It would be nice if there was an option to mark specific games or developers as Ignored when browsing itchio so they don't show up in your recommendations or other pages. When I open the Browse (Popular) page it seems to be almost exclusively jump scare horror games (a sub-genre I personally don't care about) and things like "poop killer" (???)... I would like a way to filter out these games I'm not interested in, because as it stand this makes the Browse page essentially useless to me when 90% is stuff I can tell from just the title or thumbnail I don't want.

On that note, it would help a lot also if you could filter by negative Tags or search terms.

Right now it seems you cannot say "show me everything except this". The Browse page defaults to 90% Horror because I guess that is popular, but if I'm not looking for horror games there's not much I can do because looking at the Tags page the same set of games seems to show up at the top of almost ALL tag pages. So because YouTube loves screaming at jump-scare games it's almost impossible to find anything else on here without going to specific Collections or some highly specific non-horror Tags. That seems not great, as far as discoverability goes.

Itchio does a commendable job of making the curated front page selection much more eclectic and catering to a wide range of quality games, but it seems to me it would still be good if ONE type of games didn't completely dominate the rest of the site.

To expand on that last point, let's say you were to use above obscure text command, that you can only find by unearthing a forum thread from 2017 or being told directly, to filter out horror games: https://itch.io/games?exclude=tg.horror

That works for that one tag (if you happen to know this command), but what if you want to filter out multiple tags??? Maybe I want games that are not horror and also not pixel art, or visual novels or who knows what... Do you add a comma? Does it even support more than one tag at all? This is a pretty clear example where there really needs to be an interface for this so you can easily combine different filters, positive or negative, to get the results you want.

Perhaps look at Random Bundle Game for inspiration: https://randombundlegame.com/

Indeed, I feel the same way, itch always recommends horror games to me on the home(maybe not, but to be honest, those games are always weird).