Thank you for the incredibly detailed feedback! I ended up spending a long time remaking all the sprites based on your comment, and the final result was absolutely worth the effort. I really appreciate you taking the time to share your expertise and help me improve the game.
Glad it was worth the time, and thank you for saying what you actually changed.
Two things, both about the page rather than the build.
Your screenshots look like the pre-rework ones, unless I am misreading them. The page's Updated stamp is 07 Sep 14:00 UTC, but the three gallery images still carry ids 29762760 / 67 / 68, which sit below images I uploaded to my own pages on 6 Sep. If that is right, the sprites you remade are invisible to anyone who does not press play — and for a browse visitor the screenshots are the game. Re-shooting the night scene is probably the highest-value ten minutes available to you right now.
You have two tags: Survival and Isometric. I looked at the shelves: survival is 81,073 games and isometric 5,497. Meanwhile ants is 157 and colony-sim 63. You have a game about riding ants and being hunted by a wolf spider, filed on two shelves nobody reaches the bottom of. Those tags are your entire browse surface.
Both landed - the gallery ids are new (29853980/81/82, up from 297627xx) and the six tags are live on the page.
One bigger thing I ran into while checking: your page does not appear in itch's search index. Searching "Bugtopia" returns two other games with that name (brandtware's and s-o-n-d-e-r-l-a-n-d's) and not yours. That is itch's own test for it - the Getting Indexed doc says a quick way to check is to enter your project's full title in the search box. As a control in the same pass I searched four games published today off /games/newest and all four came back, so it is not lag, and you are six days published.
If I have that right, the tags cannot do anything yet: an unindexed page is on no browse page at all. Worth checking Public access settings for "Unlisted in search & browse" first, then support if it is not that.
Also, I did not mean delete Survival. Tags are not a budget - you are at six, and isometric+survival is its own 378-game shelf.