I know that in a previous post the dev said that they've put the adult tag because of adult themes, drug use and all that, but on Itch.. yeah, adult tag is for porn games mainly. Kinda an unspoken rule at this point.

It stunts the attention the game would get because it only displays for people who are looking for a different type of adult game.

So, yeah. Don't worry, Itch moderation team won't take down your game with mature themes if you don't use the adult tag, nor will your game corrupt young minds, since more violent games are up on the popular page without those tags.

But again, the dev has always the final say, but I just thought I'd bring this up. This game has obviously a lot of effort put in it, (15 hours estimated playtime, JEEZ.) so seeing it get hidden by the adult tag is a bit of a shame. Good luck in your devving endeavors.

Hi EveFysh!

Thanks for taking the time to share this very helpful feedback with us.

Basically it is just as you said: we’re earnestly new to both itch.io and game development being a team of two creative amateurs and so made the choice to err on the side of caution uploading a game that took us over 2-years to make! That and other potential game hosts we looked into were far stricter on what was considered adult-content. It was also the main reason we came exclusively here in the end.

Yes, we were aware that by adding the adult-tags that to our game this would limit visibility, especially regarding search, but we honestly were simply trying to adhere to site policy more than other reason. Having now had time to look over others content, our game does not fall under adult/porn definitions.

So! We’ll now go over our tags again starting by removing the adult tags as they aren’t relevant: this game is primarily a JRPG with storyboard elements; it’s just based on an adult cartoon with a lot of strong sexual content which we don’t shy away from in the game is all.

Ironically, we did actually make an earlier alpha version of this game with a lot of true XXX rated scenes too, but after finishing making everything else in the game it just no longer fitted right with the rest of overall theme to include. This idea started off as just a browser pick-your-own-adventure for context: we didn’t originally plan for it to turn into a fully released RPG, but here we are!