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The 'Kill Your Backlog' Masterlist (theworksofegan.net)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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As the author says in this article, it's not their original idea, but this is the first time I'm hearing about it.

It basically boils down to play a game from your backlog for a bit, and whether you liked it or not, or kept playing it or bounced right off, you now have permission to remove it from your backlog. It sounds very freeing.

I take perhaps a little too much pride in having a very small catalogue of unplayed games (not because I play games a lot, but because I am dreadfully cheap and hardly ever buy anything lol), but even an old miser like me could probably benefit from a little tidying.

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago

I love my backlog. I've got probably 30 games purchased at all-time lows sitting ready as a 5-star menu ready to browse whenever I finish playing something. I get to scroll through it as if running my finger across the backs of great novels lined up in an extensive library, looking at them one at a time and thinking "hm, what am I in the mood for right now?". It's an additional pleasure on top of just playing the game for me. Even just thinking about it from time to time and knowing I have it ready for the future, like Metro: Exodus that I will get to one day. I am a pleasure delayer.

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