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Which visual novel themes were popular on Itch in 2025? Finding the thematic categories of VNs on Itch, using co-occurrence clustering on tag data. Is a yandere character the secret ingredient to success?

I wrote a new post for Indie Game Insights. Today's topic: Which visual novel themes were popular on Itch in 2025? Spoiler: Otome games are on top. indiegameinsights.dev/blog/itch_vi...

#itch #itchio #visualnovel #vn #vndev #renpy #gamedev #indiedev #dataviz

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Alright! Anyway, it looks fantastic and like something I'd gladly pay money for. :)

1 month ago 1 0 0 0

This looks fantastic! I can't find a Steam page, are you not planning to release it there?

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The hidden genres of Itch Itch has 17 official genres, but can we find additional latent genres based on game tags?

I analyzed 27,000+ tags on Itch and found 26 latent genres not on the official genre list. Then I analyzed the data to see which genres were more common & which gets the most attention. Check out my blog post if you like plots and data! :)
www.indiegameinsights.dev/blog/itch_la... #gamedev #indiedev

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What genres were popular on Itch in 2025?

I wrote a blog post about what games were popular on Itch in 2025 (spoiler: it's visual novels). Read if you like plots and data! indiegameinsights.dev/blog/itch_2025

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