itch.io Reviews 81

What an absolute shower of scum this company has become. A bunch of cowards not only rolling over for their "payment processors" but going as far as completely delisting games that don't breach ANY rules, either themselves or their "payment processors" have set IN ANY WAY AT ALL.

Then, when you question them on why they have delisted your game and utterly damaged your livelihood with zero cause and warning, you just get an email spouting some rules that your game has broken, none of which your game has actually broken. Question them on that, and then they will completely ignore you like the cowards they are.

How much do you need to bend the knee?
1000 karens....
ad here we are trying to collect 1M+ for other petitions like fools.
New democracy explained, who shout the most win.
No more money from us from now, you choose were to cowardly stand and now you will fail.
Mcdonalds is always hiring.

Bending the knee to private corporates is such a nonsense

just deleted thousands of games for no reason

Deleted years and years of game and development just to appease some crying people that can't handle some theme , don't like something , just ignore it , don't force your through on other people , you will be like other website that did that and be forgotten and not used anymore

You’re censoring your platform I can’t believe you would roll belly up for collective shout smh

perfekt for 1 gb size are you live in 1999 ?

I sell on Itch.io, and recently they stopped processing my payouts without providing any explanation or means to resolve the issue. My payments remain stuck in a "Review" state, and their support has been completely unresponsive — there’s no way to contact a real person.

It’s been a frustrating experience. Fortunately, I don’t rely on income from Itch.io, but holding back hundreds of dollars without communication or justification is deeply concerning and borders on unethical behavior.

bought a game, the game wasn’t downloadable.
Write to the support they never answered me.
The stoled my money.

Awful customer services. Every time I have tried to get in contact with them, it has taken over a month to reply for multiple issues over the year I've been using them.

Currently, they are incorrectly taxing me after me making my first attempt to withdraw my funds. They are showing no interest or urgency in fixing this, so are essentially stealing from my earnings. This along with their ridiculously overpriced payment processing fees - which are nearly 8 times the cost of similar platforms - I am receiving less than half of my earnings. After a month of waiting for a reply, they finally replied to tell me I need to retake the tax interview to provide the correct tax details (which were correct the first time). I have since taken this interview again and the interview itself even told me that I shouldn't be paying any tax based on my location. I have now been waiting for yet another 6 weeks for them to validate it so I can withdraw my funds without them stealing another 30% from me.

I'm going to hazard a guess I'm never going to see the other 30% they incorrectly took from me too.

Itch.io might be good for indie game makers in some ways, but their payment system is a total pain. It’s slow, confusing, and just doesn’t work well. Getting your money takes way too long, and they don’t explain what’s going on or why there are delays.

If you’re thinking about using itch.io to sell your game, be ready to deal with a broken system when it comes to payouts. They really need to fix this.

Bought about 40+ games, downloads and receipt for all purchases. Easy to account as content creator. Never attempted a refund, something lots of people here has complained about. However most games are just a couple of bucks and gives people the opportunity to sell their games ahead of Steam releases during development.

Be careful however, treat all small games with suspicion and only buy the assets in the big packs or charities so you know what you get.

This company uses stolen credit card datas for unauthorised transactions to steal your money.

I never heard about them and I never used the services or products they offer until one day they scammed me and charged me $20 on Paypal out of nowhere, without authorization and with no reason.

I contacted to their support mail and no one has responded for several days.

I don't know them, but their actions and silence show what they really are: Thi€v€s

So.. I have been playing itch.io for a year. A few weeks ago, I have published a game that was a mod of Incredibox. I searched itch.io on Google to get back an APK I found a year ago. But I found this NSFW section, and I decided to click it. There were over 10 NSFW games, which I absolutely despise. I did not have any time to report each, please ban these games. I am a minor and these games need to be banned by Itch.io.

Couple days ago I got a text message from a girl On social media, she offered me a job to post reviews and Rate the games And get commissions For them, so I still working through her account as a training account during the training, there was commissions that she was taking to attend the training in a completed it 100% She took her commission and she also gave me a commission. I Made about 500 bucks. I’ll send it to my cash app turned it into Crypto when I get my money out today I was supposed to be working from my own account so I could get more commission be mindful when I was working through Her account she had to also deposit Oh, so she could get the commissions I know you might not make sense and it didn’t make sense to me from the beginning why do I have to deposit money for you to give me commission based on the money that I have any account so anyway I kind of bought it and a bite into it I have a deposit of $2500 so far on the 26% and I still have to finish the whole hundred percent so I don’t know if I should keep going Or I should stop If there is anyone who has the same experience, please let me know

They responded quickly to a problem that I had and was able to get my refund back promptly

Besides the awful treatment of any kind of small infraction against the ToS, the worst part is: If some creator you bought of gets banned for whatever reason you can't even download the stuff you paid for of this creator anymore. At least in my case I cannot.
Not even Gumroad is that retarded.

it has its ups and downs and sometimes has odd games but overall a great website for indie games and more