What is the best way to categorize your library ?

[GuudBooi]

Any tips to make it easier to navigate, either with images or other stuff ?

[ReBoot]

I usually use the search bar to find a specific game.

Otherwise, favorites section for games currently on my stove, then one category for multiplayer, one for VR, one for beaten, one for couch MP.

[Crazy Tiger]

There is no "best" way. What works is for everybody different.

I have mine mostly categorised by genre. And a few collections for themes/series that I have quite some installments from in various genres (Tomb Raider, Star Wars, Warhammer 40K).

[GuudBooi]

Is there a way to categorize games while being able to look images, thumbnails ?

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by AAAARRR:

Is there a way to categorize games while being able to look images, thumbnails ?

There is the collections view. Use that.

[ShelLuser]

What Tiger said above is fully on the mark...

Still, what works for me is a combination of dynamic & static collections which you can use besides your default "Favorites" and "Uncategorized". The type of collections really depend on the type of games in your library but...

I can strongly suggest looking into the "unplayed" tag for a dynamic collection as well as the "installed locally" plus "ready to play" tags (also dynamic collection!). In my library these two collections are called "New" and "Installed" and they do exactly that.

So if I'm looking for a game I never played yet I'd go over my "New" collection. If I'm looking for something to play but don't want to bother myself with having to install things first I'd go over my "Installed" collection. That can really help to find something "new" or just "playable".

Everything else depends on your library though. I have a few more dynamic collections like rpg, racing and fps but it's my experience that these don't always work too well. So I also rely on manually created lists.

[crunchyfrog]

Entirely down to you. There is no one way as it's entirely subjective.

I tend to change things around according to what I'm doing or how I'm feeling.

In the real world I ghave thousands of physical games. The only thing that works for me is by platform and alphabetical obviously. When you get to that number there's no other way or you start losing track of things.

For on here, I simply alter between bunging them in loose genres, so I can look at them dependent on what I want to indulge in. Or I simply bung all the recent puchases in "new" and leave it at that.

It entirely depedns, as I sai. So your best bet is to look at yourself and think how do you approach looking for a games. Do you ask yourself "I fancy playing a racing game?" or something like that. Whatever you think of is how you should do it.

[dr2d2]

By publisher, indie and installed games.

[Paratech2008]

I like to have installed games I want to play in genres, so if I'm in the mood for aracer, RPG, Pinball, Arcade, FPS, etc, I can see the games I might want to play for the Genre I'm interested with at the time...

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

When your library surpasses a certain size, it doesn't even matter anymore.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Pinky:

I categorise mine according to how much I want to play the games. I have "high prority" for games I want to play soon, "medium priority" for games I'll probably play sometime this year, and "don't care about" for the rest. It helps to organise the backlog.

When you have a lot of games (especially a backlog) this is an excellent and simple way to put things together.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

Originally posted by Pinky:

I categorise mine according to how much I want to play the games. I have "high prority" for games I want to play soon, "medium priority" for games I'll probably play sometime this year, and "don't care about" for the rest. It helps to organise the backlog.

When you have a lot of games (especially a backlog) this is an excellent and simple way to put things together.

As someone with a huge backlog myself, I tend to disagree here. I found it simpler to put that backlog on a pile, letting my momentary whims decide what to play next.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

When you have a lot of games (especially a backlog) this is an excellent and simple way to put things together.

As someone with a huge backlog myself, I tend to disagree here. I found it simpler to put that backlog on a pile, letting my momentary whims decide what to play next.

You may have a point there, so I'll defo refine my advice a bit.

I find that when I have a massive load of games, and I want to revist or replay them, perhaps keeping them in alphabetical order is the best bet because it's by far the most reliable I've found.

I can perfectly understand how the point of having a "todo" pile en masse works, because I do the same too.

[Jackhammer (Wholf)]

Simply favorite all your favorite games, that's what I did.
I have over 1100 in my library (with ofc free2play games) and only have 30-ish favorite.

[crunchyfrog]

Oh one thing I will add to my previous comments.

I do have a category for "open ended" games. Games like Killing Floor orany game which might be a "games as a service" type of thing.

If ythey can't be finished in the traditional fashion, I keep them separate.

[Gus the Crocodile]

Best for me is just setting the sort to “recent”. Things I play stay up the top, things I don’t fall off. No need to bother categorising things.