How to track your games, movies, and TV in one backlog (2026)

There is a specific kind of decision fatigue that hits on a free evening: you have a backlog of games you bought in a sale, a watchlist of films a friend recommended, and three shows you are mid-season on — and they all live in different places. So you scroll, you give up, and you re-watch something you have already seen. The problem is not too little to do. It is that your backlog is fragmented across tools that were each built for one medium.

Why one backlog beats three apps

Separate trackers optimize for the wrong thing. A film app wants you to log films; a game tracker wants you to log games. Neither helps you answer the only question that matters when you sit down: out of everything I have been meaning to get to, what should I start tonight? You can only answer that if games, movies, and TV are ranked against each other in the same list.

• One place to add anything — a game, a film, or a series — in a couple of seconds.
• One ranked view, so a long-anticipated game competes fairly with a film you keep postponing.
• One progress model, so finished, in-progress, and not-started are consistent across all three media.

What a unified backlog needs to handle

Episode-level TV tracking

Movies are a single checkbox; series are not. A backlog that treats a show as one item falls apart the moment you are six episodes into season two. Real TV tracking means recording where you are episode by episode, so the list always knows the difference between "finished", "three episodes left", and "haven't started". That granularity is also what lets the list nudge you toward the show you are 80% through instead of a brand-new ten-hour commitment when you only have an evening.

Bringing your existing lists with you

Nobody wants to retype years of history. The migration story is what makes consolidation realistic: if you already keep films in Letterboxd, watch history in Trakt, or a watchlist on IMDb, you should be able to export those and import them in one pass rather than rebuilding by hand.

Getting picks instead of just storage

A backlog that only stores titles is a slightly nicer spreadsheet. The reason a unified list is more than the sum of three lists is that, once everything you love is in one place, software can actually reason about your taste across media. PlayQueue uses that combined signal to surface AI-curated recommendations — games, films, and series matched to what you have rated highly — each with a short reason for the pick, so you are not just handed a name with no context. You can also select a few titles you are in the mood for and ask for more like them.

Cross-media taste is the part single-medium apps structurally cannot do. The fact that you loved a particular slow-burn detective series is a useful signal for which mystery game or noir film to surface next — but a TV-only tracker has no idea your games and films exist. A unified backlog does, and that is where the recommendations stop feeling generic and start feeling like they actually know you.

A simple setup you can do in an afternoon

1. 1Export your existing data: a Letterboxd CSV, a Trakt export, or an IMDb watchlist CSV.
2. 2Import all of it into one backlog so films, shows, and games finally sit side by side.
3. 3Add the games and series that only lived in your head — the sale purchases and the show a colleague swears by.
4. 4Rate the things you have already finished; this is what powers better recommendations later.
5. 5Install it as a PWA on your phone so adding a title takes seconds and the list is with you when a recommendation comes up in conversation.

Free to start, Pro when it earns it

You do not need to pay to find out whether one backlog actually changes your habits. PlayQueue is free for up to 50 items, which is enough to consolidate a realistic active backlog. Pro (€4.99/mo) lifts the limit and unlocks the AI-curated recommendations across all three media. The honest test is simple: spend one afternoon consolidating, then notice whether your next free evening starts with a confident choice instead of fifteen minutes of scrolling.