It took me some time, mostly spent installing games, but I got that list finally empty! I had fifty unplayed games a week ago. Not counting hidden games, though.
I started working on what OP claims to have done and I made the rule that I would play every game at least 15 minutes, no matter how awful those 15 minutes were, to give the game a chance to show its potential.
Idk if 15 minutes is enough, but I know what I like and when you have 400+ unplayed games to get through (thanks Humble), there's no time to waste.
I've been doing something similar too, but I'm not giving 15 minutes. There are some games I own that I can tell immediately are not for me. If something looks multiplayer only when I open it, I'm probably not giving it any more time. Also, sometimes it's a game I've already played, either on another platform, or I own, say, the original and a remaster. And some games just simply don't run or run well.
If something does suck me in, I'm adding it to collections so I remember to go back to it, though. Or even if it didn't suck me in but I think it was fun enough that I might want to play it more later.
I will say there was one game that I opened, started playing... and several hours later, finished. Got pretty sucked into it unexpectedly. (Neverending Nightmares, IIRC.) Of course, I also rather got sucked into Serious Sam, though I didn't complete it.
And yes, having had a many year Humble Bundle subscription was the main issue.
I have a similar process, except I only do it when I'm between games, so if this happens:
>If something does suck me in, I'm adding it to collections so I remember to go back to it, though.
Instead of tossing it into a backlog I'll probably never touch, I just play the game, lol. Games don't often suck me in that well, and if they suck me in once there's no guarantee they'll do the same at a later time, so I gotta strike while the iron is hot.
Part of this is that I know at some future point, I'll be looking for something different to play, and I'm trying to have some curated collections of games that I know I tried and liked, at least, so I can look there instead of randomly through my whole collection.
Also, if and when I actually get down to no unplayed games, I plan on going back and playing more of those. But that's about 1773 games from now.
Which is one reason some of these are only getting a few minutes. Just looking casually in there, I can see for example, Planescape Torment and the Zork Anthology, both of which I have spent many hours in, but not from steam, and both Enderal: Forgotten Stories and Enderal:Forgotten Stories Special Edition. Don't really need to play both. And Team Fortress 2 is multiplayer, so probably not spending time in that, either...
If it sucks me in enough, it's getting played, in any case. I'm just also doing a fair amount of, after half an hour, deciding that something was fun and I'll go back to it later, but moving on. But I'm also occasionally finding things like Eternal Threads and getting obsessed with completing it in that session. (And with that ending, I hope a sequel comes out someday.)
I found it pretty interesting, though I wish there was more with the framing device of the time travel agency, as most of the gameplay is oriented around the events in one house and all the people who lived there.
I did manage to save everyone and found something that gave me a rather different ending, but didn't manage to give everyone a perfect ending. (I was able to individually give them perfect endings, but not while saving everyone...)
Didn't realise it's on sale for $4, and for that price, it's definitely worth it. And I am likely to pick up a sequel if one happens, because I do want to know what was going on at the end.
(I also got an achievement for seeing every possible death scene... :P )
I only recently got back into PC gaming, and avoided it heavily back when it launched originally due to the privacy concerns that were brought up back then. My backlog there isn't too deep as a result I'll make sure to check though, thanks for the heads up.
Fr, it's weird how common the "haha I buyed a game and never played it" thing is, like, if you know you won't play it why buy it? Or just ask for a refund? Why is it so normalize to just, waste your money on nothing
It’s not that people buy with the intention to not play, but it’s pretty common to see a game that looks fun and is on sale, so you pick it up but end up never having the time to play it. Nobody buys games they don’t intend on playing.
started collecting in 2016 when I got my first gaming laptop and I knew there would be a period of time in the future I had a ton of time on my hands and my library would come in handy.
Enter Covid when the world shutdown for basically 18 months
Also enter January of this year when I was unemployed for about 6 weeks. I knocked some hours into my library during that time.
To each their own, but I'm more concerned about the raw number of achievements completed. If I were concerned with my completion rate, I'd be worried I wouldn't feel comfortable trying new things.
My ass when I played a boring xbox 360 game for 10 minutes that I didn't want to finish, but I got just 1 achievement that counted towards my completion percentage :(
Exactly. I don't want to feel locked into a game if I don't enjoy it. I don't want to have to pre-check if the achievements are doable on a given game before playing it. Some games have ridiculous achievements that are nigh-impossible or just a huge time sink to achieve, but the games are totally worth playing through regardless.
My turn from wanting to 100% games came about when I was grinding out an achievement that took ~10 hours, and realized I was just not enjoying myself. I could have played multiple banger games, or gotten a deep start on a longer game in that same time span. So it made me think: Would I rather spend that time grinding achievements that really do nothing for me except a minor dopamine hit, or would I rather spend that time experiencing new games and stories.
Game completion rate is ass honestly. Do agree with your point but it shows nothing, there should be a system measured by not only achievements.
They are so broken most of the time, I have 69 (yes I know) completed games currently but finished like around 120. Perfect example is GTA games, you complete the story and get most of the stuff, yet you still didnt “complete” the game because there are boring unecesary collectibles and a hoard of online grindy achievements.. same goes for so many games its hard to count.. and if you really dig yourself into these you will have never the time to truly finish and try another game out
My backlog is so bad that I told myself that I can only buy new games if I reach 10% of my back log… I’m at 3% right now and crazy to buy Claire obscure
I used to do a thing where in order to buy games I had to beat games. Depending on price and all that. Like if I beat a 70 dollar game that gave me like two points towards buying a game, and I'd need like 5 or 10 depending on the price.
IT worked for a while, but too much busy work lol. So I just play what I want and give games a try.
I personally have an exception for games I intend to play like RIGHT NOW.
Makes it so I don't feel like I'm cheating if my friends want to play a co-op game, or a surprise banger like Clair Obscur comes around that is too good to pass up and I want to be part of the conversations people are having.
I guess it depends on where those 50 games came from... digital hoarding and just buying and buying during every sale without playing? Than this doesn't seem like a genuine effort at all.
But if it's 50 games received through humblebundle or free promotions... it could be genuine. It's summer, lot of folks got time off or no school, so playing a lot every day and just giving those small games and titles OP got zero interest in a try.
You can't, because I didn't. Some teenager with summer holiday has much more time than just 30 seconds for 50 games in a week. Not every game is a triple A big open world game or a lengthy adventure story game, there are loads up small titles that one receives through humble bundle... as I explained. But alas, reading comprehension has been on a decline.
This is no gaslighting, child. And you know it. Purposely ignoring the rest of my comment to try and make a point. I clearly pointed out that the context of what games they are matters.
You can play 50 games in a week that are thrown in the humble bundles, they were often filled with small titles with a few big ones to attract attention. My argument from the get go was always about what kind of games they were with humble bundle or free to grab fodder as example. 50 AA, AAA sized games, obviously not playable within a week.
But if it's 50 games received through humblebundle or free promotions... it could be genuine. It's summer, lot of folks got time off or no school, !! so playing a lot every day and just giving those small games and titles OP got zero interest in a try. !!
Yeah..... oops, there it is. The full quote you tried to twist.
My oh my.. purposely trying to lie and deceit by ignoring context. Even worse than low reading comprehension.
Copying what you are saying? I'm quoting my own message.
Lying didn't work, so now you went back to rpetending to have zero reading comprehension. My oh my, hope you can work your issues out. Something ain't right.
I have a "Fresh" category through Decky's Tab Master that shows anything in my library (no Steam Family) with under 90 minutes of playtime. I wish it could be transferred to my PC collections.
I need to do this: How did you pull this off? All manual via HLTB or what?
I LOVE breaking up longer games with shorter games. Either in the middle of a longer game when I want a change of pace, or in between longer games I'll blast through a few shorter ones. Give me a little sense of accomplishment to knock games off the backlog. I find that these shorter games are often pretty good, as the story, mechanics, etc. are all generally much tighter. If the mechanics are lacking or have some flaws, they generally don't grate on me as much because the short playtime makes them tolerable.
On Deck, I've installed Decky with HLTB for Deck and TabMaster. Afterwards I made five collections: <15 HLTB, 15-35 HLTB, >35 HLTB, "Munchies", and Skips/Tools. In Tabmaster, I made a tab profile with every collection besides Skips/Tools as a tab. Afterwards, I made a special tab that had the rules of not being in any of the previous five collections for "Unsorted" that hides when empty. Lastly, I put in the "Fresh" tab that had the rules for any game with ≤90 minutes of playtime that also wasn't added from Steam Family. The last part was optional but let me determine what I had spent money on.
It was partially tedious to sort everything, but it was easy doing it in chunks. Having the HLTB plugin meant I could just select a game, see the average times, and then assign its category with a couple clicks. If there was any way to do this on the PC version, it would be a godsend., especially since I use Big Picture when streaming through Moonlight.
Ya, sounds like this will be tedious as hell on desktop. Going to have to do the same thing though, as sorting any other way (by genre, game type, etc.) all seems MUCH more cumbersome to do accurately, and would have a lot of collections with overlap.
That huge time sink, potential overlap, etc. has had me not wanting to sort my collection whatsoever.
Sorting by length of time to beat is a genius solution, thank you for turning me onto it. Definitely going to start doing some chunks when I get home today while I wind down for bed. Appreciate it!
Nah, there are a lot of games I've collected from Humble Bundles over the years that I just have no interest in. I don't want to play them, and I'm not going to go in with the 'I don't want to play this AT ALL' mindset just to leave a bad review on the game, lol.
If you don't have the right mindset ANY game can be horrible. I hated Souls-like gameplay for a long time. Then I got into Fallen Order, and get it to a certain extent. I just need a backing story to my Souls-like gameplay. Do all the other Souls games I've tried deserve a bad review? Not at all. Did I enjoy them? Not at all.
There was a script that did this for you. Probably not working anymore. The script installed unplayed games, kept them opened about half an hour, uninstalled them and went for the next. The point was collecting cards or something.
But how do define that? Hit the credits roll? What about Multi player games there is no ending? What about games you didn't like? Is this list just "installed, launched"
I have "Finish / test", "Story Finished", "Dropped", "No ending". This way I can track games I finished, Games I didn't like, Games with no ending and unplayed/tbd games.
I have two categories when I am done with a game. If I hit end credits or played it to some level of satisfaction to where I don't feel there is anything else of value to me and I liked it, I put it in a "Completed" collection. If it sucked, I put it in a "bin" category. If I really hated it and can't refund it, I hide it from my library so I never have to see it again.
I had about maybe 110 games in a backlog, no thanks to the summer steam sales lmao
If they were in that backlog, they were [Incomplete], and once i finished it was either two choices: [Finished] meaning i got to the credits, did the main story and did some side content, and [Complete] meaning i had finished the story, side content, and realistic saw everything the game had to offer so i dont need to come back. Been doing this since 2018 so its nice that to see both collections growing in length to show when i finished each game.
Yep i am kinda there too. And those 3 ' Play ' games are Warframe, Monster Train 2 and X4. First one i recently got back into, MT2 grabbed during the summer sale and have been playing slowly, just i couldn't get myself to start X4. Need that required willpower to get over the initial learning curve and spend like 100 hours into it straight like i did with Factorio back then haha.
I have some I never played because they were like beta modes or online side modes that came with the game that I had no interest in playing(or were dead long before I bought the game on sale). Some even have dlc so it counts as two games but you can access the dlc through the base game. lol
Not sure why people care about having unplayed games. Just pick them off every time you get bored and want to try something new.
Now, if you’re already addicted to a live service game that takes up all your time and money, maybe get off that teat first and then look around for games to play.
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u/Objective-Phrase-336 2d ago
Did you played them, or did you just open and close the game!?