Silent Shadow Ban On Games!

[Zenokei]

I am writing to express my concern regarding the visibility of my recently released game. Despite being a public game, it is inexplicably absent from search results. I have enlisted the help of other users to search for the game, but it fails to appear altogether.

Given the significant investment of over 5,000 USD in advertising, I am deeply disappointed by this issue on Roblox’s technical side. I am uncertain whether it is an engine bug or a website glitch. I kindly request your prompt attention to investigate and address this matter before my resources go to waste.

Thank you for your immediate assistance in resolving this matter !

Expected behavior

My game should be coming up in search results but even though its public it cannot be found at all.

Page URL: https://www.roblox.com/games/7472056448/Shadow-Boxing-Fights

A private message is associated with this bug report

[RoninQV]

I agree. Roblox’s system is completely rigged

[VSCPlays]

try scrolling down and see if you found the game

[Zenokei]

Its like my game never existed idk what is going on i cant find it anywhere

[Mohamedbenali121 (Mohj)]

I saw your ad multiple times on the website

[Sayfside (Peter)]

This happened to my game, Find The Erasers, and the player count went from 2k to 30 in 3 days.

[Sayfside (Peter)]

Ever since that happened, I quit development on it

[mejackdaawesome2928 (ergophobia)]

most recently published games take (quite) a bit of time to show up on the roblox search, something about the engine indexing it.

this may relate to your issue:

New Games Do Not Show Up In Roblox Search

At the very least, one should be able to search and find a game by it’s title. No game, not even the best game in the world, is going to get visits, likes, or favorites if nobody can find it.

[emilaltg]

Try to remove the “Tags” section in your description. Roblox doesn’t approve of those kind of things and shadow bans your game because of that.

[Zenokei]

there is a game that isnt shadow banned and it has tags

[clxr (Jason)]

Consider checking this out:

Roblox’s Algorithm Changes Are Killing Our Game

Introduction I run a team of 4 full time developers and a rotating team of part-time contractors called Ruddev Media. We’ve been responsible for many projects throughout the years but the project that our team has depended on over the last 4 years has been Bad Business. This is an FPS game that has 390 million visits, been featured in platform-wide events (Egg Hunt 2021, Ready Player Two), and was initially funded by Roblox in part of the Accelerator Program. Starting sometime in mid-late Apri…

[CavaleiroDev]

looks like roblox is trying to fix this

Introducing Exact Match Search for Experiences

Hi Creators, We are thrilled to announce the release of Exact Match Search for experiences, the first of many upcoming search features that will improve Roblox users’ ability to find the content they are looking for. Using Exact Match, users will be able to precisely navigate to a specific game through search and developers will be able to surface specific experiences they own. How It Works To use Exact Match Search, users should place their queries inside double quotes (for example, “island …

[donutsalads]

Hi @Zenokei, thanks for reporting the issue!

Please note that these are the common reasons for an experience not showing up in search results.

1. When publishing a new experience, it can take multiple days to appear in content discovery surfaces like search.
2. After updating your experience’s metadata (including title and description), it may take up to 14 days for your experience to repopulate in discovery pages and search results.

As you can see, your experience is now showing up among the top search results not just for the query “shadow boxing fights”, but other queries such as “boxing fight”, “boxing fights”, “shadow boxing”, “shadow boxing fight”, “shadow boxing fighter”, etc.