Provide better connection between "purchase" and "owned"

[nemoDreamer]

I recently bought the massive 740+ game "Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality".

The bundle page itself has helpful fly-over screenshots / GIFs for each game, and is compact enough to make scrolling through 740+ games bearable if you're OK with just hovering over the covers that draw your attention. No filters, no keywords.

But once you purchase, all that you're left with is a 34-page "download bundle" confirmation page. No hovers, no screenshots, no filters, no keywords. Only "search by title", which only helps if you know exactly what you're looking for.

But the even bigger problem is that -- in the interest of not cluttering the Library -- none of this makes it over to itch.io or the app...

So you enter this confusing world where your "owned" portion of the Library doesn't actually show you everything you own, and there's no separate portion called "purchased" which would allow you to filter by "rpg" or "pen & paper" or "pixel art" or "co-op".

So what ends up happening is I'll remember about the 3-5 "big name" indie games in there, like "night in the woods" and "overland", but will never be able to re-discover that interesting looking screenshot that captured my attention, unless I manually visit 740+ store pages...

There has to be a way to make the purchase download pages part of the itch.io experience, no?

[nemoDreamer]

Hitting "Download" on the individual download pages still doesn't add the games to "owned"... It's like itch.io purchases and the itch.io site/app are 2 separate experiences?

[dispatchrabbi]

Seconding this. I did exactly the same thing, and I found myself very confused as to why my purchases from bundles weren't in the "Things You Own" page. I downloaded the app thinking that it would give me a better interface to download games from than the bundles page.

I would love to see games that are part of a bundle in the app, because it would help me remember which I've downloaded and which I haven't, and make it easier to rediscover the cool indie games I found while looking over the bundle (in the same way @nemoDreamer did).

[nemoDreamer]

There's now a notice on the bundle receipt page that they're planning on adding filtering / add / show all in library, which is great!

But, like @dispatchrabbi elaborated, the real issue is still the fact that when browsing itch.io or using the app, it doesn't know what you've already bought. So you'll see a "Buy Now" button for a game that you've purchased but not visited the "download" page for...

Would be perfect to have that thumbnail / button say "Purchased. Add to Library?" or something instead!

[chrish42]

Came here for this. Now for me, games where I've clicked the "Download" button on the bundle's web page (even without actually continuing to download them) show up as "Owned" in the Itch.io ap, at least. But for games where I haven't clicked that "Download" link in the bundle's webpage (most of them, really, at 700+ games), when I navigate to the game in the Itch.io app, there's zero hint that I own this game. For example, for Oxenfree (which is in the bundle), if I navigate to the game's page, I'm offered to "Buy it for $9.99 or more".