They're in order of likelihood of being played. Craig is a mate of mine who I play with when time permits.
Friendly reminder that “backlogs“ are prisons of your own making. There is no moral imperative to play or complete every game you buy!
Wouldn't games under Craig and Would play with Craig again overlap? Unless Craig has currently playing games.
They're games we've not got around to yet or not finished yet, whereas the "would play" is ones we're more or less done with but might come back to in the distant future. We don't get to do it very often because we live in different timezones and he's got two young chiddlers.
Currently:
Soon to be added:
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
I have three categories:
They go into In Progress when they're installed.
They go into completed when I've finished them. Either 100% achievements or completed to my own satisfaction if no achievements.
If I lose interest and uninstall they drop back into Uncategorized until I'm ready to pick them up again.
Implies:
I Don't categorize
A few games in my favorites and the rest is uncategorized (i only have like 20 games though so that's not much of a problem)
I just have installed and finished. Also emulator categories created by emudeck
Didn't even know I could do that :') thanks
I'll come back to this when I sorted them... although I really do like your system.
Its a little more convoluted than I'd like. I Should really merge things like Meh/ Package deal/Discontinued/kinda done though
I used to have a category called "maybe pile" but it didn't make sense to me to stick it near the top.
Edit: same with one called "abandon all hope ye who enter here".
Honestly, I didn't really bother ordering them. I tend to only go trough my games when I'm either looking for something new to play (in which case I already kinda know what I want) or when I'm super bored, and then I'm gonna go trough most tabs anyway.
It's mostly just nice to have the junk filtered out ^^
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.
The games in progress I mark as favorites, I have “Finished” and “Play Next” categories, and I have a big dump category called “Won’t Play”.
Aside from that, I have some big categories for collections of old games from humble bundles and steam sales, like legacy Myst, Wizardry, or Sierra games, or like Star Wars game collections.
Working on it - Stuff I'm in the middle of
Leeloo Dallas Multipass - Anying that is 2 or more players
Done Did - Games that I've done did
Then title groupings for anything with 5 or more installments.
Needs a "morally obligated to never play again" for Spec Ops and OneShot
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.
Might have to adapt this for my own use
Could be something to spend hours on, you know, instead of playing Horizon ZD, Jedi Survivor, Life is Strange, Tell Me Why, or the Tomb raider series.
And those are just the story based
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.
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