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To add on to starting and stopping games at will, take some time to just organize your library of games too! I have mine sorted into several categories...
It takes a lot of focus and work at first, and a LOT of flipping between the page in your library and the store page to see if you want to play a certain game. I axed stuff pretty liberally and at different points in my life, I've gone back and pruned that list of what I want to play and see if I realllllllly still wanted to play it. I also found organizing my library a bit of that kind of "mindless enjoyable" that you can just get into a flow state to go through.
Once it's done though, when a new game gets added to my Steam Library, I can immediately "triage" it into one of those categories because it's the only thing not categorized. It's taken my library of what is now almost 1300 games acquired over 15 years and given it some more structure. Of that list, today I have ~250 in some version of "want to play", ~400 in some version of played, and ALL the rest in that zero interest/duplicate category.
That's a great idea actually. I do something similar for the Anime I watch using MyAnimeList.
I've actually started doing this after reading this and Steam makes it super easy to sort through the categories. They even carry over to the Steam Deck as well which is nice. Thanks for the suggestion!
Of course! One thing I'll mention since you said you have a Steam Deck: I split my "want to plays" into a Steam Deck and PC category (some games may be Verified/Playable but I'd rather play them on the PC, others may be unsupported but ProtonDB says they're fine). When I got my Deck, I did a pass through my Want To Play list on the Deck itself with DeckyLoader and the ProtonDB Badges plugin to determine if a game I wanted to play was better there or the PC.
Yeah I have a "nextlist" that I maintain in a Todoist project, that just lists the next book, game, movie, show, podcast, etc.
I add to it and rearrange priorities occasionally, but it's super nice to have when I get into that analysis paralysis you describe.