[dathinab]

I won't say it's not hording, but there are also some other reasons you can't well untangle from hording:

- buying games you played pirated before (now that you can afford them), but you already played them so no need to play again

- buying games you played at someone else place, lend to you etc. Again you already played them but want to give back to the authors.

- buying games you will play later, and once you play them you have new games which you will played later -- leading to some constant amount of unplayed games (and some you end up never playing 'cause time)

- early access titles you already bought but will most likely only play on release

- buying very story driven games (mainly short indi games) where through watching someone else play you already now (and enjoyed) all the story but want to give bac to the authors anyway ("someone else" could be twitch, or you room mate, doesn't matter)

I have a few of this cases in my Steam library.

E.g. Little Misfortune for the last case or Hades 2 for the early access part or Dave the Diver for the I will definitely still play it part (very soon TM, jokes aside probably starting Wednesday).

Also one point I didn't include as it's kinda hording: Game bundles where you want all games but one, think the last game is still nice but anyway will never play it as there are too many other even better games.

[yreg]

- buying a bundle of 12 games to get the two games you actually want to play

- donating to a charity event that gives you games

[omnimus]

bundles have to be the biggest reason. i have actually spammed my steam account this way with big number of games that i have no idea what they even are and often times are just meh. you buy 10game bundle because its cheaper than 2 of the games you want bought separately and now i have 8 new unknown things on my account

[heelix]

I've got games that I intend to play later, and they were cheap enough that I don't think I'll save any more by waiting. I do intend to play Mad Max at some point - $5 was too much for me to add it to my library. $2.50? Fine... pulled the trigger with 9 other items I plan to do. The thing with steam is once you have them in your library, they remain. Some items are not sold anymore, however.

Looking at my queue over 20 years... likely hording. Nuts. One of the gotchas I bumped into was I really need a larger disk for games. Some of the newer stuff takes an enormous amount of space, which means it waits and waits.

[szatkus]

Also collections. I almost finished Tomb Raider II.