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Ideas for the itch app

A topic by Ekeagle created Mar 26, 2025 Views: 298 Replies: 4
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Dear itch app team, 

Please add the following features:

  • Single download button for downloading everything in a single order or bundle.
  • Allow the thumb mouse buttons to navigate back and forth on the client app.

Regards,
Ekeagle

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(moved to the right category)

What's a thumb button? Is that like the index finger button?

I configure my extra buttons on my device software. The Itch app is a browser, does it not heed the regular browser buttons? I do not use the App, since the search on the App does not actually work. And it is clumsy and irritating seeng a login button on the Itch page, while being logged in in the App.

So I just checked, it heeds the keystrokes for chrome it seems. But not all of them. ctrl +- does not work. But alt left/right for back and forward in history do work.

As for mass installing, not everything should be copied from Steam, but Steam does not have such a feature. If you buy two things you need to install two things. A bundle is only a clerical entity to aquire more than one thing. I think the only difference is with DLC. There are no features on Itch that support DLC directly.

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Some mouses have 2 buttons at the thumb position, they work out of the box in browsers and other apps so the user can move back and forth previous and next page; those buttons don't work on itch app. 

As for the mass downloads, it's a really needed feature. I've bought some mega bundles of game assets. I'm happy I can use the app to filter by assets and also I can sort by newest order, but it's a really long scroll, let alone manually pressing every single download button. 

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This is a multimedia key mapping, I assume. However those work.

When rethinking, I believe Steam will ask you, if you want to install all games you just bought, after buying. But you cannot mass select games in your library to install them. That works too. Features you never know existed...

Those mega bundles are a problem for handling in all aspects.