I had a look at my current state of affairs re my games collection and am posting this non-essential information here just for the heck of it.

I currently have 1690 games (including a few on PS3, Wii, Gameboy Color) and saw that I have finished (at least the base game/campaign/easy setting) 265 with 60 in progress. That leaves me with a backlog of 1365 games. It's a good thing I retired early so that I can have more time to play my games.

The one I am currently spending most time with is Red Dead Redemption. I most recently finished Grim Legends 1: The Forsaken Bride.

See posts 29-32 for all games I have finished. Names in Italics are games I posted reviews for on gog.

For those of you who really have time to kill, here follows a list of all the games I have in progress - some of these I haven't touched for months or even a few years ...

Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express; Age of Wonders 1; Anno 1602; Appointment with F.E.A.R.;
Baldur's Gate 1; Braid; Brogue;
Caesar 3; Castlemouse 2000; Chocolatier; Coin Crypt; Concrete Jungle; Crypt of the Necrodancer;
D&D: Eye of the Beholder; Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble; Darkstar One; Desktop Dungeons; DROD 1: King Dugan's Dungeon; Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup; Dweep (Gold);
Elements; Europa 1400: The Guild; Europa Universalis 1;
Fallout 3 GOTY edition; Football Manager 2005 & 10 & 11;
Grey Matter;
Heroes of Loot;
Ironcast;
Lemonade Tycoon; Limbo; Loren the Amazon Princess;
Meat Boy;
Plants vs Zombies GOTY; Pokemon Gold, Powerslide;
Rooms: The Main Building;
Sacred 1 Gold edition; SimCity 2000 Special edition; Spewer; Starbound; Starcrawlers; Stardew Valley; Strimko; Super Granny 6;
Terraria; The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion; The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim; The Journeyman Project 1: Pegasus Prime; The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky 1; The Office; Time Fcuk;; Treasure Adventure Game; Treasure Quest; Triachnid; Tropico 1;
X: Beyond the Frontier;
Youda Survivor;
Zelda: Link's Awakening.

I'm also working towards all 'achievements/stars/etc.' on Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale and Batman Arkham Origins, playing through the extra cave in Torchlight. I've also started a new career in Football Manager 2012 and am replaying King's Bounty: The Legend.

Updated 08/01/19

Maybe we should swap our backlogs - yours has so many games in it that I would not be interested in playing or finishing that it actually looks manageable enough for me to get through it in less than a year. :D

(If you haven't touched some of them for a long time, maybe there was a reason?)

Yes there is ... I keep buying and trying new ones and then ... the others are left waiting (patiently, I hope).

Oh, and those games listed are not my backlog - they're the ones I'm "busy" with. The 1169 backlog is not listed here.

best thing to do is lose your internet for a while.

Since you own games on both PC's and consoles I recommend you multitask to speed things up a little.

I'd call that your collection. If you actually intend to complete all of them, you have a problem. :D

Just acknowledge that it's okay to buy a game just to try it for a while, and accept that there might be quite a few mispurchases along the way, while you're trying to find the hidden gems that really click with you. And concentrate on those - the ones that draw you in, that make you want to learn the end of the story, or that are just plain and simple fun to play. Make a list of the top 5-10 games in your collection that you absolutely need to play or finish in this lifetime and forget about the rest until you've reached that goal.

I can't be the only person who's never heard of it, so for those others who are curious, here's the MobyGames entry:
Captain Bible

Apparently there's even a "Special Edition".

Is this a recent one, or one you haven't been working on for years?

ha ha yeah.

You get on the computer to check your mail, then you get into taking a quick glance at this and a quick glance at that and the next thing you know it's 2 a.m.

It's probably why I have better luck finishing handheld games while watching tv or whatever

I was thinking more of it just prevents you from buying more games / downloading those you've not played... but that also works!

Nice idea, but I think my console games only number about 10. I haven't even had a powerplug on my tv for the last 3 years, so I've not touched e.g. Red Dead Redemption since. My hands are too dumb to handle them controllers. Nice advice, thanks. I'm not complaining and I do manage to knock a number of games off as "finished at least the story or easiest level" from time to time, but the backlog are the ones that I haven't done any more than check to see that they at least work on one of my PCs. I already avoid buying games I know I'll never play/like, e.g. horror games. I am planning to play all these on the backlog if I live long enough. I haven't played this one for about a year or so - I have managed to make some decent progress on it, but it is on one of my older PCs that I haven't fired up in a while. Yes, I got what you meant, at least there are only about 70 games still on my gog wishlist, lol. I hardly spend any time on the 'net and on average about 12 hours a day playing games - nearly never online.

in that case invest in gene thereapy and hope for additional arms soon?! O_____o

2 additional arms, 1 additional, fully fitted head - I guess I'll have to spend some more time on the internet after all ... to order groceries. Can't go out looking like that!

o_______O!!

I'm pretty sure staying online in those circumstances will assure you will be playing a different kind of "singleplayer experience"!

O_______O7

This is why I've only been buying from here. It removes a large portion of games that I would purchase from Steam, Origin, Uplay, Humble, Local Store. Sticking to one system helps too ie. computer.

I still have a large backlog, despite limiting my avenues.

I can feel your inner conflict, mysteriuz - even without psychic powers. We have a self-help group for this kind of problem:

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/official_stop_buying_games_selfhelp_group

Many people are suffering from the same affliction, at different levels of intensity. I only have an unplayed backlog of about 160 games but I have 90+ games installed and in progress right now which is probably too much. I don't have that much time and energy for gaming so I only play when I'm in the mood and only for as long as it's fun. Most games will get abandoned and only a few finished. This year, I finished only 29 games so far, simple stuff for the most part. I'm also playing a lot of more involved games but those take too much time and effort to finish so I just take them as far as it's fun.

Having too many games is imho less problematic than if you keep buying too many new ones. You're probably thinking that you're just going to buy those 70 games on your wishlist and then be done with buying but that's an illusion. You'll purge your wishlist and then you'll binge-add new ones and it will never end, never ever! That's why some structured strategy / self-therapy can help. I'm still buying more games than I should or need but I've already improved by 500% compared to last year.
It's mostly due to my strategy of having to buy one gift code for every game I buy for myself and this surprisingly ends up saving me money, as odd as that sounds. I'd be buying tons more games and spending way more if I didn't have to buy everything twice.