Join a vibrant gaming community that offers you one place for your entire game collection. Track your games and achievements, share reviews, create lists, and connect with fellow gamers.

Infinite Backlog gives you one place for your entire gaming collection and encourages you to play your games and get your backlogs under control. It provides a visual breakdown of your cross-platform collection, tracks gaming achievements and statistics and lets you connect with other gamers with the same games.

They are also in fediverse: @infinitebacklog@mstdn.games

  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    15·
    10 months ago

    Interesting concept. Could be a useful service to people, could also just a means to analyse player habits for marketing and game design purposes.

    Is anyone using this, and has it had any positive impact for you?

    • ErableEreinte@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      I can’t speak to this backlogging website specifically, it’s one among a fair number of somewhat similar offerings, but I’ve been using Backloggd for a couple years now.
      What these apps/sites ultimately help with is getting your gaming library in check, if you also end up buying far too many games every time there’s a sale or if you want to keep track of your physical collection (although there are better sites for that).
      Depending on the site’s focus, you might also get average completion times per game or user reviews.
      I’ve actually found myself more interested in the “social” aspect of backloggd, eg user reviews (and making my own), ratings, user-made lists, because they’ve helped me discover games I wouldn’t have otherwise given a chance to or even heard about.

    • YellaLeber@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      I’ve used it for a while. It’s good enough but you can tell it’s still early days for the site. It’ll sync your achievements and playtime with steam and gog so that’s cool but then it’ll lag a bit maneuvering around the site and remind you that the products not fully done. They also offer a premium subscription where you can get early access to features and other promotions but I haven’t ever really felt the need to get that. Honestly my biggest hangup is that they’re just newer; if the site dies then I’m concerned with all of my tracking just going poof one day since I write little journal entries for them to remind me how I felt about certain games. Overall it’s fine, but maybe check out some others first.

  • Mikelius@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    Anyone know of an open source self hosted alternative for apps like this?

  • biofaust@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    I have only 200something titles across my GOG and Steam libraries and I have played all of them and finished 90% at least.

    I may be from another generation (I am in my 40s), but I don’t get the point of spending money on a title I don’t know if I will have ever time or interest to play.

    Also, this feeds stale mechanics, since most titles are bought in bulk during sales that are usually centered around game categories.

    I built a small python app to use howlongtobeat, steam data and isthereanydeal to select the best next title for me to play in terms of price per hour and (steamdb-style) rating.

  • figjam@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I have no desire to catalog all of the games I don’t play. “Here is my pile of shame”