discussion How do you store and organize your games?

[richardbrass]

That sounds awesome! Any relation to

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for porn?

No relation at all. I didn't even know it existed, and seems to be doing a different task than what Trove will be doing.

 

[BrianTheBigOne]

I have no order, so the games are everywhere. Hard to find them sometimes. But that's how it is now with so many different platforms etc.

 

[jorkszada]

i just separe NSFW from normal games, nothing more, sometimes its hard to find one of the nsfw games

 

[hoochimama]

Porn games in a single folder in an encrypted drive. At first I still bothered leaving little notes in a game's folder saying it sucked, bad writing, ugly graphics etc just so I wouldn't waste time giving them another shot. Now I don't even bother with that. Maybe once I run out of non-anime netorare or taboo games and need to circle back to the ones I set aside I'll start annotating them again.

 

[protons]

They are all over the place honestly. Just put them wherever they fit.

 

[Creedy]

I hate to admit it, but all over the place. I usually have my downloads folder loaded, and then I just cut it all in to another folder on a separate drive. I tell myself to sort it all, but it only gets worse.

 

[O&M's]

I have a folder specifically for H-Games, and Developer-name folders inside of there. Inside of those developer folders, if possible, I will preface each game title with its store code (e.g. an RJ number from DLSite). I usually also include a link to the particular website page I got it from.

 

[Zbarev]

I just chuck it into a folder in a densely packed subfolder from unsuspicious folder

 

[Frogdiver 11.4]

In a external HD. In case PC die's your games are safe and your can take them with you on a trip.

 

[Matm95]

New folder (2) directly on desktop.

 

[anon_97978]

h-game folder on a separate, encrypted drive. Divided into loli/shota/other, then in each further divided by type (RPG, VN, sim).

Once I've finished a game I move the files over to a "completed" folder, and symlink to a top-rated if it's 8/10 or better

EDIT: If the game includes a gallery/scene viewer type thing I'll compress the saves and put that in a separate save folder along with the completed games

 

[Matm95]

Guess loli is illegal a lot of places, and that might be why so many people encrypt?

 

[User_127538]

Like when i was a teenager : in a random folder in a random folder in a random folder in a folder. I'm the only one using my computer but you never know...

 

[Hardlinersmc]

I delete them after playing most of the time.

 

[Creedy]

New folder (2) directly on desktop.

Pretty fire ngl

 

[Matm95]

Pretty fire ngl

My desktop went all the way to new folder (6) at one point, but i got lost in that system. So now its only up to new folder (3)

 

[IzzyItto]

I used to use Playnite for this. Put the game there with a picture and dlsite code. Recently I got lazy so I just have a folder with all the games

 

[Goblin King]

Big folder organized by date, nothing more to it. Sure I could organize things by type, genre, and so on. But any more I try to delete games I don't care about after I ended up with over 200 gigs, and half of those were even just version updates for various games.

 

[KaySwitchPrime]

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.

This sounds perfect. I tried to sort mine and the way I did it makes some hard to find and my download folder has loads that I haven't sorted.