OCTOBER 2019 PCWorld 25Recent Games is
probably the subsection
I’m most excited about,
giving you a quick and
easy way to jump back
into whatever you’ve been
playing. During the demo
there were maybe ten
games listed, going back
over two weeks of activity.
More than enough for
most people, I assume.
The other lists are
essentially data that’s been
accessible in the store to
this point, but which has
been missing from your
actual library. What’s New
surfaces games that have recently been
updated, with the algorithm slanted toward
those you either play heavily or used to play
heavily. And Recent Friend Activity is exactly
what it sounds like, full of games your Steam
friends are playing.
Don’t care about any of these lists? That’s
fine. The current Steam Library view survives
intact anyway, with all your games sorted
alphabetically on the left-hand side. Even this
is getting upgraded though, with the old
Categories now replaced by Collections.
If you’ve never used Categories, I don’t
blame you. Organizing your Steam library has
been a tedious task to this point, requiring
you to right-click a game (or a number of
Steam’s new Library Home page.games), then choose Set Categories, then
select which categories you wanted a game
to appear under—or add them to a new one
of your creation.
I make extensive use of Categories,
because with thousands of games Steam
would be almost unusable otherwise. The
process is cumbersome though.
Collections are easier to assemble and
much more powerful. First and foremost you
can now drag-and-drop, so no need for that
whole right-click process I listed above. You
just grab a game and pull it where it needs to
go, which is a relief.
There are also myriad sorting options.
Some of these are personal, like the ability to