If you tell us what games you like, the community could help you. A few of us have collections of other people's games that we think are cool (for example, I have several collections of casual games which you can see below my page).
Else browse the most recent games (not most popular) and you'll find a lot of variety.
There are many good and great games on the platform, and there are many more bad games that make the good games difficult to find. This is a common issue on platforms like this. If you dig hard, you will find some gems, eventually.
The trends are created by the game creators, and by the site's management, who feature the kind of games that they like. Game creators also notice what kind of games get featured, and then make more games like that in an effort to get featured. If you don't like these kind of games, I think that the people that run the site don't care about that. A feature to exclude multiple tags from listings is requested quite frequently, and it gets pretty much ignored every time. The closest to an official response you will likely get, is someone that likes to pop into the conversation and attempt to convince you that you don't really want this feature. Most people who don't share the site's ideology have given up, which is more bad behaviour.
There does not appear to be an easy fix to this problem. There is a hidden feature to exclude single tags, but there is more than one prolific tag filled with garbage. At the moment the solutions are limited to spending time digging through the aforementioned garbage, or to find some third party means to fix it, for example: Write a script to fix it, find another platform, or make your own platform. As you can see, there are no good solutions at the moment. I do suggest to those that disagree with the site's ideology not give in to apathy, and make their own opinions heard, even if it is just for the record. The world is in a bad place, and a lot of work and determination is required to fix it. Be part of the solution.
Hello I am new here because I heard it was like Steam
It is a platform where you can buy games. Some of them even come with a Steam key included.
https://itch.io/games/steam-key
A lot of other aspects that Steam has, are not here or are different.
but I can't find any good games.
How do you find good games on Steam? Itch has practically no AAA games from the big studios or big studio games at all. If you only like those games, you are out of luck here. It is small studios, indie developers and amateurs here.
It's all just 2D platformers and LGBT visual novels.
15% are platformers. 4% are visual novels. 0.3% are lgbt visual novels (actual numbers are higher, because of tagging inaccuracy)
If all you see are those, you need to look at a different place on Itch or with a different set of browse instructions. The recommendations are underdeveloped in comparison to Steam. You need to select tags that interest you. If you browse by popular, you will see mostly horror games on top, because of all the youtubers and their let's play videos.
Games that are not very visible on Steam have more apparant popularity on Itch. Also, since it is not big studios, the games here tend to be of a kind that can be created by one person. Like writing a visual novel or a platformer.
Why doesn't itch.io just hire people who actually like video games to make their games instead of following trends?
Uhhhm. While Steam is technically a child of Valve and Valve is a game studio and of course releases Games on Steam, the games on Steam are not made by Steam.
This is not like the olden Flash-Webgame sites that did hire people to create the games they host.
And one could say, trends are not followed on Itch, they are happening here. At least for indie games. There is of course a feedback loop, like with the horror games and everyone releasing one because they are so popular, but you can develop a game and publish it here without an entry bar. To release on Steam you need to take several hurdles.
but I can't find any good games.
It really depends on your definition of good games. If you're expecting games with 20 hours + of engaging gameplay, you're going to need help finding those games here (and also on Steam).
As mentioned above both here and Steam have so many games making it games to find games that you like or that you consider as good.
So I have two solutions for this:
1. Describe in detail what kind of games do you actually like or consider as good. We might be able to share any games which might fit those description.
2. We could share our game collections which have best or good games listed in them.
There are tonnes of great 3d games on itch though... Try this: https://adamgryu.itch.io/a-short-hike
I hope your blindness is cured. If you want to complain you can shut up and make a game. It costs $100 to release a game on steam, and for people whose income is partially donations from people like you (no heart; $0). Why don't you look with your eyes instead of your hollow head? If you want a good game, click here or here (That's why you don't mess with indie devs)
If you want more AAA style games, I reccomend checking out Studiohammergames
Lot Of Great Games And Lots Of Freaky Shit On This Site Just Have To Use The Right Tag Words
Just Look At What I Am Doning The One Above All - Devlogs - itch.io
I haven’t read much of the replies in this thread so someone has probably stated this already. Whoever told you Itch is the same as Steam is completely wrong. Steam has become a big high grossing video game platform that have triple A games by professional studios published on it. (Ex. GTA, Fallout, Halo) If you’re a total indie dev, there is a $100 fee if you want to publish any type of game and a lengthy phase in which it needs to get reviewed by Valve. Itch is an entirely indie and free platform where you can upload anything at anytime. This is why you see so many unfiltered horror games bc I guess that’s what the community likes making and playing on here. Saying Itch is the same as Steam is like comparing Youtube to Netflix. One is complete user-generated content and the other is expensive entertainment.
