About
Overnoise is a monitoring and curation tool for the itch.io platform.
It discovers, analyses and ranks every new release posted on the platform against editorial grids that you define (curations). This complete, autonomous pipeline builds automatic, continuously updated lists of the titles that genuinely matter to you.
Every entry in a list becomes a potential candidate for analysis, scouting, wishlist building, and more.
Why Overnoise?
itch.io publishes roughly 700 new games per day, on average. A relentless flow in which remarkable, strange, original or deeply personal works end up buried under the sheer volume of daily releases. Most never find their audience — not for lack of quality, but because no one can read and process that entire flow, day after day: Overnoise exists to make it possible.
Rather than chasing trends or charts, Overnoise lets you encode your own editorial taste — what a game should be, what makes it interesting, or conversely what would rule it out of your selection — then apply that grid continuously and automatically to every game published on the platform.
Overnoise identifies the games that match your criteria; you decide which ones are worth your time. What remains is a sharp selection, worthy of your attention: "The signal, over noise".
Key features
- Automatic, continuous analysis of the itch.io catalogue — ongoing discovery of new itch.io releases (every 15 minutes), fully automated.
- Metadata analysis — extraction of every piece of information from a release: title, description, tags, publication date and the full description page of each game, straight from its itch.io page.
- User-defined curations — each curation is its own editorial grid (themes, keyword lists, tag sets, weightings).
- Automatic game identification and scoring — every game is scored against every curation using a proprietary discrimination model (the Five-Intent model: required / essential / bonus / avoid / reject) built on a saturating BM25 statistical ranking.
- LLM-assisted authoring — turns a free-text description of what you are looking for into a complete set of inputs for the Five-Intent model (filtering themes, word corpora and tags grounded in the real itch.io catalogue of 600+ tags).
- Manual curation — from the candidate games identified, make your final "Curator's choice" selection.
- Explorer — search and browse Overnoise's entire database (200,000+ most recent games, expanded daily).