Sorry for the trouble. We identified the issue with butler+HTML games not to be correctly deployed on a push. This issue is now fixed as of yesterday. You can trigger a redeploy by pushing a new build with butler. I highly recommend testing your game after you push a new build to ensure everything is working correctly. (I recommend doing this regardless of this issue as well, as the different environment may expose bugs you weren’t aware of)

However, by deleting the original download, it also removed all the exposure (views, plays, downloads) the game had been getting

Regarding your change in ranking, removing or changing files will no no direct impact on how you rank on our search and browse pages. The content of your page will control how people interact with your page and lead to how your project is ranked. Deleting a file does not “remove exposure.” But, if your page is up without any files or in a broken state it may change how people interact with the page and result in shifting how your game is surfaced. Hope that helps.