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exclude tags from search

A topic by JK Tech created Oct 08, 2022 Views: 7,831 Replies: 12
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JK Tech2 years ago(+17)

really itchio team please add this feature, for a really long time people been asking for it and here is a proof

https://itch.io/t/1236107/actual-working-tag-exclusion

i dont want to keep getting a HUNDRED OF VISUAL NOVELS when searching literally anything.... i want something like google does that you put the minus symbol behind the keyword u want to remove, and in case of it having more than two words it would look like this -"visual novel"

when will this be added? 90% of the games here are visual novels and i myself played some.. but i want some variation too.. its annoying to have to use ctrl+f "visual novel" to see what games are visual novel faster and search a little faster skipping visual novel games

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No Time To PlayModerator2 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

While I understand the frustration of people who've been asking for this feature since years ago, I'd like to point out once again that as of this writing there are less than 18K games tagged "visual novel" out of more than 600K in total, and that you can exclude a single tag, which looks like it would help in your case. Also, please try to choose what you would like to see instead. Be more specific than "mostly anything", and itch.io should work much better for you.

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JK Tech2 years ago(+1)

well i mean, you could exclude any unwated tags if you put the -tag_name

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No Time To PlayModerator2 years ago

Yes, I know what you mean.

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Metalthecno2 years ago(+9)

you all still haven't awnswered as to WHY you can't do this.

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No Time To PlayModerator2 years ago(+4)

That's because I haven't received any explanation either. Sorry.

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thepasteldyke2 years ago(+1)

Hi! You're saying you can exclude a single tag, but how do you do that? I'm trying to find specifically multiplayer games that aren't local, but most local games are tagged with both the general multiplayer as well as local. So if there's a way to exclude just one tag, it would absolutely help me out. Thank you!

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No Time To PlayModerator2 years ago

As explained in any of the many topics linked from the one mentioned in the OP.

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thepasteldyke2 years ago

Do you mean the ctrl+f?

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HouseRule2 years ago(+7)

Put this at the end of an itch URL and replace the word tag with the tag you want to exclude.

 ?exclude=tg.tag

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thepasteldyke2 years ago(+1)

thank you!

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lavaluke2 years ago(+2)

but it only works with one tag? not sure why you can search with multiple tags but only exclude one...

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davemongoose2 years ago(+14)

Regardless of the total volume (and I'd say 3% of all games is still fairly substantial), adult/dating sim/visual novels seem to flood the "Popular", "Top Sellers" and "Top Rated" searches for certain tags because they are understandably popular, but if I'm looking for a genuine horror game then I don't really like having to sift through all the vampire porn games and zombie dating sims. I can turn off Adult content, but that hides a lot of genuine horror games too.

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