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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.

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[–] MrStetson@suppo.fi 166 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Uncategorized (250)" sums it up pretty well

[–] booty@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Scrolling through all my preciouses that I'm never going to play again why-shouldnt-i

[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago

Scrolling through the massive list of Humble Bundle games I didn't and still don't care about.

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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 114 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Newest trending game tag in steam Craig-like and Craig-lites.

[–] lockhart@lemmy.ml 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago

Action RP-Craig

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 70 points 7 months ago

Not pictured: Won't make the mistake of playing with Craig again

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I just use dynamic collections, eg. group games by their store-tags, eg. arpg, fps, puzzle, walking-sim, online-coop... etc, whatever I consider handy when going through all of it.

Sure, the categories have a lot of overlap, but I don't mind, the games list is a disaster anyway (>1300 games on account... yea.).

I used to maintain my own categories, but at some point the number of games started to be too much to do it by hand.

edit: One of the better features is to group games with online-coop with friends who have it too. Makes it a lot easier to find the next adventure to start after few beers.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is how I go about it, too. I also use the favourites feature to self-curate games to reduce choice anxiety when I want to play something.

Whenever I buy a game, it gets favourited, whenever I'm done with a game, it gets unfavorited.

If I play some game a lot or feel like playing some game when I have time, I favourite it.

This way anytime I want to play, I have a short list of games to consider, instead of trying to look through my whole library.

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[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 35 points 7 months ago
[–] ClaireDeLuna@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

I tried to sort by genre too many times and failed due to how specific some games get. So now they are sorted by completion.

I also have a huge word document that has a very detailed, color-coded checklist of every game I have sorted alphabetically & by franchise, this was made so I could include any games from my other devices.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What’s in “DONE - DIDN’T LIKE”? I’m curious as to what you’ve finished despite not really digging it!

[–] ClaireDeLuna@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Done" doesn't always mean complete, generally that's where games go that I didn't finish, never returned, and don't plan on ever playing again.

But to answer your question

Far Cry: horrible update, AI is broken, don't care to fix it

Far Cry Primal: Didn't hate it but I didn't love it, caused major eye pain too so I couldn't play long.

Penumbra: Requiem: Abandoned the vibes of the previous two penumbra games which were the precursors to the amnesia games, didn't enjoy the puzzles either.

Planet Centauri: Development Hell, no interest anymore.

Sniper Elite: weird funky controls just not enjoyable for me got about midway through before tapping out.

We happy few: mostly abandoned by the devs, game suffered due to being rushed.

Out of those I beat 3, the rest I either didn't make the return window or kept for library collection reasons.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fair! I’ve tried but haven’t been able to get into Far Cry games. I intend to try 3 again. Loved the first two Penumbras, but I’ve never heard of Requiem. I hella feel you on the controls of Sniper Elite, also.

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[–] MadBob@feddit.nl 6 points 7 months ago

I do like the use of square brackets to abuse the alphabetisation.

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[–] null@slrpnk.net 21 points 7 months ago

I just have "Craig" and "Not Craig".

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

I think you'll find my naming scheme perfectly cromulent.

[–] GadolElohai@kbin.social 8 points 7 months ago

#Naming Scheme 'Em Ups

[–] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 5 points 7 months ago

I just wonder how Lindsey compares to Craig.

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[–] southernbrewer@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Wow am I the only gamer who had no idea you could organise games into groups in steam? It never even occurred to me to look for this feature

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

i had them organised once upon a time but then i switched laptops and the categories didn't transfer so i just, never did that again

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[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago

Installed Locally (17)

Uncategorized (1447)

[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 7 months ago
[–] Promethiel@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] craigers@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

We're around

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[–] ares35@kbin.social 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

mine would go something like:

stuff i play: 1
stuff i used to play: 3
stuff i got just because it was cheap: 983785789567

[–] dog_@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago
[–] kartoffelsaft@programming.dev 8 points 7 months ago

I have mine set up with a bunch of categories that are sorted with a prepended 3-digit number. Allows me to have different sections of category without it getting mixed up. ex:

010 S
011 A+
012 A
013 A-
014 B+
etc...
350 plz play soon
355 wont play
...
800 dont remember buying this
[–] padge@lemmy.zip 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Only ~250 games? Those are rookie numbers! /s

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[–] Zerthax@reddthat.com 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I theme mine on how I play them:

  • play with friends

  • play when I have a short amount of time

  • more in-depth games

  • completed

  • unlikely to play (e.g. parts of bundles)

And yes, a bunch of uncategorized

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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

Rhythm Games (15)

Favourites(12)

Uncategorised (210)

[–] CoolMatt@lemmy.ca 8 points 7 months ago

Oh fuck! To start, and to finish! What a great idea.

I just have genres, series, and have really nothing based on what I still have to play

[–] Pappabosley@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Lol, I have virtually the same system, though my Craig is called Dan

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 7 points 7 months ago

“Welcome to the British Museum Collection of Egyptian Antiquities… My name’s Craig…”

[–] mcmoor 7 points 7 months ago

I still dont understand how people play varied games so far. I only have limited times and I can only slot it to play my comfort games. Even when i have extended times, eventually I just play the same things again.

[–] Zidane@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

I haven't added anything to a category other than favorites in a while. Just can't be bothered. I use my 'favorites' as an installed and/or probably will play again.

[–] Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)
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[–] acetanilide@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Nice. I have favorites and uncategorized 🫠

Although this might be why I never know what to play

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[–] Nikki@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

favorites

not hentai

hentai

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[–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 5 points 7 months ago
[–] figaro@lemdro.id 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wait what's the difference between "Craig" and "Would play with Craig again"?

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[–] eyeon@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

before steam had the built in library categorization I used a third party tool that created categories automatically based on tags

which is to say I have way too many useless categories now and need to wipe them all and start over 🙁

[–] Kyatto@leminal.space 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

TBH tho I usually just use recent activity, but having genres, mechanics, and "vibes" helps me find the game I'm in the mood to install and play. Some of the catagories are essentially useless tho as most people who tag games have no clue what certain genre's actually are, so I have to curate some of these I care about, I have too many games to do it without steam tags though.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago

Haha! I'm not the only one with categories that are just "friends name"

[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper@feddit.de 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I have

  1. "Pile of Shame" (started, never finished out of boredom, too long of a list tbh)

  2. "Goated" (Always installed and ready to play, something like Sekiro, DS3, MHW)

  3. "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.

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[–] fushuan@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Favs, a category just for PoE, semi-favs, and then some dynamic lists to get a fake "all" list.

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[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

Friendly reminder that “backlogs“ are prisons of your own making. There is no moral imperative to play or complete every game you buy!

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