people being like "it's hard to sift through stuff on itch" is like. idk. skill issue. follow the devs you like. see what they rate. this is what collections are for!!
for the record, I keep a collection of the games I like a lot: https://itch.io/c/3612288/favorites
I'm still in the middle of writing my recommendations for games from last year (and other years that I only got to recently) but, if you want to know what I've been enjoying, I update this frequently.
I encourage you to rate and keep collections of games you like as well!
There's so many wonderful games out there waiting to be discovered, but they need your help, so talk about the games you like that you find!
Here's my one cool trick: the new and popular games list with the horror tag excluded
I don't update my favorite stuff collection very often, but there it is if you want to look at it. This whole exercise reminded me to add some things.
