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My most recent game no longer shows up when I search for it a little while after I updated it

A topic by Ahmed-L created Jan 18, 2026 Views: 763 Replies: 4
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Hello, in the past month or 2, my game "plants vs bloons" stopped showing up when I searched for it, I even tried to indirectly search for it by searching specific tags I added to it but I couldn't find it. I read the guidelines of itch.io and I don't think I violated everything. I also checked the visibility settings and I didn't enable "disable new downloads or purchases" or "unlisted in search or browse", so I have no idea what's wrong, also there's 2 strange things to be taken into account:

1. My older games are still perfectly visible and appear when I search for them.

2. It was only until recently that my game was de-indexed, it used to appear in the search results before.

so I'm not really sure if there's something with my account or the game in particular. I also remember leaving a reply to a comment on a different game but it said "waiting for moderator's approval" and didn't post it, which is really strange since I don't remember making any toxic comments before or doing anything else that would have pissed off any itch.io moderator.

I also read the document about getting indexed but when I looked at my game's settings, there were no issues. And like I mentioned before, my game used to be visible on the search results until recently.

here's the game link in case anyone asks for it: https://ahmed-l.itch.io/plants-vs-bloons

also here's a screenshot of me searching for my game's name.

Moderator

Yes, as explained in this unofficial FAQ, this can happen following an update. I'll speed things up for you.

Thanks, this is greatly appreciated, btw will this happen every time I update the game or even tweak something in the page? I did find this FAQ which explains a lot, since I did make minor tweaks to my page a few months after I updated the game. but it's kinda annoying how my game will be hidden every time I modify the page.

Moderator

I don't know. It depends. You shouldn't rely on being indexed anyway.

yeah that's true, I do post it on other social medias but getting indexed is a nice bonus, anyways thanks for bringing it back

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