Now is a great time to clean out your wishlist...(discuss your wishlist)

[ZedClampet]

Some people may not have this problem, but a lot do. You see a game, whether it's been released yet or not, and you don't want to lose it in the thousands of games on Steam, so you wishlist it. Just an hour ago, I had a little over 1000 games on my wishlist.

The big Steam sales are a good time to decide if you are ever going to actually buy a game, and you can sort your wishlist into games that are on sale, so I went to work getting rid of things I'm no longer interested in.

The top 3 things I didn't want on my list anymore were visual novels, jrpgs, VR only. I also had some other rules I followed, and I ended up cutting my wishlist in half. Now I just have to slowly work my way through the games that aren't on sale. I'll worry about that later, though.

So what condition is your wishlist in?

 

[BeardyHat]

Weirdly, I don't often buy stuff from my wishlist; anything I just bought was cheap and almost completely at random. I mostly just use it as a reminder for things I really don't want to forget about, but do very occasionally buy.

That said, this thread reminded me I needed to do another curation on it. I got it down from 95 to 53.

 

[ZedClampet]

Weirdly, I don't often buy stuff from my wishlist; anything I just bought was cheap and almost completely at random. I mostly just use it as a reminder for things I really don't want to forget about, but do very occasionally buy.

That said, this thread reminded me I needed to do another curation on it. I got it down from 95 to 53.

I've probably got 100 free games on my list. Never know when you might need one. I'm talking completely free, of course. No microtransactions or anything.

 

[Alm]

I only have 31 games on my wishlist and over half of them haven't come out yet.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

132 games on mine. I sometimes take stuff off if it goes on sale for less than 5 and I still dont bite. Sometimes they stay there because I tend to think if Im not going to play something soon then theres no point buying it right now.

 

[Johnway]

My wishlist currently sits at 399 games. its more games that interest me more then actually want. Its a nice way to collect all the games i would get and see any special offers for them.

Honestly i could probably cut a few more but meh, for the right price i could buy.

 

[Brian Boru]

I've probably got 100 free games on my list

Why not just add them to your Library?

Wishlist now is 133 … to be continued

ETA: my oldest WL item is Feb 2017—that's probably enough chances to pick it up gone by

 

[ZedClampet]

Why not just add them to your Library?

Wishlist now is 133 … to be continued

ETA: my oldest WL item is Feb 2017—that's probably enough chances to pick it up gone by

It's not like the games that are free if you get them during a certain time. The only way to add them to my library is to install them.

 

[Colif]

Some people may not have this problem,

obvious answer: what wishlist?

I don't go into Steam unless I want to run update, or buy something, and if its the second, I know what it is I want before going into Steam. I don't do window shopping in steam, I generally know what I want before I go looking.

It does (or doesn't) help there are very few games being made that I want to play. Most of the games I know might be coming haven't even been announced yet. So perhaps I could wish-list Titans Quest 2 but I haven't bothered. Its on Steam but TBA release date... I just wait.

Steam is just a shop to me, I dislike shopping so I make sure I know what I want and go direct to it without being attracted to other things on way in.

More likely to find out about new games reading threads by Zed or randomly via Youtube videos.

 

[ZedClampet]

obvious answer: what wishlist?

I don't go into Steam unless I want to run update, or buy something, and if its the second, I know what it is I want before going into Steam. I don't do window shopping in steam, I generally know what I want before I go looking.

It does (or doesn't) help there are very few games being made that I want to play. Most of the games I know might be coming haven't even been announced yet. So perhaps I could wish-list Titans Quest 2 but I haven't bothered. Its on Steam but TBA release date... I just wait.

Steam is just a shop to me, I dislike shopping so I make sure I know what I want and go direct to it without being attracted to other things on way in.

More likely to find out about new games reading threads by Zed or randomly via Youtube videos.

Often I think I like window shopping in Steam more than actually playing games.

 

[Colif]

The last time I looked through a bunch of games randomly was on the Xbox app. It was how I found most of the games I got off it.
But I don't look in it as often as I should. Opening it makes the EA app want to load and it just annoys me - Maybe I uninstall the few EA Games I have.
I don't think I have ever done it on steam.

 

[Brian Boru]

Wishlist now is 133 … to be continued

After much hacking and slashing and 'Why did I…?', wishlist is now 39.

Thanks Zed, you're better than therapy—I assume charge is same as for your financial advice

 

[SHR-51]

I used to be a serial wishlister as well, but then it got too much, so I changed my ways. Now I only have 18 games on my wishlist and these games I know I will be very interested in, 13 of them haven't come out yet.
I have this rule where I only wishlist a game I'm deeply interested in and will buy it 99% of the time unless there are some terrible performance issues or some such. And games I'm merely intrigued by I just follow, so they show up in my Activity tab and I don't forget about them.

 

[Frindis]

I am 350 games short of keeping it clean, but since most of the wishlist games are a couple of years old now, I'm thinking about just deleting every wishlist item and starting over again.

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"If you stare into the wishlist, the wishlist stares back at you" - Gabe

 

[ZedClampet]

As of this morning I am down to about 300 games, and I'm good with that. Most of them are either free or haven't launched yet.

 

[Pifanjr]

I just removed three of them, so now I have 21 entries on my wishlist, of which 10 DLC. The other 11 are games that look really interesting but that I might forget about if I didn't keep them on a list, of which 2 haven't released yet.

 

[ZedClampet]

The last time I looked through a bunch of games randomly was on the Xbox app. It was how I found most of the games I got off it.
But I don't look in it as often as I should. Opening it makes the EA app want to load and it just annoys me - Maybe I uninstall the few EA Games I have.
I don't think I have ever done it on steam.

This morning is a great example of why I like to look through games. I'm not really into normal games, and as much as I window shop in Steam, just minutes ago I found two games that I had never heard of that I can guarantee I will put over 100 hours into.

The thing is, they were almost impossible to find. They don't just show up in any tag searches or in Steam's algorithms. You have to get creative.

 

[Hveðrungr]

Wow, this thread has made me feel much better about myself. I had a guilty pang recently because my combined wishlist is currently at 100:

• 61 released games
  • 1 released non-game [Museum of Mechanics: Lockpicking]
  • 1 released game I don't want to buy but which I want to have on my wishlist to support the devs
• 23 unreleased games
  • 1 unreleased non-game [Adventure Forge]
• 9 expansions (nearly all for Total War: Warhammer III)
• 4 items of Valve hardware (Deck, and Index Headset / Controllers / Base Station)

But seeing so many people with vastly bigger wishlists has made me decide that I don't need to feel so guilty after all.


I should mention to y'all that your wishlist number in the top-right may well be bigger than your actual wishlisted items (which you can see by Sorting by Your Rank and scrolling to the bottom of the list). This is because games that are withdrawn from sale are made invisible on your wishlist but not technically removed from your wishlist. You can fix this problem with various methods outlined here:

Steam Community :: Guide :: Remove hidden items from your Steam wishlist!

This is a tool designed to automatically find and remove hidden items from your wishlist!...

steamcommunity.com

 

[Hveðrungr]

This morning is a great example of why I like to look through games. I'm not really into normal games, and as much as I window shop in Steam, just minutes ago I found two games that I had never heard of that I can guarantee I will put over 100 hours into.

The thing is, they were almost impossible to find. They don't just show up in any tag searches or in Steam's algorithms. You have to get creative.

What were the games?

 

[ZedClampet]

What were the games?

Contractville and New Star GP

ContractVille on Steam

Start almost penniless and create your own journey. Demolish, build, decorate and purchase your own land. Build your own design, decorate and sell by auction. Create your own company and do all of this with your friends up to 4 players CO-OP in an open-world.

store.steampowered.com

New Star GP on Steam

New Star GP is a fast and exciting arcade motorsport game with crisp retro visuals. Play career mode and work your way through decades of racing while upgrading your car and your support team... or chase high scores in championship mode on your own or in split-screen with up to three friends!

store.steampowered.com

 

[Pifanjr]

This morning is a great example of why I like to look through games. I'm not really into normal games, and as much as I window shop in Steam, just minutes ago I found two games that I had never heard of that I can guarantee I will put over 100 hours into.

The thing is, they were almost impossible to find. They don't just show up in any tag searches or in Steam's algorithms. You have to get creative.

How do you get creative? I tried searching for games on Steam today and the lack of filter options is really aggravating.

Though I then tried searching on Epic and suddenly Steam's search functions didn't seem so bad any more. Definitely saw a lot of games I'd never heard of before, but none that I'd have any interest in.

I was specifically looking for games with split-screen support to play with my kid and ended up on https://www.co-optimus.com, which does have decent search options and results.

 

[ZedClampet]

How do you get creative? I tried searching for games on Steam today and the lack of filter options is really aggravating.

Do you mean something like this where it is showing shared/split screen games that are *insert tags here*?

Steam Search

store.steampowered.com

 

[Zloth]

I've got 28. I just cut Tortuga - it showed some promise, but they haven't updated since they released in February.

Even with so few games, I wish I could divide them up into a couple of subfolders.

 

[Hveðrungr]

I was specifically looking for games with split-screen support

Like this?

I've got 28. I just cut Tortuga - it showed some promise, but they haven't updated since they released in February.

Even with so few games, I wish I could divide them up into a couple of subfolders.

I do it by ordering my list into categories. For me, I have: released games; unreleased games; expansions; non-game software; hardware.

 

[Pifanjr]

Do you mean something like this where it is showing shared/split screen games that are *insert tags here*?

Steam Search

store.steampowered.com

I don't trust Steam's tag system very much, but I will admit that's better than what I got when I looked at Steam. Though I don't need it to support German.

Like this?

That's what I did, but that is quite a broad list with too many games that aren't what I'm looking for.

Also, when I add the filter for "Narrow by number of players" "Shared/split screen", about 250 results disappear and I really need to know why and which games but Steam will not tell me.