As the author says in this article, it’s not their original idea, but this is the first time I’m hearing about it.
It basically boils down to play a game from your backlog for a bit, and whether you liked it or not, or kept playing it or bounced right off, you now have permission to remove it from your backlog. It sounds very freeing.
I take perhaps a little too much pride in having a very small catalogue of unplayed games (not because I play games a lot, but because I am dreadfully cheap and hardly ever buy anything lol), but even an old miser like me could probably benefit from a little tidying.
I have over 6000 games… I’ve been doing this for 2 years and am down to 1300 to try still. Maybe another year yet, depends how dedicated I will be. Problem is even after culling I’ve got over 300 turn based rpgs I want to play and a similar number of 2d platformers and I still will not physically have the ability to play them before I die.
6000 to 1300 is massive.
Do you ever think about writing off a game without playing it? Or maybe like putting it in a “B pile” if the description doesn’t 100% grab you?
Yeah… I’ve come to realize some things just done appeal to me anymore. Anything that I see is multiplayer ONLY I just toss. I just cant get into competitive multiplayer anymore. Some games if they look boring I won’t try, like the 20th ww2 rts/greand strategy game. I just dont care about certain games anymore.
Conversely sequels to games I already played and enjoyed automatically go in the play queue.
Big same.
I used to eat MP up, but now I just get tilted because my reflexes aren’t what they used to be (that, and I can’t devote an entire weekend to honing my twitch skillz).
I like your approach. I made this post actually mostly because I’m curious about trying it out myself. I feel like it might actually get me to play more games, rather than just scrolling through what I could play and then not playing anything.
Yeah, I’ve found some real unexpected gems within my own library that I never knew I bought. Mostly through bundles. My absolute favorite discovery is a small adventure game named Little Misfortune, and I find myself quoting it often. Yikes forever.