Video Game BacklogPile of Shame AnalyzerFree · no account · read-only
Every game you own but never launched — as an actual, throwable pile.
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Sign in through Steam
Steam finds your ID for you. No password shared, no account created.
No sign-in
Paste your profile
A profile URL, vanity name, or SteamID64 all work.
No Steam
Try a sample pile
A real public library to poke at before you commit yours.
Read-only, nothing stored. Your Steam profile and Game details both need to be Public.
Memory check
Say titles out loud, let the judge verify them, and race the clock until the hundredth game lands.
How it works
The analyzer reads your public Steam library and shows every game you own but never launched — as an actual pile — plus where your hours really went and the date you'd clear the backlog at your current pace.
Step 1
Point us at your profile
Sign in through Steam (it finds your ID for you), or paste a profile URL, vanity name, or SteamID64. Game details must be public in your Steam privacy settings.
Step 2
We read the public library
One read-only pass over the official Steam Web API: owned games, recorded hours, and last-played dates. Nothing is stored.
Step 3
See the reveal
Every never-launched game rendered as a physical pile, your hours as work weeks, dormant favorites, and the date you'd clear the backlog at your current pace.
FAQ
Your pile of shame is every game you own but have never played. The analyzer counts each Steam game with zero recorded playtime, shows the pile as an actual stack of game cases, and tells you what share of your library you have never touched.
Sign in through Steam, or paste your Steam profile URL, vanity name, or SteamID64 into the analyzer. It reads your public library through the official Steam Web API and lists every game you have never launched. No account needed, and nothing is installed or changed.
Easiest: press "Sign in through Steam" and we find it for you. Manually: in the Steam client or on steamcommunity.com, click your name and choose View Profile, then copy the address bar URL — it looks like steamcommunity.com/id/yourname or steamcommunity.com/profiles/7656119…. If the client shows no address bar, enable it under Settings → Interface.
Yes — press "Throw a sample pile around" and the analyzer loads a real public Steam library so you can see the full reveal and toss the 3D cases yourself. The sample is clearly labeled; when you want your own numbers, sign in through Steam or paste your profile.
Steam hides game details by default. In Steam, open Profile → Edit Profile → Privacy Settings and set both "My profile" and "Game details" to Public. The change can take a few minutes to reach the Steam API.
Any game where Steam has recorded zero minutes of playtime. If you played something offline or before Steam tracked hours, Steam may still report it as unplayed — the analyzer reports exactly what Steam reports.
It assumes roughly 12 hours of main story per unplayed game, then divides that total by your current pace — your Steam playtime from the last two weeks projected forward. If you played nothing in the last two weeks, the honest forecast is that the pile never shrinks.
The analysis is read-only and uses only data your Steam privacy settings already make public. Nothing is saved to a database. Signing in through Steam is optional and happens entirely on Steam's own site — it only tells us your SteamID, never your password, and creates no account here.
Wondering whether your pile is normal? See gaming backlogs by the numbers — how many owned games are never played across public Steam data.
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