Catventurer: I've found that installing games in batches (somewhere around 50 at a time) is a good way to get through the backlog. More than that, and it starts getting too overwhelming to deal with. I also don't have the hard drive space to be installing hundreds of games at once.
Zimerius: Nice to hear from someone with experience in dealing with a backlog :) I am curious though, since i have 3 open spaces left, would you have any suggestions. I would like those games to be memorable, grand and easy to play
I'm not sure what games are making your heart pitter patter or spark joy or whatever criteria you use to select. Since I'm doing a batch reset at the moment as the old method wasn't working, here's the completely arbitrary method I'm currently using:
1. I loaded my library in PlayNite and go to tile mode with it set to 18 games per page, then count the number of full pages for each genre. This determines the number of games for each genre that I get to select and entirely so that what I do select is in proportion (by genre) to what my library is. You can do something similar with GOG Galaxy. Here's what I came up with:
action: 3 / adventure: 9 / hidden object: 3 / puzzle: 4 / RPG: 10 -> 9 / simulations: 4 / strategy: 2 / visual novels: 3
I cap out each genre at 9 games total, so even though I have enough RPGs to warrant selecting 10, I select 9 instead. This is entirely because I can easily spend weeks on a single RPG and don't want the batch to feel like it's just overrun with RPGs that will take all year to complete.
2. I then select games that I haven't completed based on the number allocated to each genre.
3. Each genre now gets one bonus game that is something that I've already completed and want to play again. This is entirely because the whole "don't play anything I've already played until I get through the entire backlog" thing isn't working out. It's only causing me to skip over games that I anticipate and want to play on the basis of saving them for later. Now there's no need to save for later because I can return to them.
This worked out to a total of 45 games: Absolute Drift, Alba, Alekon, Aztec Tribe, Bandle Tale, Beglitched, Beyond Divinity, Card City Nights, Cat Cafe Manager, Cat Quest, Civilization 4, Cubicle Quest, Diablo, Don't Starve, Dorfromantik, Dracula Love Kills, Drop Hunt, Flufftopia, Gibbous, Godhood, Guild of Dungeoneering, In Other Waters, Inspector Waffles, Littlewood, LongStory, LumbearJack, Megaquarium, Mr. Bommels Teacats, Neverwinter Nights EE, Quest for Glory 1, Rebound, Sacra Terra 1, SeekL, Settlement: Colossus, Spellcaster Uni, Sticky Business, Stray Gods, Sudocats, Tangledeep, The Legend of Kyrandia 1, The Shop of Good Memories, There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension, Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion, Vampire Saga 1, Weird West.
Catventurer: I've found that installing games in batches (somewhere around 50 at a time) is a good way to get through the backlog. More than that, and it starts getting too overwhelming to deal with.
Timboli: I'd do around 10 games ... maybe a few more, tops.
But then I prefer to stick to a game until it is complete. I might vary that with a different sort of game, just for a break, and of course some games are ongoing and some are old favorites you want to indulge in now and then ... like Quake.
I also have many other interests beyond games, especially reading and music and movies and TV shows ... and family and friends of course. I am an old guy, retired and married with grown up kids and a few grandchildren now.
I install in batches entirely for convenience. I could do it one game at a time, but that would mean getting out the backup drive every time I finish a game and want to install the next one... which would just detract from any convenience that the backup drive provides as I'm literally playing games on a laptop while sitting in a comfy chair. This isn't a desktop setup where I just run an installer stored on an internal D:\ drive or the USB backup is sitting right there on a desk all the time.
