you probably dont have too many games
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Your backlog is actually a flex. Games should be stacked, forgotten, remembered, enjoyed, abandoned. It's all part of this insane and infinite life my guys. Let's have some fun.
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This is a video essay on the topic of video game backlogs and overcoming the anxiety or decision paralysis that comes with your epic gamer monument to procrastination which is your Steam library.
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"Maybe I'll play something really grotesque or even eldritch" he says while hovering over Hentai Strip Shot
g_g you got me
Lmao what a pervert.
i have 3000 games worth of backlog, 66 is literally nothing
Same here lol
The most important trick to getting around a backlog is preparing your game hours and mentally preparing for it. I looked at Gris and though: "oh yeah this game lasts like 3 hours max I finish this in the evening" and so I did. But when you start thinking about big long RPGs or massive games you have to start dedicating either more hours or consistently coming back to it for a few hours everyday.
yes this is the enabling that I need to fuel my addiction. surely my 2500+ library isn't enough
It’s not. Go bigger. If your library isn’t the size of a library you are doing it wrong.
Great video!
As of late I completed a bunch of games that I had in my backlog. Now that that’s cleared I finally am playing stuff I just have lying around and it’s really inspiring me as a gamedev.
My mom has a similar problem with shopping at Goodwill. Because of her backlog of great deals, you can't even walk through her house.But at least she can try selling her horde.
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As someone who has a LOT of steam games in my backlog, i usually play games that i stopped playing a while ago and i end up enjoying them, like for example Doom 3 BFG Edition, which is a fantastic game that deserves more love and is really underrated.
Instead of looking at my steam backlog like a endless job, i look at it as something to enjoy, as gaming is meant to be fun and is not to be treated like some sort of chore or job.
I only have gotten 3 games this whole year, nothing but working on that backlog and playing a couple multiplayer games with friends for me, working away at the backlog was honestly extremely freeing but I ran into the problem of finding other ways of spending that money, with vinyl, books, concerts and the works! That and gifting friends stuff, and so I've had a really fulfilling year of not just gaming while knocking out huge amounts of the backlog and really enjoying my time with each game while I do it, definitely replaying sotn this October though lmaoooo, good video
I am working on getting to that point :) I am impressed that you manage to get there. Happy holidays/Halloween :D
I find that games - as with music, books, tv shows and movies - has to align with your state of mind to be able to enjoy them.
If I'm stressed and pressed on time, I won't enjoy RDR2. But if I had the time and a comfortable time in my life, I'd enjoy the heck out of it.
But it's nice to have in the BL.
Also, regarding horrors, have a look at CARRION.
I "try" to prevent it from growing by only buying games I plan to play right away. There'll always be another sale.
Great video that has me thinking about my own backlog and why i keep game installed for so long. Never know what day I’m going to just put in some hours.
1st World Problems
I just tell people, if they're just gonna put the game I recommend to them on the backlog, don't bother.
If anyone is trying to lessen their backlog, I'd personally start with the shortest games first.
I like to play games that make me comfy.
My problem is that some of these games are so hard to beat. I want to beat the 7th guest, Gabriel Knight, Normality, all these 90s point and click adventure games, but their puzzles are obtuse, and i eventually forget about most of the games I even own.
My backlog is my entire library. I can never finish a game forever - it gives me separation anxiety! 😁
Wow, you are the FIRST person I've come across online who has the SAME mentality as I do regarding the backlog. I own 900+ games on my Switch, and a big part of the fun of gaming for me is precisely the collection part. I genuinely LOVE categorizing, grouping, rating or even just browsing my game collection. It literally gives me so much pleasure!
I don't see my "backlog" as an unfinished duty, as work still left to do, but as POTENTIAL and OPPORTUNITY. I take my time with every game, and then, when I finish one, I think about which genre I feel like playing next, and I'll have at least 15 games from EACH genre to pick from. It's the definition of abundance and freedom. To me, having this huge collection is a source of immense pleasure. Of the 900+ games I own now around 400 are still in my backlog (as in I haven't touched them yet), I have discovered incredibly many amazing experiences, and I'm absolutely looking forward to what's in store for me within my collection!
Anyway, thanks for this good-willed, high-spirited video, man! I'm truly enjoying it!
I love having a backlog. I feel better knowing I can load up a game I've never played and have a new experience. I do tend to go through my backlog though. Love love love sales.
@veilmontTV Exactly! Very well said!
Love the backlog, embrace your inner kid and wait for historical low discount, yes sir!
You're right... billionaires having a car park is a good thing... cause they might never drive them but if they ever want to, that 2m$ lambo is there for them :)
But no, joke aside... sometimes it's ok to also just support a game... There have been times I've watched a streamer play a game for a few hours and that gave me fun... so when the game was on sale I said "I'll give them money cause I want to support them and see more games from them"...
Just... don't do that for AAAs... the money will just go to fund someone another lambo and not for the team to make another game :)
My Steam library is at around 2,200. I have 800 backlogged. I challenge the title of this video
600.....adding~40 to inventory each year since 2016... Plus some free offering from various stores... and I end up playing the same handful games over and over....
Thanks, nice arguments for my huge non played steam games
66? Oh, God, where are the backlog??
Backlogs aren't easy when you have Balatro installed on your phone lol
I have no theme, I've just set myself a goal of playing 15 minutes of games per day. If I enjoy what I am playing and play for waaay longer, fine, but it's a way to rekindle the habbit of regular gaming. Something I've really been struggling with.
5:20 to 5:25 nailed me man.
Title of the video: you probably dont have too many games
Me, sitting at nearly 4000 games in my backlog on Steam, over 2000 on GOG, and nearly 3000 on Xbox One ( includes X360 backward compatible games, to be fair ) , in my John Cena voice: Are you sure about that ?
I could legit stop buying games for the next 50 years, and still wouldn't have run out of new games to play, so... And I didn't even spoke about my non backward compatible X360, Switch, PS2, Gamecube, N64, PS1, Super Nintendo, NES, DS, and GBA backlog... 😅
Also, my wish list on Steam is about 9000+ games, waiting to be at least 75% off for me to buy, 'cause I would definitely never have enough money to buy all these games if I wasn't buying them exclusively once they are at the very least with a 75% off sale ( if it ain't at least 75% off, I ain't buying it, heck, most of the games I don't even know they exist before the day they pop up at 75% off ) . Some I even wait for a 90% off, because games ain't cheap, and when we want to be able to buy that many games, there's no other choice than waiting for the right time, even if it means waiting 13 years or more sometimes. Waiting isn't an issue. I mean, when by spending only $60 you can get around 25 to 30 games, by spending only $60 a month on games you'll have all the games you need in the world to keep you occupied for years while waiting for that one game to be like 80% off if not 90% off. When it will pop up at 90% off ( usually, over 10 years later ) , you'll have forgotten it released so many years ago, it'll still feel like it released yesterday due to how much you've been occupied playing other games during all this time, you'll be like " Oh ? It's been out that long already ? Dang... Time flies. I didn't even realized it. I've been playing so many games, I had no idea I had been waiting that long for this one game to be 90% off... "
And I only buy the games I truly DO plan on playing at some point, ain't even buying a single game just for the kick of the moment, so, imagine how many I would have, if I was...
Motivation is one thing, sure. But, lack of free time is also a major issue. When we can only play games for 1 to 2 hours a day ( at best ) , it ain't easy finding the time to play every games we want to play.
4:44 busted
"I have too many games to play" just means "I don't want to play those games"
Counterargument, yes I do.
9:32
Big recommend for Alien: Isolation
I have soooo many games to go through, and I have been trying to figure out where to start tbh. A lot of the games are things I start with people but then they stop playing for whatever reason so I get this weird feeling in my soul, so it remains untouched...
This is so true! Some games I've been waiting years for friends to return to lol. If it's a game I'd be interested in doing solo, I'll add it to a separate list. Currently I'm just going through single player games only, but occasionally I'll start a game a friend and I started and just finish it solo. Sometimes it helps to just randomly start a game up even if you aren't in the mood, force yourself to play even like 10 mins, chances are you'll end up getting hooked and play longer. My biggest issue is just booting a game up or starting a new one altogether, but once I do it helps a ton
7:26 that “hentai strip shot”game bro☠️☠️☠️☠️
I was lookin for this comment 💀💀
Nice, this deserves at least a dozen thousand views more
I saw you sneak in a clip from the movie Blame (2017). That isn't a game.
Though you're mostly showing games you've rented out...
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Dark souls is overrated fight me
It is in ways. But in others it is still under valued. I think this is why it keeps getting re-explored by it's designers through multiple direct iterations to express the "art" of it to others but also to master the meaning themselves. Now we are starting to get some really great souls-likes but in terms of ludo-narrative, it is still completely unmatched. The original Dark Souls is cheap and unfinished in so many ways, but also in the brokenness there is a poetry that, for the time it was created, solidified it's legacy for the rest of time.