Some of the titles already have >10 reviews, but I have only 2 since the morning. I am playing others' games, reviewing them, but as I can see it doesn't really help to get any more reviews
Do you guys have any suggestions?
Btw, game is https://itch.io/jam/miz-jam-1/rate/738259
Ratings are only done by people who submitted a game. This means we only have 700 or so raters.
The best thing to do if you want to get ratings is to go into the random tab rate a game and write a helpful comment. This is usually enough to convince the others to checkout your game.
Refrain from making rate for rate topics. There are others that have the same silly idea and spam the community tab.
It seems to help a lot to have an interesting thumbnail (which you do) and to have an option to play-in-browser (which you don't.)
I realize play-in-browser is hard or impossible for some games, but it makes things infinitely more accessible. I spent a few hours just getting the browser version of my entry to work right
Give and you shall receive is what I have to say. Do the work on playing and genuinely giving advice on other people's games. Also being active on the discord and sharing your link on the show off channel works. Try and make your game browser ready and keep the graphics simple enough so that low end pcs don't just jitter out when playing or add a less lag mode in the settings of your game. Try doing play test streams on YouTube or twitch where you have to fill out a form in order to submit your game and sprinkle in links to your game too, that way more people will see it. Also adding a nice gif to your thumbnail helps. I submitted "defender's magic" which is currently standing at 20-30 ratings, so I can bet you these techniques are effective. Here are some things I do not recommend. Firstly, doing rate for rates or DMing people on Discord will get you boosted ratings but they are always going to be bad ratings because people will think you are being stingy or greedy. Also begging for rates after giving feedback will annoy many people too, and can get you banned.
I'll give some insight into how I personally pick the games I rate, maybe others do it in the same way. First, I make it a point to always play and rate the people who give helpful comments with good feedback in them. Also, I sort by Most Karma to find the people that have been rating other's the most and play and rate their games. It is impossible for me to rate every game, so I give more attention to the people who have been spending the effort to rate a lot of other people's games.
