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Just a heads up, I'm seeing extra ads on the site through mobile. These were not approved by me. Google has apparently taken liberty to do whatever they want.

I'll look into it shortly.

EDIT: Apparently Google decided to turn on Auto Ads, I've disabled it.

Noticed it too since I'm using a mobile device (iPod Touch) to browse this site 90% of the time. Also, the ad is displayed at the top of everything which is annoying. It's still showing too... I hope this goes away soon.

Would it be possible to split the PC platform to mention which storefront you have the game on? Examples being "PC - Steam" or "PC - Origin" or something like that? It would also be nice to be able to have multiple custom tabs as well as being able to use multiple sorting options. An example of that would be to first sort by rating and THEN sort by time to complete. It would also be cool if you could combine multiple games together into one entry and which would average the rating and add the completion times together. This could be useful if you want to play all of the games in a series back to back. Maybe this is all asking too much but they would be nice-to-have features to organize my games list to figure out what I should play next.

The platform field is to split playtimes by the relevant platform, for the sites primary function of keeping completion times. There is no reason to separate the same identical PC code into different sub categories so that people can organise their private collections. As recently discussed if anything, we need to merge the PC VR categories for much the same reason, it's counter intuitive to the aim of the site to do this sort of splitting. I won't speak for Everdred, but I think that particular request is unlikely based on past discussions.

As for multiple custom lists, this is something I would be interested in myself, but I don't know if anything has ever been said about the possibility.

Would it be possible to split the PC platform to mention which storefront you have the game on? Examples being "PC - Steam" or "PC - Origin" or something like that? It would also be nice to be able to have multiple custom tabs as well as being able to use multiple sorting options. An example of that would be to first sort by rating and THEN sort by time to complete. It would also be cool if you could combine multiple games together into one entry and which would average the rating and add the completion times together. This could be useful if you want to play all of the games in a series back to back. Maybe this is all asking too much but they would be nice-to-have features to organize my games list to figure out what I should play next.

Basically what lowdefal said. However, I'm messing with a Owned/Collection type system right now and that would include being able to input storefront. That could be a while off though.

I guess I'm not using the website the way it's supposed to be used. I suppose I could just create a spreadsheet to do what I want but I liked that this site had completion times and ratings built in so maybe I wouldn't have to do that. Oh well.

Would it be possible to have more information when we are looking at our backlog tab besides just the game title, progress, and rating? Including things like release date on that screen could be useful too. Clicking "show details" doesn't really reveal anything helpful.

Would it be possible to have more information when we are looking at our backlog tab besides just the game title, progress, and rating? Including things like release date on that screen could be useful too. Clicking "show details" doesn't really reveal anything helpful.

Currently, the information shown is based on what sort type you have chosen. If you pick release date, it will show that, etc. I'm looking at ways to display more information in the future, like a "view type".

Site Update:
Literally thousands of new box arts. I'm focusing on bringing most of them to a traditional box art style. 6:9ish ratio.

I've purged all cached images so they will be rebuilding for a bit.

Site Update:
- Couple new images on the home page. (Outer Worlds, COD:MW)
- Recents Games now shows some basic details.


Edit: Minor update, I've tightened it up a bit.

The color-coding of the text denoting what category your game is in is such a little touch, but I really like it.

Site Update:
- Couple new images on the home page. (Outer Worlds, COD:MW)
- Recents Games now shows some basic details.


Edit: Minor update, I've tightened it up a bit.

I really like how it looks!

Could we actually get our custom list as an option for the quick games list? That's easily what I refer to the most.

Site Update:
- Changes to Options page
- Ability to delete account and data.
- The site now supports 2 additional Custom Lists (3 Total)
- Changes to all the various places where lists are handled.


Adding 2 additional lists ended up being a substantial amount of work. I have plans for the future on additional options and views for your playthoughs/profile. This should allow more flexibility. An example would be having one of your custom lists be an "Owned" or "Collection" list with the ability to use a boxart view. Maybe some special fields to allocate price paid or storefront. It'll take a quite a bit of prototyping though because I want it to be clean and simple. Here is an example of a boxart style view that combines playthoughs

Site Update:
- Changes to Options page
- Ability to delete account and data.
- The site now supports 2 additional Custom Lists (3 Total)
- Changes to all the various places where lists are handled.


Adding 2 additional lists ended up being a substantial amount of work. I have plans for the future on additional options and views for your playthoughs/profile. This should allow more flexibility. An example would be having one of your custom lists be an "Owned" or "Collection" list with the ability to use a boxart view. Maybe some special fields to allocate price paid or storefront. It'll take a quite a bit of prototyping though because I want it to be clean and simple. Here is an example of a boxart style view that combines playthoughs

Amazing work! I don't know what I'd do if this website was not around. :)

Site Update:
- Changes to Options page
- Ability to delete account and data.
- The site now supports 2 additional Custom Lists (3 Total)
- Changes to all the various places where lists are handled.


Adding 2 additional lists ended up being a substantial amount of work. I have plans for the future on additional options and views for your playthoughs/profile. This should allow more flexibility. An example would be having one of your custom lists be an "Owned" or "Collection" list with the ability to use a boxart view. Maybe some special fields to allocate price paid or storefront. It'll take a quite a bit of prototyping though because I want it to be clean and simple. Here is an example of a boxart style view that combines playthoughs

I've been trying to use the new added lists, but they do not show on my backlog, and I've set them up a couple of times, but they seem to reset

EDIT: One of the lists is fully working now, it seems you need to wait for it to process

Site Update:
- Changes to Options page
- Ability to delete account and data.
- The site now supports 2 additional Custom Lists (3 Total)
- Changes to all the various places where lists are handled.


Adding 2 additional lists ended up being a substantial amount of work. I have plans for the future on additional options and views for your playthoughs/profile. This should allow more flexibility. An example would be having one of your custom lists be an "Owned" or "Collection" list with the ability to use a boxart view. Maybe some special fields to allocate price paid or storefront. It'll take a quite a bit of prototyping though because I want it to be clean and simple. Here is an example of a boxart style view that combines playthoughs

This is pretty great! Thanks for putting in the work for this.

Everdred, in case you don't see: https://howlongtobeat.com/forum.php?&thread=1815
https://howlongtobeat.com/forum.php?&thread=1817

If you backlog a game and then go to the "quick add" and select "playing" it doesn't add a playing status to the backlogged game, it creates a separate entity with no platform. This also means you can be "playing" a backlogged game and then use quick add playing to have two instances of "playing" for the same game.

If you backlog a game and then go to the "quick add" and select "playing" it doesn't add a playing status to the backlogged game, it creates a separate entity with no platform. This also means you can be "playing" a backlogged game and then use quick add playing to have two instances of "playing" for the same game.

doesn't this happen for any addition? as in - you'll always get an additional entry unless you 'edit' the original backlog entry?

doesn't this happen for any addition? as in - you'll always get an additional entry unless you 'edit' the original backlog entry?

Yeah, I always considered this a "feature" for those weird users - like Everdred - who replay a game multiple times and log each duplicate.

If you backlog a game and then go to the "quick add" and select "playing" it doesn't add a playing status to the backlogged game, it creates a separate entity with no platform. This also means you can be "playing" a backlogged game and then use quick add playing to have two instances of "playing" for the same game.

That's the reason why playing was never originally an option but I had a quite a few requests about "Why can't I add a game straight to my playing list?".

So I have 2 options:
I can make the quick add apply to only a single playthrough entry where whatever categories you check all apply.
Or I have the option that each item clicked goes to it's own list.

It gets tricky... Maybe you want to say "I own this game, ADD to CUSTOM playlist. It's also on my BACKLOG, add it there.

Maybe you own a game on multiple platforms? I have 3 versions of BioShock (X360, XOne, PC) but I only want to have Xbox One as "Playing".

So it's not a bug, it's by design for flexibility but I can see why it's annoying.

I don't know how you have it coded so it probably isn't worth the hassle, but I would think that ideally if you have a game in a list and you select "playing" it would see that existing game and mark it as playing. If there were multiple instances on several lists or platforms, then it would do what it does now, though I think that would actually be a lot less common for people to have several instances of the same game. Anyway, not really a big deal, I don't normally select playing from there anyway, which is why I just now noticed it.

Site Update:
Literally thousands of new box arts. I'm focusing on bringing most of them to a traditional box art style. 6:9ish ratio.

I've purged all cached images so they will be rebuilding for a bit.

I'm finally noticing the changes, and I'm a fan.

Out of curiosity, are you selecting the box art manually for each game or pulling it from somewhere?

I'm finally noticing the changes, and I'm a fan.

Out of curiosity, are you selecting the box art manually for each game or pulling it from somewhere?

A few hundred manual, and a couple thousand thanks to Steam's new library interface.

I don't know how you have it coded so it probably isn't worth the hassle, but I would think that ideally if you have a game in a list and you select "playing" it would see that existing game and mark it as playing. If there were multiple instances on several lists or platforms, then it would do what it does now, though I think that would actually be a lot less common for people to have several instances of the same game. Anyway, not really a big deal, I don't normally select playing from there anyway, which is why I just now noticed it.

Prototyping a solution:



It would show your existing playthoughs just like your profile and give you the same options.