Sunk Cost: What to Play

You own 65 games. You're playing none of them. Sunk Cost is a game backlog tracker that answers one question: what should I play tonight? Tell it how long you've got — an hour, three hours, a whole evening — and it gives you three games. Never a list. Each one comes with a reason. FINISH IT Something you could actually clear tonight, measured against how long the game takes if you push, not the leisurely estimate. START SOMETHING The oldest thing you've never touched. You don't have to finish a game to start one, so length is no object here. WILDCARD Anything else. Not argued for, which is the point. ──────────────────── WHY THREE, NOT A LIST Because a list is what you already have. Steam, your shelf, that spreadsheet — they all tell you what you own. None of them tell you what to do tonight. Sunk Cost is a decision engine, not another library. REAL PLAYTIMES, NOT GUESSES Every game carries three community estimates: hastily, normally, completely. That's how it knows a 40-hour RPG doesn't fit a Tuesday and a 6-hour indie does. Games with no playtime data are never offered as "you could finish this tonight" — the app would rather ask you than lie. THE ARITHMETIC YOU'VE BEEN AVOIDING How many games are unplayed. How many hours you already owe. How long the oldest one has sat there. It counts, and it doesn't soften the total. SHARE THE DAMAGE Turn your backlog into a card worth posting: Backlog of Shame, Year in Review, your Top 10, or the verdict on the one game you actually finished. Typographic, no cover art, designed to survive a screenshot on Discord or X. CAPTURE FROM ANYWHERE Share a Steam, Epic, GOG, Nintendo, Xbox, itch.io or Humble link straight into the app and it pulls out the game. Share a video and it keeps the title so you can find it later. Nothing gets added silently — you confirm what it became. ──────────────────── IT WORKS OFFLINE Your pile lives in a database on your phone. No account, no sign-in, no sync, no cloud. The only thing that touches the network is searching for a new game to add, and that request carries nothing but the words you typed. WHAT'S IN IT • Three arguments for what to play, every night • Session lengths from one hour to a whole weekend • Backlog, Playing, Finished and Dropped • Hours owed, years accruing, longest sitting • Rate and review what you finish • Share cards for the parts worth posting • Grid or list, sorted by shortest to finish or longest ignored • "Not tonight" to snooze a game you keep being offered • Dark and light themes • No ads. No tracking. No account. ──────────────────── Sunk cost is the reason you keep buying games you don't play. This is the app that does the maths out loud. Privacy policy: https://sunkcost.app/privacy Support: [email protected]