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The 'Kill Your Backlog' Masterlist (theworksofegan.net)
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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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[โ€“] Zanshi@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For me it's mostly games from bundles I bought years ago, I wanted that one game, but got 3 others, a sweet deal, but they sit there and accumulate. There are also games I played, but stopped. I consider those still in the backlog because I haven't finished them

[โ€“] SyperStronkHero@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That and Steam Families becoming a thing our backlogs keep getting bigger and bigger.