How do you organize your Steam library?

>>377109510
>obsolete

>>377109617
Other anon here, Steam has tons of redundant entries. There are 3 obsolete Company of Heroes listings that got replaced with "CoH: New Steam Version". And I honestly lost count of how many ways there are to launch the original Serious Sam.

>>377109510
Most recent

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I use favorites as a temporary category for stuff I'm playing/want to play soon.

>>377109818
ok that makes sense

-Games I'll never play again
-Games

Pretty self explanatory. Games I've beaten with no desire to go back to or games I don't like wind up in the first category.

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>organize
I only have about 140 games, it doesn't need cleaned up, everything is fine, send help, nothing to see here, I'll worry about it when I hit 150

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I really should add more categories at some point

-Favorites
-Games

Buyer's remore/Humble trash
Games
Finished games
Multiplayer games
High replayability games

>>377110013
That's a good idea. I wish you could rearranged categories non alphabetically

>Installed
>Uninstalled
>Fast games

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i don't
i should

>>377109510
Those are solid categories, Anon.

>unfinished
>finished
>horror
>multiplayer
>not played

I catalogue them by genre, but like film genre. So like Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Action etc

>>377110886
Gibemedat skin name.

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>>377109510

>favorites
>100%
>backlog
>other
>replay
I'm using Favorites for all the games I have currently installed. Some games are both in 100% and replayt.

>#1 Sport in Korea (Strategy/RTS)
>Action Movie 2: QTE Boogaloo (action/TPS)
>Anders Brevik Simulators (FPS)
>Dating Sims (point and click adventure/VN's)
>Flynn's Arcade (twin-stick shooters/shmups)
>Games for Wizards Live (RPG's)
>I Drive (racing)
>Keep Pressing Right (2D platformers)
>Let's Go Exploring! (3D platformers/action-adventure/metroidvanias)
>Suck My Dick: Choke On It (artsy indie games)
>This Reminds Me Of A Puzzle (puzzle games)

>>377111096
favorites are always on top.

>>377111983
>owning a VR

kys

>>377111983
why would you make an "installed" category when steam already has it natively?

>>377112045
Steam makes the VR category by itself if any of your games are compatible.

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favourites is Smite, which I play a lot
??? is shit free games I'll probably never play
Backlog is games I'd like to play in the future
Done are done
Eh are games I've started but don't care too much about
Multiplayer are games I play w/ friends
Replay are rouge-likes and easily replayable games
Games are games I'm on right now
VR is a category I didn't make and can't seem to delete

>>377112125
What where?

>>377112215
hover on "library" and look down the drop down list

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"Current" is whatever new games or bits of the backlog I'm currently going through.

>have almost 700 games
>organizing your library would require to manually move every single game into your custom category
Steam is a fucking disaster in terms of user-optimization.

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>>377112215

>>377112280
Well fuck I've had steam for 10 years and didn't know that.

>>377112414
do you feel like a fool?

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Do note that SFV is in 'trash bin' and not in Fighting Games.

>>377112160
>VR is a category I didn't make and can't seem to delete
Mine was automatically created when installing Sayonara Umihara Kawase.

>>377112403
You can't rename folders either and the only way to delete them is by removing each game.
Imagine being this guy >>377111820 4 years from now when he turns 18 and realizes how cringy and tryhard his folder names are. Gonna be a pain.

I don't use Steam, so there is just a tab on my girlfriend's called my name where she puts games for me to play. Either point and clicks or games like Final Fantasy she wants help with.

>>377109510
I don't use categories
no real reason to

>>377112505
Yep. I've been manually adding and removing games in the 'installed' category every time and it was a pain. Thanks for calling me out

The category system sucks total ass, I don't see how anyone can put up with it

>>377112602
That's pretty cute, Anon.

I literally just have a Buyer's Remorse category that all the garbage I've ended up with gets put in to. Otherwiss I only actually play like two games on Steam so categories don't matter anyway.

>>377111820
Cringe and autism.

>>377109510
>A Game I Am Playing
>Backlog
>Cold Backlog
>Completed
>Garbage
Shift a couple from backlog into A Game I'm Playing, shift a couple from Cold to Backlog if that gets light, garbage is shit from Humble Bundles.

>Beta
>Multiplayer
>GAMES
But seriously who uses detail view instead of grid view?

>>377113293
What's the point of having an underrated category?

>>377113293
>pressed enter before typing like a retard


I started sorting them by date bought after a while to keep track how long i have em.

>>377113581
Play Me is my current backlog and Underrated is decent indie/small games that i randomly start whenever i don't feel going for another 50+ hour rpg

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>>377109510
Guess which category has the most games.

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>>377109510
Yes!

>>377113293
Do people actually categorize their games like this? Un-aesthetic as fuck desu

>>377114071
>grand tactics

What's that?

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>>377109510

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>>377114190
Strategy games that don't fit in or deserve to clutter up the other tab.

>>377114319
I'd like to see humungoose tab and grorious nippon!

>>377114396
Clean and simple, 7-8/10

Games I actually play in my favorites list, everything else is unsorted.

>>377109510
I don't, it's enough for me that they're in alphabetical order

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>>377110825
>But I don't have the time to organize it
I feel you anon

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>>377114805
Alphabetic order triggers my autism because of shit like this.

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>>377114728
Humongous entertainment was a humble bundle, so it's literally everything.

Why don't you people just remove the games via Steam Support if you'll never play them again? Takes 5 seconds

>>377115293
Putting them into a trash category takes 1 second.

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>>377114949
Sometimes I wish there was a way to rename games, shit like this triggers me so fucking much.

>>377115293
Because it takes 2 seconds to move them to a shit/don't play file

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I used to like games before I joined Steam.

>>377115293
You gain nothing by removing the game from your library and if anything it makes you even more salty because you wasted money for nothing.

>>377111374
It's Metro

>>377115393
I also hate when they put fucking ™ in the title of the game. Fuck off I already know somebody owns Batman.

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i may have too many categories

>>377115483
>Dropping games

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I'm kind of a faggot.

>>377115851
>launching emulators through Steam

For what reason?

>>377115983
Maybe he means DOSboxed stuff?

>>377115983
So he can show off and brag about being one of those nostalgia-goggled people, I guess.

>>377115983
>>377116017
Using steam controller with emulators.

>>377115919
I don't see the problem with that, I bought Mad Max a while ago and played it for like 5 hours but had no desire to go any further, since it's too late to refund it I might aswell keep it on my library as a reminder of my bad decision. Why should I suffer through a game I don't enjoy just because I bought it?

>>377115983
I AGREE.

THANKS FOR THROWING UP A BUNCH OF DOSBOX AND SHITTY FIGHTING GAME FRONTENDS THAT BARELY WORK, SNK YOU HACK FUCKS.

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>>377109510
Neat and tidy

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state of my library is horrible

>>377116107
I just delete games I'm not gonna play now. They don't matter. None of this matters.

I just have a games folder and then I hide all the games I'm never going to play again

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>>377115983
???

>>377115851
Post the shiggy category

What's a good skin for steam that isn't the default and I won't hate after 10 minutes?

>>377116324
I like Metro

>>377116324
Air classic

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>>377116232
darksiders is because i'm in the middle of the warmastered edition
guacamelee because it's shit and i didn't like it
LOTR were freebies i have no intention of playing
aaaand I have no intention of playing Monaco either

>>377116324
SPAZ Planets

But I am biased because I like space.

>>377116324
I prefer Pressure2.

Metro >>377116363 is the most popular one, and it's good too.

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i dont

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I'm so glad that you can ctrl/shift select games now... it used to be one by one a couple of years ago

>>377116107
Personally, I would still just play through it if I couldn't refund it, since I don't have much money to waste, and if I couldn't enjoy it by regular means, perhaps try and riff on it with friends.

Different strokes for different folks though, I guess.

>>377115273
Freddi Fish was fucking great.

>>377115393
I think you can do that though, or is it only with non-steam games?

>>377112045
t. poorfag

>>377111820
honestly kys

>>377112045
You get the VR category automatically, games like Elite Dangerous and Tabletop Simulator have VR versions of them so they create the category for you

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>>377115758
>a new contender appears™

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>>377116324
This one

>>377116941
This shit triggers me to no end, got gifted tabletop simulator and steam tried to force that garbage on me. Had to hide the game to get rid of it.

>>377116941
Is there no way to disable this category? If not it sounds like I'll have to dodge any game with VR from now on.

>>377117143
I don't think so. You can delete games permanently from your library but I think it would just remove the base game (non-VR version) as well.

>>377117118
>>377117143
You can't disable it.

I don't know why it would trigger you this much though. It always appears at the bottom of the list so it won't mess up your own categories,

I've realised the problem with PC/Steam games is that they can be so cheap you don't even think hard before purchases. I have over 5x more games dropped than completed. Three quarters of that shit is Bundle shovelware that seemed enticing at the time (shill threads here don't help). Sure it's nice to get a fuck-tonne of games for a tiny price, but what's the point if you're not going to play them? Bundles were a mistake.

>>377117065
>that time played
How?

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I have a few.

>>377117270
He just idled, you stinky cunt.

>>377117319
>keeping your computer on for 440 hours straight
Why?

>>377117315
one category for every game! nice

>>377117143
It's forced on you, doesn't matter if the category is empty or not. If you get two entries of the game (one regular, one VR) you have to hide both to get rid of it.
You can then un-hide them when you want to play, but it's a hassle.

>>377117252
Mix of OCD and someone somewhere literally forcing this shit down your throat with no option to unfuck your list.

>>377117378
He didn't do it in one stretch, you smelly welly.

>>377117379
You can apply multiple tags to games but he's still weird.

>>377117315
sounds like you would have more trouble going over your categories than all your games without category

>>377117259
I buy a couple of games each sale, mostly things I think I'll enjoy. Then I work through them throughout the year inbetween playing and replaying old tried and tested games.

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>>377117315
I'm impressed by your autism.

>>377117442
After a certain point you only use the search function anyway, I think categories are pretty useless

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you are like little baby, watch this

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> Played
> Not Played
> Playing'
If you go beyond this, chances are you have autism.

>>377117543
>no custom grid images
come on man,at least go full autism if you have to

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>buying games when you could download them for free.

>>377117521
I wish I had that much time for games.

>>377117436
>He didn't do it in one stretch
So why do it at all? It was purposeful. So what was the purpose?

>>377116324
v1 pressure

>>377116324
Pixelvision 2

>>377117693
Because he's an unfunny chucklefuck who was baiting for responses like yours by posting his absurd playtime, you dirty mouth.

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Wish Steam would let you make folder inside of folders.

>>377117673
>bloating your rig with botnet miners and malware
ISHYGDDT

>>377117684
With part time work + studying at uni I usually net 70+ hours of playtime every two weeks.
I have some games from 3-4 years ago I haven't played yet, but I always makes sure to play more than I buy so the backlog doesn't explode.
Your problem is probably having too much of a life outside work bae.

>>377117648
meh i only use them for non-steam games, i dont like those shitty blurred background ones that some websites have

>>377111023
This.

>>377117993
Why have a category for Legend of Grimrock?
There's like two games.

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Either by genre/theme or series if I happen to own more than two or three games in it.

>>377118102
I'm just joking, I've seen some guys at NeoGAF go wild with custom grid images and they mostly look like shit. Also quite unusable when they use images without any text, gets pretty hard to find what you're looking for when all your images are some plain and "stylish" images that have no text

>>377109510
All games listed alphabetically
It separates into two categories automatically, installed and not installed

Why would you need anything else?

>>377118319
Post Indie - high tier and point and click, interested in seeing what's in there.

I want to start organising my library, but I also want a large enough hard drive not to care about having everything installed.
Other than that, if I had everything installed, I'd probably do it by specific game franchise for the main ones I play (Borderlands, Witcher, Elder Scrolls, etc.), and then by genre for shit I barely ever play
would that be a good way to sort it?

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>>377118286
Just preparing for when Legend of Grimrock 3 hits.

>>377118568
Grimrock 1 was better than 2

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>>377118470
Point and click/Adventure is a bit underpopulated. Indie high-tier are games that I've enjoyed to some degree, with the regular indie category being mostly random shit from bundles that I either never played or were complete crap.

>>377117898
Why go through all of that for a single (you)?

>>377109510
>Completed
>In Progress
>Online Games
>Miscellaneous

>>377118703
I hope you're baiting, otherwise I completely agree. Way more tight level/puzzle design IMO

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>Shelling out for muh digital rentals
My steam library consists of only a handful of games, so there's no reason. I still sort my games though.

>>377109510
FPS/RPG/RTS/SIM

>>377118823
>game published by WB
>indie

>>377118703
I felt 2 was a straight upgrade on every aspect over 1, specially the final boss. The atmosphere being different is the only thing I can't say it's better, but I wouldn't call it worse either.

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>people in this thread that didn't remove the VR category
plebs

>>377118823
What did you think of A Tale of Two Sons? Been planing on buying that. Otherwise decent list, made a note on some titles.

Also if you like point and click Darkness Within and IHNMAIMS are pretty good.

>>377119328
>calling people plebs
>while having a library full of indie garbage

Good joke.

>>377119140
Brothers is not published by WB though.

>>377119450
No, Brothers was published by 505 Games which still means it's not indie.

Bastion was published by Warner Bros.

>>377119328
>yfw you realize most of these games would have been free to play on newgrounds or armorgames 15 years ago instead milennials have to pay out the ass

>>377119558
I'm pretty sure indie just means that the development was funded by the devs themselves, otherwise 50% of the indie games wouldn't really be indie at all.

>>377119852
Indie as in independent. Depending on how you define that you're looking at either something general like 'not mainstream', or something a bit more limited like produced by a private person.

>>377119852
>50% of the indie games wouldn't really be indie at all
That's true. People tend to use "indie" as a reference for low-budget games made by a small team (which does fit Bastion), but that's not what the word means.

Their second game Transistor is real indie game though, since it's self-funded and self-published.

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>used to categorise all my Steam games
>got lazy and stopped
>now have a Steam library half categorised and half just listed under "Games"
This has been triggering me for some time now but I'm too lazy to uncategorise the categorised ones and also too lazy to categorise the uncategorised ones.

>>377109510
I don't.

I put games I play right now under favorites, that's it.

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Like this

>>377120258
You can just use shift to select all your categorised games and remove their categories, shouldn't take you more than 20 seconds.

>>377120530
oh fuck, I actually didn't know I select them all at once
thank you anon

>>377120801
Yeah, originally you couldn't, but they added that a while back.

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month of purchase, to track my spending habits a little bit, and some sagas here and there, because whatever

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>steam

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>>377119448
Thats just a small portion of my library and only around 45% of the ones you can see are true indie games. checkmato

>>377109510
I'm not an autist with OSD, Steam organises games by itself just fine.

Completed
Completed online multiplayer
Completed local multiplayer
Online multiplayer
Local multiplayer
Solo
Trash

The only uncategorized games are those that I just bought/automatically received, which makes them easier to spot.

>>377111820
I actually thought some of these were funny, but remember, no fun on /v/

>>377114071
>UNLPAYED

>Favourites
Games I'm currently playing or games wich I have 1 or 2 achievements left but are uninstalled so I can go back to them If I want. Probably will make a new category for those.

>Completed
Games I have completed 100% achievements. If no achievements I have completed them in the highest difficulty, or story, or ingame achievements or whatever I see fit to declare a game completed.

>Online games
Games that are online only (not counting bots) like cs:go, chivarly, coffin dodgers, etc. Not really interested in those games and got them in bundles, but probably work on their achievements if I see I can 100% them. I hate multiplayer achievements.

>Games
Default category. I move games from here to favourites and then to completed.

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>>377109510
I just sort by genre but I tend to group large series of games too.

>>377122313
What skin is that?

>>377122416
Metro
It has a small mode that makes Steam compact.
http://metroforsteam.com/

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>>377120309
>Alan Wake
>Not under trash

>Backlog-Not Started
>Backlog-Started
>Favorites
>Chill-out games
>Completed
>Not Interested
>xd
>Party Games

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Tell me how much of a cancerous pleb I am.

>>377109510
>unreleased

kys nigger

>>377121596
>games /v/ said were shit CORRECT
>games /v/ said were shit FAGGOTS

>>377112591
You can rename folders, if you shift click all games in one category, untick that category and add them to a new one

>>377109510
>Action
>Multiplayer
>RPG
>Story
>Sandbox
>Shooter
>Platformer

>>377109510
Completed
Endless
Trash

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rest

>>377109818
Declare them hidden then

>>377117005
Relic usually goes full retard with DoW games.
DoW 2 used to be

"Warhammer® 40,000™: Dawn of War® 2 - Retribution™"

but they removed trademarks recently .

>>377109510
I don't because I am not an autistic fag.