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Additional thought: Simply adding the aforementioned search/sort/filter tools to the bundle pages would vastly improve our ability to navigate our purchases. It might even improve the experience of deciding whether to purchase a bundle, since one could get some fine detail on what is in those bundles. I recognize that there could be unforseen difficulty in adding a section to My Library that shows all the games in one place if Bundles are a component of our purchases, so I wanted to offer this as perhaps a stopgap solution to my issues.

Request:  Please introduce a section within My Library that shows me ALL of the games I bought in one place, and "copy-paste" (so to speak) the search, sort, and tag-based filtering features from your Browse page into this new section.

Reason: Right now, I don't know the total number of titles I bought. I purchsed 2 large bundles (Bundle for Ukraine (1000 titles), and the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality (1700 titles)) which gave me an un-useably large My Library section. I can't find a way to determine any overlap between the bundles I purchased to figure that out what I actually own. Beyond this, the My Library section itself totally lacks any useful useful search/sort/tag-filter features. Those tags are VERY useful for narrowing down the amount of content when browsing titles to purchase on your site. Folks in my situation need those same tools to help us navigate the huge amount of titles in our My Library sections. If I could search by genre/etc tags WITHIN "My Library" to find games I want to play based on their extant tags, this would make it so much easier to identify unfamiliar games in My Library and make it more likely for me to actually download and play them.

User Story: I bought a couple gigantic bundles and have (probably) over 2500 games in my library. (The My Library page doesn't ACTUALLY tell me how many games I own, I am guessing based on how many games were in the 2 bundles I bought.) I am daunted by how many titles I have to sift through. "What do I want to play today? Do I want a visual novel? A low-poly or pixelated retro experience? Something atmospheric? A horror game? An RPG?" I ask myself.

Well, my preferences don't matter, because in My Library I can only see what purchases I most recently downloaded. That is NOT a useful feature by any stretch of the imagination, since i already know what I recently played. I dont need to know that as badly as I need to know what I own.

At best, if I bought a bundle, I can go into a special bundle page that lists all of the bundle contents, within which I can search by Title, or Creator. This is also not very useful, because I basically have to KNOW or GUESS what is in My Library. I can also filter by Type, or Platform. This is still not very useful, because the filtering is quite course for the amount of games I now own. I can sort by A-Z, by Recently Added, Random, and "Default" (whatever that means). This is really not very useful for a 4-digit count of games in my Library. I can browse the bundle contents linearly, but there are 30 - 60 pages of titles, which is tedious to go through manually, and provides very little descriptive info on the games.

This is simply not helpful enough.

Conclusion: Given that the bundles I bought into have 1000 to 1700 games in them, and I'm not able to find where the bundles overlap, and the site simply lacks a page to find them all in one place, we are in need of an overhaul to the My Library section. For such a huge quantity of titles, the My Library section is woefully lacking in organization, search, filtration, and sorting. This makes it difficult for some (maybe many) users to find cool titles within the bundles they bought into. Your search/sort/filtering features already exist on the Browse page. Seems like the amount of work it would take to hook it up into a new section within the My Library page would be worth the effort, and vastly increase the usability of your site in the area where it really counts.

Thank you for reading.