How to Track Games Across PS5, Switch, Xbox & PC in One Place

June 2025 · 5 min read

Most gamers in 2025 don't play on just one platform. A PS5 for exclusives, a Nintendo Switch for portable gaming, a PC for strategy games and indie titles, maybe Xbox Game Pass on top of that. Each platform has its own ecosystem, its own store, its own library — and none of them talk to each other.

The result: you don't actually know what you own, you can't remember what you've already completed, and you can't get recommendations that understand your full taste. Your PS5 doesn't know you love indie platformers from your Switch. Your Steam account doesn't know you just completed God of War.

Why platform-native tools fall short

What to look for in a cross-platform game tracker

Not all trackers handle multi-platform gaming equally. Here's what matters:

• Platform-agnostic game database — should include titles from PS5, Switch, Xbox, PC, and older platforms. RAWG is the best open database for this with 800,000+ games.
• Manual add with smart search — since no tracker can automatically pull from all platforms, search needs to be fast and accurate
• Status tracking — Backlog, Playing, Completed, Dropped at minimum
• Cross-platform recommendations — suggestions should be based on everything you've played, not just one storefront's data
• HLTB integration — completion times help you plan sessions across games of wildly different lengths

How to set up a cross-platform backlog

1. Start with your most-played platform

Don't try to catalogue everything at once — you'll burn out before you start. Pick the platform where you have the most completed games and add those first. Completed games are the most valuable data because they teach the recommendation algorithm your taste.

2. Add completions before backlog items

It's tempting to focus on the backlog pile, but adding games you've already finished and rating them is what makes a recommendation system work. Ten completed games with ratings will give you better recommendations than 200 unplayed games sitting in a queue.

3. Rate as you go, not retroactively

The best habit: when you finish a game, add it and rate it immediately. A week later you'll have forgotten the nuances. Building this into your post-game routine takes two minutes and keeps your library accurate.

4. Don't obsess over completeness

You don't need to add every game you've ever played since childhood. Start with the last two years, add older highlights if you remember them fondly, and move forward from there.

The recommendation advantage of going cross-platform

This is the real payoff of tracking across platforms: not just knowing what you own, but building a genuine taste profile that spans your entire gaming history. Recommendations based on three platforms of data are dramatically more accurate than anything built on one.

The best free tool for this in 2025

Game Backlog (ivoo.pl) is built specifically for this use case. It uses the RAWG database (800,000+ games, all platforms), lets you add anything manually with fast search, and builds recommendations from your full library regardless of where you played each game. HowLongToBeat times are fetched automatically. It's free, web-based, and works on any device.

It doesn't auto-import from Steam yet (that's in the roadmap), but the manual add flow is fast enough that cataloguing a few hundred games takes an evening — and that initial investment pays off for years of better recommendations.