I have 3 visual novels on itch.io, all of which are SFW. One was mistakenly put as NSFW automatically, because it had a monster girls tag, so after the NSFW games de-indexing, I erased the tag, and unchecked the "has sensitive content". This game is now visible. What I don't understand is why my two other games that were never marked as NSFW were de-indexed as well, and how could they become searchable again?
HAHA "Wait?" That seems like the lamest non-explanation to give a developer~! Considering that their game DID (not "might have," but DID) get added to the draconic, spineless shadowban for no reason at all, it makes me SERIOSLY WONDER how many completely harmless games with horror, psychological, or other non-sexual adult content this site has decided to shadowban for "reasons." Fucking pathetic and unacceptable to not fight back against censorship on a site that was made for indie game developers. What this site has done is completely unfair, unjust and downright Orwellian. You're favoring stupid censorship groups and corporations over your own creators, which is absolutely disgusting and uncalled-for.
Well, they are back again, but I don't think that besides the one that had "monster girl" tag, the others have any that were particularly suspicious.
One is:
Genre
Tags
Comedy, Fangame, Funny, Indie, Parody, Ren'Py, Singleplayer, Spooky, Voice Acting
Other one is:
Genre
Tags
Anime, Dark Humor, Funny, Indie, Ren'Py, Short, Vampire, Voice Acting
The same thing has happened to me. I recently published a game page that never showed up on the site. I also posted a devlog yesterday and it is also not showing up. I've recently learned that several of my games have been de-indexed for no reason, including an entire mystery game series and the first game that I created that has absolutely nothing NSFW in it. None of my games have NSFW content. Most of my games are tagged as interactive fictions, visual novels, or text adventures. I reached out about this issue days ago and have heard nothing. I reached out again yesterday, and I have yet to hear back from them.
