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The Garden Path$20

by carrotcake

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Velocity

This game has no Velocity yet. The scoring pass only ranks games that clear an audience floor and have enough history to measure acceleration over — everything below that line is collected but not scored, which is most of the catalogue.

Which counter moved first

Lead and lag

30 days

Not enough of the ladder to compare.

Only ratings could be plotted, so there is no second counter to compare the timing against.

Lead and lag for The Garden Path, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-09 to 2026-10-08, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 6 to 7, up 1, most of that change came early in the window.100%50%0%Sep 9Oct 8Ratings

Each line is scaled to its own change across these 30 days, so counters that differ by orders of magnitude can be compared by shape. The vertical gap is what matters: a line higher on the left took its change earlier. The real counts are in the legend, and the day-by-day numbers are below.

Series — over Sep 9 to Oct 8

  • Ratings — people finished and cared67+1
  • Topic views are not recorded for this game, so that rung is unmeasured — not zero.
  • Comments are not recorded for this game, so that rung is unmeasured — not zero.
The numbers behind the chart

The counter as we recorded it that day, and beside it the share of the window’s change it had reached — the value the chart plots.

DayRatings
Sep 96
Sep 106
Sep 126
Sep 136
Sep 146
Sep 156
Sep 167
Sep 177
Sep 187
Sep 197
Sep 207
Sep 217
Sep 227
Sep 237
Sep 247
Sep 257
Sep 267
Sep 277
Sep 287
Sep 297
Oct 17
Oct 27
Oct 37
Oct 47
Oct 57
Oct 67
Oct 77
Oct 87
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-08
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion70+1

A blank change is not a zero: the scoring pass refuses a window whose nearest observation is too stale to compare, rather than differencing two points that are not seven days apart.

Not our number

On itch.io's own charts

Categories

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top sellers · Simulation449+14-15Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Simulation chart across 41 readings: slipping, #424 to #449 (best #81, worst #464).
Top sellers · Adventure930+26+23Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Adventure chart across 41 readings: slipping, #894 to #930 (best #136, worst #978).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top sellers3,920-46-42Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 50 readings: slipping, #3818 to #3920 (best #606, worst #3975).
Newest6,837Position on itch.io's Newest chart across 7 readings: slipping, #1163 to #6837 (best #1163, worst #6837).
New & popular7,176-5,224Position on itch.io's New & popular chart across 17 readings: slipping, #4 to #7176 (best #4, worst #7176).
On 6 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #gardening650+19Position on itch.io's Top rated · #gardening chart across 30 readings: climbing, #84 to #65 (best #63, worst #84).
Top rated · #life-simulation214-3+25Position on itch.io's Top rated · #life-simulation chart across 30 readings: climbing, #239 to #214 (best #210, worst #245).
Top rated · #sandbox274-1+37Position on itch.io's Top rated · #sandbox chart across 30 readings: climbing, #308 to #274 (best #267, worst #312).
Top rated · #slice-of-life632+1+61Position on itch.io's Top rated · #slice-of-life chart across 30 readings: climbing, #695 to #632 (best #626, worst #698).
Top rated · #godot818-4Position on itch.io's Top rated · #godot chart across 11 readings: slipping, #811 to #818 (best #811, worst #818).
Top rated · #exploration1,518-4Position on itch.io's Top rated · #exploration chart across 18 readings: climbing, #1519 to #1518 (best #1505, worst #1544).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
paid
Average rating
4.86 / 5

No devlog has been posted since we started watching on 2026-08-20. itch.io publishes only the most recent devlog date, so anything posted before then leaves no trace here.

Go to the source

We hold counters and metadata only. Nothing on the game’s own page — its description, its screenshots, its build — is republished here, and everything worth reading about it is behind those links.