PC World - USA (2019-10)

26 PCWorld OCTOBER 2019

NEWS STEAM OVERHAULS LIBRARY

sort by hours played—a

feature I just lauded in the

GOG Galaxy 2.0 beta (go.

pcworld.com/gog2) a

few months back. Excited

to see it come to Steam.

Many leverage Valve’s

existing meta-data

though. You can, for

instance, tell Steam to

display only games you

own that are RPGs with

full controller support—

and then create what

Valve’s calling a Dynamic

Collection. From then on,

any games you buy that

match those criteria (or

any others you specify)

will automatically

populate under the

correct list. And while I

only listed a few generic

criteria above, Valve says

you’ll be able to search

by any of the hundreds of

tags that exist on the

Steam storefront, which should give you

plenty of ways to narrow and sort your library.

If there’s a collection you’re particularly

interested in, you can also add that to your

Library Home page as a Shelf. This creates

another horizontal row of tiles that works the

same as those What’s New and Recent

The old Categories have been replaced by Collections.

Collections are easier to assemble.

Activity categories I mentioned above.

The larger my personal Steam library’s

grown, the harder I’ve found to wrangle it

using the existing tools. I’d be hard-pressed

to argue that the update is daring or

innovative, but it’s definitely necessary. I’m

excited to digitally declutter.