Tinder revolutionised dating with its simple UX concept of swiping left or right. Could the same idea now help gamers work through their backlog of games?
An indie game developer has created a free app called Dustpile that lets you sort through the games in your Steam library with a familiar mechanic. You simply swipe right to flag titles you actually want to play, or swipe left on those that no longer take your fancy.
Made a small revamp to Dustpile. Added in lots of new features and 8 very cool themes. I'm determined to take this tool and turn it into the ultimate 3rd party Steam discovery and library management tool while keeping it free forever pic.twitter.com/eS5ghOo8ZfJuly 8, 2026
Many gamers have built up big libraries of titles that they never get around to playing. Tolga Coşkun, the founder of Dumbbell Games, thought a Tinder-style app might help with the challenge of deciding which to play next by providing a fresh way to visualise that backlog.
Dustpile pulls in information from your Steam profile (you'll need to have it public), and filters to games that you've never played (or have played for under 2 - 10 hours), and presents them as cards. It also displays games' ratings, review highlights, the time needed to complete them and screenshots to help users find their match (I guess you just have to hope the game doesn't then ignore you).
The aim is to help you "actually decide instead of staring at a wall of capsule images," Tolga says.
The result is a shortlist grouped by genre and exportable as JSON/CSV or shareable via a link. There's also a wishlist mode and a stats screen that includes the possibly unwelcome revelation of how that pile of unplayed games is worth.
Tolga has said that he might put the app on Steam directly. For the moment it's available on his website in 12 languages. There's no need to sign up.
