Library Finished Games exclusion

[Lumi]

Hey, so I keep running into this shortcoming of the library filtering system. I find it awesome that I can search for unplayed games, but sometimes I want to get back to games I haven't finished yet and that I have uninstalled and there is no filter that keeps the list from being polluted by already finished games.

So my suggestion is to allow games to get tick-marked as "finished" and implement an exclusion filter on the library that removes all finished games. The tick-mark wouldn't be permanent and one could remove it in case of a dlc bought or updated content.

Ideally a developer could define if a specific update they launch would remove the tick-mark from players' library, making it appear again in the list of games "unfinished". This could either be an automatic removal in the hands of the devs and tied to an update, or it could be a notification instigated by the devs and each game owner would then decide if they want to remove the tick or not.

Let me know if some of you also struggle with this.

Best Regards,

Lumi

[Crazy Tiger]

It's certainly not a bad idea, such a tick-mark. Would help with the organising of the library.

Regarding the notification/automatic removal, that would need to be opt-in. Not everybody would want either of those.

I mean, I consider a game finished when I finished the story. Other people consider a game finished when they did 100% of the achievements, a thing I don't care about at all. I wouldn't want a game to become "unfinished" just because a developer added a DLC with some possible achievements or added a free level or something. Nor would I want the notification about it.

For the time being, make a collection called "Finished" and put the games in there. It's sorta a way to do it as it is now. But generally, such a tick-mark would be welcome.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

I have my own 100% category.

[Lumi]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

For the time being, make a collection called "Finished" and put the games in there. It's sorta a way to do it as it is now. But generally, such a tick-mark would be welcome.

Yes but the collection is still not something you can exclude when filtering. So it doesn't help me remove from view all my finished games.

I agree with the optionality of the removal feature.

[Start_Running]

Create a category for FInished games and use that. Steam itself can't really know when you've finished a game or not. hell some games don't even have a 'finished' state.

[Callahan420]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

I have my own 100% category.

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This is what I did as well.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Lumi:

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

For the time being, make a collection called "Finished" and put the games in there. It's sorta a way to do it as it is now. But generally, such a tick-mark would be welcome.

Yes but the collection is still not something you can exclude when filtering. So it doesn't help me remove from view all my finished games.

I agree with the optionality of the removal feature.

Agreed. Personally I dislike to switch games from my collections of genre as well and having a game in both a genre and finished collection doesn't give oversight.

Sometimes I don't know whether I have a game uninstalled because I was simply done with it or because I temporarily uninstalled it to creat space for a game I got an urge too.

Finished could even mean "I'm done with it".

Yeah, a tick-mark like that I can use rather well actually.

Originally posted by Start_Running:

Create a category for FInished games and use that. Steam itself can't really know when you've finished a game or not. hell some games don't even have a 'finished' state.

That's why it's a manually applied mark, which can be applied to any game and can simply mean "finished" as in "I'm done with it".

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[Lumi]

I feel like allot of people don't get the fact that I want to use the current "sort by recent activity" filter with an added kink: the removal of finished games, or at least drop them in priority. I like to have at the top of my list the games I have either recently installed, purchased or played, but it always feels odd to see that one finished uninstalled game still at the top of my "sort by recent activity" list because I just played it last week. Maybe just an option to exclude this game from recent activity would be more like what I would want to have.

[Ackermander]

I support this topic. But my suggestion would go one step further. Especially because everybody might have a different view of "finished" state of a game.

As an achievement lunatic I can pretty much say, that when you have collected 100% achievements, you pretty much played the game through and even more in most cases.

Currently I have a list, which I have generated some time ago, where I add all the games, which I have finished with 100%.
Now when I have another list, which e.g. is dynamically generated, I would like to exclude the titles from the finished list, which I have.

From the development perspective of such a functionality it's actually pretty simple to do:

This is a list as you would have now. Create a list and add a game to the list:
List1<collection> = game.isPartOfList("e.g. finished")

To add ecxlusion of list in another list:
List2<collection> = game(installed AND/OR other filter) AND NOT game(inListOf(List1))

Hence the exclusion (NOT) would help immensely. Also an OR with a combination of several filters should be part of this enhancement.

@Valve, I would even switch to you as a senior dev or PM / PO to help you push this and other topics

[Yandy]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.