I honestly didn't even know you could. With just over 100 games I've never felt the need to though, I can wade through them pretty easily and remember what I have.
I have my Steam Library organized by genre. FPS, RPG, RTS, ect. Then I have a backlog category where I put the games I know I want to get around to playing eventually and a Completed category for games that I've finished and am probably not going to go back to.
Developed - games I made for work and need fast access to for debugging and testing.
George’s Games - which is my kid’s games that is a dynamic category of full controller support, cooperative, local co-op. More George’s Games - which again for my kid is a dynamic category of partial controller support with local co-op.
PlayThese - Games I recently bought and I am lying to myself I have time. Only has 4 games in it, most recent purchases end up in uncategorized anyways. These are just 4 immersive sims I bought in the holiday sale in 2022.
Uncategorized - 952 games.
How do I manage all of this? Well, honestly I just hit the little “ready to play games” button which only shows installed or streamable games. If it’s not installed, I don’t really care about seeing it. If I want to install something then I know exactly what it is. Although multiple times a friend will be talking about a game I should play. I’ll be waffling going “I don’t really need to buy another game.” Then I will check the Steam store page and it will say I already own it. I don’t know how, most of the time I’ve gotten a key from somewhere and it’s not something I actively bought.
So really the categorization system is “is it installed?” and if it is, it’s important.
I used to categorize manually, finished games going into beaten-replayable, beaten-100%, beaten-done playing, open-done with, etc.
Dynamic Libraries are helpful for sorting, but not a replacement for manual categories. A major down side of the dynamic library feature is thst it relies on the game page to be accurate to the games feature set. Often there are games that get a tag or feature thst is just false. This does not a good tool make.
I did that. I just make whatever categories make sense to me. All of the Star Wars games are in a category, all Valve games are in one as well. And so on.
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