My first game, "Gaia AI Clicker," performed well and appeared in the "new & popular" section shortly after release. However, my subsequent game "Eternal Recurrence" received almost no engagement, which I initially attributed to the concept not being appealing.
Today I published my latest project "Vault Survivors," but I couldn't find it in recent games or search results. This prompted me to investigate further, and I discovered that "Eternal Recurrence" also doesn't appear in search results, even when filtering by its specific tags like "RPG Maker" and "time travel."
I just learned that games can take some time to get indexed after publication, so "Vault Survivors" might still be in that process (though "Gaia AI Clicker" appeared almost immediately when I released it). However, I'm puzzled about why "Eternal Recurrence" never got indexed despite being published months ago.
Has anyone else experienced similar indexing delays or issues? I'm trying to determine if this is a technical issue, an account problem, or something in my project settings.
Here are the games in question:
- https://zyrean.itch.io/eternal-recurrence
- https://zyrean.itch.io/vault-survivors
- https://zyrean.itch.io/gaia-ai-clicker
Any insights or similar experiences would be greatly appreciated. It's quite frustrating to think a game isn't popular for months and realize it's not visible to players.
Thanks in advance for any help!