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Trusting Google’s Gemini with anything seems to me like a bad idea.

But here are unofficial answers your questions from a fellow developer:

  • Your public game likely was delisted for the same reason thousands of games were delisted since in the past year: it has adult NSFW content.

  • From observation, I’m guessing your game as it is won’t be reindexed. You have images in a realistic style of characters who look like teenagers being “corrupted” by an adult character in a sex game. You might be lucky to retain any visibility as the current practices go.

  • Why did this happen now? If you’re accepting payments for a similar game, or it looks by keywords that you could be, then that might have flagged your account for another internal review.

  • I’m not sure what counts as a duplicate game to the itch.io team, but I feel that’s not the issue here.

My recent experience with having a copy of a game in a restricted page while another was public didn’t delist anything. Altho, that was for testing and development, with the no payment option. Specifics might matter?

Thanks for the reply. I'm pretty confident that the duplicate restricted game is what triggered is as it was indexed before and then not indexed immediately after I set up the duplicate restricted game. The drop in traffic aligns perfectly to when the restricted game was created.

Agree that trusting Gemini was stupid. It just seemed like a good solution to my problem and obviously wasn't trying to get more visibility on Itch

I would find it strange if it was because anyone thought the characters looked underaged. They are all adults with pubic hair. 

I don't accept payments due to the new rules about NSFW games.

I appreciate your help anyway.