I can’t speak to this backlogging website specifically, it’s one among a fair number of somewhat similar offerings, but I’ve been using Backloggd for a couple years now.
What these apps/sites ultimately help with is getting your gaming library in check, if you also end up buying far too many games every time there’s a sale or if you want to keep track of your physical collection (although there are better sites for that).
Depending on the site’s focus, you might also get average completion times per game or user reviews.
I’ve actually found myself more interested in the “social” aspect of backloggd, eg user reviews (and making my own), ratings, user-made lists, because they’ve helped me discover games I wouldn’t have otherwise given a chance to or even heard about.
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Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Interesting concept. Could be a useful service to people, could also just a means to analyse player habits for marketing and game design purposes.
Is anyone using this, and has it had any positive impact for you?
any1th3r3@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
YellaLeber@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’ve used it for a while. It’s good enough but you can tell it’s still early days for the site. It’ll sync your achievements and playtime with steam and gog so that’s cool but then it’ll lag a bit maneuvering around the site and remind you that the products not fully done. They also offer a premium subscription where you can get early access to features and other promotions but I haven’t ever really felt the need to get that. Honestly my biggest hangup is that they’re just newer; if the site dies then I’m concerned with all of my tracking just going poof one day since I write little journal entries for them to remind me how I felt about certain games. Overall it’s fine, but maybe check out some others first.
mohab@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Does it actually help you find others with similar taste? I'm yet to find any app that actually does this well.
YellaLeber@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Are you talking about an automatic curated suggestion list like how steam does? I don’t think there’s really anything like that. The site does have a community created lists section where people can create categories and add games to them while explaining their thoughts on it a little bit, like this.