If I finished one game per day, it would take 3 years to clear out my backlog.

None, I have no backlog, I have only games that I am currently playing and currently not playing.

H... hundreds?

A Bushel.

Too many

a lot.


but few which i will play next after i finish baldurs gate 2. I am currently on chapter 3 but still in Amn. doing various quests. I want my own mage tower so hopefully the quest i recently accepted will lead me to it.


so

Fallout NV
Gemini Rue
Giants Citizen Kabuto (i really need to play it. had that game for three years now on gog and i haven't played it at all)
Finish ME2 (i did beat it once but i need to finish up on Lair with my male Shep and finish 2 other DLC including Lair and whole game with my Fem Shep)
Psychonauts (that is most likely be my next full game after ME2)
GTA San Andreas
Portal 2

The Witcher 2 but only when i get brand new computer which probably won't happen till Feb/March next year (all depends where i am going to live, which will affect my income)

so thats list of games ill try to play. Probably ME is next, followed by Psychonauts and FNV on and off.

I am also waiting for Broken Sword 4 to go on sale. Really want to play it as i really enjoyed previous three games. so when there is a sale its instant-buy and im gonna play it almost immediately


but i do have many many more games (for example i bought all DandD games here and only PST and BG were played)

Heaven = DRM-free
Hell = not DRM-free

About 60 games in my backlog. Which is silly, isn't it, that my backlog is considered 'small'?

Honestly, I think huge discount sales have ruined gaming. OK, that's a little dramatic and the gaming industry is booming, at least monetarily. I would be very interested to see the results of a bought/played survey. Imagine being a developer, thinking millions of people have enjoyed the fruits of your labour, only to find out that half of all purchases haven't even been installed. Sure, the publishers don't care, but this stuff matters to developers. Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked. Sorry.

Too many, and I don't really have them organized properly. I don't tend to play through games one by one, instead there are a handful of games that I play on and off constantly, and whenever I get bored of them I'll try a game from my backlog. So my backlog is growing faster than I'm playing through games.

It depend. I normally try to finish a game, but it's not always the case, sometimes, I'll start a game, and then never finish it for some reason. Others I bought and can't play it due to not running on XP anymore, and the Retro Rig is currently belly up, still need to find out why the GPU works only sometimes
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Lots.

Don't really care. So long as I play what I want at the time I'd like to, I'm satisfied.

Well, if it's the number of unfinished games, it's huge, but if it's about an actual backlog, I don't know. I'm perfectly aware that I will never play through each and every game in my collection and I don't intend to try it. I have a few story-driven RPGs, Action- and P&C adventures waiting that I'd love to experience from beginning to end, but most of the other games I just play around with occasionally or keep them just in case I end up getting hooked on them one day. If not, never mind.

Nah, you're not to far off base. You bring up an excellent point. I really never thought of it this way.

Baldur's Gate (started yesterday)
Baldur's Gate 2
The Temple of Elemental Evil
Shatter (also started yesterday)
Torchlight

So, five. I'm only counting games I have an interest to play though; if I were to add every piece of crap that's lying in my Paskat-folder (=Shit in English) on Steam, the number would probably reach some dozens. But I have no intention nor interest to play some of them (anymore), so why force myself.

There are a couple of games I don't own yet but would like to buy, so if you add those, then the backlog number is probably about 8. Very manageable, I think.

For me it's only about 15% of all my games completed, but also only 13% of them never installed (the percentage of games never played might be a little higher, maybe around 20%, since some games I only installed to realize they don't work with my graphics card). And of course lots of games I "played" I just played for an hour or so to see what they're like and then postponed their continuation or even abandoned them if I didn't like them. And I'm playing too many games at the same time, always depending on what I'm in the mood for. :/

Anyway, I'm not sure it's just huge discount sales, although low prices certainly play their part. I think it's also the enormous supply and the tough competition in the market, combined with the games' easy accessability via digital distribution. It's easier as ever for developers to distribute their games, but it's near impossible to be that game, the one and only that players will dedicate all their time to, because there are too many alternatives and few games really stand out.