I just hide everything I don’t want to play again. “Favorites” means “games I am playing right now”. I have one real category of my own, which is “Finished”, and actually means “maybe I beat this, or maybe I just got close enough and watched the ending on Youtube.” Very few games are actually visible in “Finished” because mostly I don’t replay games, so if I beat something, it goes into “Finished” and then gets hidden.
I group them by general type. Shooters, Rts, Turn-based, rpg, platformers, puzzle etc. And then there’s a separate category for games that suck. Like a category of shame, to always remember the lows of humanity.
I’ve got a category for the rating (/10) I give any games I’ve finished, as well as the following:
Dropped
Shelved
Won’t play
In progress
Backlog
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These categories don’t overlap (ie, I don’t give ratings to games I haven’t actually finished, even if this means I dropped them with no intent to play them again)
Work pretty nicely for me and it’s nice to be able to easily point to games I’d recommend to my pals
And the “wont play” category is largely just games that were in bundles, that I don’t care for, or games that I thought I’d want to play but became uninterested in them before I got around to them
I have no category for games I play often, I have “played” for games I likely won’t play again. And I have “shitty trash” for well those. I also have uber trash for sacred 3 and two worlds
TBH tho I usually just use recent activity, but having genres, mechanics, and “vibes” helps me find the game I’m in the mood to install and play. Some of the catagories are essentially useless tho as most people who tag games have no clue what certain genre’s actually are, so I have to curate some of these I care about, I have too many games to do it without steam tags though.
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