Mark game as "Completed" feature.

[Noromajiro]

I want a feature to mark the game "completed" or "beat" and hide those games with a single click like the one you have called "Show only ready to play games". I think this feature will help gamers to find what to play next a bit easier, hopefully.

* Please don' t tell me you can do this and that instead of the feature I suggested. I'm not asking for workaround ideas. I though I've written clear enough...

[cinedine]

Originally posted by Miss Ann Thrope:

You could simply create a collection labelled "completed games" in your library.

Or rather "incomplete" if you want to hide the completed ones.

So yes, feature already exists.

[Noromajiro]

You guys have trouble reading.

[Noromajiro]

Still valid.

[m0r1l]

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[Noromajiro]

No, I'm not asking steam to mark the game as "completed" automatically when we unlocked all achievements or something. My suggestion is to add another feature to mark the game as "completed" and another filter to hide the game like "Show only ready to play games(which hides not installed games and show installed games only)".

Asking how I, you, or the rest of the world define a game as "completed" is utterly irrelevant in this regard.

Is it because of my English that nobody seems to understand what I mean or am I too bad at explaining things?

[null]

I just realized I posted a different idea to solve a similar problem.

I mean you want to mark them as completed (by adding to collection) and I want an option to hide games in specific collections (even if done through dynamic collection, because I can just make a collection "completed" or "ignored"), which is just a more flexible.

I was sure steam had that functionality, but it doesn't.
Atm I am doing it manually by managing multiple collections (and just looking at main collection for "playlist"), but that's really just a manual work around, which sucks.

Originally posted by Yew Nough:

"Completing" a game is subjective.
...in the “Hidden” category...

First of all. Yes completing a game is subjective and that's why being able to hide a game you no longer want anything to do with based on you own subjective criteria is a good idea.

Could you expand on the “Hidden” category? It sounds like this is exactly what I need. I looked for that feature like half a year ago and I could have sworn It cannot be done. I don't have a hidden Collection. I don't see how to create one in hidden games and I don't see how to to anything like that

[Noromajiro]

OK. Maybe I wasn't clear enough.

First of all, it doesn't matter how any of us define the game as completed. Because what I am saying is a new function that the user can mark the game as completed. So if the user thinks a game is completed, that it click the completed button and that's it. Then when finding a next game to play from the user's library, the user can click the hide completed game button. This should help the user to narrow it down. If the user feels like doing a completed game again, they can click the button again and completed games are back in the library.

I know some people suggest me to make a new list and put completed games there or just hide them. But the feature I'm thinking about won't mess up the user's library.

Well... but I don't know if the steam client development team is reading this so I don't know how much it worth to convey my opinion to you guys. Maybe wasting my time and yours.

[Garou]

It always surprises me just how much opposition comes from some people when even the simplest qol changes are being proposed. What if he wants to use hidden games for hiding junk? Mixing junk with completed games is not gonna solve the use case here. And if he wants to reintegrate "completed" games back into the library he'd have to unhide then again.

[cinedine]

Originally posted by T-800:

It always surprises me just how much opposition comes from some people when even the simplest qol changes are being proposed. What if he wants to use hidden games for hiding junk? Mixing junk with completed games is not gonna solve the use case here. And if he wants to reintegrate "completed" games back into the library he'd have to unhide then again.

If somebody asks for a feature that already exists, it will get pointed out. What they ask for is exaclty how an "incomplete" and "complete" category works.
What can be improved is allowing combined filters for categories so you can show all "incomplete" + "adventure" for example.

Not every feature adds to the experience and Steam is already so overloaden that people dont even know half if them.

[null]

Originally posted by Yew Nough:

Under the "Library" tab, if you right click a game and select "Manage", an option to hide your game appears.

Under the "View" setting (top-left of your window), you can select "Hidden Games" to see the games that you have hidden. These games exist apart from your main library, and can only be seen when you select the "Hidden Games" category.

Yes, but that's just normal hiding. What about the sub-folder of hidden category you mentioned?

[null]

Originally posted by cinedine:

If somebody asks for a feature that already exists, it will get pointed out. What they ask for is exaclty how an "incomplete" and "complete" category works.
What can be improved is allowing combined filters for categories so you can show all "incomplete" + "adventure" for example.

Not every feature adds to the experience and Steam is already so overloaden that people dont even know half if them.

Wait there's a way to manually mark a game as complete and to get that action to hide it from game list? Asking, because that is what OP is asking for and I couldn't find a way to do that.
There are lots of workarounds to achieve the same end result, but the process is about as efficient as keeping a spreadsheet.

[Garou]

Originally posted by Jitsuryoku:

Originally posted by cinedine:

If somebody asks for a feature that already exists, it will get pointed out. What they ask for is exaclty how an "incomplete" and "complete" category works.
What can be improved is allowing combined filters for categories so you can show all "incomplete" + "adventure" for example.

Not every feature adds to the experience and Steam is already so overloaden that people dont even know half if them.

Wait there's a way to manually mark a game as complete and to get that action to hide it from game list? Asking, because that is what OP is asking for and I couldn't find a way to do that.
There are lots of workarounds to achieve the same end result, but the process is about as efficient as keeping a spreadsheet.

That's what I was talking about. There are tools that can be used as a crude workaround but they are meant for something else and won't work properly as soon as you need to use them for the original purpose.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by Jitsuryoku:

Originally posted by cinedine:

If somebody asks for a feature that already exists, it will get pointed out. What they ask for is exaclty how an "incomplete" and "complete" category works.
What can be improved is allowing combined filters for categories so you can show all "incomplete" + "adventure" for example.

Not every feature adds to the experience and Steam is already so overloaden that people dont even know half if them.

Wait there's a way to manually mark a game as complete and to get that action to hide it from game list? Asking, because that is what OP is asking for and I couldn't find a way to do that.
There are lots of workarounds to achieve the same end result, but the process is about as efficient as keeping a spreadsheet.

1. Create Library Categories (eg Completed)
2. Add games o the created category.
3. Select that Category
4. Sellect all games in caegory
5. Right Click
6. Manage -> Hide these Games.

OIr if you're in a hurry you can skip the category and just Hide the games.

[Garou]

Hidden games are not grouped by collection. This forces you to only hide the games you "completed" or you will have to go trough the list one by one every time you want to unhide.

[Start_Running]

Originally posted by T-800:

Hidden games are not grouped by collection. This forces you to only hide the games you "completed" or you will have to go trough the list one by one every time you want to unhide.

Then creatte an 'Incomplete' Category. That way you can view that collection and not have the completed games show up.