I am a physical game designer. In the past, when I upload a game and get a decent number of views, it would show up on New & Popular Physical Games, or even Popular.

Not sure if the itchio algorithm has changed, or if this is a bug, but the New & Popular Physical Games now only show games that are two weeks old. (As far as I can remember, it has always been newer games on the top of the list.)

https://itch.io/physical-games/new-and-popular

The "Most Recent" is working fine, and all the news games appear there. It is just that they won't make it to the New & Popular list.