Add the ability to mark games as beaten

[genoforprez]

I've been on steam for several years now, and unless I'm missing something obvious, there is no good way to mark games in your own library as beaten/completed. We currently have two options:

Option #1) Create a special "beaten" tag and mark beaten games with that tag; however, if you assign beaten games exclusively to a beaten tag, it disorganizes your library. If you keep the game assigned to the current tag PLUS a beaten tag, you only have two options to know if the game is beaten:
a) go over to the beaten tag to see if the game is listed,
b) click on the individual game to see if it has the beaten tag assigned.

But I don't want to cross reference with another tag and I don't want to individually click on all 27 platformers in my library to individually check which ones are beaten or not. When I open my "platformers" tag, I want to immediately see which platformers are beaten and which ones are not beaten, at a glance.

Option #2) Make all unbeaten games installed and only uninstall beaten games. This makes beaten (uninstalled) games look different than unbeaten (installed) games at a glance due to the different text color, which is the sort of thing I want. But doing it this way is not ideal. Mostly for space reasons, but also creates confusion when new games are added or if you need to uninstall games for reasons other than having beaten them.

The sort of thing I'm thinking would be just a simple "beaten" check box you could turn on for any title in the library that would either highlight it somehow or change the font of the title to strikethrough or something. Some way of instantly visually seeing that it is a game you have beaten or are finished with, regardless of how it's tagged, and regardless of whether it is installed or uninstalled.

Re: Infinitely playable games: I know there are games that are never fully finishable. What I'm requesting is a mark that the user would apply themselves, so the game doesn't have to be *literally* beaten. For example, if I were playing a game with randomly generated content and no literal ending, I could still mark it as "beaten" if I wanted to indicate to myself that I had benched it and didn't intend to play it anymore. (Or, alternatively, just never mark it as beaten. It's up to the individual user.) It's just a way of marking them off your "to-do" list. It doesn't necessarily have to mean literally beaten.

Thanks

[Gorlom[Swe]]

Why does 1) disorganize your library?`You know that games can be assigned to more than one category right? (not counting the favourites category)

[wuddih]

1.) rightclick -> set category, add beaten .. done.
2.) no?! da fuq, I need a google datacenter to let steam force install all my "unbeaten" games and there are games that ar never fully finishable anyway.

[genoforprez]

*edit*

Updated original post to clarify request based on responses.

引用自 GorlomSwe：

Why does 1) disorganize your library?`You know that games can be assigned to more than one category right? (not counting the favourites category)

That doesn't solve my problem exactly. Yes, I know you can assign things to more than one category, but if I have Super Meat Boy assigned to both "platformer" and "beaten", and I own 27 other platformers, then when I open my "platformer" tag, that doesn't do anything to mark meatboy as beaten. In order to see that meatboy is categorized as beaten, I'd have to do one of two things:

1) Go to my "beaten" tag and check to see whether Meatboy is listed

2) Click on meatboy to see if it has the "beaten" tag assigned.

I don't want to go all the way over to another tag, and I don't want to click on every individual platformer to check whether each one has the "beaten" tag.

What I want is, when I open my "platformer" tag and all 27 platformers I own drop down, I want to immediately see which ones are beaten, and which ones aren't, at a glance.

引用自 wuddih：

1.) rightclick -> set category, add beaten .. done.
2.) no?! da fuq, I need a google datacenter to let steam force install all my "unbeaten" games and there are games that ar never fully finishable anyway.

Re #1: see my reply to Gorlom

Re #2: I know there are games that are never fully finishable. This would be a mark that the user applied, so the game doesn't have to be *literally* beaten. For example, if I were playing a game with randomly generated content and no literal ending, I could still mark it as "beaten" if I wanted to indicate to myself that I had benched it and didn't intend to play it anymore. (Or, alternatively, just never mark it as beaten. It's up to the individual user.) It's just a way of marking them off your "to-do" list. It doesn't necessarily have to mean literally beaten.

[FartnSpartn]

Seems more of a nitpick than actual issue to me. I understand its annoying but there is probably more important things to do.

[genoforprez]

引用自 FartnSpartn：

Seems more of a nitpick than actual issue to me. I understand its annoying but there is probably more important things to do.

It is an idea/suggestion.

[Envicted]

A good one!

[splinefx]

It's 2018, and there's still no option to mark your games as beaten. I have more than 500 games on my account, and without this feature it becomes a really pain in the *ss.

[Supafly]

引用自 splinefx：

It's 2018, and there's still no option to mark your games as beaten. I have more than 500 games on my account, and without this feature it becomes a really pain in the *ss.

Solution already provided in post #2

引用自 wuddih：

1.) rightclick -> set category, add beaten .. done.

[Black Blade]

引用自 Suicidal Monkey：

Solution already provided in post #2

引用自 wuddih：

1.) rightclick -> set category, add beaten .. done.

It helps but its not that
I do that and also hide it
But you cant really filter it out without hiding it or even have a second catagory without that getting in the way
I mean you can do lets say FPS-Beaten
But that become some what of a pain to fold up

I think that a beaten option or a more genrual advance search (lets say show all but this tags) will go a long way on this

[splinefx]

引用自 Suicidal Monkey：

引用自 splinefx：

It's 2018, and there's still no option to mark your games as beaten. I have more than 500 games on my account, and without this feature it becomes a really pain in the *ss.

Solution already provided in post #2

引用自 wuddih：

1.) rightclick -> set category, add beaten .. done.

I just can't understand, all of you who gives this advice, are you trolls or not? Because that's super stupid suggestion, and other people said, like, multiple times why.

[wuddih]

引用自 splinefx：

引用自 Suicidal Monkey：

Solution already provided in post #2

I just can't understand, all of you who gives this advice, are you trolls or not? Because that's super stupid suggestion, and other people said, like, multiple times why.

this thread is THREE years old, the library has changed ZERO since then and at the time of writing this was the solution and this has not changed either.

now THREE years later it still is the solution because the library is frikkin TEN years old and will never be able to do what is requested via any other method then i suggested unless it does receive a complete rehaul of the underlying tech, which is planned and announced since more then a year.

not what you want to hear is not trolling

[cinedine]

just make a spread sheet.
I have done so more than ten years ago when I had close to 1000 games (cross-platform) and can categorize and sort all I want.

[Supafly]

引用自 splinefx：

引用自 Suicidal Monkey：

Solution already provided in post #2

I just can't understand, all of you who gives this advice, are you trolls or not? Because that's super stupid suggestion, and other people said, like, multiple times why.

Because it's hardly a complicated option. Clearly Valve hasn't made any changes in 3 years and that seems like the best option.

If you want to make it a suggestion again then create a new thread and describe a possible solution. Don't just necro a 3 year old thread and complain. That won't help anyone, including yourself.

[splinefx]

引用自 Suicidal Monkey：

引用自 splinefx：

I just can't understand, all of you who gives this advice, are you trolls or not? Because that's super stupid suggestion, and other people said, like, multiple times why.

Because it's hardly a complicated option. Clearly Valve hasn't made any changes in 3 years and that seems like the best option.

If you want to make it a suggestion again then create a new thread and describe a possible solution. Don't just necro a 3 year old thread and complain. That won't help anyone, including yourself.

I could create a new thread if I wanted to, but I didn't. Because I know that Valve doesn't give a **it about Steam interface and won't implement it. It's not just 3-yeard-old request, similar propositions were 6 or more years ago. It's not just this particular feature problem, it's Valve itself. This UI is obsolete and overloaded by unnecessary things with lack of needed ones. As a Steam user for several years I can write a large amout of text describing how to fix all of this, but who cares. So my words about 2018 were just a confirmation of Valve's impotence, that's all.

[Supafly]

引用自 splinefx：

I could create a new thread if I wanted to, but I didn't. Because I know that Valve doesn't give a **it about Steam interface and won't implement it. It's not just 3-yeard-old request, similar propositions were 6 or more years ago. It's not just this particular feature problem, it's Valve itself. This UI is obsolete and overloaded by unnecessary things with lack of needed ones. As a Steam user for several years I can write a large amout of text describing how to fix all of this, but who cares. So my words about 2018 were just a confirmation of Valve's impotence, that's all.

I get you point. But having a new thread with a suggestions of how to address it is more likely to attract users that will like the idea and Valve employees. The more users that like it the more chance Valve will consider it. Chance may still be low but it'd be better than 0

Just necroing old threads serves no purpose other than to complain and has 0 chance of making a difference. Could have just said all that in your head or aloud for the same effect.