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They're in order of likelihood of being played. Craig is a mate of mine who I play with when time permits.
I have
"Pile of Shame" (started, never finished out of boredom, too long of a list tbh)
"Goated" (Always installed and ready to play, something like Sekiro, DS3, MHW)
"Co-op" (Couch Co-op Games for when friends are coming over. Having them in an extra list is easier to choose from)
The Rest ist unmanaged. Oh and I also just hide a game if it's a one-playthrough-only thing and I am finished.
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.
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.
Currently:
Soon to be added:
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.
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.
I use genre categories to which I assign games I have completed.
I just have installed and finished. Also emulator categories created by emudeck
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.
Needs a "morally obligated to never play again" for Spec Ops and OneShot
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.
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)
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.
Implies:
I Don't categorize
I just organize them in 3 categories for me:
Did I get the game for free?
Did I actually purchase said game?
Is it an emulator?
It's a mess, but it's better than no organization because it makes the list feel more organized than it actually is.
i did this but didn't keep up with it. ended up with a big "unsorted" folder that occasionally has gems when i look through it
