i've read many topics, i think during that i even became a writer- anyways, unless you message a content creator, or a dozen of them (which in my case didnt go well) so, now what-
well i did try promoting my game in various places but yk i have to keep up that nonchalant personality,

but still- nothing. the game before was in development and i didnt think much, well i couldnt think much. have you seen how much updates i make in a month? 
so yea, content creators didnt work, new and popular is filled with...nudity and i just- i cant find a way.
so, tell me how you lot found or how game developers normally find a way, since im new to development generally.

We run a lot of listings on itch and we log where every visit comes from, so here are the actual numbers instead of a guess. They are for asset packs and small games, so treat this as a shape rather than as your shape.

Across 175 listings we have taken 529 visits from outside itch in total. 402 of those, so 76 percent, came from reddit. Everything else combined produced almost nothing. We posted 299 times to X and Bluesky and Mastodon and gained 14 followers between the three. That is the most useful thing we learned, and it is narrower than the usual advice: it is not socials, it is reddit specifically, and the others cost the same hours for nothing.

One measurement detail that matters if you go looking at your own numbers. Reddit arrives under two different referrer strings, www.reddit.com and android-app://com.reddit.frontpage/, and the second was 12 percent of ours. The dashboard referrer table only shows the top 20 rows, so it undercounts reddit, and it can show no external row at all while external visits really are arriving. That table is exactly why we had our own external arrival written down as zero when it wasn't.

On devlogs being useless before you have followers, our own numbers disagree. One devlog produced 9 referred visits in a month when every external social channel combined produced zero. A devlog puts the page back on Recently updated, and that surface doesn't care how many followers you have.

Last thing, and this one is from the pinned indexing FAQ on this board rather than from us. The review queue is prioritised on genuine traffic to the page coming from outside itch. So the reddit post and the indexing wait are the same job, not two separate ones.

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