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And I am telling you, your game is still visible, still searchable and still appears in tags. And it is still "in the popular charts". Whatever that means. Because ALL games that are indexed, absolutely all of them are in the popular chart. That's what indexed means. https://itch.io/games is a list of all indexed games.
It is not at place 3 anymore. Btw, it was at place 4 when I looked. That list is volatile and it is weekend. Many people play. And the more viral the fame, the volatile I would guess.
This here https://itch.io/games/last-7-days has 4000 games. Your's is currently in the top 36 of those 4000.
Type c h e in the search box. The suggestions there only account for like the most popular 1% of games.