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itch.ioRank 23872026-10-17

What Friends Are For

by crocodill3s

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Velocity

-0.014

What Friends Are For Velocity, last 14 days: rising across 14 days, -0.01 to -0.01 (low -0.04, high 0.01).

Confidence 20%

Confidence is the share of Velocity’s four components that could be measured for this game, scaled down again when there is less than a fortnight to measure over. Here, ratings had a measurable acceleration on 2026-10-17. Topic views and comments did not. We also have itch.io chart positions for it, which is the fourth component. It was observed on 14 of the last 14 days. How this is computed.

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 What Friends Are For, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-18 to 2026-10-17, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 71 to 76, up 5, the change came at a steady pace.100%50%0%Sep 18Oct 17Ratings

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 18 to Oct 17

  • Ratings — people finished and cared7176+5
  • 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 1871
Sep 1971
Sep 2071
Sep 2171
Sep 2271
Sep 2371
Sep 2472
Sep 2572
Sep 2672
Sep 2773
Sep 2874
Sep 2974
Sep 3074
Oct 174
Oct 274
Oct 374
Oct 474
Oct 574
Oct 675
Oct 775
Oct 875
Oct 975
Oct 1075
Oct 1175
Oct 1275
Oct 1375
Oct 1475
Oct 1575
Oct 1675
Oct 1776
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion760+4

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

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated3,005-18+271Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 59 readings: climbing, #3515 to #3005 (best #2987, worst #3529).
On 8 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #satire1100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #satire chart across 39 readings: holding, #11 to #11 (best #10, worst #11).
Top rated · #renpy191-4+7Position on itch.io's Top rated · #renpy chart across 39 readings: climbing, #201 to #191 (best #187, worst #201).
Top rated · #anime208+1+15Position on itch.io's Top rated · #anime chart across 56 readings: climbing, #234 to #208 (best #208, worst #234).
Top rated · #comedy225+1+12Position on itch.io's Top rated · #comedy chart across 41 readings: climbing, #238 to #225 (best #225, worst #238).
Top rated · #multiple-endings265-4+15Position on itch.io's Top rated · #multiple-endings chart across 39 readings: climbing, #280 to #265 (best #261, worst #284).
Top rated · #short566-2+69Position on itch.io's Top rated · #short chart across 39 readings: climbing, #642 to #566 (best #564, worst #647).
Top rated · #2d797-8+68Position on itch.io's Top rated · #2d chart across 59 readings: climbing, #931 to #797 (best #786, worst #935).
Top rated · #no-ai1,257-21+81Position on itch.io's Top rated · #no-ai chart across 39 readings: climbing, #1361 to #1257 (best #1236, worst #1366).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.79 / 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.