good advice. I might list on Steam eventually. I'm a solo indie dev and trying to keep my out of pocket spend as close to zero as possible until/unless I get a strong enough signal of public appoval. Itch overall has been signalling my game is shit and my idea and plan is shit. so been hesitant to toss cash at Steam. already down hundreds of hours in unpaid labor
agree they are diff sites. I assume Steam gets an order of magnitude plus in traffic than Itch. for a planet with 8 billion humans, perhaps 100M video gamers the view counts here on Itch have been abysmally bad. actual engagement or even basic feedback has been near total silence. I've had to make a big complaint post and post-mortem to even tease you out of the woodwork. 99.9999% cant be bothered to do anything
appreciate you jumping in! mentally I am "done" here however