Sort Games in the Library In Any Order We Want

[Nath]

Please make it so that beyond the filters that are given to us to sort games in a folder/collection may we just sort them in any order by simply dragging them in the order we want. This goes for folders on the sidebar and when they are put on display in the main window of the steam library home page. There is already drag support for putting games in other folders and that same code can be used to just allow game sorting as we please. I want to order my games in chronological order but because some of the games are remasters I cant use the release date filter to do it properly or use the alphabetical option. Simply allow people to just sort it themselves. Thank you very much.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

I hadn't thought of a drag-and-drop sort order before, but the idea I've posted before is to let people specify the sort name (and separately, the display name) of each game.

This way you can manually take care of messily-named sequels by giving them sort names that put them in the right order. And with separate display names you can also make use of sort names that look silly but get things in the correct order, while they don't need to be actually displayed and you can clean up the display names in a different way.

Here's my usual example:

"FINAL FANTASY VIII" - display as "Final Fantasy VIII", sort as "Final Fantasy 08"
"FINAL FANTASY IX" - display as "Final Fantasy IX", sort as "Final Fantasy 09"
"FINAL FANTASY® XIII" - display as "Final Fantasy XIII", sort as "Final Fantasy 13 part 1"
"LIGHTNING RETURNS™: FINAL FANTASY® XIII" - display as "Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII", sort as "Final Fantasy 13 part 3"
"FINAL FANTASY XIV Online" - display as "Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn", sort as "Final Fantasy 14"

If you wanna get a feel for this system, GOG Galaxy does it already. (It's designed as a universal launcher, so you can use it even if you have no GOG games, since you can add games one by one or add your whole Steam account to it en masse.)

To my knowledge, it doesn't do drag-and-drop. That idea's new to me and I haven't thought of how useful it might be yet.

I guess if the Steam client could somehow be simplified enough to just display games as little clickable icons the way you can do it in Windows's File Explorer (such as on your Desktop), this sort of drag-and-drop ordering would make quite a lot of sense.

[Nath]

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:

I hadn't thought of a drag-and-drop sort order before, but the idea I've posted before is to let people specify the sort name (and separately, the display name) of each game.

This way you can manually take care of messily-named sequels by giving them sort names that put them in the right order. And with separate display names you can also make use of sort names that look silly but get things in the correct order, while they don't need to be actually displayed and you can clean up the display names in a different way.

Here's my usual example:

"FINAL FANTASY VIII" - display as "Final Fantasy VIII", sort as "Final Fantasy 08"
"FINAL FANTASY IX" - display as "Final Fantasy IX", sort as "Final Fantasy 09"
"FINAL FANTASY® XIII" - display as "Final Fantasy XIII", sort as "Final Fantasy 13 part 1"
"LIGHTNING RETURNS™: FINAL FANTASY® XIII" - display as "Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII", sort as "Final Fantasy 13 part 3"
"FINAL FANTASY XIV Online" - display as "Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn", sort as "Final Fantasy 14"

If you wanna get a feel for this system, GOG Galaxy does it already. (It's designed as a universal launcher, so you can use it even if you have no GOG games, since you can add games one by one or add your whole Steam account to it en masse.)

To my knowledge, it doesn't do drag-and-drop. That idea's new to me and I haven't thought of how useful it might be yet.

I guess if the Steam client could somehow be simplified enough to just display games as little clickable icons the way you can do it in Windows's File Explorer (such as on your Desktop), this sort of drag-and-drop ordering would make quite a lot of sense.

Yes anything to add more library features. This is also a good idea and probably even easier to implement.

[Nx Machina]

Download SteamEdit

Scroll to the game or games you want to change, and below the default name type in (for example) Doom 01, Doom 02 etc, save each entry, exit then boot Steam and they will be in the order you require.

Note: if Steam gets an update, it may reset the order but simply reboot SteamEdit and scroll down to entries you previously edited and saved and simply save them again, no need to edit.

Reboot Steam and they will be again listed in the order you set them.

Screenshot attached showing previous edited, saved entries listed.

https://ibb.co/9vVGdMt

Screenshot attached showing Baldur's Gate in the order i set them.

https://ibb.co/Ky2z0Jt

[Nath]

Publicado originalmente por Nx Machina:

Download SteamEdit

Scroll to the game or games you want to change, and below the default name type in (for example) Doom 01, Doom 02 etc, save each entry, exit then boot Steam and they will be in the order you require.

Note: if Steam gets an update, it may reset the order but simply reboot SteamEdit and scroll down to entries you previously edited and saved and simply save them again, no need to edit.

Reboot Steam and they will be again listed in the order you set them.

Screenshot attached showing previous edited, saved entries listed.

https://ibb.co/9vVGdMt

Screenshot attached showing Baldur's Gate in the order i set them.

https://ibb.co/Ky2z0Jt

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you are a legend I tried finding third party tools and never seemed to find this. My point still stands for a default steam feature but this really helps. Thank you very much!

[Nx Machina]

Publicado originalmente por NVasion:

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you are a legend I tried finding third party tools and never seemed to find this. My point still stands for a default steam feature but this really helps. Thank you very much!

Your welcome.