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There does appear to be something weird going on with that game that you’re no longer linking. It’s definitely marked NSFW (i.e. I can’t find it all all without turning on NSFW content), and it definitely charges money. And yet, clicking on the uberpie tag in the game’s list of tags shows the game, so the game can be found through tags, which should never happen for unindexed games. I am intrigued.

(That the game shows up on the Top Sellers list is no proof either way because that page could intentionally or unintentionally ignore the indexed status of the game.)

One hypothesis is that the game collects payment directly without going through Itch, and that this makes them exempt from the “no money for nsfw” rule, but that’s just one possibility. Another is that it’s a bug on the part of Itch, or an exploit on the part of the game. Or that there are circumstances where browsing by tags will show unindexed games after all.

I had that thought as well, maybe they are taking direct payments and that's the work around. I would do direct payments if I knew for sure it would fix my problem. I have NSFW turned on, so after my game was deindexed, I browsed around and was surprised how many "popular" games were for sale, so maybe they are taking direct, who knows.

When my game was indexed, it was showing at the top on a couple of my tags and even on the top sellers page. A good amount of my traffic was coming from Itch discovery. None of my tags work anymore, only way to reach it is by direct link.

Leafo told me to try unmarking the game as sensitive content, however it was originally marked by a mod which is what unindexed me,  so I don't have the option to change it anymore.

I did get my old Demo page indexed again last night by marking it as sensitive and uploading my demo with payment option turned off, so that's at least a small win.