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Hiya, you can enable/disable if adult rated stuff appears via the settings here: https://itch.io/user/settings
If games are still showing up despite that being toggled off then they're incorrectly tagged and should be reported so moderators can properly apply the tags.
I believe this is the default setting,too, and applies for anyone not logged in--so most explicit stuff has to be purposely toggled and searched for to display for anyone who might want to see it, rather than being thrown right into your face from the get go. The same way Steam handles it. Though admittedly Steam has more granular control over which tags you want to see/don't want to see--which could definitely help improve itch.io on that front.
That's the way itch.io categorises them, yeah. Which I can see is its own argument to be had on how the site lists content and what is perceived as 'adult' by developers and players. I think in most cases, people only mark their game--and have it marked by moderation--as adult if it has that kind of explicit content.
I would have let this go if it wasn't for the post making the complaint that the Adult filter does not work when it does: especially when new accounts are made, It's shut off intentionally.
Then the user who makes the topic posts pic's and claims it doesn't work; which tells me he's being a twit wanting to pick a fight, looking for special treatment or attention. That's what I'm pissed off about; I'm not pissed about the topic or the subject matter, I'm pissed that someone was trying to start a fight or looking for attention with a garbage claim that I know holds no water.
A lot of folks let this go by before; I don't care if folks wanna talk a out the NSFW in games, I agree it's a discussion worth talking about, but the way it was brought up was done in a manner to try and force changes and expect everyone and everything to conform to them, it's just trash and bad form.
Edit 1: Minor spelling fixes as Auto Spell Correct is trying to keep messing me up.
I hate to break it to you, but with few exceptions any popular website that allows users to upload their own content will have porn on it. Even YouTube Kids has content that is inappropriate for children.
If you do not want you game to be available on the same website where there is porn available, tbh I think your only options are to either 1. Work with a game website that has a thorough approval process (e.g. Cool Math Games) or 2. Create your own website for your game.
.... Dude, you are looking for attention.
You haven't deleted your account yet, it still links to a creator's account page which gives a link to a website.
Get out, get off; If I find you or any of your project's elsewhere in the indie space, I will avoid you like a plague as this whole mess seems like a setup to try to push people to something you are trying to create and draw other creators to post on your setup.
Just leave. You are not important enough for everyone to leave Itch, Steam or Gog for and looking for attention.
That and I can attest to Itch's ability when they setup the ADULT censor in their catalogue; you are just posting pic's no video's.
Edit: Fixing Grammar Mistakes.
This is a really interesting subject. It goes much deeper than it seems at first glance.
Games or porn games.
Games for everyone or games for grown-ups.
Ordinary games or games with a twist.
Boring games or games that speak of the sublime.
Everyone has their own tastes and preferences when it comes to games.
It is really nice to notice that in modern realities the trend of interest is gradually shifting towards "games that speak about the sublime", capable of giving not only the game in its usual form, but also new spectrums of sensations, and not just ordinary pornography just for the sake of hot content.
Any game can be original, but only a few games are brave, capable of telling unvarnished reality and giving the player a truly unique experience.
The balance between restrictions can drive the developer crazy, but in the end you just have to accept reality. You can call your game open and honest, you can build interesting storylines on top of adult content, you can make it more romantic or darker, you can make it much more alive. But at the end of the day, it still has explicit scenes and it is an adult game, and there will always be people who will call it porn. Black and white are enough for the foundation, but blurred tones are already for sophisticated connoisseurs
The problem with things like this is definitely not the pornography, but the biased attitude towards pornography. It is a common taboo, and that is the only reason age ratings exist. I mean, in the end, you decide what you want to play, what you want to watch, what you want to interact with. No one is forcing anyone to click their finger in the right order so that they end up with content they don't want, and the only one to blame is the one clicking their finger. No bans will ever change the fact that kids will get around age restrictions and get pornography.
What I am saying is that the industry needs a new genre that separates it from everything ordinary and limited. It doesn't have to be pornography, but bold and open choices can add spice to the subject matter. Like seasoning a dish.
If the author wants to show a brutal collision with reality, then there will be blood, death and sex with all kinds of perversions. Because this is the real world and the author wants to bring his work closer to these dark contrasts, not because he wants to build a plot around porn. There are a lot of such porn games and real masterpieces get lost among them because they get an adult rating after the fact. And I am not saying that the rating is unfair, but it is precisely because of the lack of a more appropriate genre, that there are still people on this planet who have never seen Game of Thrones and think that it is a show about sagging breasts and asses.
It is precisely because of the biased attitude that the industry works with restrictions in favor of the bias of the mass consumer. And the result is a Minecraft movie overflowing with fan service and ass-level jokes, and not a movie about Minecraft with a philosophical dive into the deep secrets of this cubic universe, where end-mutation, zombie virus and inter-dimensional travel are discussed. I say that in the modern world it has become more profitable to build an empty plot on conventions, because real exploration of the world is supposedly boring and unfashionable.
I'm not gonna sell games for children on a website like this.
Well itch isn't a kid-safe website. Even with NSFW content off, there's still plenty of material that would be inappropriate for children. For example a game or story discussing suicide would be safe-for-work, but too mature for young kids.
It isn't your job to prevent children from navigating to itch.io. Theoretically your game would also be available in other places, which might have more filtering or restrictions. Really, it should be the kid's parents that are monitoring what they browse and download anyway. If anyone complained that their kid went from your game page to itch.io, then disabled the NSFW filter, then clicked on something... well that's an example of a stupid parent.
I get OP was apparently a troll, but the way Itch.io handles adult content is indeed really weird. Both that it lumps porn games and games that happen to have adult themes or graphic content (like horror, war, abuse, violence, trauma, non-sexual nudity, etc.) into one group, and how if you upload an NSFW game, you can't turn on the NSFW filter and have to risk seeing pornography whenever you log on Itch.io. I literally can't think of a single good reason for this.