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Thank you very much for your comment, thoughtful feedback like this is genuinely very valuable to me.

I agree with what you said about fetish content; the game clearly states what it offers from the start, and I believe everyone should be able to decide for themselves. It’s simply not possible to please everyone.

I can say that Miss Lust’s slightly unsettling stare is partly intentional, as she always maintains a certain expression.

Thanks again, your support and feedback are very motivating.

Right now, I’m working with Daz and Krita to create my visuals. I’m still learning and not perfect at it yet, but I’m trying my best to make something original and keep improving. I really appreciate your suggestions and support, it means a lot!

First of all, thank you for the clarification.

I used the titles exactly according to their intended purpose. For previous update announcements, I chose General Update, just as it’s described.

This time, however, we’ve added a mechanical and story-related update to the game. This update changes the way players experience the game, offering them a different experience from the previous version, which is why I used Major Update. From what I understand, it’s either waiting for manual approval or just taking a bit longer for some reason.

I’m experiencing the same issue you did and was wondering if you found any solution. What’s your current status, did your game appear in “Most Recent” after the major update?

Thank you very much for your patience!

Thank you very much!

Haha, that would probably be the name of our game in an alternate universe.

Thanks! We’re glad you enjoyed it.

We’re so happy to hear that, Thank you!

Thank you! 😊 We’re excited to keep improving and can’t wait to show you what’s next and we’re always open to your suggestions and feedback!

We’re definitely planning an Android version, but we don’t have a specific release date yet. It might come with a major update or a little later. We really appreciate your patience and excitement—it means a lot to us!

Finally, my page got indexed! 🎉

I wanted to leave a few notes here in case they help anyone else who runs into the same issue.

I’m sharing information I learned from a developer I’m grateful to:

Itch.io has been experiencing some issues with payment methods over the past few months. Steam has had similar problems. I won’t go into too much detail, but a little research should make it clear why.

Here’s the main point:
Itch.io does index games with the “Name your price” option enabled, but this process can take much longer than expected — sometimes a day, sometimes weeks.
If you remove this option and make your game completely free, your page usually gets indexed much faster.

(This method worked instantly for me. However, I can’t say for certain that it was solely because of this — it’s possible the support team noticed and intervened.)

I experienced the same problem myself. Luckily, I learned the solution thanks to a developer in the community.
I hope this information helps someone!

I followed your advice, and it worked perfectly — my page got indexed right away! I’d been waiting for over a week, and now I’m honestly so happy. Thank you so, so much for sharing this tip!

I don’t think you’ll get a very satisfying answer, to be honest. They’ll probably just direct you to a page with the general guidelines — but those are often outdated and not that helpful in cases like this.

I’ve faced a similar issue with indexing myself. Some games that were released long after mine got indexed quickly, even though many of them didn’t fully meet the quality guidelines. Meanwhile, I’m still waiting to be indexed.

I’m not sure if Itch.io was always like this, but lately, as developers, we’ve been left in a bit of uncertainty. They’re probably just too busy and struggling to keep up with everything.
I’ll be following this thread — I really hope your issue gets resolved soon.

First of all, thank you for your comment.
It would’ve been much better to hear these thoughts directly from an itch.io moderator, or to see them shared on an official information page. Knowing that itch.io is doing all this to make the platform a safer and better place truly feels reassuring.
However, being directed to outdated guidelines and receiving brief, surface-level replies to legitimate questions ends up leaving dedicated developers—those who genuinely care and follow the rules—in uncertainty.

An outdated FAQ makes people question whether other parts of the system are still reliable, and unfortunately, this weakens the trust of new developers who are just joining the platform.

Of course, I understand the challenges and workload the itch.io team is facing—and I genuinely believe that understanding is important.
But at the same time, as a developer, I also feel that we developers need a bit of understanding and transparency too.

Lastly, thank you again for your thoughtful comment.
Maybe this was exactly what I needed to hear from itch.io.

-You should review those two documents, because they mention that a few days to a week isn't an unusual waiting time.

There is absolutely no complaint from me about this anywhere in my text — on the contrary, I explicitly stated, "After double-checking everything step by step, we patiently waited as instructed — since it said the process could take 1–2 days, or even up to a week. So, there was really nothing to do but wait."

-They also tell you what to do while waiting. And the rules of this category tell you what to do if it takes much longer than that.

Therefore, I have no complaint or criticism about this either. However, it’s worth mentioning that instead of passively waiting, I drove traffic entirely outside of itch.io by sharing my page’s link elsewhere.



But again, my issue is not "why hasn’t my game been indexed yet" — there is no complaint about that anywhere in my text. My problem is that there are pages being indexed without even following the most basic rules stated in your guidelines. This is not just my imagination — you can check the Most Recent page yourself right now and see many examples with your own eyes.

The abundance of such cases seriously undermines the legitimacy of your guidelines. What does it say when an empty page is approved on the day it’s published and immediately placed at the top? In that situation, how seriously should the points your guidelines tell us to pay attention to really be taken? The problem isn’t waiting; the problem is that the process proceeds in a meaningless and unfair way.

Unfortunately, it seems that nothing has really changed about these complaints. When we published our game, we faced the exact same issue. But instead of panicking, we carefully read through the forums and the official guidelines.

We noticed that in about 90% of such complaints, the moderation team redirects people to this exact page:
[reference link]
[reference link2]

We made the “mistake” of taking that guideline seriously. After double-checking everything step by step, we patiently waited as instructed — since it said the process could take 1–2 days, or even up to a week. So, there was really nothing to do but wait.

During that time, we kept checking the “Most Recent” section to see if our game had been indexed. However, while monitoring that page, we noticed a serious inconsistency: Most of the newly indexed games didn’t follow the rules described in the guideline. Some of them didn’t even have proper visuals — just a one-line description. The kind of pages that look like a nearly blank A4 sheet…

At first, we thought maybe those developers were exempt because they had published games before. But no — most of them were first-time developers. And this wasn’t just a couple of isolated cases.

In the end, we realized there’s absolutely no difference between following the guideline to the letter and completely ignoring it.Either the system works entirely at random, or there’s a completely different mechanism at play. But one thing is certain: it has nothing to do with the guideline.

So I’d like to address new developers here: You don’t really need to take that guideline seriously, because it’s pretty clear that even Itch.io doesn’t.Your page could be almost empty, your game could be your very first — and still, you might get indexed purely by luck.

After reading through many similar threads in the forum, I can see that these complaints are far from rare — and most of them are absolutely justified. This is a serious issue for any platform and frankly, it reflects a rather unprofessional level of management.

At the end of the day, do you really want to have a set of guidelines that have lost all legitimacy and that nobody takes seriously anymore?Meanwhile, the moderation team keeps copy-pasting the same link in response to every complaint. It honestly feels like a bad joke.

So, what are we supposed to do now? 
Should we try reaching out to the support team — or just sit and hope that one day it’ll magically happen?