The ones that have a lighting are dynamic. You know how when you go to search in your games it lets you filter to get only the ones with the rpg tag, or multiplayer, and so on? You can create a category that has all the games with the rpg tag, which updates dynamically. When you go to create a category it gives you the option, it should be straight forward.
Favorites (I’ll play again after finishing) (21 games)
Completed (I’ve finished and probably won’t play again) (430 games)
Dead Games (online games that are literally unplayable due to servers going down) (3 games)
TBD (I haven’t finished yet) (140 games)
Completed also includes things I decided weren’t worth playing anymore, mostly from bundles back in the day. Stuff like Fallout Tactics and some of the XCOM spinoffs.
They’re games we’ve not got around to yet or not finished yet, whereas the “would play” is ones we’re more or less done with but might come back to in the distant future. We don’t get to do it very often because we live in different timezones and he’s got two young chiddlers.
Looking at some of these… I’d never even considered sectioning them by genre - mine’s mostly by physical location - if I want to play that game, where’s it already installed?
So there’s :
Desktop, Laptop, Deck Internal, Deck SD1 (and SD2, 3 & 4 for removable SD cards)
Then like most people, I’ve got a “Complete” and a “Maybe [person’s name]” for ones the missus might enjoy.
The only sort of grouping is “Wheel Games”, which is basically driving games, but the type you want to play with wheel & pedals, not just a controller. My wheel and pedals aren’t set up permanently, so when they are set up, I pretty much only play all the Euro Truck/Bus Sims, Dirt Rally, F1, Revhead, BeamNG sort of games etc.
I did also use to have lists for my laptop and hand-me-down PC, and one called “need a better computer”, but my laptop’s since given up the ghost and I have a better computer.
I tried that, but most genre folders have become pretty useless over time because they’re either too similar to each other or somehow games found their way into wrong ones
Putting how many games I have in each category in brackets since your screenshot included that info and I think it’s interesting data to include.
I have “Uninterested” [7] as a category for games I will probably never play. “Backlog” [33] for games I haven’t started, but do eventually want to play. “Story Started” [25] for games that I have started playing but haven’t finished the core story or made it to the credits of (some of these games have been in this category for years). A “Playing” [7] category for a few games from the “Story Started” collection that I consider as games I’m actively playing. And a “Story Complete” [91] category for games that I’ve at least reached a credits screen or otherwise finished the core game/story.
If I enjoy a game a lot, through multiple playthroughs (or at least expect to return for another playthrough at some point) it gets added to my Favorites [14].
And then there’s the 280 games in the Uncategorized list, I have played a bit of some of them, but for most of them I’d want to start over from the beginning rather than continue from where I left off.
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