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Customise Browse/How To Stop Seeing Horror Games on my "Browse" page?

A topic by Shireen created Jan 28, 2023 Views: 1,013 Replies: 5

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Is there any way to customise/save my browse page, so that I don't see horror games and only categories that I select every time I login?

I have read both the Can I use exclusion filters? and Can I exclude horror games tag? threads, but that isn't what I'm looking for. I'm looking for butons that allow us to remove game genres completely from our homepages/browse pages.

Every time I want to look for a new game to play, I'm greeted with a page full of horror games and even if I try to drill down to genres/platform almost every game is horror based.

One of the reasons I don't use itch.io to search for games (I usually find them through Kickstarter campaigns/demos or YouTube channels) is because of the overwhelming amount of horror games on this platform; I also agree with this post.

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FireFancy1 year ago (1 edit) (+2)

I was looking every where to see if there was a way to block game genres or search tags, or a way to reduce the likelihood of a type of game being suggested. I found both of those old posts before this one but this isn't the function I'm looking for. I agree with OP, I want a way to block horror games.

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kwave1 year ago(+3)

I'm DESPERATE for the tag excluder

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Ponydragon1 year ago(+3)

You can save a bookmark with the tag exclusion in question. Or several. The feature is not coming soon, if ever, it seems. (Button on page to do it, or *gasp* multiple exclusion.) The exclusion does not stay, if you add tags. If you always search the same combo, you can do a bookmark for that.

Using personal recommendation and similar games does help a bit to find stuff you like. I do not use the browse feature much, because frankly, the tagging is just not accurate. I rather search for a key word directly. Games are tagged by devs and they have different opinion what their game is about or what tags are relevant, or, what the tag actually means.

?exclude=tg.horror
https://itch.io/games?exclude=tg.horror
https://itch.io/games/tag-singleplayer?exclude=tg.horror
https://itch.io/games/genre-action/genre-adventure/tag-first-person?exclude=tg.horror
https://itch.io/games?exclude=tg.visual-novel

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Shireen1 year ago

Thank you, I'll try that!

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TIMC1 year ago(+1)

Yes, thank you. I'm also not a fan of horror

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