Hello everyone,

I’m hoping to get some help or insights from the community regarding an issue with my game’s visibility on itch.io. After updating my game, Seduction Of The Demon Queen, on March 9, 2025, it seems to have disappeared from the search and browse sections of the site. The game’s URL is: https://varoteam.itch.io/seductionofthedemonqueen.

I’ve already reviewed the documentation on "Getting Indexed" here: https://itch.io/docs/creators/getting-indexed, and I still have a question. My game is marked as "Published" in my dashboard, the "Unlisted in Search and Browse" option is not enabled, and the updated file is uploaded and available for download. However, even after more than 48 hours, it’s still not appearing in search or browse. Before the update, it was indexed and visible without issues.

I suspect the update might have triggered a re-indexing delay or flagged something unintentionally, but I’m not sure how to confirm or resolve this. Has anyone else experienced this after updating a game file? Is there something specific I might need to check or adjust on my end to restore visibility? I’ve already reached out to support via email two days ago but haven’t received a response yet, so I’d really appreciate any advice from the community while I wait.

Thanks in advance for your help!

As I understand it, the game can’t be updated at all, and how often can it even be updated? This is my first experience, and it seems like I’ve broken everything without even knowing it—there’s nothing about this in the manual, or maybe I just couldn’t find it. Usually, bug fixes in the first updates are considered normal. I read about other developers and realized that this is a widespread issue for people: games simply disappear from indexing, and as I understand it, you can’t even update them. Is it even possible to restore the “new game” status? Now I’m even afraid to edit anything on the game’s page.

And there’s not even anything written about this anywhere; at least there could be some kind of icon like "in indexing status, wait for X amount of time."

How do you have 300 followers after 3 days without being indexed for 2 of those days? Itch temporarily delists for a lot of reasons to have a human check things. The fight against malware and scanner triggers are only one of the reasons. Suspicous traffic could be another.

Waiting time for indexing of over 30 days is not unusual. That was not a typo. I meant thirty days. Also, you have payment active. First time paid indexings are supposed to take longer.

I have seen literally hundreds of malware projects and I can tell that your project has some red flags and some green flags (more green than red). In combination with your project age and payment active it is a small wonder your game was indexed at all on the first day.

I guess some of the red flags or Itch's scanner triggered a warning. If it were a serious warning, your game would be quarantined and not delisted. Or it is as simple as you activating payment with the update.

Anyway, your external traffic might speed up the waiting time. Your marketing obviously is effective. And following a direct link is not dependend on being indexed.