2d ago

What are you all using for game/library tracking, on Steamdeck?

I've been thinking about organising my growing library a bit, mostly to mark games I consider as completed.

But also to mark games I played but lost interest in, or games I've finished together with my kids instead of myself alone.

I started doing that in Steam but as I added games via GOG or Epic Games store, or emulators, Steam and would lose their tags (or rather their belonging to a collection) as soon as I uninstalled them.

Also if as a bonus the system could suggest new games based on what I finished or maybe based on ratings I give, that would be nice but not necessary.

Is there any straightforward solution to use? Either general something device-independent or specifically on the Steamdeck locally. Can also selfhost software if there is anything good.

How are you all doing that?

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How are you all doing that?
HA jokes on you I'm not!
Chaos!
- Not what I was hoping for, but hey, more power to you!
I use my digital journal to document my thoughts on games that I have played or are next in the pipeline. The notes grow organically as my thoughts form with each gameplay.
- That's actually a novel approach I didn't think about. Thanks for sharing!
  I am not playing a ton of games really so maybe that is also something I could consider.
  What software are you using for this and could you share something you've written? Only if not too personal of course, I understand you might not want to share, that is OK.
TabMaster with dynamic collections.
I've made steam game lists for games I definitely want to play (library is huge, and I'm aware that most games I'll never get around to), and a separate list for games I've finished playing.
I hadn't given this any thought previously, but reading your post now that I have kids playing through my library, and that I'm constantly adding games, this would be helpful.
So for self hosted I found this: Slaanesh
And for a letterboxd feel for games I found this: Backlogged
- I had seen Slaanesh before but it seems quite early in dev, so I am wondering if it is up to the task or not. Maybe I will give it a spin, it does come closest to what I have in mind, I think.
Backloggd
I do this with movies in IMDB. Bookmark movies I'm meaning to watch. Rate the movies I have watched. You need to find a website or ap that let's you track games in this way. I can see there's IGDB.com, but have never tried it. This game tracking will happen on your phone and be seperate from your collection, so it doesn't matter which market or platform you use.
Game suggestions are more difficult. Sites tend to suggest sponsored content and AAA expensive suggestions. The better way to find new content is from user forums or trusted reviewers/publications.
- IGDB looks interesting, but I realise I think I'd rather like something that can be run independently or has some way to export data in some manner, maybe IGDB has that. Didn't check yet. Reason being, as soon as they close their doors I have to start over. Maybe that will never happen, maybe it happens next month.
Wish I had an answer but I have to track on my main Windows PC using Launchbox since they don't have Linux support (it's built on .net, making that very hard). Someone got it working with Wine supposedly, but meh. At least steam is automatic so Deck progress is logged.
It's frustrating since they just released a bunch of useful tracking tools too.
rawg.io

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