100% Categorized my Steam library! (Lvl 5+ GA)

Steam should be much more friendly with this (tags etc.), also with adding custom screens and many other..

I use initials, my categories looks like "#, A, B, C...". whole alphabet from A to Z, # contains games that starts with number or other symbols like 7 Symbols serie

I envy you, every time I start trying to do that I never get anywhere.

I try not to categorise, or else it'll give me more reasons to completely ignore some games which I should play.

I do hide some games though. Or just straight-up remove them from time to time.

How do you handle your Steam library hot mess?

a) installed
b) not installed

I place games played currently in 0000 tag (top of the list), and then just in laptop/PC tags so as not to burn my laptop with some crazy graphics game

I have quite a few categories but a lot of games that aren't categorized. I could have easily done it with 1183 games, but since I've bought so many bad gamed over time, it takes a while to get it done.

Trying to keep them categorized. Recently decided to add a SteamGifts category, just to keep track of which ones I still need to play (hint: a lot).
Favorites contains games I often play, also have games categorized on my interest in them and filtering out the (local) mp for when people come over.

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Picture show it all , enough say .. 😆
My Games are master list of My Games Category
Games are new game that not yet categorize

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I am very happy with my filing system. Basically they are all filed by publisher if they are big publishers, and then everything else into very specific 'indie' categories by genre. So not just 'platformer', but 'platformer - hard', 'platformer - modern', 'platformer - metroidvania' etc. Then it's easy when I get in a mood to play a certain genre to look in those categories to find something.
I also have a few special categories, one for games I will prioritize, one for games I consider 'dead' and one to store completed games I don't need to see any more.
The initial set up took a while, but I did it when I only had a few hundred games, and I just go through once a month and add new ones into their categories, so it's pretty easy to maintain.

I don't categorize them on steam (not counting using default favorite option) but I do have them sorted on BLAEO's site with their default options (never played, unfinished, beaten, completed, won't play).

Maybe I'll sort them out on Steam one day, actually I might go and make categories now for games I've beaten and for those I don't plan on playing just to clean the mess a little bit.

EDIT: Alright, nevermind. Fuck Steam categories and not being able to organize in what order you want them. Instead they're sorted alphabetically which annoys me.

I just leave my library at favorites, installed, and finished lol

I like to keep mine simple and categorize by played, playing, will play, will never play statuses.

BOTTOM OF THE BARREL - Mostly or Overwhelmingly negative. Will never play.
COMPLETED - Games I finished
MULTIPLAYER ONLY - Games that are MP only. TF2, Planetside 2, DOTA 2, etc
SOMEDAY, MAYBE - Games with Mostly/Overwhelmingly positive reviews but not something I would usually play
UNPLAYED/UNFINISHED - Games with mixed reviews or games I tried but rage quit before finishing
GAMES - Everything in my backlog I intend to play someday
VR - My VR library (I own a Rift)

As for what to choose to play next, I almost always use the wonderful site Steam Filters to narrow down what I feel like at the time.

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I have 47 categories, mostly by genre, favorites, multiplayer, completed and trash. Every now and then I go through the uncategorized and assign them

Mine is all categorized in ways the likely make sense only to me and there are still hundreds of games and each category lol. All the categories are by genre, more or less.

My games list contains not categorized games, the VR is made by steam and it has Dota 2 only since I don't have a VR device

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Just once every so often I put new games in the correct category, so in Games I have the new ones I didn't do yet and in the one called New Games I add all I never played yet.

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I only have a few categories. I want to to genre categories but I never got around doing it.
I have:
Currently playing
Always playing (mostly multiplayer stuff I place regularly)
Started (games I started and want to finish someday, but not at the moment)

The next categories are for unplayed games. I sort them by user reviews
Very positive, mostly positive etc.

Done (games I played and won't be playing anymore (done everything I want to do))
Completed (I did everything that's possible in this game 100%/all achievements, all personal goals)

I have a ton of categories, genre, tags, HLTB, year, some custom groups (good for couch co-op, SG wins, etc.). I may not always use all of them, but if I'm in the mood for something specific, it's really helpful.

I use depressurizer to do most of my sorting!

I assign genre tags and number of players (single, local coop, online coop, multiplayer). I have under 500 games and maybe only a third is tagged :)

But it's a mess. The thing that bothers me the most is that when I select "installed games" and have say 10 installed games, it shows me like 20-30 categories (each game is displayed several times because it has several tags).

I wish it was more like GOG's filters: one for genre, one for number of players, one for status (completed, favourites, etc). And so that you could add and edit those categories (maybe you want to have achievements, cards, difficulty and what not filters).

I just have 3 categories. The 'normal' one where everything will be found on default; The 'playing now' where all installed games are found; and the 'done' where I put all games (finished or not) I have no intention of repeating again.

Grats! That sounds like quite the undertaking lol. Mine is sorted somewhat, but not as in-depth as yours. I have:
Favorites - anything I pretty much have 100+ hrs in or I feel I should be playing
100% - anything with all achievements
Almost - anything with a few achievements missing
Beat - anything beat without achievements
Excited - anything early access or waiting to get a huge patch soon™

other than that, I usually use the Recent tab to hop into games that I've got/played in the last few weeks.

In my case --> Just one big long scrolling list.
I also tried to categorize them via BLAEO but it was a long time ago and I nearly don't update it since.

You are my hero. I probably will never sort it, even though I have a few categories (like, finished games, finished only in coop, going to play, going to play in coop, replayable, and "not going to play at all"). I don't remember exactly what categories I have, not at PC atm.

I have a very organized list and started doing this after been looking a lot for my local coop games. I need to run my Despressurizer again and make some adjustments to make the perfect list!

Hide some games weren't an alternative because i think i'm pretty lazy for that, but i'll take a look because i need to get rid from a few junks that hurts my eyes - I'M TALKING ABOUT YOU, ACHIEVEMENTS MINER AND ASSET FLIPPERS.

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