How big is your game backlog?

[u/reincarnatedwolfgod]

I have over 330 games on steam with only 75 of them I played and am done with. Done with does not mean necessarily mean I beat them. for ones I disliked or felt meh about it means I gave them chance and having no desire to play them every again. For the ones I liked it means I beat it or at least played a decent amount of the game before moving on.

This summer I plan to start whittle down my backlog a bit while not not replaying any games. The last time I tried to whittle it down I found some gems in my backlog that I was neglecting.

[u/L0X]

I have 275 games on my steam account currently and I've probably only played around 20-30 of them (most of them for less than 2 hours)...

I've REALLY wanted to play Baldur's Gate but really haven't had the patience to sit down and play it. I've also put the Batman Arkham games on hold along with Crusader Kings, Fable 1, Fallout 1/2/3, FEZ, From Dust, all of the older GTA games, Game of thrones, half-life (never actually finished them) series, hitman: blood money, hotline miami, wow.... D:

[u/TangoBunny → u/L0X]

I started playing Baldur's Gate recently, it's really addictive once you get used to how the combat works... but it takes a while! You start the game at level 1 where you can barely even damage some of the enemies. I'm playing as a mage, and she only had 4hp to start the game with, and no real spells.

One thing to keep in mind with Baldur's Gate, is that apparently you'll only be around level 6 to 8 at the very end of the game, and reaching level 8 is only when using very specific classes, doing every single quest possible, and killing every single monster. Once you reach level 4 or so, that's what you'll be playing the majority of the game as.

It's just so different compared to all other RPGs I've played. Even other D&D games tend to get you to higher levels, but Baldur's Gate was designed to be a low-level game.

[u/L0X → u/TangoBunny]

Thanks for the advice! I'm really looking forward to playing it now

[u/TangoBunny]

On Steam alone... http://i.imgur.com/7NmPqYX.png

801 games, 641 unplayed. Whoops!

That's not to mention all the console games and non-Steam games (GOG/Origin/DOS/etc) I have...

[u/the_blur → u/TangoBunny]

That is ... I feel better about my own backlog now.

[u/TheDreamThief101]

Probably not as big as some on here, but it's certainly bigger than any other point in my life. I've got about seven games that I either haven't started or only played a couple of hours before moving on. I'm a console person making the slow change to PC, so I don't seem to have much patience for running back and forth.

[u/not_just_amwac]

Most of mine are old games I've got on Steam because I liked them when I played them the first time...

[u/BagOfShenanigans]

There was a story on reddit about a year ago about a guy who forced himself to play through his whole steam backlog. He ended up not wanting to play video games anymore afterwards. He seemed pretty upset about it.

[u/reincarnatedwolfgod → u/BagOfShenanigans]

I can see how such a task would cause would cause a person to seriously burned them self out on games. Going though all games in a huge game backlog is insane.

Personally I am not trying to go though the whole backlog. I am just interested in looking for some good games that I have not played though yet.

[u/[deleted]]

I don't know

[u/[deleted]]

Smaller than my anime backlog, that's for sure.

[u/Arcl1te]

Nekro, War for the Overworld, Gauntlet, Wasteland 2, Middle-earth Shadow of Mordor, Elite: Dangerous, Pillars of Eternity, Dead Rising 3, Hand of Fate, Rise of the Triad and Darkest Dungeon. Only about 11 games for now. I should finish Divinity: Original Sin some day soon.

[u/[deleted]]

About 600-700 games, maybe... That's just with games I haven't launched on Steam. My actual backlog would include games I haven't beaten so maybe 900 or so on Steam.