It's such a shame, many great survival games are now buried and hard to discover (and buy!) for potential customers.

When I click on the "Survival" tag, I get a tonne of horror games, and less than 1 actual survival game for each screen's worth of games I scroll past. I think this is because of the surge of horror themed short form games (popularised by YouTuber playthroughs such as Markiplier) and the developers would like to use the "survival" tag because you're trying to survive.  (Which is misapplied in most cases because a lot of them are basically walking simulators)

Survival, I imagine to be like, in the wilderness. Finding logs to build a fire. Hunting for food. But this category of game is buried by games that already have a "horror" or "survival-horror" tags to classify them.

I found 2 relevant posts; this and this. I was able to come up with the following URL manually with the advice there; https://itch.io/games/tag-survival?exclude=tg.horror This is a lot better, I'm still not seeing a lot of the kind of game I'm after, but at least they're no longer buried by horror games.

I just think it would help with people finding more games they want if we had a more built in solution to this. Either a more refined "categories" that include "survival" as a category, or a way to exclude tags that doesn't involve hacking the URL like this, which only allows you to exclude one tag.