Three years ago I quit my job to go after something I actually cared about. It didn't work. Then I started a gaming essay YouTube channel. Poured months into it. That didn't work either.
I'm telling you this because I want to be upfront that I'm not someone with a track record. I'm someone who keeps trying things and will not stop until I succeed.
Recently here is something that finally stuck with me. I have over 300 games in my Steam library. Most nights I sit down with two free hours, open Steam, scroll, close it, open YouTube, watch someone else play something for 40 minutes, and go to bed having played nothing. I've done this hundreds of times. The library that was supposed to be the reward became the obstacle.
I kept thinking about Letterboxd — how it turned watching films into something you *keep*. A record. A shelf. Your taste, visible to you. Nothing like that exists for games on mobile. Backloggd is close but it's a website, and the mobile experience isn't there.
So I've been building it. Nights and weekends, around a full-time job, on my own.
Where it's at right now:
* Steam integration — connect your account, your whole library imports with playtime. No manual entry.
* Game data pulls live so covers, genres, and metadata are real, not placeholder.
* An adaptive layer that learns what you actually finish versus what you bounce off, and uses that to narrow the choice down instead of showing you everything.
* A game recommendation system that helps in discovering games that align with your taste.
The whole point is one thing: kill the decision fatigue. Less scrolling. More playing.
I'm not asking anyone to sign up for anything. I mostly want to know if this problem is as universal as I think it is, or if I'm building a solution to my own broken brain.
**So genuinely — how do you decide what to play next? Do you have a system, or do you also just scroll until the evening's gone?**