Hiya, just newly thought about something: wouldn’t be nice if there was a simple way of checking what games you have played over the years, a way to keep track of wether you liked the game or not, how much time you spent playing it etc… Currently, personally i only check steam library for those kinda details. But it would be nice if there was a more dedicated solution for it, like a selfhosted app or something along those lines.
I’m not well educated regarding this so if there are any current solutions for this then please let me know, and let me know if you yourself have a special kind of system for this!
have a great rest of your weekend!
Your memory?
Basically just my steam lists.
I’m losing track of books, and started tracking them, but games tend to hang around longer, since they take me longer to get through.
My Steam library. I have everything categorized and keep them in a category until I have played and completed them to my satisfaction.
I have categories too, I have trash category for uninteresting games from humble bundles and random keys purchases, I have the played category for games I played, and I have the uber trash shit game category for sacred 3 and two worlds
I use Questlog and playlists to actually see what I’ve started/completed/paused/dropped and in which year happened
Wow! This is almost exactly what I had in mind! Thanks for sharing.
@pienoyer May I ask about the missing piece? (You said “almost”) 😁
Hello Mr Developer 😅 I couldn’t find the source code, it would be perfect if that was! Otherwise I can understand if u are keeping a closed hobby project.
It’s a cool open source project by a single dev, present on Mastodon and very receptive about feedbacks :)
Yeah checked it out last night, made an account and started logging! However I was not able to find the source code for this?
Uhm maybe my memory was at fault here about being OSS, better asking directly @[email protected]
@ItsMeAlex It’s not Open Source. Maybe at one time it will be but it wasn’t started as one and I don’t really have the capacity right now to maintain it as open source.
Thank you for the clarification! Then I correct myself, “it’s a cool free project backed by a single dev” :)
Obsidian backlinks from my daily notes :) Though I use it more often to track my books, as I mostly play endless live service games 😅
I can sort of use my Steam review date stamps too to track what I played, bc I review the vast majority of games I try.
Edit: and in Steam I put the finished/dropped games in their own categories, but my tag setup there is really extensive, so probably not the best example :) (I have at least 5-6 tags on each of my games.)
If I remember it then it was good enough to remember
Obsidian is my main notetaking app, so I use the kanban plugin to keep a list of games I’m playing, plan to play, and finished.
At the end of the year I look at the Steam Year in Review overview.
Steam is where almost all my games are and i’ll have it sorted into a Not Played, Playing, Completed, and 100% category. Recently i’ve started trying to look into NeoDB though for things i can’t add to steam (Like PS3 games)
I use Obsidian to list the games.
I start using this 3-4years ago, there’s a lot of games on “Not started” or “On hold” there are games there I finished but want to replay and there’s a lot of older games that I played and didn’t add to “Done”. In my case is more of games that I bought it and need to be remembered to play it.
I do the same but use collections in steam, so I move the game when done, want to play, is playing and so on, and if I really hate/dislike the game then i will hide it.
Btw i saw you had Borderlands on hold did you see the user stats on the whole Frenchies? Big red text “overwhelming negativ”, most comments was about it being spy wear so maybe change that status to Nope with Genshin impact? I haven’t really looked into it tho saw it a moment ago.
The nope are games that I dropped because of problems to play it on Linux or I didn’t like to play.
Genshin is there because I have another gacha game in the Non Stop(FGO), playing both of them is impossible.
I saw the clusterfucker 2k/take two did with borderlands and fuck them, but it’s still possible to play without their shit by sailing the high seas so I still plan to finish Borderlands 3.
That looks very neat indeed!
I’ve started to use Playnite. It’s nice to have a complete catelog of all my games. Most of my real games (ie ignoring random freebies) are on steam, but I’ve collected a bunch elsewhere like gog, epic, humble bundle, and others. You can give it credentials and set up nearly all the major catelogs so that it can generate a listing of all games you own.
I use it to mark when I completed a game, but I’ve only had it for a couple years, so I generally go by memory or by steam statistics of hours played.
Downside is that it’s Windows only. It’s open source and free, and I still have a windows machine for most of my gpu games, but I mainly game on my steam deck or my Linux laptop these days, so I need to find another option or see if Playnite is wine/Proton compatible.
I’ve started rating games I finish, or didn’t like enough to finish, in backloggd.com
I do the same for movies and tv series on a different website, too.
Reading comments of people who (hyper-) organize their games as if it’s a project to get through and they have to work off. And I’m sitting here just playing whatever the fuck I’m in the mood in.
Helps me keep track of which games I’ve played and which games I own on which platform to avoid double-buying.
If it’s Mario kart or balatro I’ve played it if not I haven’t.
