Won On Steam Gifts - 2017 Plan Of Attack

I don’t know how my never played games on my Won on Steam Gifts list got so large; it was a quite frankly ridiculous 75%+. I only enter for games I believe myself (or members of my family via family sharing) will play but somehow I ended up winning far more games than I played. Largely I think it’s because I played 3 epic RPGs (Sword Coast :Legends, Dragon Age Origins & Witcher 1) which took a lot of game playing time but also I had a habit of getting side tracked on other games. Having said that I did have some victories and marked 9 games I had won from SG as beaten last year. However, I intend to do much, much better this year.

So my New Year’s resolution for BLAEO was to target my games Won on Steam Gifts. To this end I set about categorising them and to aid me do this I created check list that I applied to each game.

1. Check if game has a dependency (usually a prior game in the series I want to play first) and place these games in my Dependency List. These games will await the dependency to be resolved and then I will continue with the game from point 2 but until then I do nothing with the game.
2. Install the game.
3. Perform a short play of the game. Take just enough time playing it to be able to categorise the game as one of following three
• If I like the game then it goes into my Backlog. These are games I am actively targeting to play. Additionally I will also add the game to one of my basic game category lists and order them so that once I have finished a game I can easily pull off the next game in the category.
• If I simply do not like the game I will mark it as Won't play. I know it's sad but I've got to be ruthless otherwise I'll never make meaningful inroads into my backlog.
• If I am on the fence about a game the game is marked as Unfinished and nothing more is done with it for now. I'll probably never get around to playing these games but if I ever clear my backlog these games are the next priority.
4. Uninstall the game.

Progress Bar

28/63 out of the never played games have a dependency so this leaves 35 games still left to perform a test play on

Progress

This means that in the last week I have reduced the unplayed category down from 33% to 20%

For The Future

The first aim is to get the unplayed category down to 0% and my intention is to do this by the end of February (and hopefully well before that). Once that has been achieved I will start to target games in my backlog list.

Summary

I’m hoping this method will help me focus even more on finishing off games or at least giving them a decent play through before I drop them. Hopefully this will also see my Steam Gifts beaten/completed games % rise and my unfinished games % drop.