Post by Retora in How to gain followers and promote my games.

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Retora4 days ago

You have to promote your game in social media. itch.io does not do that for you

FranticFox53 days ago

I have no social media.

Retora3 days ago

You need them

CoderGenius722 days ago

I disagree once again

I use reddit.com for promotion but itch.io still makes up much of my views. They are still important but itch.io can still do a lot for your game if you use it right.

Retora7 hours ago

It works once your game received some traffic from Reddit or itch.io did promote your game from the beginning?

CoderGenius723 hours ago (2 edits)

It requires mostly active marketing, but not so much external traffic. I have not seen people say the tags help until ~20k views. The community and game jams are providing me the most views. My strategy is to provide feedback on others games, and then ask for feedback for mine. This works ~70% of the time. https://itch.io/t/6398595/mnus-three-plus is my 2nd best referer somehow.

I actually tried relying on reddit.com for my first ~1250 views on r/freegamefindings. It helped, but these users were very unengaged. Those first users have ~10% browser plays and <0.1% rated. For the most recent ~650, I now have ~4.5% Raters and ~40% browser plays.