my final wish: better sorting/tagging/shelves in library

[melon]

I know not everyone's a hardcore power user like me who is attempting to wring some utility out of these features and can still conceive of modern software being improved by updates, but the dynamic collection and sorting options are ill-befitting in their nascence of the prestige of a computer game library, if you catch my drift. I'll dump a mix of obvious and niche suggestions here so that I can tell myself I made a difference in the world any are ever incidentally added

ascending sort toggle - I can sort from most to least recently played but not the opposite. why? what are we doing here?

manual order and random order - for those who crave control or wish to abandon it entirely

last updated/last dev post - I want to know when my early access/old favorite games got updates without needing to hope I see it on What's New or go manually check, etc. I have played, finished, and forgot about good games only to find that they have since got major content expansions years after the fact. we don't have to live like this

unowned games or wishlisted games in "collection" option - it would be nice for a glance at a library shelf to let me know things about games I do not yet own, like if friends have been playing a game on my wishlist, which would give me a reason to buy it sooner for instance, or new games by developers of games I have played (without needing to manually follow each developer). is it not a harrowing thought that an indie dev can release a beloved game only for their fans to potentially have no clue about their next game releasing unless they specifically followed them somewhere? twitter is not fit to fill that hole any more, so tell me you're not harrowed, I dare you

"wishlisted by friends" shelf or feature - I want a way to know what my steam friends want conveniently without needing to go manually check individual wishlists. I've always said the perverse solipsism of steam wishlists is going to come back to haunt us all one day

sort options - played/owned/recommended by friends (with number), current price/sale, game length (like howlongtobeat, could be a heuristic as simple as average review time if nothing else), *recent* steam reviews, global playership, hardware requirements, and games most relevant to the current holiday/season/sociopolitical zeitgeist

sort threshold filter option for dynamic lists - e.g. show only 90%+ steam reviews without making me sort by that (which doesn't show steam scores anyway)

"unfinished" play state - steam doesn't directly track this yet afaik but if devs could classify achievements as tied to game completion and/or if steam could make a simple algorithmic guess based on typical time-of-review achievements compared to a user's, it'd be much better than nothing. seeing which games one simply slept on and fell off of is crucial in this age of ADHD's tyrannical reign

sort options in left panel - we can still only choose between alphabetical and recent. is this all some kind of sick joke?

adjustable shelf size - some shelves could stand to be more/less compact or show more/fewer items. I hate to say it but it's true

more info labels - small info tags display when sorting by date added or size on disc, but not friends playing or steam review score. lack of reliability and consistency like this can sew the seeds of madness throughout an entire society. it has happened before


okay, that should be enough to get us started. I'm sure nothing as luxurious as these features will be added any time soon, but sooner or later Valve will go public and everyone will have to look busy for the shareholders and then they'll come begging me for more suggestions like these. you'll see