When you have a Steam account for a couple years and are even the tiniest bit interested in collecting and playing new games, you tend to end up with a library full of a couple favorites...and a couple dozen that you played once. Of course, you can't just delete them, because you might play them someday. Or so you tell yourself. Here are a couple signs that you are in fact a Steam hoarder.
1. You think you want a game and then realize you already own it.
Maybe you see a Let's Play or read a review somewhere, and get really excited about a particular game. You decide it's worth the money and go to buy it...only to discover you already own it. And, chances are, you still aren't going to play it.
2. You get really excited about getting a game, play it for half an hour, and promptly forget you own it.
Probably you got distracted and then spent the next two weeks bingeplaying something else. This is the precursor to #1.
3. You forget which games you've played and which you haven't.
Today, I found a game in my library that I had no recollection of, but apparently I've played it for two hours.
3. Scrolling through your library causes a lot of thoughts like "oh yeah, that was a good game, why didn't I ever finish that?"
The answer is either it wasn't that good, or again, you got distracted.
4. A disturbing percentage of your games probably came from Humble Bundles.
Maybe you bought it because it had one game you really wanted, or maybe they all looked cool, or maybe you just wanted a bunch of cheap games. Either way, a large percentage of the games you have no memory of buying were probably from a Humble Bundle.
5. You have multiple copies of a bunch of games.
Probably one from a Humble Bundle, one from a different Bundle, another free from a sale, and another because your friend pawned it off on you.
6. You forget when and why you bought a game.
"...why do I own this?"
7. Sorting your games by "recent" provides a fairly accurate narrative of your life.
I had a boyfriend who bought me a bunch of games that he liked and/or wanted to have someone to play multiplayer with. After we broke up, many of those were never touched again. I can tell when the Christmas breaks (and sales) were because I got a bunch of pricier games and had the time to play them. Not to mention the huge lull in purchases because I spent an entire semester playing and replaying Undertale.
There's no shame in being a hoarder. It's okay if you have 10 games and play all of them regularly, or if you have 200 and play only one. In the end, all that matters is that you're having fun.
