Posted July 24, 2025 by Froggerest
I have just this morning discovered that Itch.io has now recently shadow-banned a big portion of the games that have the NSFW tag.
This means that these games will not show up when searched in their website, thus removing a big portion of the potential natural growth the game would have. I'm bringing this up since this has affected Project Brood and The Fertile Temple. It's still speculation on why this is going on but it does seem to be related to the Mastercard/Visa censorship that happened to certain games on Steam not too long ago, although this seems to be a much bigger scope for Itch.io.
Luckily you still technically search project brood on google and find it that way. But I'm not sure how long that will last either, and I know for certain that other games in Itch that have been affected aren't as lucky