How can anybody find my game? 😼

Hi 😼🍉

I'd like to understand how game display works. I created a small single player game, and at first it was listed both in "Continue Playing" and in the "Horror -> Escape" genre search. Then it was moved to "Casual," which I agree with and could still find. Also, when I played it with friends, I didn't see it in "Playing Now," probably because it's a single-player game.

But now it's not listed in "Continue Playing," and I can't find it in the genre search-only by searching for the game name.

I'm just trying to figure out what needs to be done to make my game visible and discoverable-are there any rules? Should I update it or what? I'm just not sure this is how it's supposed to work. My game isn't showing up anywhere right now, which is a terrible feeling.

I see my game on the main page, where different games are displayed in two rows at https://sbox.game/ at the very top.

But if you're in the S&Box game itself, there's no such menu, so no one will know about it. Only a direct search by name is possible. I'd like some of the traffic that clicks "search" and searches for different games to be able to find the game or understand how it all works for the future

Skipin posted:

for now the only thing you can do is just sit AFK in your game

Yeeeeeah, but as I said, it doesn't seem to work for single player games - I tried different lobby settings and we played in 1-2 ppl and it didn't show up in "Playing Now". Like when my friend was playing i was looking is it showing or not - its notedited:

upd: it returned to all searches

This might be helpful - I'm absolutely certain there are algorithms for prioritizing games, perhaps to avoid flooding the market with 1,000+ games. They appear at a certain time and have a display period, then disappear and return again, or simply because we're still in beta :D (maybe bugs). These are just my guesses.