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Visibility is zero on Itch unless you're one of the top games of all time on the site, so don't worry about that.  There's not much you can do about it inside of Itch itself.  None of mine get much attention or have much better than 1% CTR, either.

The game does look really cool and I'd like to try it out when I have some time, but I do think the page could be improved.  The following are what stuck out to me as opportunities:

  • It's very long.  For a start, I can see that you have an in-game tutorial, so I don't think you need the instructions on the game page.  Offload these into a text file or a thread in your forum.  Also, consider using a bulleted list (or more than one, with headers) to highlight the main points.  For example, the companion seems to be a key feature, but it's buried in the middle of the page.  I'm undecided as to whether the illustrations are helpful here, but they do take up a lot of space.
  • You have a lot of mixed bold and italic faces, which I find hard to read.  I would suggest using regular typeface most of the time.
  • I don't think you need the outside links here.  These can go on your creator page.  Definitely remove the plain Google Drive link; it's not even clear what this is for.  If there's documentation that you need to include, either include it with the game download itself or add it separately to the downloads section.
  • A 13-minute gameplay video is fine to have as a supplement, but I think your key trailer should be no longer than a minute and just rapidly hit the highlights.  If someone is just browsing and hits on your game, that is probably what they want to watch.
  • The screenshots look a bit similar at a first glance.  A short trailer could probably take the place of the GIFs, and I think the rest would work better without the logo and subtitle.  Maybe include something else that would break up the series of images a bit and communicate something different about the theme and gameplay, like a still of the propaganda tower tutorial at 0:56 in the video, or a shot of an inventory/subscreen, if there are any.

Thanks so much, very good feedback.

I have already reworked the text to make it shorter and put all controls in a forumpost. Moved the Companion to the top.
I need to cut a trailer, but i need to find a suitable program for that first. Currently its obviously a gameplay video.
As only one video can be linked as a main video, where would you put the gameplay video? in the text?