How to Clear Your Backlog

>Step 1: Get off of Any Forums

The more time you spend talking about vidya, the less time you have to play vidya.
This extends to social media on the whole. Don't go on YouTube. Disconnect wi-fi often.
If you need a guide for a harder game then download it to a file beforehand. It's that easy.
Any Forums is bad in particular because this place has a crab-bucket mentality towards non-FOTM games.

>Step 2: Plan Your Approach

There are tons of ways to do this but what matters is that you lay out a literal game plan.
When did you buy/pirate these games? Are they long/short, easy/hard, simple/complex?
Priority is the key. If you're already partway through games, it is crucial to do those first.
Personally I like to go by purchase history. Newly bought game, older one, in-between.
Whatever you do, don't have a "fallback" game you've already beaten. That's not good.

>Step 3: Actually Play the Fucking Games

Don't idle in menus. Don't pore over achievement lists. Single-player always comes before MP.
Even in-game you will waste time in specific ways, like checking stats. Move forward always.
EXAMPLE: If you are grinding in a JRPG, never check your EXP. Get back to grinding.
If you get bored, switch games or drop the one you're on. Don't be a completionist.

>Step 4: Make it Routine

You'll get to where you get out of bed and it's like you're a kid again: Straight to gaming.
But only if you stick to it. Unironically, playing video games can be tough to uphold.
Don't ever be afraid to add new games to the backlog. Don't even worry about the backlog.
Because when it's routine you can experiment and still keep beating more games.

>TL;DR if you want to clear your backlog you need to stop browsing Any Forums, make an offline list of games you want to beat, and actually commit to it instead of letting the "backlog curse" wear you down

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based sigma gamer

I actually go on Any Forums because I'm trying to play less video games

I removed every game I wasn't interested in from my Steam library, 792 games. Over the past three years, I've not bought a single video game and have instead only played the remaining 15 games. It's been a lot of fun, and now I'm working on the games of franchises I started out of those 15 that I enjoyed.
>DELETE YOUR STEAM GAMES
>START ANEW

but what if i have crippling depression and no motivation to do anything, let alone game?

best way to clear a backlog is to not have one. if a game isn't good enough to make me to play it when i get it, then it's not worth my time.

Why delete if you can just make category "not interested" or something

>Get off you're ass
>Write list of games on a sheet of paper with a pen/cil
>Start to game

Simple as

Because I can always bring them back if I decide to revisit it, but I like not seeing them in my library or my Steam profile. Before I buy a game, I always check the Steam support tab first to see if I got it in some humble bundle years ago.

I have actually taken this advice, played 30 hours of ff13 in the last 3 weeks. My issue is my family treating me like the errand boy and I literally don't have the time that I probably should