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...

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

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

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! :)
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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