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.
ever since i stopped buying games from steam i’ve been playing only my backlog on there, and it is indeed very freeing. love the quick dopamine hit from checking something off a list.
keeping an updated list of games like on this blog looks like a fun idea, might start doing it in Obsidian.
Speaking of checking off lists, I had an old co-worker who just had this great big huge spreadsheet of games he’d played or wanted to play. It was an interesting phenomenon when I’d play a games and think I wonder if Michael’s played this – I think he would like it and then realize I could just consult his public list lol.
I feel like it would be good to remember how you felt about a game, too.
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ever since i stopped buying games from steam i’ve been playing only my backlog on there, and it is indeed very freeing. love the quick dopamine hit from checking something off a list.
keeping an updated list of games like on this blog looks like a fun idea, might start doing it in Obsidian.
Speaking of checking off lists, I had an old co-worker who just had this great big huge spreadsheet of games he’d played or wanted to play. It was an interesting phenomenon when I’d play a games and think I wonder if Michael’s played this – I think he would like it and then realize I could just consult his public list lol.
I feel like it would be good to remember how you felt about a game, too.