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.
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.
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’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
Software
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
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