I recently discovered a website called Backloggd. This is a website that lets you log all your games and sort them based on if you've played them, are playing them or if they're in your backlog. You can also add games you don't own to a wishlist. This isn't really something I need but being a bit of a freak when it comes to sorting things I decided to dive into this and journal all the games I've played in my life.
Ironically this kinda turned into a mess. The default sorting on the Played Games is to sort by whichever game was added last. I should probably have anticipated this. Not it kinda looks like all the old games that I randomly remembered as I was adding them are the ones I've played the last while God of War and Elden Ring are on the last page because they were the first to be added.
Oh well. At least there's filters that can be applied to change the sorting. This isn't really a site I expect people to look at to get any idea of my gaming journey but rather something I'm doing for myself.
Selecting Game Status
One of the features I really liked was that you could choose different statuses to how you've played the game. You can choose to set the game as Completed meaning that you just beat the game in general in whatever way you chose. Most games end up in this category. You can also set them as Mastered if you've completed the games 100%.
My favorite choices are the ones below though. Retired, Shelved and Abandoned. This means that you can catalog a game even if you've only played it for a bit and hated it, "finished" a multiplayer without an ending or if you've quit a game but might pick it up later. I still played the game and I still want it cataloged and they don't get mixed up with your completed and mastered games. Like Code Vein. Ugh.
Some stats...
After logging all of my games I've played over these last 25 years, the ones I remembered at least, I ended up with some stats. There's probably some games here and there that I've missed and forgotten but if that's the case the game probably wasn't that good to begin with.
Apparently I've played 152 games, 3 of them in 2022 and I have 66 games in my backlog. The played games range from games I've mastered to games I've abandoned. There's also some games like Mario Party and stuff that I've played once or twice at a friends house. Those games are categorized as simply "Played".
I also have 16 games that are currently set to "Playing". These are games that I've started at some point that I didn't finish but I hope or plan to get back to at some point. I guess these are the games that would normally be categorized as "In Backlog" but I thought it was cleaner to use the "Playing" section for this. All of the games here are also tagged as "In Backlog" though.
That naturally takes us to the games I've cataloged as "In Backlog". Here I chose to put all the games I own that I haven't played as well as the games that are in "Playing". I was kinda depressed at all the games that ended up in this section. I had more games than I thought.
Much of this comes from the fact that I've bought a few Humble Bundles that gave me like six games when I really only wanted the one. And the fact that I've bought some games on sale because I thought I would play them later. I've stopped doing the latter now and pretty much only play games as I intend to play them.
All of this took me about two hours to catalog. It took a bit of work but it was worth it in the end. I've already updated it with a few new games since I did the bulk of the work and I'll keep on doing so as I play new games. What I really hope to so is to make the "Mastered" section grow. Seeing as I need to save money for the new apartment we bought I plan to work hard on this backlog now instead of buying new games. Let's hope I can grow the list!
You can find my Backloggd Profile Here.
All images in this post are screenshots taken by me.