look this platform has turned into a giant wall of visual novels pumped out and spreading like wildfire and is TRULY HARD to find something that is not visual novel. i played many already but no... i dont want to see just visual novel after visual novel after visual novel.

thats the 81858195819593991949185829581th post requesting this after MAAAAANYY YEAARS OF PEOPLE REQUESTING, and if someone say its hard to implement just know ur wrong. if itchio has it source released just link me the github and ill make a pull request myself once i get to my pc again (january).

its not hard to add negative tags at all, is just during search query if certain game matches a negative tag it is ignored.... its just simple as that.

itchio... please omg do something its not that hard... in a hour or less a dev makes this feature.

You are correct. Ignoring a single tag is not hard. It was implemented quite rapidly years ago. Here you go

https://itch.io/games?exclude=tg.visual-novel

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?exclude=tg.visual-novel

There is a reason why that year old thread is named excluding multiple tags ;-) There is speculation why this is not been done, but since there is a feedback button, I assume the feature is not that high in demand or too costly. You need not only the feature for multiple, but a user interface that will also work on mobile.

Maybe you could make a custom css, that helps put the single filter in the url.