I won't be leaving itch, and I don't wish to imply that you should leave it. It's an important platform with a wonderful community.
That said, I won't be surprised if people do leave it for better alternatives.

This might be a hot take, but I believe itch is riding off its reputation and the lack of any real alternative.
That's fine, but you have to actually keep that reputation.

Hell, there hasn't been any significant updates or fixes since *2019*.

P.S. I apologize to the good people at Valve, who forewarned in 2007 how players never look up in first person games and must be encouraged to do so, and I scoffed at them thinking this no longer happens, only to find out this still, indeed, happens

To be clear I'm not blaming them. It's 100% on me that the game is ambivalent about what it is, and that's something to be solved. That's why you playtest and fail fast.

What I *am* saying is that you should never make an imsim as a solodev in your fucking life

Both groups really liked the exploration loop, and had a lot of fun realizing they infiltrate in different ways.
It was great to see and hear all that, but that further confirmed their original expectation instead of what I as a designer intended.

I realized that those who expected a stealth-action game were more likely to be cautious and slow (one of them outright avoided lights), while those expecting a puzzle game were more likely to fuck around and find out but cut straight into security cams and didn't care

Based. But considering it's a semi-urban area there's a limit to how big I can reasonably make 'em

...also scaffolding and pickupable flashlights

מנגל יום עצמאות מאוחר essentially

You don't have to use it (in fact every cutscene/dialogue is skippable), but I always appreciate games that give players optional content that also makes sense within the setting

* it's a LUT. This tutorial helped a bunch:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-MP...