I will not keep anything that falls out of these categories. To organise my games I devised a simple three tier structure including the aforementioned 'Favourites', a category called 'Currently Playing' for installed games that I am currently playing (go figure?) and a category called 'Play Queue' which is all games I have in my library that I want to get around to playing. So in logical terms why keep it in my account as a distraction just because it doesn't take any physical space is no reason to keep something! For an example I found Telltale's 'Walking Dead' Franchise entries in my library! I have played them, they were okay for story based games, but I will never replay these so I should just get rid of them. So I started thinking that if this was a physical item I would 100% let it go. I had all of my instant favourites in my 'Favourites' and had a load of games I had completed but wouldn't necessarily regard as Favourites, they may have been decent games or one time playthroughs. A collection for all of my favourite games that bring me joy and I would likely want to play again someday! I continued with this process until I had reached an impasse. I find those games I love (something like Rise of The Tomb Raider) and just add them to my 'Favourites' collection. So to start my library clean up the first thing I wanted to do is pull out something that I actually really love (I guess this is a little nod to the KonMari method). I decided to mentally visualise all of the games I still have in my library in a physical way and considered how much shelf space I would require to get them all situated and it really is quite ridiculous. Removing games from my account a liberating, yet extremely tedious process! I've done this well over four hundred times!
So it's time to finally clear out this Steam mess once and for all! You know a stationery drawer turned into a small pencil case, a drawer of filed papers disappeared entirely due to disposing of and scanning them and electronics, physical media and childhood Lego sets I never used turned into several thousand pounds of recouped expense (£8,593.60 according to my eBay lifetime sales). It wasn't until I had devised these organisational systems when I realised I wasn't really looking for the things I had organised! It was at this point when I just decided to start letting go and simplify my life as far as I could. This is similar to how I felt with my physical possessions I felt like I was spending forever meticulously organising things so that everything had a place and was easy to find. I have been shuffling this hoard for too long spending forever trying to organise things and removing (sometimes even re-adding games to my account) and I just need to flat out STOP! One of the reasons I struggle to enjoy gaming is because I have this overwhelming sense of incompletion I feel like I'm distracted by everything around me and the daunt of these games that I just can't focus on enjoying a game. Rediscovering the games I love a KonMari style declutter process.Īt the time of writing this sentence I have already removed over four hundred games from my account because I had either tried them and disliked them or deep down I knew there was no way I would ever get around to playing them. I could talk about other digital collection problems but I really want to focus on Steam for this post because this is what has driven me to write this blog post. This results in a great expense that you have basically never benefited from and is purely wasted money. You only have so much time to spend on your hobbies and as time goes by new games come out, games start to feel outdated and you never bother catching up with a backlog. During those original Steam sales, when the discounts were actually quite impressive, I was just buying everything because it was so cheap that it seemed silly not to take advantage of the unbelievable offers! The downside was I had very quickly amassed a Steam library of over 600 video games the amount of time one would have to invest to play all of these games would be astronomical and unrealistic. Many years ago I developed a digital hoarding (not to mention purchasing) problem from my early days of using Steam.
There is something overwhelming about digital content and how quickly it can amass and get out of control.
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