12. Battlefield: Bad Company 2
13. Counter Strike: Global Offensive
14. Borderlands series
15. Darksiders series
16. Sid Meier's Civilization V
17. Don't Starve
18. Mass Effect series
19. Metro series
20. Mafia II
21. Red Faction series
22. Bioshock series
23. Torchlight 2
24. Killing Floor
25. And of course The Elder Scroll series!
26. Saints Row series
27. Prince of Persia series
28. Interstellar Marines
29. Hitman series
30. Crysis series
31. Company of Heroes series
32. Arma series
33. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

I might have missed some good games but I'm sure somebody can point it out, also having this list, I'd start prioritizing games in length and play/beat them beginning from smallest to biggest, in other words, save the best/longest games for later.

I'd say the longest/most addictive and ultimate games from the list I stated above are:

1. Counter Strike: Global Offensive
2. Battlefield: Bad Company 2
3. Sid Meier's Civilization V
4. Killing Floor
5. Torchlight II
6. Saints Row series
7. Borderlands series
8. Just Cause 2
9. Fallout series
10. Some of the Red Faction series.

Those are the games you might get addicted/interested and spend more time than other games, I'd save the ultimate games for later future, longer-play after beating the small games, this is my opinion and some share from my own experience.

Have fun!

Well, I have about 40 games installed, of which I regulary play 5 or so, because I really enjoy them atm. The others are either "endless" games (so you can just play them forever without really finishing it) and strategy games I really enjoy (civilization and total war mainly). Plus some games I installed, played a bit and then got another game I wanted to play more.

I'm thinking of using the coming holidays (especially the summer holiday, two months of gaming :p) to work on my backlog. I just pick two or three games from it, install them and play them for 1 - 3 hours a day, besided the other games I play. I tend to pick the shorter ones for now, since that can be finished quick, thus reducing my backlog quickly. Plus the longer ones usually need a more "dedicated" play through (the RPG's for example).

I find that this works well, since I can play whatever I really enjoy when I go to school (can only play 1 hour or so when I go to school) and when I have a lot of time I just work through the other games (which I still like, otherwise I won't play them).

Well, my priorities are:
-games I've won
-games I've been given
-games that have been unfinished for years
-games I have also as drm-free, so I can delete them
-games from A-G that don't seem particularly good (I've progressed to G so far in my quest for hiding all bad games)

i just choose Xcom2.

I have a list called "next i want to play in sp" in my library. It really depends on my mood. But i know what to play, it's just hard at times to decide which one

Head over to http://www.steamchecklist.com/, and let it choose a random game for you. Install and play.
If you don't like it, just hide it and quickly move on to next random game.

That's the fastest way to get through your library. If you try to pick and choose, you'll just end up wasting a lot of time trying to decide...

Hi i'm just here to say that you have a super nice profile on steam <3

I tend to choose one more or less randomly, but this way I keep forgetting nice games that I wanted to play but are in my library for a long time.

So now I'm trying to order them based on various rules made beforehand.
This thread gave me the idea. I've already made some changes/improvements to the rules I had posted there but it'll take some time to complete the job..

Thank you all for taking your time and replying to this thread, I really appreciate that. For now, I came up with a "strategy" that might work. I will play 2-4 games so I'm not limited just to one. One for just chilling (HotS), one aimed at a story (Murdered: Soul Suspect now), and one or two just to finish achievements.

If I'm at a loss I choose whatever looks to be very short, such as a 2d platformer.

If you aren't dead set on playing something, maybe you can find something else that might be more productive; read a book, play a musical instrument, talk to a member of the opposite (or same) sex...

Don't get me wrong, games are great and I really enjoy them. But sometimes I also wish some of the time had spent pursuing other opportunities. Life is short, and you only get one, know what I mean?

i just play what i want, don't have many installed (16), currently rotating between 3.

Why would you install a lot of games and not play any?
Just decide on what you want to play, install it, and play it until you get tired of it.
If you install everything then obviously you are just making things unnecessarily harder for yourself. Clutter makes things confusing just like in real life.

I own over 2000 (almost 3000 now) games and I usually end up playing the same three games 90% of the time.