Hey guys, it's been two weeks since my first game, Last Camp was released. I already fulfilled all of the quality guides, but it's not getting indexed yet. What should I do?
What should I do?
Ignore the indexing status of your game and promote it as you would have promoted it.
There is 60000+ horror games on Itch. Being indexed or not is not gonna make much difference without ouside promotion. And a link to your game does not care, if the game is indexed.
It can take over a month. Does it suck? Yes. Will it get faster if you complain? Why should it. Everyone else is waiting too.
More infos here https://itch.io/t/4120453/game-quarantined-search-or-indexing-problem-read-this
Being indexed or not is not gonna make much difference without ouside promotion
I quite disagree with your statement. I've seen many games that get indexed early gain a lot of traffic just from this website because they appear in the most recent tab. Meanwhile, for those of us who get indexed late, the traffic from this web is really-really low or even no traffic at all.
How do you know this? I am genuinely curious. Maybe I am quite mistaken here.
My guess in magnitude is traffic by accident < passive traffic by being indexed < promotion. And I further guess that most games that do promotion will be higher than games with only passive traffic in the popular ranking. In a genre like horror, there are just so many games. Your main source of early traffic has to be promotion, else there will be no real difference between being indexed or not. Not in horror where there are so many new games each day.
You could at least talk about your game at the places where this is allowed. Like the release announcements.