The Fantastic_Switch Effect
Firstly a big thanks to u/Fantastic_Switch_977 for recommending my short itch game 4 rooms in one of their monthly reviews and their kind words as well. I thought it might be interesting for people (including them) to see how their reviews affect the visibility and play count on games that feature in their monthly posts.
Here's a preview of the graph since it's launch, right now it averages around 3 or 4 plays per day and most of the traffic is coming from Reddit. The large peak is the day the review was posted.
It made a huge difference to the player count and resulted in a regular visits from people coming from Reddit almost every day, even if that's just a handful of people. The domain analytics only show the last 30 days but you can see the vast majority of those come from Reddit, and I only created a single post about it which received 19 upvotes so I have no doubt the bulk of the visits come from their review post.
The game is free and doesn't allow donations, it was purely designed as a tribute to the metroidbrania genre that I love so much. Thank you again to u/Fantastic_Switch_977 for their monthly reviews, which also help me find games I probably wouldn't have got a chance to play without them, and thanks to everyone who played!