Hmm. Might be a case of correlation and causation not being equal.

New & popular games will of course have been seen on recent. But was that the cause of their popularity. Would the have gotten popular regardless because of their promotion?

If doing zero promotion, being seen at some places where people look is of course of benefit, I guess. But this is horror genere and there are like 1500 new horror games each month. Even with promotion, chances are low to get popular, just because people try the game. Using a major update bump for that with a 22 days old game is futile imho. You are still on top of recent for your tags.

After a fleeting glance at your game, my impression is, that your game is doing well. And this is backed up at your ranking in this here.

https://itch.io/games/last-30-days/tag-psx

That's roughly place 30 of 130.

https://itch.io/games/new-and-popular/tag-psx

It is on page 3 of 108, so maybe people should ask you for advice ;-)

The "Recent games" section is not really the place where games get discovered; most of our popular games are there for a variety of reasons whether it be overall quality, marketing strategy, or sometimes pure luck (much like all marketplaces). 

The "Popular" browse section is far more likely to bring traffic than Recent Uploads, which is often getting rapidly populated basically every nanosecond by projects of all varieties of completion and quality, lol. We strongly recommend that users who want to increase their visibility work to advertise their project on places other than itch.io, as the activity will increase the chances you land in the Popular section; we have over a million projects that we host on our site, and with such a high density of projects, not all of them are going to immediately spark a boost in popularity just by virtue of them being released on itch.io and showing up in the recent uploads.