The submission period has been going on for almost two weeks now and the number of ratings on every single one submission is freakishly low.

At the time of writing this: At 71 entries and 114 ratings, that's barely over 1.5 ratings per submission. The most-rated entry is I Went Through the Stargate Once (at 4 ratings), and even that is not a lot of ratings, especially considering it can be played as a solo rpg that any one of us could easily play in a single afternoon.

My background is usually in non-ttrpgs so maybe this is it? All other gamejams that I joined that had ratings were for video games which might have lower barriers to playtest? But even then, several submissions are free solo rpgs or assistant tools that could be easily rated by anyone of us, so idk why they also mostly just get around 2 ratings.

Personally I am mostly bothered by this because I always look forward to what others did with the theme, and also what they have to say about the stuff I do but when there's no engagement with most of the jam during this period, it doesn't feel that great.

Anyone else have thoughts on this?