While I understand the frustration of people who've been asking for this feature since years ago, I'd like to point out once again that as of this writing there are less than 18K games tagged "visual novel" out of more than 600K in total, and that you can exclude a single tag, which looks like it would help in your case. Also, please try to choose what you would like to see instead. Be more specific than "mostly anything", and itch.io should work much better for you.
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Hi! You're saying you can exclude a single tag, but how do you do that? I'm trying to find specifically multiplayer games that aren't local, but most local games are tagged with both the general multiplayer as well as local. So if there's a way to exclude just one tag, it would absolutely help me out. Thank you!
Regardless of the total volume (and I'd say 3% of all games is still fairly substantial), adult/dating sim/visual novels seem to flood the "Popular", "Top Sellers" and "Top Rated" searches for certain tags because they are understandably popular, but if I'm looking for a genuine horror game then I don't really like having to sift through all the vampire porn games and zombie dating sims. I can turn off Adult content, but that hides a lot of genuine horror games too.