View owned games by genre

[APerfectCircle]

I wish there was a Genre view, beside the Detail/List/Grid Views, this way when I feel like playing a specific type of game I can view all games tagged roguelike, or rpg etc. These tags could be imported from Steam store genre descriptions.

I do not wish to do this via categories as it would take way too long and my games are already organised in another manner. The information is already on the Steam store, there must be a way for them to import it into our library somehow. They can even use the new tagging system they made if that works better.

[Judicious Use Of Deadly Force]

I think that would be useful, too; for the same reasons. ^^

[Bubblegum Witch]

+1

[Chara the Explorer]

This needs to be implemented, and seeing as it's already done in the store it shouldn't be hard.

[APerfectCircle]

Thanks for the replies :) I think this could also potentially result in a few more sales for Steam, from regular users. Seeing as most of the time I feel too depressed, indecisive, or even overwhelmed by the amount of games I have accumulated, to actually make a decision on what to play. Sometimes I settle on a type of game that I feel like playing, and it would be great if I could just see exactly what's what. If this gets implemented, and I play games more often, this could result in more DLC, sequels, or games from certain publishers being purchased more often, or more market transactions.

[Izzo]

+1
Categories are way too limited and way too manual, whereas games in the store can have multiple tags and they are automatic to the regular user.

Furthermore steam can benefit by enabling the user-defined tags, as most users would rather organize their own library than the steam store. The feature would make a lot of impact when browsing in Big Picture mode, as navigation is limited and being able to easily reduce the subset of games by specifying a class or two is always good.

[George Costanza]

+1

[PerpleX]

this would be great, I would love to search my games by recently updated sometime, considering I own a few early access games and never know when they have been updated as fast as I would like to know, lol.

[Judicious Use Of Deadly Force]

> I would love to [sort] my games by recently updated [...]

That would be awesome too! ^^

[Spicy Tuna]

Yes I second this idea. Not just the ordinary tags such as 'rpg' or 'fps' - but also some of the game categories like 'full controller support', 'local co-op', 'singleplayer' etc etc.

Would be even better if you could add multiple categories simultaneously to your 'genre view'. For example, I could add 'RPG', 'local co-op' and 'perma death' and bam a refined list of games show up.

P.S. I more or less made the same suggestion in this thread:

http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/35219681814687097/

And yeah as APerfectCircle says @ 4 Aug @ 4:11pm, this will only increase Steam sales.

[APerfectCircle]

Even if they added a bunch more options to List View so most of us could get improved filtering on our games, that would be better than nothing