Game Hoarders: how do you organize your games?

I tried that way, but now I just let them into alphabetical order.

It's prettier with Steam's grid view, which ignores categories anyway...

Nah. I don't think I need to organise my steam games. I don't think I can even be called hoarder.

Default (alphabetical)

I tried to do so once, but after few hundreds games with tens upon tens of examples of "what category should I put this into" it became harder to find anything than with alphabethical view.

nowadays I'm using priorities categories. Finished, Currently Playing, High Priority, Low Priority, Junk. Each game I finished or played a bit but decided I won't come back to it goes to Finished. Games I'm playing right now are always on top of my lib (as category starts with C ;p), High Priority are games that I plan to play soon, Low Priority are games I want to play someday, but not sure when, and Junk are all games I'm not really intrested in. I'm keepieng my Junk and Low Priority categories minimized, this way my lib is usable even with 1100+ entries ;p

Search bar.

I don't do anything. I gave up.

Just searching doesn't help me because I forget what type of game some of them are, like ones I got in bundles a while ago.

Completed and Done With, Never Played Yet, and the default Games category for everything else

My collection isn't as big as yours and i probally can't be called hoarder and even if i can then i'd be "starting noob-hoarder". I just made categories like "fps", "multiplayer", separate groups for games from bundles and group called "bin" that i'm probally not going to launch.

Seems that would be a good idea for valve that you have a view by categories or tags that developers assigned to the game. And of course games with more than one appear on all them.

I start to have that problem and I'm considering to categorize them all, but at the moment I only have some categories not related to style: co-op hotseat | pending demos | other (nongames) | Prototypes | Rests (games I'm certainly sure I won't play again or never intended to have them [those attached bundles...]) | Only multiplayer | games.

I've used steam for 7 years now (had to make a new account which is why this one's only 3 yrs old) and literally just found out you can categorize games 3 days ago.

thats how I do mine Usually if something is missing I put it in the next closest thing until I have a substantial amount for that categories

EDIT: Fixed.

i got 2 categories: GG and Trash

I've tried organizing like you've done. Then I tried alphabetical and now I'm categorizing my games with multiplayer in mind. Local Multiplayer, Online MP and Singleplayer as the main categories. Helps when trying to find games to play with friends. Also I've picked some really, really odd games into their own "Extraordinaries" category.

The tags and store categories should be implemented somehow to our libraries. Would help a lot.

i don't organize at all, i just have a big, big alphabetical ordered list. ^^

100% (games I have definitely finished), TO DO (games I want to play or complete in the future), IN THEATERS (the three games I currently play), TRASH (Left 4 Dead 2 Beta, Half-Life 2: Lost Cost + Deathmatch and Counter-Strike: Condition Zero + Deleted Scenes), NOT PROJECTED (games from bundles I don't want to play) and TIMELESS (multiplayer and plotless games).

I'm not a hoarder. I prefer the term: hamster. :)

And I categorize mostly by the type (adventure, multiplayer, sandbox), but I have multiple categories for games I finished, in progress, waiting, suspended, trash and I have several categories for game series, like Crysis, Saints Row, GTA, Half-Life, Fallout, Bioshock, etc. And I also have some category by publishers, like Pendulo Studios és Telltale Games.

Two Categories:
Playing or Will Play
Will Never Play or Will Never Play Again

• Completed (Repeatable games here, like FTL and Binding of Issac)
• Currently Playing (Like it says, or things on a short list to play next)
• Non-Steam (MMO, Web Browsers, Games from Origin etc)
• Crap (Games I hated or will never play)

That's about it. I tend to remember all my games pretty well.

i changed my categorizing algorithm some times before getting to the final version:

• preferred category: all the games i have a real interest in (between 50 and 100)

• all the rest.

• GOTTA PLAY NOW
• Totally Need To Play
• Totally Should Play (Might Not)
• What Is This?
• You're Fucking Old School
• Zzzzzzzzzz

Organize? Wut? I only have 750 games, I don't need to organize them.

-Use Steam and see game titles alphabetically
-Put non-Steam game shortcuts all over the desktop