Hi y'all. What I'd like most isn't *more* tags, but actually a way to sort by things I *don't* want. For instance, suppose I want a free browser-based game that has gamepad support, but I really *don't* want dating sims, novels, platformers, or gay furry erotica. I *do* want to keep myself open to things that might fit into the "other" category though, so I don't want to limit myself to just action/adventure. Having a way to exclude tags and genres would be infinitely more helpful to me, the casual browser, than a zillion more tags to include.  I think it would also fix some of Minoh Workshop's problems.   

 It would also be nice if while I'm logged in there was a way to take games I've already played, games I've personally rated below a certain threshhold, and games I've individually excluded from search results off the top page. I've already played "Aubergine". I liked it enough, but I never want to play or see it again, and it wouldn't hurt my feelings if never again being reminded of its existence meant cleaner search results.

Thank you.

Hello!

Is it possible for Idle become a suggested tag? I don't know what is the itch.io policy regarding incremental games (I understand that some people dislike the genre and maybe the platform prefer keep focus out of it), but if they are welcome it would be nice for these games have their own suggested tags and genre. Also, since there is people that don't like these type of games, creating their own tags would mean they don't get mixed with other genres .

Important to notice  that incremental, idle and clicker are distincts genres that happens to - more often than not -  walk together. It is okay merge all of them into one (idle or incremental) initially, but if  the genre grows here, in the future it would be better split it.

With the end of kong that was the main source of the genre, developers and players have to change platforms for new games. Having a better way to classify the genre on itch.io would be nice. 

Anyway, I hope the platform give a thought on it. Thanks!

Has anyone suggested a "comepleted" or "finished" tag yet? A lot of the content on here are in early builds and demos and have been for awhile now. It's hard to find content that is in fact stable, quality checked and in a complete status so having a category or tag for projects that are marked as complete, fully finished projects would be great. 

I would suggest to merge the Unity tag into the the “Made with: Unity” entry. Right now both of them are defined as the same thing, so if they were any hypothetical games that were handling the concept of unity they would have been miscategorized anyway.

What’s more, right now there are 12,504 entries who have both tags. And while it’s commendable that some devs go through the effort of adding the tags in both places, a grand total of 55,621 entries (43,203 + 12,418) did not do that and have only one tag or the other.

Boring numbers aside, it would also be more transparent (thus less confusing) for the users and less redundant for the devs to use.

Same situation with the “Made with: Ren’Py” entry and the renpy tag, but with way less impressive numbers.

And with the “Made with: Unreal Engine” entry and the Unreal Engine tag.

And the “Made with: RPG Maker” entry and the rpgmaker tag…

There are more, but I hope I could bring my point across. (I don’t know how this tag redundancy came to be, but I could imagine that it was just a simple oversight when the system was upgraded to show game engines.)

The physical games tags “tabletop-rpg”, “ttrpg” and “tabletop”* are almost certainly used synonymous. The tag “tabletop-rpg” seems the most transparent. And if it could be displayed as “Tabletop RPG” it would look a lot nicer.

.* I would describe Warhammer or BattleTech as “miniature wargames” if a tag for those was ever needed. Just “tabletop” doesn’t really tell the user much and those kinds of games can be played on the floor as well, I’ll have you know. ;)

https://itch.io/t/1010509/escape-room-type-games-should-have-a-genre-separate-fr...

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(As far as I understand, a genre is a type of tag). I think "Escape Room" puzzle games and games such as those I mentioned in the post above (Baba Is You, The Witness, Snakebird) are two completely different things and should not be put under the same genre.

Stating your opinion and thoughts about it in the post above would be appreciated.

The tags Score Attack and High Score feel really similar to me. Maybe they should be merged? Or, at least, the difference should be clear.

NONE HORROR TAG HOLY SHIT theres just way to many horror games and i dont really like horror games so id love a tag to click that would exclude all horror games

Not sure if this is the right place for this, but I feel the "traps" tag should be removed. While likely intended to be used on games which feature tricky puzzle elements, such as Syobon Action, the word has long since (ca. 2015 or earlier) become a slur used against transgender women and crossdressers (implying that they're "trapping" men into having sex with someone who is supposedly also a man). Indeed, some games are using this tag for this exact purpose. This tag is detrimental to the itch.io community, as it may (read: will) cause transgender allies, both buyers and sellers, to leave the site.