Improve games collection list view

[Sinihopea]

This is a feature request. I sincerely think that it would be very useful to see few things in games collection list view. At the moment there are...

• Icons / Pictures
• Name
• Favourite status
• Steam Cloud support
• Download status
• Metascore
• Developer name
• Last time played
• Size on HDD

And I think it would be very useful to know...

1. Controller support which Steam's big picture already shows. Shouldn't be too difficult to add to list view also.
2. Approx. of the game download size. It's useful to know how large the game is after it's been installed. But people with slow internet connections probably want to know the size of the download (which Steam shows when you're about to install a game).
3. Game's Publisher's name
4. Genre tags of the game
5. Operating systems game can be installed into
6. Date you bought the game

And one more thing. I'd love to have ability to turn the categories I've made on and off so that I can just have all the games in a single long list. And ability to have automatic categories for example based on genre of the game would be much appreciated too. It would allow me to create playlists such as "Games I've played though" or "Games I haven't yet played" instead of using categories to split my game collection into different genres using the categories since Steam by design decision of Valve doesn't allow same game to be featured in two or more categories at the same time.

Thank you for listening!

[barsanuphe]

I was considering creating a similar issue. Current list display is insufficient, especially with large collections (and we all know steam sales are designed to result in large collections). My own additionnal requests are:

• Categories as tags, ie allow multiple categories for each game. Use case: I want to tag Borderlands2 as fps, coop, not finished yet, sci-fi.
• Filter single player/multiplayer/coop games. Use case: I want to play a multiplayer game, and hide all single player only games. Other use case: I have a friend over, I want to quickly find the games that allow local coop.
• Filter games in common with other steam users. Use case: I want to play with a friend, and quickly display only the (multiplayer) games we have in common.

On a side note, I think achievements could be made more "social" by comparing achievements between users, adding incentives to play more to out-achieve friends.

[MrSchism]

@Sinihopea The things you claim would be useful to know are readily available, but not on the game's page. I have mixed emotions about it because it seems like it might be a bit much for a single page. The way it's spread out is nice and prevents redundant methods of access.

@barsanuphe Yes, it'd be nice to be able to be able to set categories as tags. As for the achievement comparison, that's already possible; I do it quite often.

[Sinihopea]

@MrSchism Based on what you wrote I'm pretty sure you didn't understand what I wrote about. Yes, some of that information is available elsewhere. In fact all the information currently available is also available elsewhere. But the point of the list view is to make it simple to quickly see various information about games in a single place. And having ability to quickly create ordered lists based on the information available. And quickly compare the information available which is difficult to do if you're just viewing the game pages. It also takes time. And this also has nothing to do with "game's store page" or the "details view" (or the "grid view").

I'm sick of having to double click game I haven't installed, wait for a minute or so for Steam's install dialogue window to pop up, just so that I can see how large the game or application download size would be. I have to repeat that process several times just so I can better decide what games or applications I can start downloading. I can easily spend 10 to 15 minutes (or more) just to find out a game I am able to download and play on a same day. And that's not good for usability. Especially when it can be corrected with a minor modification, to already existing functionality.

It just makes no sense at all not to have it listed by default in the column similar to the one which shows how large the game's base folder is after you've installed it. It's more useful to see approximation of that information before you install the game. It's very important factor to know before the weekend for example. I have a slow internet connection, and I need to know if it's possible to download the game in a single day or does it take seven days.

And list view allows you to freely select which information is shown and which isn't. Adding few more points there you can decide if you want to see them or not give you, as a user, ability to decide how much information in list view is too much for you. I personally have a large monitor and I'd love to see more information in a single coherent list. I understand that people with smaller screens don't want that much information on the screen. And I completely understand it since my other two computers have 17" 1024x768 screens.

Valve also already has a tag system for non-vanilla servers in place, and you can search servers based on those tags. If you have nearly 200 games in your Steam library like I do, I'd extremely appreciate having an ability to either have preconfigured list view column for genres based on similar tagging approach which would free the categories for better arrangements than genres (like in my case).

Or user modifiable tags you can apply to a game library game, and search them, and ascend and descend the tags column which would be automatically arranged alphabetically. This would also free the categories for better arrangements, and perhaps replace categories altogether since it's not doing it's job which it was created for at the moment in my opinion.

Having a column for game controller support should be obvious. It's featured in big picture mode, but not in normal desktop views of Steam game library. Makes no sense to me. Making it a similar no icon, half-controller-icon, full-controller-icon, and make it act like the favourite star status column would be great functionality increasing usability. It would make it easy to see games which have controller support, compare games which controller support.

:-)

[Marzal]

I hope this is done soon, the client has a lot of potential to improve user experience in the game list with a few tweaks.

[KibaGasteiz]

Issues like this should be closed since they are library focused and they will be fixed or should be updated someway. This github page needs some cleaning, otherwise it seems like Steam is plagued by bugs and problems and it has not so many of them tbh.