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Infinite Backlog

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A cozy social video gaming community 🩷🎮 We help you track your video game collection and encourage you to tackle your gaming backlog with challenges, lists, meta-games, and more—all for free! We'd love to see your collection! https://infinitebacklog.net

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Infinite Backlog @infinitebacklog.net · Aug 23

☑️ Huge video game backlog?
☑️ Decision paralysis?
☑️ Don't know what to play next?
☑️ Want to complete a game before buying a new one?

We can help! ✨

Our Challenges can be filtered by games you already own!
Pick a challenge, narrow it down to your collection, and get on the leaderboards! #gaming

Challenges

Take on these challenges to give you the boost of extra motivation you need to experience new games or work on your backlog while you get to earn cool rewards in the process!

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Analog Vernacular @analogvernacular.bsky.social · 1d

The backlog grows yet again!

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Infinite Backlog @infinitebacklog.net · 4d

Awww 😚

Infinite Backlog @infinitebacklog.net · 4d

CORRECTION: Two months! The challenge is two months long!

WTB edit button on Bluesky 😂

Infinite Backlog @infinitebacklog.net · 4d

CORRECTION: Two months! The challenge is two months long!

WTB edit button on Bluesky 😂

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Infinite Backlog @infinitebacklog.net · 4d

One of our community members created a "Backlog Blitz" challenge using our custom tag feature. The challenge is themed, and asks to beat 5 games in 1 month.

The creative ways our community kindly challenges each other to complete backlog games never fails to surprise and delight🩷

Click to join ⬇️

Backlog Blitz V1 - Join my challenge and beat your backlog!

I thought maybe it would be cool to do a little challenge in the upcoming months! Infinite Backlog has been here to help us beat our backlog, but I figured something like this would help us motivate e...

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Infinite Backlog @infinitebacklog.net · 4d

Option B sounds the most realistic

Elleroch @elleroch-ug.bsky.social · 5d

It’s Autumn Sale season! Do you…
A) Add Interstellar Sentinel to your library
B) Buy 10 games and play 2
C) Pretend your backlog isn’t real

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Arron Automata @arrontk.bsky.social · 6d

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D A Z E E L @thedazeel.bsky.social · 7d

Stop looking at sales, you’ve already got enough to play.

Stop looking at sales, you’ve already got enough to play.

Stop looking at sales, you’ve already got enough to play.

Stop looking at sales, you’ve already got enough to play.

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Infinite Backlog @infinitebacklog.net · 7d

We've published our Dev Update #10 with some incredible news about the progress our hard-working gaming community has made on filling in missing video game data in the @igdb.com database.

A huge community effort—all for the love of the hobby and helping people keep track of their collections 🩷

Dev Update #10: October 2025

This month’s dev blog takes a closer look at the Scholar’s Guild, the impact it’s already had, and what’s next.

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Infinite Backlog @infinitebacklog.net · 7d

Your backlog when you consider resubscribing to that newly price-increased subscription service...

Disappointed Cat GIF

Alt: A cat looking extremely disappointed and very judgy, as cats do.

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Nova Crystallis @novacrystallis.com · 9d

Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles launch celebration illustration by character designer Akihiko Yoshida:

from left: Mustadio, Ramza, Agrias, Delita, and Orlandeau

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Infinite Backlog @infinitebacklog.net · 8d

One of our community members said "This is my retirement plan"

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Case in point...

Shinobi602 @shinobi602.bsky.social · 8d

So October is looking absolutely ridiculous

Infinite Backlog @infinitebacklog.net · 8d

We're big fans of the retrospectives that @spoonshiro.com posts

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Infinite Backlog @infinitebacklog.net · 8d

Between the release of Final Fantasy Tactics, the Steam Autumn Sale, and all the amazing games that have been released in the last few months: It's a wonderful time to be a gamer, but a terrible time for our backlogs.

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Arkhangel is in the Borderlands @arkhangel79.bsky.social · 8d

a cartoon character is surrounded by lit candles and looks angry

ALT: a cartoon character is surrounded by lit candles and looks angry

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Infinite Backlog @infinitebacklog.net · 9d

Today is a brutal day for the Backlog Golfers.

#steamsale #backlog #rip #gaming

Backlog Golf

Take part in a year-long challenge where you try to finish more games than you add to your collection, gamifying your backlog and making it more satisfying to finish games.

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Jez @jezcorden.com · 10d

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spooky Chris A. 🎃 @letseatnachos.bsky.social · 11d

your toxic trait is "I have too many games in my backlog", my toxic trait is "I have too many games in my backlog and I also unironically liked the Bubsy the Bobcat game on SNES", we are not the same