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The 'Kill Your Backlog' Masterlist (theworksofegan.net)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by grrgyle@slrpnk.net to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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As the author says in this article, it's not their original idea, but this is the first time I'm hearing about it.

It basically boils down to play a game from your backlog for a bit, and whether you liked it or not, or kept playing it or bounced right off, you now have permission to remove it from your backlog. It sounds very freeing.

I take perhaps a little too much pride in having a very small catalogue of unplayed games (not because I play games a lot, but because I am dreadfully cheap and hardly ever buy anything lol), but even an old miser like me could probably benefit from a little tidying.

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is another reason why I pirate anything I'm not 100% sure about and buy it if I like it. I don't want 299 shitty games still in my steam library

[–] filister@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You can still buy them from Steam and refund them if you don't like them and you have played them for less than 2 hours

[–] kugmo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

There's a limit to how many times you can do this per year btw.

[–] Sonor@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There is a 2 weeks limit as well, fyi. You cant park it indefinitely

[–] filister@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Indeed, but it's possible to try it and see if you like it or not. I wish this time limit was a bit longer and it was 3 or 4 hours but it is what it is and it is better than nothing.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

time limit is rarely enough for me. work is all over the place and can't give me a reasonably regular schedule unless its just constantly busy

[–] Sonor@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Yep. I just like to point this out since i have burned myself on it previously