A look at game collection services with an eye to their help in clearing a game backlog. My Game Backlog Progress looks at the criteria of a good game collection service and analyzes several in our Pros and Cons series. The How-To series of articles takes you step-by-step to set-up your game collection.
Learn more about these game collection tracking services: AllMyGames | Backloggery | GameFAQs | Grouvee | HowLongToBeat | TrueGaming
Why Manage Your Game Collection? We want to clean up our collection so that we can see what is on our backlog (Tip #1: Make a List) and use the list to help us decide what to play next. If you are like me, you are going to have some games in your collection that […]
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Use this spreadsheet to organize your game backlog by difficulty and length, and help you decide what game to play next, for fast and easy completions.
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When you are first starting to beat your backlog you are going to want to track your game progress. You could use a pencil and paper, but there are several great online services that can help you, and even make it fun.
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Grouvee.com is a website where you can catalogue, review, and organize your video game collection by adding games to virtual shelves. It uses the Giant Bomb database of games. For more information on how Grouvee works see How to organize your games with Grouvee. To help you decide on what game backlog tracker you should […]
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Top 5 GameFAQs Features FAQs with bookmarks – Get help from walkthroughs and save your place. Answers – Get your questions about a game answered. Kindred Spirits – Pair up with other gamers for help and motivation. Length and difficulty stats for games submitted by users. Game Collection – import from Steam or text. Read […]
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The Backloggery is a game tracking website specifically designed to encourage people to play their games and get their video game backlogs under control. It does this mostly by providing a visual breakdown of their game collection. My Game Backlog Progress is going to evaluate the Backloggery’s features as outlined in their article: Game Backlog […]
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This guide will outline several key areas that are important to video game collection trackers in an effort to determine what is the best video game tracker. We’re going to be looking at the following areas: adding and importing, sorting and searching, prioritizing of games, how game progress is measured, how backlog progress is shown, […]
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If you like unlocking achievements and need help setting and accomplishing short-term goals for beating your game backlog TrueGaming is a valuable tool. These sites allow you to create to-do lists, create goals, create game sessions for completing multi-player achievements, and get help from other users.
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What is GameFAQs? GameFAQs is a hub for gamers that specializes in providing game FAQs. The site has a database of over 200,000 games, with more than 20 million answers, guides, cheats, and messages.
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What is AllMyGames? AllMyGames is a cross-platform game collection organizing tool. It has an importing feature from four major game platforms and providers, sorting features based on platform/provider and state, integration with How Long to Beat, and basic collection statistics, all in a clean and easy-to-use interface. I was invited to their closed alpha, you can sign […]
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