YOU WONT BELIEVE: Itch | Mind Blowing Facts

Indies devs band together for 100-game, $10 bundle aiming to help an "unprecedented number" of laid off developers

"All money, minus processing fees for itch, goes to out of work game developers"

GamesRadar · Jul 31

The follow-up to one of last year's best detective games is off to an 'overwhelmingly positive' start on Steam after just 2 days

Itch.io hit Type Help is now Steam hit The Incident at Galley House.

PC Gamer · Jul 16

D&D players raise millions in real-life campaign against ‘corporate elite’

Brennan Lee Mulligan’s Dungeons and Dragons push is part of a wider trend using tabletop games for political action

The Guardian - US · Jul 16

Echoing Nier's Yoko Taro, Peak devs blast "puritan" group behind recent Steam and Itch game takedowns: "It'd be foolish to assume that any game is safe"

"It threatens video games' ability to operate as art in any way whatsoever"

GamesRadar · Jul 31, 2025

Facing adult game crackdown, Itch says it had fewer options "compared to a company like Steam" and is now "actively reaching out to other payment processors," not acting on the demands of an anti-porn group

Hopefully it can fight back

GamesRadar · Jul 30, 2025

Itch.io is 'actively reaching out to other payment processors' after pressure from credit card companies to curtail NSFW content, and that compared to Valve, it has 'limited ability to push back'

Clearing up the confusion.

PC Gamer · Jul 30, 2025

Itch.io denies hiding one of 2024's best games from search results amid the payment processor crackdown on NSFW games, says it's been de-indexed since October 2024 because 'it doesn't meet our indexing criteria'

Mouthwashing no longer appears in search results on the indie-focused storefront.

PC Gamer · Jul 28, 2025

Visa and Mastercard pressuring Itch.io and Valve does 'nothing to protect' women, and shock games will just be 'side-stepping the ban entirely', say affected indie devs

"Cutting these women off from income streams and audiences does nothing to 'protect' them."

PC Gamer · Jul 28, 2025

"It might be porn games now, but they won't stop there": Game devs join players and artists rallying against credit card companies after mass NSFW game delisting

Meanwhile, Itch posts and hastily deletes an endorsement of AI-generated messaging

GamesRadar · Jul 24, 2025

After Valve and Steam, credit card companies spurred by anti-porn group sink their teeth into Itch, forcing countless NSFW games off the indie store under threat of critical payment failure

"To ensure that we can continue to operate and provide a marketplace for all developers, we must prioritize our relationship with our payment partners"

GamesRadar · Jul 24, 2025