i'm not counting porn games, and i'm pretty sure this is all you found. Also nine games on dwarves this year who barely started is astronomical, if you pretend this is a small number it's because you may be used to dwarves getting so much all the time. i'd like to see those games centered on elves that are not porn, I never found any in years.

And yes people are obsessed with dwarves to a ridiculous degree, they keep making blank games on them even if they are all the same  and also gamers don't want those games anymore and don't purchase them.

I'd also like to see you explain this absurd lie that elves would be anywhere, i know elf haters are saturated when they see any random elf in a game, but put yourself in the shoes of someone who like elves and you'll see we have nothing, nobody could possibly be saturated with elves if they did not hate them a lot for some reason

they too are getting tons of games, but elves nothing

Elves are boring. They are the Mary Sue of fantasy creatures. Creating an interesting game about Elves is hard. Merely using an elven protagonist is a lot easier.

And yeah, it would not fit the image of elves to colonize, clear woods, mine resources and all that. They are also not known to multiply easily, so colonization is really not a thing they would be fitting.

Also, Tolkien’s elves were very much city dwellers during the First and Second Ages.

And they did not have pointy ears. Yet here we are, elves being tree loving, long haired, pointy eared, long living, tall, arrogant magic users with keen senses and high skills. That's the image someone gets, if you blandly tell them, your fantasy story will have elves.

Them being regular city dwellers like boring old humans breaks with the stereotype. And it breaks with the source material used for creating elves. It is humans that live in cities. All the non humans, the mythical creatures live elsewhere. Usually in the woods or mystical lands. Some underground. Swamps or even the sea. But not regular cities.

Sure, you can create a world, where humans, orks, elves, dwarves, goblins, halfings, lizards, fishpeople and whatnot all live in overground cities made of brick houses. But it kinda defeats the purpose a bit, of having all these different creatures in a setting. So instead you have dwarves building underground, elves growing treehouses, fishpeople carving corrals, halfings dig burrows and whatever gobos do.

(Interestingly enough, Tolkien's elves and humans were the same species. Elves just got the fate of living long and becoming graceful over time in a simplified explanation. So in ancient times Tolkien's humans and elves would do probably all the same things, like building cities.)

there are no games on elves just some very very basic assets, dwarves have hundreds of full games

That's actually literal title search. But I guess we can assume, if a game has dwarf or elf in the title, that creature probably will appear in the game.

But it does not catch most games that do not have it literally in the title or use a spelling too different.

Interestingly, there is no popular tag for elves or dwarves on Itch. Surprisingly Steam does have those, but I do not know how often they are used. I would not tag dwarves nor elves in a fantasy game. Dwarves have 380 games actually tagged with it. Elves only 170.  And both of those include dlcs. And a game like Baldurs Gate that features Elves is not tagged Elves, nor Dwarves (but someone tagged a dlc for the game with both).

i agree, not to mention people are already tired of this childish and boring trope, all the games on dwarves I see fail badly and nobody plays them. it's also quite stupid to make a game on dwarves when you see all the competition out there, it would be much safer to try something on elves, you would not only have zero competition but please so many people. And yes we do need massive elf centered games not just small ones