Not a perfect one-to-one app version of Backloggery, which I would use instead if they ever made an app themselves. As it stands however, it is a useful tool for sorting games into whatever category I please for those days when I can’t pick a game and just want to look at a few choices on a theme. In terms of making playlists and adding to the library, I have a few gripes that made it a little annoying to use that I hope to see improved:
- search bar is super specific and won’t find what you’re looking for if you’re slightly off, right down to hyphens or spaces or atypical characters like the accent in Pokémon. Could really benefit from predictive text or a more lax search function.
- the database that the app pulls game titles from is completely missing a few titles I tried to enter. Probably nothing that most gamers will notice since it’s mostly older arcade games, but might be worth a manual once-over. Would like a way to manually enter game titles or add to the database.
- would really like an option to sort playlists the way you can sort libraries
- would also really like an option to see all in your library, as opposed to individual console libraries.
- program alphabetizes in a way that counts “A”, “The,” etc. as the first word, thus putting any game that starts with “The” under T, etc., which is incorrect and makes it hard to find a lot of titles. A nitpick that I’m not sure how easy it is to fix, but there it is.
- measuring completion by a percentage is kind of arbitrary, especially if you’re going into a game blind and don’t know how far along you are. Would prefer ‘beaten’ and ‘completed’ status buttons ala Backloggery, or at least a box to put my own notes on my progress.
App is otherwise useful, I just hope it improves down the line.