How to Track All Your Games on Steam
Too many games are a big problem. And it’s great that you took advantage of Steam sales, package deals and possibly tax refunds to buy tons of games on the digital distribution platform. Only now are you realizing the unintended consequences of your shopping spree. You don’t know how to maintain order in games or what to play next.
If you’re adventurous, you can play game roulette and double-click any random title you have, but there are tons of other ways to manage your game library on Steam so you don’t lose sight of everything you ‘ I already bought, never played, but plan to play (someday).
Use Steam Categories
Right click on any title in your library and select “Set Categories” to do this. You can make a category out of anything: Games I Must Try, RPG Games That I Need 60 Free Hours To Play, or Games That Looked Ugly When I Purchased Them, But I May Want come back to them later. ” Well, not the last two, since you only get 32 characters for your category name.
Setting categories for new games you buy isn’t that frustrating – just do it while they’re downloading – and it’s a great way to stay honest. You can upload games that you know will never be played into the “meh” category, or simply hide them from your library – another option on the “Set Categories” screen.
What are the casual games that waste your time when you have half an hour to kill; designate games you don’t want to play now but will play later (and add the game type to your categories so you don’t have to revisit the game’s store page to remember what the simulation game is).
You can even right-click a game and select “Add to Favorites” if you want to quickly flag high priority games worth revisiting later. Heck, plan your games: create a category called Memorial Day, for example, and give yourself a list of games you can try while idle – if you have any.
You can select multiple games at the same time and right click to add them to one category, and multiple games can have multiple categories. Just make sure to switch to the Steam “Games” view and not the “Recent” view to see how the new sort works.
Take into account the recommendations of the curator
One of the most useful features of Steam for finding awesome new games is Curator Recommendations . Follow people who think about games that match your preferences and you can see how many curators recommend the same title. If you already own a game, it will be inactive in the Steam interface. And this is exactly what you want to see.
I use a curated guide to remind me of great games I own that I may not have played (or forgot). When I see multiple curators, I follow everyone who recommends the same game, and I own it, and I have absolutely no memory of playing it, then I definitely add it to the “don’t try this” category. I also love it when Steam issues a recommendation from one curator for some obscure title that I own, which can also be a helpful reminder of some gems to play in my library.
In other words, let curators find the best games in your library for you, especially if you’re short on time to browse dozens (or hundreds) of games yourself.
Use Steam stats to show you what to play
The Steam store page is always full of different promotions for new and old games. That’s all well and good, but its main purpose is to sell you new games, not necessarily offer the ones you have already bought. I find it more helpful to check out the Steam stats page, found under Store> Stats, which then gives a useful breakdown of the top games by current player count.
This list, which you can expand to the 100 most played games on Steam, is a great way to quickly find out what’s hot on the platform. While the list is unfortunately not listed which of these games you own, you can quickly open multiple titles in new windows (by middle clicking or holding CTRL while left clicking on a game) to see if you own by them. … If you do, they might be worthy candidates for the next game as everyone else seems to like them.
Check which games have new updates
One of the best ways to find new games that you’ve already purchased is to look at which games have recently had new fixes, content, or significant changes. The Recently Updated list on Steam has reminded me more than once that yes, I own this game, and hey, I have to give it a try now, when some new graphics pack or big free content pack makes it even better. convincingly than when I bought it.
On Steam, hover your mouse over “Your Store” on the Steam home page and select “Recently Updated” to view all the latest games on Steam. The default service should use “Your Games and Software”, which is what you will probably care about the most. Scroll through the list, which is unfortunately limited as Steam doesn’t allow you to view multiple pages with game updates. This should shake up your memory a bit and maybe bring up some old titles in your library that might be worth revisiting or playing the first time.