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Inquisitor Shepherd still not indexed in Search & Browse — Ticket #402713

A topic by Narrowdeep created 16 days ago Views: 100 Replies: 2
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Hi,

I'm following up regarding the indexing of our game, Inquisitor Shepherd.

Project page: https://narrowdeep.itch.io/inquisitor-shepherd

The project has been public for over two weeks, but it still does not appear in itch.io Search & Browse, even when searching for the exact title.

We've checked the indexing requirements and confirmed that the project is public, has a cover image, contains a downloadable Windows demo, and is not set to “Unlisted in search & browse.”

We previously contacted itch.io Support regarding this issue and received Ticket #402713, but we haven't received a response yet.

Could a moderator please let the admins know about the ticket, or let us know if there is anything on our side that still needs to be corrected?

Thank you! Narrowdeep

Moderator

I’ve let our admins know about your ticket.

Reproduced it, logged out.

Exact-phrase search for the title returns 0 projects ("No results found"). Unquoted returns 126, and yours is not among the ones shown. Your page itself fetches fine to a logged-out viewer: 200, cover image, tags (Creepy, Detective, Lovecraftian Horror and others), category Visual Novel, demo download listed.

So the fields you checked are all present from the outside. This is not your page config. It is the index.

For the ticket, the strongest form of this is an exact-title search that returns zero while the page is live. "My game does not show up" is weak; "here is the search that returns 0 for my exact title" is not.

This is the kind of check I do: two sources or it does not go out. If you ever want a claim on a store page verified, the first one is free. No ask either way.