I ran the one test you cannot run on your own project, so at least you have an outside data point 🎮

From an unrelated account, searching “COLISEUM Hysteria” returns 54 results and not one of them is yours. That is worth more than it sounds: if the project were indexed but merely buried, a title search would still return it, because sorting decides where something lands, not whether it exists. So this is not a ranking problem, not a personalisation quirk, and not something only you can see. It is genuinely absent from the index, which points at your second guess rather than your first.

I also went through the page metadata rather than assuming. Genre set (Visual Novel, Survival), five tags, platforms, average session, two languages, the generative-AI disclosure, cover, description, files, a devlog, public, and a direct URL that loads fine. I could not find anything missing or misconfigured. As far as an outside reader can tell there is nothing on your side to correct while you wait, which I think is the actual question you were asking.

One expectation worth setting now, because it catches people out when the flag finally flips: Most Recent is ordered by publish date, not by index date. When you are indexed you will not arrive at the top of it — you slot in at August 15, already ten days down. The Newest listing on each of your tags works the same way. So expect it to be quiet rather than a wave, and treat the tag shelves as something you win slowly rather than the thing that rescues a launch window.

The encouraging half, which is not nothing: eighteen ratings at 5.0 and a comment thread that is genuinely alive, all of it arriving from off-platform. That audience is the asset here. This part is my reasoning rather than anything itch has stated, but ranking signals only accrue from activity ON itch, so pointing your TikTok and Telegram traffic at the itch page rather than anywhere else is what will make the shelves work for you once indexing lands.

One ask, and it would help more people than just you: there are two other threads on this board today with the same symptom, one of them past a month with a ticket number. Nobody ever posts back once theirs resolves, so the real queue time is unknown to everybody who searches this later. Would you say how long it took when yours flips? ⚡