Interested in seeing how other people approach their backlog. I’ve finally made a list of all the games I want to finish, and I’m forcing myself to play one of them a day for at least an hour.
As an added incentive, I’m forcing myself to wait to finish a backlog game before I can buy a new one. I’ve got a lot of playing to do between now and October.
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Simple, I don’t. I play whatever I feel like playing, sometimes I stick with it, sometimes I start again after a year and well sometimes, I never touch that game again.
I don’t have a backlog, I have a collection.
I clear my mind of the concept of a backlog, and embrace the idea that games are for my entertainment - thus if I am not currently feeling entertained, I can put the game down and not play it without guilt.
TL:DR; There is no backlog.
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For me it’s just there’s more games that I really want to play than I have time for. Some of them on my “backlog” I haven’t even purchased yet but I know I want to play them eventually
My man!
I delete the other games from my switch and go down to the free I wanna focus on
I’ve accepted the fact that sometimes It is ok to let a game unfinished. If I had enough with a game in my backlog and I don’t want to play it anymore, I stop and play a new one, the game is « done ». If I finish then the game was a really good one !
Careful with forcing yourself to play !If I spend more than 5 minutes trying to decide what to play, I use one of the Steam game pickers and just go with it.
The only game in my backlog is the Final Fantasy VII Remake and my strategy for clearing my backlog is “when my kids are sufficiently independent”. Right now that is not even a little bit a possibility.
I maintain a TODO list (with tags) on GoG Galaxy and a wishlist on Steam. Whenever I want to play something new, I scroll through the TODO list and usually find a few games that I feel like playing at that moment. I hit install on a few of them, and play whatever installs first. After an hour or two, I get a feeling about the game, and decide: finish or uninstall it and remove it from TODO, or just uninstall it for another time and leave it in TODO. I rarely finish a game and put it in favorites, which I often replay. I only buy things from wishlist, if that is really what I want to play or there is a big discount. I never pre-order and I never buy impulsively.
I don’t have a backlog, I have a lot of options what I might be playing next. There is no pressure to finish or even play any of them.
By not having a backlog in the first place.
I do have thousands of games on my library, but it’s a library. I only pick up the game I’m having an exact itch for, and I put them on hold until I get the itch again, exactly like I do with music albums.
No pressure, no rushing. I can recommend every single game from my library from firsthand experience because I’ve enjoyed every single second of my time playing them.
I have a few that I haven’t played but own, for other reasons - but beyond that, dealing with the library really is far less daunting when the relationship with it isn’t one of obligation.
I don’t worry about finishing a game, just about having fun. If I try a game and I don’t have fun, I put it in the “Tried it” category and move on
I install all the games I have purchased but did not play. If I run out of storage, that absolutely means I shouldn’t purchase new games.
Luckily that hasn’t been the issue. Ever since doing this I’ve gone through my backlog and played a lot of games I had, and I’m close to being done. This summer sale will be my first time in a while to purchase a lot of games.
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