Hey everyone,

I’m putting my pride aside to make this post because I genuinely want to understand what I’m doing wrong.

I’ve poured hundreds of hours over the past several months into hand-drawing, animating, and organizing a 2D top-down pixel art collection (Mutant Series—a core pack with 8-directional animated characters and ruins, plus underground, toxic lab, and ruined zoo expansions). I tried to do everything “by the book”: cohesive palettes, pre-sliced .PNG sheets, Unity-ready setups, and free demos to test before buying.

The reality check? Zero sales. Not a single copy.

I know the asset marketplace is competitive, but hitting a total wall after this much effort makes me think there’s a fundamental disconnect somewhere. Instead of guessing in a vacuum, I’d love to get completely unfiltered feedback from fellow devs and artists:

1. The Visuals: Does the pixel art look unappealing, amateur, or muddy? Do the palettes or 8-directional animations feel off?
2. The Usability: Looking at the sheets or the previews, does it look awkward or frustrating to integrate into engines like Godot, Unity, or GameMaker?
3. The Pricing: Is the price point scaring off indie devs who are just prototyping?
4. The Presentation: Does the store page fail to show what the assets actually look like in motion during real gameplay?
5. The Theme: Is top-down post-apocalyptic/mutant survival just a dead genre right now?

Here is the project page: https://cnrkiiart.itch.io/mutant-series-pixel-art-top-down-pack/devlog/1667686/mutant-series-bundle-sale-extended-

Please don’t sugarcoat anything—I’m looking for actionable critique so I can either fix the current packs or rethink how I approach asset creation entirely.

Thanks for taking the time to look!

/search?q=CnrkiiART

Your things are not indexed (yet). And at least one is in quarantine.

/t/4120453/unofficial-search-and-indexing-faq

“hitting a total wall after this much effort”

I can see you’ve put plenty of effort into the assets and the store pages. That’s not your issue. You’re just not discoverable on itch because your assets aren’t indexed. That means no matter how much time you spend polishing, they won’t show up in searches or lists anywhere on itch. You can follow the support FAQ and do everything right, and maybe, in a couple of weeks or months someone might fix it, but also, maybe not. Look at the sheer number of threads about indexing, and erroneous quarantines, and you’ll see a pattern emerge. Once you’re in this situation, it’s going to be a long, long time, if ever, before your work comes out of it.

Create a support ticket. On the forums here, you’ll just get the canned responses to promote your work externally, to drop links to it on your socials, or anywhere else (where you hopefully won’t get banned for spamming) and be told to just wait in the meantime. Of course, if your work is quarantined anyone who might want to check it out will be slapped in the face with a big scary pop up warning them away. That ticket won’t be responded to, but at least you waved at the support team.

Good luck. I’ve bookmarked your profile because there’s some good stuff there I might revisit in future.