Indie dev builds Tinder for your Steam backlog and it’s completely free
An indie developer built a Tinder-style web app that lets Steam users swipe through their unplayed libraries to finally confront the backlog.
If you’ve ever glanced at your Steam account and felt a pang of guilt over the 400 games you bought on sale and never touched, you’re hardly alone. The average Steam library is more graveyard than collection, and indie developer tolgatr0n decided the problem deserved its own intervention.
The tool is called Dustpile, and it works exactly the way it sounds.
Free web app turns your Steam library into a dating app for unplayed games
Dustpile asks users to paste their Steam profile link (no account creation required, though profiles need to be set to public) and then serves up every unplayed game as a card.
Each card displays the cover art, genre tags, price, Metacritic score, review excerpts, trailer screenshots, and HowLongToBeat estimates, so users can make a quick call without tabbing over to the store page. From here, you swipe right to keep a game for later, left to skip it entirely.
Once users have swiped through their pile, Dustpile sorts the survivors into a shortlist grouped by genre, which can be exported as JSON or CSV or shared via link.
A wishlist mode lets users apply the same ruthless triage to games they’ve been eyeing, and a stats screen tallies up exactly how much money is sitting unplayed in the library. The app supports 12 languages, costs nothing, and requires no signup.
tolgatr0n, who also runs indie studio Dumbbell Games, described the project as a side build motivated by a problem every PC gamer recognizes. Dustpile is not the first tool to gamify the backlog crisis, either. Another developer recently built a fake Steam store that lets users scratch the Summer Sale itch without spending real money, and one industry expert went so far as to argue that Steam thrives precisely because people hoard games they never play.
