discussion How do you store and organize your games?

[thebeesknees]

Do you use a game manager? Add them as non steam games? Personally, I might download a bunch, and then forget which is what or what it looks like. I prefer to have tags and pictures instead of just folder names. I use Erioo Games Library from rori before it went down, but its a bit janky, so id like to see what solutions others have come up with.

 

[SilentHunter]

I'm too old (I'm 53) to be a gamer. Of the games similar to those posted on this and other numerous sites with similar themes, I have saved less than a dozen. Plus five or six mainstream games (for example, Fallout 4). I don't have a Stream account, I've never bought a single game in my life (like any software, including operating systems). The movies are another matter, I have downloaded about one and a half thousand of them, they are stored on external HDDs of 10 terabytes each. I have a catalog for them, my own, a regular database. The discs are numbered, and to find the movie I need, I just type its name into the database, see which disc it's on. But games - no, it's not for me. As a rule, I delete the games I played.

 

[richardbrass]

I'm actually building something specifically for this -- it's called Trove. It's early but functional.

It's a desktop app (Windows, Linux, macOS) that acts as a local library manager. The idea is basically what you're describing: instead of staring at a folder of cryptically-named zip files, you get a proper library view with cover art, tags, version tracking, and one-click launching. Right now it's focused on AVNs but the plan is to expand to other game types over time.

Under the hood it syncs against a community-maintained catalog, so entries are kept up to date -- new versions, updated download links, changelogs. It doesn't host anything itself; it just indexes what's out there and fetches from the original sources (direct links, itch.io, MEGA, etc.).

Still in active development, but the core library management side is working. Happy to share more details.

 

[MadMadMan]

I'm actually building something specifically for this -- it's called Trove. It's early but functional.

It's a desktop app (Windows, Linux, macOS) that acts as a local library manager. The idea is basically what you're describing: instead of staring at a folder of cryptically-named zip files, you get a proper library view with cover art, tags, version tracking, and one-click launching. Right now it's focused on AVNs but the plan is to expand to other game types over time.

Under the hood it syncs against a community-maintained catalog, so entries are kept up to date -- new versions, updated download links, changelogs. It doesn't host anything itself; it just indexes what's out there and fetches from the original sources (direct links, itch.io, MEGA, etc.).

Still in active development, but the core library management side is working. Happy to share more details.

That sounds really useful! I too suffer from having an evergrowing folder of poorly archived games.

 

[Eatmyhotsauce]

If I’m being honest I just dump them all in one folder. I definitely should be more organized about it and sort them in some way but I just don’t. When I want to play a game I just scroll through the folder until I find it then I play it.

 

[wrombo]

I started to divide them by "completed" and "the rest" but Im considering expanding it more. I agree though I have a bunch now and sometimes forget what is what

 

[BeanieBaby]

I unpack them into my "GAME" folder and delete them when I'm done. Unless it's an rpg type game that keeps the saves in the same folder as the game's .exe file . Those, if I like the game, I'll keep on my HD.

 

[Thalyon]

On steam usually, then I put them into collections based on genre. I just like having everything accessible in one place.

 

[ObservantShadow]

I play on Android do what I do might not mean anything to you

I use JoiPlay to use win platform Ren'Py games

I made a folder called JoiPlay and I extract all Ren'Py AVNs there

 

[MadKingLear2]

Separate hard drive, directory folders organized by ready-to-play titles and compressed archives, archives sorted in separate sub-folders alphabetically (A through F, G through K, and so on). Ready-to-play titles are stored in separate sub-folders for each title, and as I play each I sort either games which I finished or I didn't care to finish into a designated Junk sub-folder, including the archives and local config. and save files if I don't plan to play them again, which I periodically purge to save space. Top it off with a desktop shortcut trail that eventually leads through my regular games to the ready-to-play games sub-folder, and what you get is a little clunky, but perfectly functional and intuitive for someone who's first access to a computer was Windows 98.

 

[qfoggy]

Well i don't store them like you guys but i have a excel which i give points and take notes the games i played. It is pretty simple it has; rating x/10, genre(tags), description. I only store the games i gave 9+/10.

 

[thrashpoint]

I'm actually building something specifically for this -- it's called Trove. It's early but functional.

It's a desktop app (Windows, Linux, macOS) that acts as a local library manager. The idea is basically what you're describing: instead of staring at a folder of cryptically-named zip files, you get a proper library view with cover art, tags, version tracking, and one-click launching. Right now it's focused on AVNs but the plan is to expand to other game types over time.

Under the hood it syncs against a community-maintained catalog, so entries are kept up to date -- new versions, updated download links, changelogs. It doesn't host anything itself; it just indexes what's out there and fetches from the original sources (direct links, itch.io, MEGA, etc.).

Still in active development, but the core library management side is working. Happy to share more details.

I've wanted something like this for AVNs for years, I hope it works out.

 

[richardbrass]

Here's a sneak peak.

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[xanxus07]

I make tags of the genres i most like; Incest, corruption, loli, harem, then i would only download a few at a time while i just bookmark the date and names of the ones i didn't download as yet

 

[hugh mungus]

I swear the old homework folder is all 100% related to study

 

[zenekort]

i download it and when finish the game i delete it. i never download more than 1/2 games per search, but im thinking in have a .txt with the names, the tags and the rate of those game if anyone are searching games like those