I was looking at my lovely, yet modest GOG game shelf and I thought it may be a good idea to organize them in some way that I like rather than the default "date purchased" order.

Therefore, out of pure curiosity, want to know how other goggers organize their game shelves? By release date? Purchase date? Genre? Same series? Or something more obscure?

I just manually arrange them in alphabetical order. And I hide a lot of games, the ones I have no intention of coming back to ever again. I've got about 24 visible games on my shelf right now and 66 hidden.

I just sort all of them by "Show newest one purchased" first, pick a random game from the list, play that game, after I'm done with it I put the game in my hidden list

Rinse and repeat

I like the default last one purchased order myself. I don't bother to do anything with it other than admire it from time to time, feeling grateful I have so many cool classic games now.

Manually, more or less by genre first, gameplay or thematic similarities second (e.g. RPG - Dungeon Crawler or Adventure - Horror). Same series is a given. Currently I've hidden all the free games, even though I like some of them; probably to keep track of my purchases.

I used to organize them the same way Roman does. Currently, I just sort them by date, because the ones on top are the ones I've yet to play. After that, I'll probably go back to the method I've used before: The best ones and the ones I remember from my childhood can have a special spot at the top, games in a series are next to each other, and at the bottom lies the crap / otherwise unappealing games + the free ones.

You don't need to do that manually, you know? :P

I use the "last purchased" option. It's the best one for me, tracking my backlog easily.

lol

Yes, order and correctness counts which is why my list is in the correct default display!

I sometimes use the automatic alphabetical order. When I get bored of it, I switch back to "date purchased" view. Albeit, the alphabetical order is usually more useful when I'm trying to pick a game to play, seeing better the different parts of the series etc.

I don't personally see much point organizing them manually. In fact, I'd rather peruse them on my 2 terabyte hard drive instead.

Does it feature colorful pictures, too? ;)

I like date purchased, that way I have a nice timeline all the way from first GoG in June 2009 (Beneath A Steel Sky) all the way through to latest, 2 days ago (Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams)

I use the list view. The shelf often messes up the custom arrangement and is too damn slow at 400+ games. Every the screencap addon refuses to work.

Not beaten at the top, beaten at the bottom. Beaten free games inbetween, not beaten free games at the very top.

I arrange my games manually. Nothing fancy, I just try to keep series on the same shelf. I'll also move the odd box that really clashes with its neighbor.

I only recall losing my sorting once. I guess I've been lucky.