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How do I mark my game as SFW?

A topic by BigFumas created Jan 08, 2024 Views: 767 Replies: 11
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I uploaded a puzzle game yesterday with cute girls, but they are all wearing clothes and none of them are in a sexy pose, only one of them is in a bikini

When I search for this game on itch it only appears when I'm logged in (I'm over 18), it doesn't appear in the results when I'm not logged in, I think it was marked as NSFW since there's nothing adult

I would like to know if I can make him appear to everyone....

the name of my game is "Cute Girls Puzzle Vol 1"


thank you, sorry my english, not my main language

Pinned ReplyAdmin (2 edits)

Your page is marked NSFW because you selected the option of “Has sensitive content.” After looking at the pages real quick, your content is definitely NSFW. We put an admin restriction on the page to ensure it stays marked as NSFW.

Please do not try to push sexualized content to “the edge” of what you think our requirements for marking adult content are. A staff member will just delist your page.

Okay thanks

Moderator

Your game is marked as NSFW. If you didn't do that, it must have been someone from the staff. You can contact support and appeal the decision.

thanks

and none of them are in a sexy pose

Your definition of sexy is quite strange.

While your game might not be adult content in the sense other adult content is adult content, your pictures feature scantily clad girls showing lots of cleavage. This is not meant for children. If it is nsfw is debateable, but do not claim it is not appealing to players looking for sexy content.

okay thanks

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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.

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