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100% certain. I've been planning this release for a while. I timed the Itch release to coincide with when I released the updated version on Patreon. The account and page were created when I launched the game on Patreon, but I only published it to go public 21 days ago.

Interesting. So there is a time stamp for draft mode, I assume.

Maybe you were mistaken for an impostor. A quick glance at your patreon and twitter and linktree, where you did post some socials links did not indicate that you have an Itch account. There is a lot of fake games uploaded to Itch.

Or maybe your patterns matched the behaviour of a recent scam wave. The generic quarantine message always implies such. Our system has flagged this page for additional review due to potential suspicious behavior from the page owner.

On the one hand, Itch's filters are obviously not good enough, because malware and spam still appears, on the other hand the filters are hyper active and cannot even distinguish between a patreon link and a malware link. But to be fair, patreon links were and probably are used a lot to spread malware.

Anyway, people get stuck in filters a lot. Be it games or comments. If nothing happens for a month or so, you should consider doing what this thread says. https://itch.io/t/4120453/unofficial-search-and-indexing-faq (the category rules are the rules of the category questions & support).

And I suggest you cross link your online appearances wherever allowed. If you want to minimize fallout because of the quarantine, remove the download links and any link outside of the meta data for the time being. The quarantine message only appears when trying to download or click a link.