Hello I am new here because I heard it was like Steam
It is a platform where you can buy games. Some of them even come with a Steam key included.
https://itch.io/games/steam-key
A lot of other aspects that Steam has, are not here or are different.
but I can't find any good games.
How do you find good games on Steam? Itch has practically no AAA games from the big studios or big studio games at all. If you only like those games, you are out of luck here. It is small studios, indie developers and amateurs here.
It's all just 2D platformers and LGBT visual novels.
15% are platformers. 4% are visual novels. 0.3% are lgbt visual novels (actual numbers are higher, because of tagging inaccuracy)
If all you see are those, you need to look at a different place on Itch or with a different set of browse instructions. The recommendations are underdeveloped in comparison to Steam. You need to select tags that interest you. If you browse by popular, you will see mostly horror games on top, because of all the youtubers and their let's play videos.
Games that are not very visible on Steam have more apparant popularity on Itch. Also, since it is not big studios, the games here tend to be of a kind that can be created by one person. Like writing a visual novel or a platformer.
Why doesn't itch.io just hire people who actually like video games to make their games instead of following trends?
Uhhhm. While Steam is technically a child of Valve and Valve is a game studio and of course releases Games on Steam, the games on Steam are not made by Steam.
This is not like the olden Flash-Webgame sites that did hire people to create the games they host.
And one could say, trends are not followed on Itch, they are happening here. At least for indie games. There is of course a feedback loop, like with the horror games and everyone releasing one because they are so popular, but you can develop a game and publish it here without an entry bar. To release on Steam you need to take several hurdles.