I haven’t added anything to a category other than favorites in a while. Just can’t be bothered. I use my ‘favorites’ as an installed and/or probably will play again.
Favorites - Games I’m playing very frequently
Bugged - Games I might try again if specific bugs are fixed.
Classic - Games I play less frequently but still plan to again
Couch - Games that would only be fun to play on a couch with friends. if I had a couch. or friends.
Doze - Games that require tweaks to proton to work on my Linux desktop.
Meh - Games I’m not playing again.
Old - Finished games I’d only install again if it had a massive update.
Testing - Uncategorized games I haven’t made up my mind on.
For example - “done and complete” is Portal 2. Great experience, but no reason to just replay it. “Done and meh” could be games where I gave up trying.
Then it’s
Steam Deck only
Play with wife
Play with kids
Pc only
Finally it’s specific categories about how it makes me “feel”.
Chill-like - vampire survivors, or farm games, or Satisfactory
Action-like - fps, action games. Doom or Horizon Zero Dawn
Story - strong narrative. Like Nier automata, or Witcher 3
I have mine set up with a bunch of categories that are sorted with a prepended 3-digit number. Allows me to have different sections of category without it getting mixed up. ex:
<span style="color:#323232;">010 S
</span><span style="color:#323232;">011 A+
</span><span style="color:#323232;">012 A
</span><span style="color:#323232;">013 A-
</span><span style="color:#323232;">014 B+
</span><span style="color:#323232;">etc...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">350 plz play soon
</span><span style="color:#323232;">355 wont play
</span><span style="color:#323232;">...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">800 dont remember buying this
</span>
I just use dynamic collections, eg. group games by their store-tags, eg. arpg, fps, puzzle, walking-sim, online-coop… etc, whatever I consider handy when going through all of it.
Sure, the categories have a lot of overlap, but I don’t mind, the games list is a disaster anyway (>1300 games on account… yea.).
I used to maintain my own categories, but at some point the number of games started to be too much to do it by hand.
edit: One of the better features is to group games with online-coop with friends who have it too. Makes it a lot easier to find the next adventure to start after few beers.
yea I do also use the favorites (and two other manual lists), but thats about it. Mostly I just use the “last played” view of the library and hide games which aren’t installed locally.
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