Have you ever thought about cleaning your wishlist on Steam?

I would, but Steam decided to complicate stuff with the new Wishlist system and i want to do a massive cleanup.

Nah. Most games on my wishlist are there to remind me they exist, so cleaning it up would pretty much defeat its whole purpose.

My system for clearing my wishlist is buying the games when they get a good enough discount.
It's not very effective.

It depends how one uses his wishlist. I have 86 titles on it currently and I do not consider this amount excessive as I manage my wishlist on usual basis and never include things that are there without any purpose, I'd really start playing immediately any single title on my list, including those with very negative reviews (even if just to see how bad they are). This however doesn't mean that I'd actually buy them for their listed prices though. There is stuff (mostly upcoming releases from top) that I'll grab instantly, but everything else waits for a bundle, huge discount or happy soul to gift me one, be it through some internal group event we're hosting on usual basis or otherwise.

One person will consider 10 titles, another 100, and somebody else 500 to be excessive. In my case I'd be very happy if suddenly I found out that some game went free, because if it happened to land there, then it means something for me, even if it's just interest to try it out. Same goes for all winnings and gifts from other people - this is my rule, if I get something from my wishlist, regardless if bought or gifted, I need to start playing it instantly until I either drop it for good or finish. That rule works good enough, it keeps my wallet safe and my backlog never ends anyway. I have at least several titles more from last summer sale, and we're already near winter one.

If you asked me, your 271 items are still excessive to me, I consider 100 as the upper maximum after which I can no longer tell if something you presented me actually sits on my wishlist - but like I said, to each his own. I tend to remove positions that I consider low priority once I'm getting close to my limit, even if I could possibly want more, I'd still not grab position #113 if I have at least other 100 more important to me.

Also consider marking RimWorld your next priority, I've just started playing it and I already love it :3.

I have a pretty small wishlist I suppose? (40ish). It's mostly stuff I really want, so they don't really stay on my wishlist for very long before I decide to buy. It doesn't help my backlog in the slightest though.

I just did. From 280+ to 140+.

I remove one or two games once in a while, but overall I really want to try most games I have wishlisted.

I keep my steam wishlist at under 100 (I'm at 95 atm), and all of them are games I'm quite sure I would enjoy playing (read: would be happy to immediately play if gifted).
Any other game I'm less interested in / not sure I'd enjoy, but want to keep track of, gets put it in my barter.vg wishlist instead.

The much bigger problem is going through my Steam library backlog. Since the start of 2018 I've tried playing through the worst rated / least interesting games in my library, and so far its resulted in me deleting 82 games and keeping about a dozen. Even after all that I still have tons of unplayed games to go through.

Used to try to keep it at around 100.
Now it's hovering at around 250.
I feel like 300 is too many.

I try to sort it at least (although how frequently and thoroughly I do that is... not very). I group Early Access titles, and unreleased titles and DLC together. Helps let me know if a game has finally released or come out of EA. Mostly, I try to keep a top ten. After that, it's a bit of a mess.

~250 seems okay, for keeping track of games I'm truly interested in and don't want to miss on SG from the SG Wishlist link (that link is most of the reason I went past 100).

I could probably trim fifty or so off...
And I could also trim all 250 off... but... why?

There's no reason for me to do so, since I have there literally 2 games
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I also had 400+ games on the WL, then i started to clean it up. My rule was: even if i would won it SG, would i ever play it? If the answer was no, i removed :D now i have 90 games on the WL.

Only reason my wishlist isn't bigger is because I started using the following option for all those 'games I am vaguely interested in' instead of just wishlisting 'em. Still on like 240.

Already cleaned last month. Still have +700 but yes, I actually have interest in all

Had a look over mine. I'm still getting them at one point or another. I'm in no hurry though so their number doesn't really matter to me. My wishlist is more like a reminder to look for them among other deals.

I do actually, but only because of export restrictions that forbid me to buy games directly from Steam. When its another sale its so annoying to see them spam my e-mail and rubbing at my face that i cant buy wishlisted game for peanuts :( That is why i keep that list short. But its useful for me as reminder which games to look on other sites.

I wishlist a lot and have over 1000, mostly for IsThereAnyDeal wishlist syncing so I get notifications for deals, and to keep track of upcoming games. Some of these upcoming games turn out to be terrible and I should remove them but I can't really be bothered.
It doesn't bother me too much, the ones I want the most I just put them on top and order them. The rest is just get them whenever there's a bundle or really good deal. And I find it easier to just keep everything I'm remotely interested in there than trying to remember them and find them later in the ocean of shit on the store.

I don't really use my wishlist as a "I-want-to-play-every-game-on-it"-type of list. It's rather a tool about managing Steam Sales for me. Whenever I see a game and think "Well, that looks kinda interesting", I put it on the wishlist, so I can remember to look at it later. And when a big Steam Sale starts, I look at my list again. Browsing the Steam Store itself would mean browsing through many thousands of games. Browsing my wishlist reduces that number to 73.

I wish-list games because I want them, so there is nothing to cleanse.

Nah, i mostly use my wishlist for tracking game deals and steam sales.

I clean my wishlist regularly, I used to have over 200 of games I think are interesting; now I only add games I definitely want to play and will most likely get them if I can and if my backlog isn't too long. I have 170 there now, I think that's good enough.

I only use the wishlist for tracking games that i really really want to play, sitting currently at about 40 games.

361.
Sometimes I feel the same, but mainly because I don't remember which games I have already (~1500 in library) and which I added to wishlist.
Sometimes I don't remember the title or what games it is, but I mainly look at the video and if it satisfy me, I add it to wishlist. But mainly it doesn't.
Some could say 361 is big number, but no. If You have 4 times more games in Your library, it's not really that big.

But I would like to have two wishlists. Titles I really really want so much, i.e. must haves and titles I don't want to forget about and It would be also cool If I get them. Cause most of my wishlist consist of such games. I don't need them that bad, but I don't want to forget about them, cause they looked cool and I would like to play them.

I've come to terms with the idea that my wishlist is more of a bookmark system, than a "I want to own and play this game" list. Which I appreciate is not what it was intended for.

I use it purely to tag any game I think is interesting, for whatever reason. Maybe because I want to play it, maybe because I want to show it to someone else, or maybe I just liked the art in the description box!

But I do defo need a clear out!