How did you categorized your STEAM Library?

Categories are still useless. I use different sites and clients to sort out games

I categorized all my games into Uncategorized catagory

Played, Achievements, SGWins, etc.

Mostly based on game genre, or whether the game seems interesting or not.

Liked, didn't like, can't run.

Genre, with the least I have being combined with other small ones.

• broken
• multi-player only
• SP base game finished (SP = single player)
• SP finished
• SP, don't like
• VR only

A couple of categories for non-Steam apps and games:

• adventures (I think I had more genre categories, not 100% sure why it's just one now.)
• emulators (Amiga Forever, C64 Forever, DOSBox, ResidualVM, ScummVM)
• launchers (Bethesda, Blizzard etc)
• other (apps)

Default categories when using compact mode:

• games
• VR

Gifts
Steamgifts
Didn't play
Played
Completed
100 %
Online
Needs DLC
Family Sharing
(Year of completion)

Although most of the time I'm sorting my library by activity haha.

I have a dynamic category for games which support both achievements and gamepads (partial support).

Free
Race
Indie
Old
New

Simple. I don't. I leave it as default alphamabetical.

Genres mostly because its easier to find something that i might forget i got and it is in the genre that i want to play.

• A - Play again someday

• [Me and my partners name]

• Beaten

• From [Partner]

• Installed

• VR

• Z - Remove Pressure Chamber

• Uncategorized

• (Hidden Games)

First one's named as so, so the folder stays at the very top of my folders list. So it doesn't get in the way when i'm scrolling down my list, but it also takes priority over all others if I want to take a look at it. Needless to say, it's games that the experience was so good that I want to play again someday.

Second one is just a list of games me and my partner want to play together

Beaten is a folder of games I beat and either want to be proud of beating or a game with the potential for me to play again someday.

4th one's self-explanatory. Games I got from my partner.

5th, also self-explanatory. Though sometimes I put games I am meaning to play or don't want to forget to install at some point later in there.

VR: VR games.

Z- Remove pressure, that's a list that has almost the entirety of games I haven't played yet. My Uncategorized folder is usually a flip of a coin if it stays collapsed or not when I collapse it and turn off my computer. But I often find it really stressful to look at my massive backlog. Having them all neatly stored away in a list that specifically states it's meant to take pressure off me helps. Basically i'll pop my head in there and pick out one or two to work through and then collapse the list. It also has a [hidden reason] to exist

Uncategorized is where I keep the games that I in-particular, want to focus on playing. Basically the game is so interesting to me that if it ends up in this folder, i'm basically saying it's going to be one of the next games I play. I keep the list pretty short, about 20 games or less in there at all times.

the built-in hidden games folder is where I keep games I really don't have the heart to delete permanently from my account (i've deleted about 400 games permanently from my account, trust me. This generally is NOT an issue, lmao.). Bad games I made reviews for; so I don't delete them from my account so my review can stay up. Old SG game wins that either weren't good, my tastes shifted and can't enjoy it, or are just not a good use of my time. (Disclaimer, I was like 18 when I joined this site and didn't have a lot of games, so I joined pretty much anything. These days, I'm really cautious about games I enter on SG, I have approx 17,787 hidden games, and usually only have 1 page's worth of GA results I can enter. It's extremely common for me to have more than 200p left whenever I close the tab to this site.)
I also put a lot of good games I've beaten into my hidden folder. Games that while were good, I can tell I will NEVER play again. It was good for a single run-through and a subsequent run-through would just be unenjoyable/complete waste of my time.

And that's it! That's my folders!

Also the hidden function of my remove pressure chamber folder is also me saying that this game is worth and respecting of my time. When you have this many games, at some point you need to weed out the lesser experiences to make room for games with more to offer, even if once upon a time you would've played it. So sometimes i'll go through my folder and look at games and pluck them from the herd into hidden or just delete it from my account.

Genre

• Beaten
• Multiplayer / Co-op Games
• Won on SteamGifts
• Uncategorized

I used to have a separate category for games that I had started but not finished, but with BLAEO / Completionist, I can keep track there if there's any game I need to go back to finish. Typically I just leave games installed until I'm done with them completely though. I also have the "Ready to Play" option checked off so I only see installed games.

100% Achievements
Achievements to go
Ø Achievements

Action
Co-op
FPS
RPG
massive multiplayer
pointer and clicker
strategy
Survival

Mainly by genres, then a few special ones (finished, OSTs, applications, crap games) and a bunch of untested ones. Currently I have 25 categories. I'd like subcategories and sort them tree-like.

Favorites
00Play (My installed games)
100% Completed
1st Person: Action / Adventure
1st Person: Military Shooter
1st Person: Puzzle
1st Person: Survival / Horror
2-D Action / Adventure
3rd Person: Action Adventure
3rd Person: Survival Horror
Arena / MOBA / Battle Royale
Card Game / Deck Builder
DLSS & Ray Tracing
DOS Games
Educational
Fighting / Combat
Flight / Space Simulator
Games for Windows Live
Indiegala Trash
Interactive Movie
Isometric / Top-Down
Local Co-op
Management
MMORPG
MODs
Movies
Music / Rythm
Point & Click
Puzzle
Racing
Real Time / Grand Strategy
Real Time / Turn Based Strategy
Soundtracks
Sports
Visual Novel
VR
Xternal - Origin
Xternal - Others
Xternal - Uplay
Uncategorized

Looking to consolidate a couple categories, so comments / suggestions welcome

fInished / want to play / want to play later / not tried yet / not tried yet but with cards / tried and did not like / abandoned / not my genre / infinite+puzzles / don't forget to delete / editor tools / sdk / dinosaurs / vr

I do it by publishers and genres. So all the big publishers basically get their own category, because I'll know for example that the Assassins creed games will be under Ubisoft. Then I have lots of categories starting with "Indie" that then get split into very narrow genres. Whenever the categories start to get too big I'll split them again into narrower genres. I did this first when I had about 1000 games and it felt like a lot of effort, but now it's easy to just file from the uncategorised group into the specific categories when I get new games.
I also have some 'special' categories where I keep the games I need to prioritize and those that I've beaten, to remove them from the other categories and clean them up.
I like the approach for me because whenever I feel like playing a certain type of game I'll just look in the category and find something there.

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I've been meaning to add more categories, but this is all I've done so far for Steam:

• Apps
• Board games
• Consoles
• Simulators
• VNs

With the rest largely unsorted that unless I have them installed/played a bit or added a priori, they're gonna be explored later.