So I am starting to use BLAEO lists to tag games on tap for the coming month, and also lists for some reasons that games are in certain states. Ever since Steam purged all my library categories when I went into settings and did Clear Download Cache (wut) troubleshooting my primary steam library being unavailable when my secondary HDD with my non-primary Steam library failed (I now have a replacement drive), I am only using Steam to flag games I am currently playing as “Favorites”.

My New Lists

Stuck

Games I have played for a while where I got to a point where I am unable to progress further, and I am not motivated to retry again for quite a while.

Progress categories: Unfinished.

Notable examples: Distance (~3/4 of the way through single player/story mode) and Crypt of the Necrodancer (can’t pass 2nd or 3rd dungeon).

Awaiting updates before playing

If I know that a game will have significant updates (DLC or not) in the near or mid term, which includes almost all my Early Access games, I prefer to wait for such updates or release to occur before playing them or continuing to play them. This may include waiting for the release of DLC within any season pass I may have purchased.

Progress categories: Never played (17/19), Unfinished (2/19).

Notable examples: Battletech (played some, but waiting for additional DLCs to be published), This War of Mine (played non-DLC content, waiting for third and final Stories DLC to be released, overdue since 2018 presumably because dev focused on Frostpunk…), Startup Company (not played yet, might be what’s been stuck in Early Access hell the longest out of all my games)

NOTE: It was a pain to find out which games in my library are in Early Access, because the Steam library/game list does not denote which ones are or are not early access, nor allow for filtering on such a thing. The closest I could get is the Steam library filters site, but Early Access is merely a filterable user defined tag, and so far that tag shows up for any game that has EVER been in Early Access regardless of whether it has released out of Early Access or not - That’s ~80 out of my 500+ games!

DLC wanted before playing

There are some games I own where I don’t own some DLC but I know that will have a significant impact on gameplay. So I want to hold off on playing those until I can get such DLC.

Progress categories: Never played (15/19), Unfinished (3/19), Beaten (1/19).

Notable examples: Civ IV (seems with Civ that there’s often one more expensive DLC per release that’s must have), Subnautica (waiting to buy the ice world DLC), Turmoil (beaten before DLC, waiting to buy DLC)

This month’s list of games (June 2019)

Here is what I might be playing this month from my backlog - I already beat two short games this weekend (Brothers and Worms Pinball), and I’m revisiting Tower Unite thanks to its recent fishing update in which I’m collecting fish and putting them in a giant aquarium next to the club room of my highrise condo. I’ll try to post a progress updated with mini reviews by the end of the month.