this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2025
107 points (97.3% liked)

Games

21161 readers
262 users here now

Video game news oriented community. No NanoUFO is not a bot :)

Posts.

  1. News oriented content (general reviews, previews or retrospectives allowed).
  2. Broad discussion posts (preferably not only about a specific game).
  3. No humor/memes etc..
  4. No affiliate links
  5. No advertising.
  6. No clickbait, editorialized, sensational titles. State the game in question in the title. No all caps.
  7. No self promotion.
  8. No duplicate posts, newer post will be deleted unless there is more discussion in one of the posts.
  9. No politics.

Comments.

  1. No personal attacks.
  2. Obey instance rules.
  3. No low effort comments(one or two words, emoji etc..)
  4. Please use spoiler tags for spoilers.

My goal is just to have a community where people can go and see what new game news is out for the day and comment on it.

Other communities:

Beehaw.org gaming

Lemmy.ml gaming

lemmy.ca pcgaming

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works
107
The 'Kill Your Backlog' Masterlist (theworksofegan.net)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by grrgyle@slrpnk.net to c/games@sh.itjust.works
33 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The funny thing is I play less than once per week, but I own so so many games I am ashamed of confessing that if I tried this approach, it will probably take me decades.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe you need to edit the approach. Like, you consider every game, then decide whether to keep it on your backlog or remove. Could even just be done by glancing over your current backlog and rejecting anything that doesn't jump out at you.

You can always go back and find something you dismissed initially if you really want to.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

That's mostly what I do with new games. Whenever there's an offer, I ask myself "Am I going to play this for at least one or two hours right now?" If the answer is no, then I don't buy it.

That's not the same for local cooplayer games, though I have way enough to fulfill two lifetimes, and recently we're just playing through the Wii catalog.

(I didn't want to be dismissive of this approach, I was just airing my grievances)