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 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
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
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