Whenever i finish a game i add it to my played shelf , which by default has a descending order from the newest shelf addition to the oldest. My issue comes when i add games to the played shelf that i had forgotten to add to my collection / played shelf . Games i might have played last year or a few years ago . By doing that this game will display as the latest game i have played . Do this often enough , and my Played timeline becomes a time travelling mess . Is there any way to add a game to my Played shelf and push it back in the list so i can keep my recent played timeline correct ?
You can sort by date completed
When sorting by Date Finished i get a completely random sorting of the games . Some of my games have random Time Played that i have never put there and are 100% not accurate , for example it has counted my Portal 2 playthrough as 1 minute . Most of the games dont even have a time played .
I dont want to have to manually enter date started , date finished and playthrough time for each game .
Thatās pretty concrete.
Maybe you can use Date added order and then manually change the exceptions?
The Date added to the Played shelf cant be modified .
The only way i can think of to fix this is going manually on each and every title and adding a date finished.
But even if i do this, there isnt any way to make this order the default one, each time i need to change the sorting settings.
Iā¦ somewhat changed the default order in the past, but I donāt really know how I did it.
I will try to help @Amoxichilling , I think I understand what you are trying to do. However, I am pretty sure it is impossible to get the specific result that you are wanting without adding in the start date + date finished for all games. (I am lucky to have noticed this early on when starting grouvee with only a few hundred games in my shelves, so i went through, gave all the old NES and Atari classics a ādate played + date finishedā basically matching that of their release date year (December 31st I think) and have been good ever since!) I straight up think you should just go ahead and bite the bullet and do that on an afternoon if this is important to you, if not you should just sort the shelf with a default of ārelease dateā I mean you got a little over 150 games, its not that badā¦ I agree, it would be nice if there was another workaround to this as it can become a bit of a trojan horse if you add thousand or more games, but if the only information you give the database is when it was added to the shelf, that will be the only way it can sort the game, because thatās all youāve told it, lol.
But, you still highlight a potential oversight. Users who donāt do that and then later realize their mistake donāt really have an alternative other than going back through the shelves and flagging that field. Maybe a solution to this at some point could be implemented. I can think of two solutions here.
first solution is straight forward: Allow a user to somehow mass-fill the date finished field for anything on a shelf with the release date if the date finished field is empty. This would work well for all the users who retroactively āforgotā to do it and donāt want to bother with it such as OP.
An alternative solution would be for Negative/reverse filters to somehow be used in the old shelf-style. Users who want to not add date played fields and just rely on date added could still get the outcome you are after and not have older games (such as the 30 or so NES titles theyāve added in November of 2024 as a hypothetical example) show up could do so with a negative filter using a secondary sorting criteria of āthat was added to shelf on dateā but ādated addedā is āgreater than 10, 5 years from release date?ā This would in effect make it otherwise sort from initial sorting criteria, but if those conditions are met would not display the outlier games This isnāt a perfect solution but would help clean up a list so it doesnāt look as janky on the eyes (That only half works, because those games are now not in the list at all, but might be a working solution for some people but seems a bit wonky, though a negative criteria for sorting might have other uses, i canāt think of them though. but thought it was worth a mention)
Also @Daninokuni I am glad you mention this because itās not clear how to create the default sortā¦ (i imagine a lot of older users have forgotten and new ones donāt even know you can do this) Your comment was enough to get me to look at my own played shelf and seeing it was out of order too, this annoyed me enough to fix it:
First, Edit your played shelf and make sure the played shelf is unranked:
Second, click Use old shelf style at the bottom of the shelf page:
Third, set your sorting options that you want:
Fourth, Click Set Default:
Congrats, now you are ready to go back to the new shelf view (if you prefer) and your games will keep this load order, and so will new games if you flag that date finished field. 
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Iām so used to the actual order that I didnāt even try again, but it looks like itās time to choose my favourite order now. Thanks
I clearly have some work to do to streamline this process 
Thank you for the detailed write up.
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Thank you ! I added a DateFinished on all the games iāve played in 2024 , and have started going back and add DateFinished ( for Steam games iām using the last time i played a game from my steam library game page ) for all the older titles. I cant see any particular reason to add a DateStarted , so im leaving that empty. I wanted to avoid doing all this , but as you said there is no other way to get the exact sorting i want without adding some dates .
but if the only information you give the database is when it was added to the shelf, that will be the only way it can sort the game, because thatās all youāve told it, lol.
In my mind i was looking for something like the way Steamās wish-list shelf works, and it might be a cool implementation for the site . You can sort your steam wish-list by Date Added , Rank etc . If you sort by Rank , every new game you add to the wish list is being added in an ascending order , BUT you can manually grab a title and move it wherever you want while the new titles that are being added in your wish-list are still added in ascending order.
So you actually have a list that adds new titles in ascending order , and also have the freedom to grab and push titles to any rank in the list you want .
I have an issue though with setting the default order. It works perfectly well while i am in the old shelf style , but when i switch to the new style it goes back to sorting them by dateAdded to the Played shelf. If i switch back to old style, it remembers the default sorting i had set.
I can live with the old shelf style , but im curious as to why this is happening .
Thanks for this explanation! I use DateFinished to arrange my completed games and have for a long time, but on the new shelves, when I arrange by the DateFinished, the view would only last so long and revert back. I didnāt know how to keep it as the default for good and didnāt make the connection between the old shelf view and the new one.