screenshots are critical when your competition is other videogames; e.g. scrolling through Itch is a complete lottery without mouseover annotations, and even those are usually just gifs.

unfortunately, reputation wins against aesthetics.

adlai

Thanks for the response. You make good points too. I generally include screenshots to give people a visual of the site, because sometimes it's easier to make up your mind about whether you'd like to visit a link (particularly to a game or lighthearted thing like this) if you have a preview.

But in agree with you that text is mostly better.

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Scoresby

Thanks for the response. You make good points too. I generally include screenshots to give people a visual of the site, because sometimes it's easier to make up your mind about whether you'd like to visit a link (particularly to a game or lighthearted thing like this) if you have a preview. 

But in agree with you that text is mostly better.