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Thanks for the responses :)

TheMetalCarrotDev: Yes. I was aware that maybe I could be pushed very fast to the bottom, but did not think that was that fast xD We just wanted to take advantage of apperaring there the first time. Our promotion strategy is based on creating some community around the game in the mid term, but first we need to show the game to people that could want to join that community :)

redonihunter: Ok. I will think a bit more about the tagging of the game. Thanks for the suggestion. Today I posted a new devlog, but I did not see the game appearing anywhere, but as you said, the game appears in the tag listings, so it seems the game is currently indexed and the system is working as expected.

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redonihunter30 days ago(+1)

If you do not have a generic short developer name, you can just do this: https://itch.io/search?q=Wildspell+Games

Only indexed items appear in search and browse. That's literally what indexed means: will appear in search and browse. That was search. Browse is the games subpages, which currently have 1.25 million projects. So, some filtering is needed.

Having exotic tags is not a bad thing. But best look at similar games and which tags they use. Tags are used differently on different platforms. Someone tagged your game point&click on Steam. That game does neither look like a point&click nor like an adventure game to me. You hit an alias of the tag lovecraft. I did not know that was so popular. 1000 games there. That's good. The target audience might stumble over you by this.

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