Topic: How many Games have you got?

Combining Physical💾 and Digital📥 across all Consoles, this is my total, as of Tuesday 9th August 2022:

This is updated whenever I buy or sell a Game.

too many.

Roughly 3000.

I'm long past the point where it's easy to check exactly what I've got on each platform.

I don’t feel like counting them again, but I would be over 100.

Alot.

• 129 digital games on Steam
• A handful digital ones on my PS5 + 3 physical
• 8 physical Switch games + a handful of digital ones
• 6 3DS physical games (literally all SMT games) + 1 digital copy of Animal Crossing: New Leaf

So in total, maybe close to 150.

So I can't easily count for non-digital games since they're in various physical locations/countries, but for Switch, PC and XB -
Switch - 765 games
XB - 349 games
PC - 3404 games across steam, EGS, GoG (at least that's what GoG Galaxy says)

So...4518 games.

That might be too many.

Way too many.

100+, I'm not going to count every game I own for an exact number. My Nintendo DS library is the biggest chunk of my overall selection.

I think I counted once and got to the 400s. I could not tell you off the top of my head if that included digital or not though.

It depends.

What proportion of those have you actually played?

@Matt_Barber

Good question. According to my spreadsheet, I've played 430 of my 765 switch games (56.2%), but I'm also aware my backlog has grown since getting an XSX with gamepass, and I don't track those, since I don't own them. I suspect that the Xbox numbers are comparable, if not better, as I buy less games because of gamepass.

For the PC games, the answer is near 0, as I haven't had a competent gaming PC since 2015, but continue to frequent Humble Bundles and steam sales.

@shazbot Yeah, I've got a fair amount of unplayed games from Humble Bundles and the like but I usually have a proper go on at least one whenever i pick them up.

I also forgot to add a thousand games I've got on itch.io and my total is also going to be in the four thousands if I count them. I only paid about ten bucks for the lot mind you, as that was another charity bundle.

I've got a couple of extra rules in listing my owned/played games, wherein I include games within games, even if they're just dressed up minigames. That has the effect of inflating the count. I also count compilation/collection/bundle titles as collections and each individual games within as their own titles. Examples: the Pipboy tapes in Fallout 4 are each individual video games and Super Mario Allstars is a collection containing four video games.
And I've been trying to remember every single game I've ever played with the intent of going through them, going back to the Philips Videopac console that I played in the very early 90s as a small kid, the Mario wristwatch game and Tamagotchi.

With all that in mind, my current count is at almost six thousand titles and over 70 collections.

Add to that 480 titles on Antstream that have my initial interest, some 690 .lha files for my Amiga Mini, and then there's retro emulation. Though I only add games from these categories to the list when I get to playing them.
So, yeah, the potential count might stand at eight thousand plus titles.

Accurate numbers:
5968 unique titles (Including any title packaged within a collection or compilation, video games within video games and total conversion mods)
76 collections (I include NSO parts and Mini consoles as these)
77 titles with no defined end state, such as city builder sims or MMOs.
231 titles at various states of progression, but intend to finish.
57 titles I've abandoned playing due to frustrations with quality of stability, story or gameplay
800 titles I've reached a satisfactory completion state in, if not a 100% run, at least once.
43 titles I've lost access to due to hardware or OS limitations or incompatibility, the game not being accessible or the support has ended entirely. Lost disks/cartridges/files and unfinished playthroughs on old arcade machines, defunct browser games and borrowed titles also go here. I hope this category dwindles as ports and rereleases are made or when I get them on emulation.

And with games through subscriptions, my 3DS/Wii U purchase schedule and any interesting 75% off sale I might spot on my wishlist trackers, it's safe to say I increase my library by two dozen games per month.

I've gotten three of those charity bundles myself. Two activist bundles I've paid the minimum amount for, but I went extra for the Ukraine bundle.
I think there's a good few thousand video games in total from those bundles, discounting repeats and titles that weren't of a subject matter I'd like to consume. There's a lot of TTRPG materials, dev materials and zines included, so it took days per bundle to sift through them.

At that point a spreadsheet is essentially mandatory. Not only to actually keep track of what you have, but to make sure you're not wasting money on buying games you already own on some other platform. GOG/Steam is an easy trap for that, if you can't collate the libraries easily. And GOG doesn't have an ignore option on its store, so a sale can easily trick you.

I myself have fallen to the trap a number of times, but it's redundancy when it's with digital libraries. The one I actually regret a bit is buying the Wii U Paper Mario game digitally from Nintendo after I'd bought it physically. I'd simply prelisted it for purchase, forgot to doublecheck my physical Wii U library and bought the damn thing for 60€. Now I've got a digital copy on the HDD attached to the console and an unopened retail copy of the same game.

And yeah, I have a prelisted purchase schedule for Wii U and 3DS games to get ahold of the exclusives before the stores close next March. After that, getting them would devolve into waiting for rereleases or ports.

I will count games I bought so no gamepass, no switch online games and no Epic/gog freebies.

GBA 4
DS 12
3DS 9
GC 21
WII 18
WII U 1
NS 124
MD 7
XB 1
XB360 8
XBO/SX 22
GOG 8
STEAM 73
EGS 1

Also until 2017 I only owned the mega drive ones and a few of the GOG ones (let's say I use to borrow from friends a lot )

@Matt_Barber yeah, my wishlist for this year was intended to include a gaming PC of some sort, but due to family circumstances hasn't been possible.

I have my eye on a steam deck to chip away at that pc backlog, but I'll pull the trigger on a 4000 series laptop if steam decks don't find their way to SG before then.