Wow, so many options=) Well after I drop the kids at the grandparents I haev some work to do tonight in organizing this mess.

I'm using Backloggery myself but I've to admit that I didn't even put a quarter of my games in there yet. I'm using it as a tool to motivate myself to keep playing the games I'm working on atm and so far it works pretty good. The one thing I miss on this site (and on some others, too) is a gameplay stopwatch one can use to track the hours spent with a certain game.

The thing that sets Backloggery apart is the freedom of it's database, because it has no database. With other sites you are often limited to the games that are already known there, but if you play a lot of retro games or own import consoles it's likely you won't be able to put every game up. Same thing with different video game regions as some games were only published in US/JAP/EU or had different names around the globe.

Downside to this is that the lists itself doesn't look as pretty as when you have nice cover pics and general game info provided by the site itself.

I use GCStar, too, and am very happy with it now. But it has a few downsides to it that you should be aware of:

- There are templates for getting relevant game information from online databases, so you don't have to add them yourself. The choice of databases is not perfect though (IIRC it doesn't include e.g. Giant Bomb), so if you own a lot of indie or less known games, chances are these templates won't help you much. You can script your own templates, if you know how to do it, but I didn't, so I had to fill in everything by myself, including pictures, which was a lot of work (even though it paid off in the end).

- You can tag your game entries with all the custom tags you want and that's awesome, but the tag system is far from perfect, because if you want to add a tag to several entries at once and these entries already have differing tags, the former tags will all be replaced by any new tags you give them. E.g. you have an entry with the tag "child-friendly" and an entry with the tags "first person" and "cyberpunk", now you want to add the tag "indie" to both of them, so you select both and add it - the result is that both now only bear the tag "indie" and all other tags have been deleted. If you want to keep them, you have to add all tags individually, even if it's the same tag for several games, or make sure that the old tags don't differ one bit. That's a big flaw in the program's design.

- The Windows version is no longer supported, meaning for everything that could be still be improved on, updates and fixes are not in sight.

Still, if you learn to cope with it, it's great, also because it's perfectly customizable and also allows you to export your database to html etc. And you can make your own categories like "priority", "gamelength", "rating", whatever you like, and sort your shelf accordingly. It would be the most helpful collection database program ever if the flaws in the Windows version were addressed, which sadly won't happen.