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Is Piling Up Games Part of Play? On the Shelf of Things You Bought and Never Launched

I filtered my Steam library by "unplayed" and got a longer list than I expected. A backlog carries a faint sense of guilt. Yet I never felt guilty about the unnamed pots on the shelves of Strange Horticulture (Bad Viking, 2022). What is the difference? I sat Seneca, who wrote that too many books are a burden, across from Walter Benjamin, who wrote an essay while unpacking his own library.