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To be honest you shouldn’t upload SFW and NSFW games from the same account. Itch is extremely flawed in this regard. A child can play one of your SFW games and want to play more of your games, so they click on your profile and see all of your NSFW games listed there! Itch DOES NOT hide nsfw games from profile page even if the user specifically set to hide nsfw games in their settings. This is such a terrible issue that has been there since the very beginning.

If you want to post SFW games you should make a new account for them.

It doesn't work that way, even if you have sfw and nsfw on the same account, people who are logged out or have a filter to see nsfw deactivated will not see the nsfw games on your account, they will only see the sfw ones

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I tested it just now and no you can see nsfw games. You can test this yourself, make a new itch account and make sure the settings “Show content marked as adult in search & browse” is unchecked. Then go to any account profile with nsfw games (mine for example), the nsfw games are there. This means for example, if I were to post a SFW game and a child plays that game and click on my profile, they will see all my other adult games!

Or you can just use incognito mode (or log out) and go to your own profile page, you can see your nsfw game still

I checked now and you are right, but you need to agree you are 18+ to play nsfw games

If a dev does adult and family content, those should be put on different accounts, yes. In this case however, that is only sexy stuff. It is definitly not family content. It would not be considered 18+ by most official rating standard, but nsfw is such a vague term.

Oh, and Itch will consider a developer account as nsfw, once there are nsfw games on it. So the account cannot be found in search&browse.

The flaw goes even deeper. It has nothing to do with going to the nsfw game via the creator's page that you found with a sfw game. Once you are logged in and click a direct link to a nsfw game, the dialogue box will not appear, asking if you are 18+. (Or maybe it appeared the very first time, and this particular setting was saved to my account). I still can filter out adult content, but only from search and browse. And only if I do not use one of the adult tags. Like "adult". If you filter for tag adult, you will see nsfw results, even if you checked the box to not see such content in search & browse or are not logged in at all (just use a private tab for testing).

All this is not very intuitive and Itch should rework their maturity settings. Or rather implement some. It would also help all those players complaining about horror games. There is more to "nsfw" than sexy stuff. A lot of those horror games are not suitable for kids, yet will not be marked as adult content.