All My Games
The question how we are keeping track of our game backlogs came up in our Blaugust Discord recently. I have never heard of Backloggery or Infinitebacklog.
I have Playnite installed, but have not been using it much. I mostly start up the client to check whether I own a game already (when there is a game bundle with one interesting game and I want to see whether other new ones are part of the bundle as well), because I do not usually check all individual libraries.
Playnite
But I have no idea what else is out there. And I never checked what other features Playnite has.
I was rooting for GOG Galaxy but it doesn’t seem to still be actively developed? And the plugins are annoying.
What I like best about Playnite is that even after months of not using it, I open the program and it just updates my games library from all the connected sources.
It automatically sorts games by category/genre. You can also filter by genres, install size, time played, age rating and many more.
But what I also love about it is the statistics part! You can even filter your statistics a bit. So now I know that out of the 3000 games I have, I currently have 13 % installed.
I have never played 73 % of the games I own. This number seems really bad, but I did get a lot of the free games from Epic and Amazon/Twitch and then there is also a bunch of games that were part of bundles where I was only interested in a few of the bundled games.
Still, there is definitely also a significant number of games that I did buy that I never played…
My average play time per game is 16.5 hours, although this is probably very skewed because of the much higher play time of my top games:
- Rift 10 %
- Crusader Kings III 6 %
- Old World (test branch) 4 %
- Civilization VI 2 %
- Star Trek Timelines 2 %
- Star Trek Online 2 %
- Hexarchy 2 %
- Tropico 6 2 %
- Parkasaurus 2 %
- Project Hospital 2 %
- Prison Architect 2 %
- Old World 1 %
These are the games that I played more than 200 hours each, although with some “but”s attached. Old World per se is less than 200 hours, as I mainly play on the test branch. I get to play with all the updates immediately and with a few rare exceptions, I have not had any issues (and the exceptions then led to the 190 hours playing with the main branch).
Hexarchy does not have that high amount of play time. There was a time where you could not save your game session, but I wanted to finish the daily game. So I started a game and then let it sit there for hours until I had time to finish it.
I obviously also have a high amount of hours played in Guild Wars 2 and Lord of the Rings Online, but these come with their own launcher and thus, the time is not tracked anywhere for Playnite to catch.
Star Trek Timelines was a guilty pleasure. I had it running in the background when I was writing my doctoral thesis. It was just enough distraction to keep me working on my thesis for hours!
Still, it is accurate enough overall.
Playnite also has a “select random game” button which I thought I could use to try out new (for me) games that I have not played yet. It even works with in combination with the filters!
Then again… Old World is calling and I haven’t played Crusader Kings III recently…
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