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Not sure if it’s normal or not because Itch aren’t really transparent about what is actually going on. My game which meets all the quality requirements, has dev logs, and cover image, was published 8 days ago; still not indexed. I see other games with bare minimal lowest effort and certainly not meeting the quality requirements indexed and discoverable within minutes of being published. So, it depends, I guess, account to account, game to game. I also think we should acknowledge the sheer amount of games that are being released since the advent of AI, and regional politics like the OSA in UK. I’m willing to hedge my bets there’s a lot of things going on we aren’t privy to.

My first game was indexed within 48 hours, a tool I released within a few minutes, my latest game, well, probably in a couple of weeks by the looks of similar threads. I raised a support ticket after a few days. Give it a couple and do the same. There’s no transparency about support either, though, so you could be waiting days for several things at once.

Good luck, and hopefully it resolves itself soon for you.

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Thanks, that's quite useful info, good luck on your game aswell.

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I’ve been playing your game on and off all day (while I should be working). Scrappy Plane.

Can you say “addictive”? Deceptively simple. Nice.

Thank you, I am glad you enjoy it, I am going to release to mobile soon. And I think it is also fair if I try out some of your games. :)

I was just wondering, did you find the game while browsing?

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No, your game still isn’t indexed. I just clicked your name and accessed it from your profile.

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i played your dungeon game. Its quite fun. Kind of weird why itch decided to randomly quarantine it.

I know. I’ve raised a support request and provided virus scans and build hashes. Whatever their reason, it won’t be entirely random. There will be something that tripped the system, like me using a VPN or secure browser which probably makes my traffic look a bit weird to some systems.

It’s just the waiting with no sight in view that annoys me really. But, yeah, I have my own thread for moaning about that 😂

Thanks for giving it a play. I appreciate it.

If it is hacking detection that triggered it, you should not update your other games while the game is in quarantine.

External links in description are also tricky. Patreon, github and other services where heavily used to spread malware a few months back. It was mostly comments, but also projects that had those links. And projects that had links to internal itch sites like other accounts, devlogs and other projects, which featured the payload links.

Well, I guess it is the same queue for indexing and quarantine. Waiting times sure are similar.