Yessiree The Backloggery

The Backloggery. I’ve mentioned it in almost every post so far, so I might as well tell you what it is.

The Backloggery is a website designed to help gamers work on diminishing their backlog, the long list of games you bought but never finished. By putting in all of your games, you begin to realize what you’ve been skipping out on and can see just what needs to be done.

Now obviously, this is definitely a website for completionists, those who must collect every single minikit even though you never look at the 10 piece creation it unlocks. The Backloggery allows you to see your progress and show it off to friends or even just passers-by, a quality one doesn’t always have within the sanctuary of an apartment, college dorm room, basement, bedroom, or Starbucks. Well, maybe a Starbucks.

Now, this is what the Backloggery is basically designed for, the “primary function” if you will. Now let’s look at what you can do with your very own Backloggery account.

1.      A Go-to for a list of games you have.

You see, some people have a lot of video games. A lot. Sometimes, it’s hard to keep track of what you have, what you rented one time, what you used to have, and what you beat at a friend’s house. However, after one time of plugging in your video game collection into the Backloggery, your entire game collection is easily categorized based on platform and completion status, and you can search for them using other qualities such as region, ownership status, and your personal rating of the game. This brings me to my next point.

2.      Mini-Review Site

For each game you can put in a little blurb on your progress. While you’re supposed to just use it to tell people how far you are in a game, a lot of people use it to express their opinion on their games. You can use this to refer people to your opinions on games without having to restate your opinions, or you can use it simply to get your  point of view out there.

3.      Watch people play video games.

The people who run the Backloggery often host livestream sessions of them playing video games. Unfortunately for me, their schedule is a little out of my loop, so I don’t check in very often. But if livestreaming is your kinda thing, then by all means give it a shot.

4.      Social Networking

Using the Multi-tap function, you can receive messages when your friends do things on their Backloggery. Then you can talk about it. Cool Beans.

And that’s the gist of it. I hope one day to make a video tutorial on the basics of the Backloggery, but for now you’ll just have to settle for my vague description of it. But give it a check out, you probably won’t regret it.