Made an account, unsure what this is. Looks cool though.

EDIT: Never mind, I got it.

Can't import games from Steam. =\

Uh, yeah, it doesn't work that way. You type in games and add them. :P

Well, I'm waiting for either darkadia or backloggery to implement the feature. The first one to do so gets my patronage. I don't want to enter my 300 Steam games manually.

Fully agreed.

I just registered today, and when I realized every game had to be added one at a time, with no way of adding multiple games in one go, or any form of auto-completion for that matter, I quickly lost interest again.

I've decided I'll be more efficient with a simple spreadsheet - at least there, I can copy/paste my entire list of Steam games very quickly. If/when Backloggery gets an import feature or some other form of batch add functionality, we'll talk. Until then, I see no reason to use that service over my own system.

I maintain a spreadsheet as well. It's actually pretty convenient. Might switch to a database during the off time I have between school and work.

Sigh. Almost a year later and it hasn't improved a jot. Can anyone recommend any alternatives to this (other than a spreadsheet)

Not buying games you know you won't play in the nearest future seems to work fine. Just sayin'.

http://backloggery.com/jonleh if anyone wants to add me.

Easy to say, hard to do.


And all of these indie bundles, game collections and huge 1C 89 game packs for less than half the price of a regular new game does make ones backlog grow quite a bit...
Also, I tend to add free games that look interesting to my backlog, so that I don't forget about them.

Anyway: http://www.backloggery.com/Fnord Add me if you want to.

Yeesh, that website isn't good at all for recording process, I use this one:

http://howlongtobeat.com/


I'd link my profile, but you must be logged in to view it, oh well.

Hmm looks like raptr's gotten a lot better since I last looked at it too.

Darkadia is pretty good too.

Can someone explain this to me, I'm not trying to be mean but the idea sounds totally silly to me:

"I don't have nearly enough time to play my games/read my books/polish my antique vases, so I will spend a ton of time to catalog them all on a website!"

At the end of said curating process you still haven't played a game and have actually spent free time doing that instead of firing up a game. What's more you will continue to screw around with said curating process, instead of playing games, until you get bored with it.

If Backloggery is actually more fun than engaging in your hobby, try a new hobby for awhile, maybe.

Backloggery has a few nice features. You can let it randomly pick a game for you, for those times when you know you want to play something, but don't know what to play. It allows you to keep track of all the games that you own (when they get scattered over several digital distribution sites, plus my gaming shelf and my closet, it is easy to forget if I actually own a game), it also allows you to write notes under each game, like for an example "finished the Soviet and German campaign" when you need to remember which parts of a game that you have left to play.
And for us scatterbrains, it helps us remember which games we actually play at the moment.

Well for me I don't want to spend much time doing this, which is why I'm after something that's quick to use.

As for the why, it's so that I can track what I actually play across ipad, xbox, gog, steam and so on, in one convenient place. I also like to play different things depending on my mood, much like how I watch movies, and so, as with my movie collection, having something I can browse very quickly suits me personally.