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itch.ioRank 12132026-10-17

Home Is Where He Is (DAY 2 AVAILABLE)

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Velocity

0.000

Home Is Where He Is (DAY 2 AVAILABLE) Velocity, last 14 days: falling across 14 days, 0.01 to 0.00 (low -0.02, high 0.01).

Confidence 50%

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, comments and ratings had a measurable acceleration on 2026-10-17. Topic views 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

Comments are running ahead of ratings.

By the average day in this window, comments had taken 59% of their change and ratings 47%. The shaded band is that gap.

Lead and lag for Home Is Where He Is (DAY 2 AVAILABLE), 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. Comments are running ahead of ratings. Furthest apart on 2026-09-25, 23 points between comments and ratings. Comments: 401 to 433, up 32, most of that change came early in the window. Ratings: 960 to 1,028, up 68, the change came at a steady pace.100%50%0%Sep 18Oct 1723 pts apartCommentsRatings

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

  • Comments — people are talking401433+32
  • Ratings — people finished and cared9601,028+68
  • Topic views 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.

DayCommentsRatings
Sep 18401960
Sep 19402961
Sep 20404962
Sep 21405965
Sep 22407965
Sep 23409965
Sep 24410967
Sep 25412968
Sep 26412969
Sep 27412973
Sep 28414979
Sep 29415983
Sep 30416987
Oct 1421989
Oct 2422992
Oct 3424994
Oct 4425997
Oct 5425998
Oct 64261,000
Oct 74271,006
Oct 84271,009
Oct 94281,011
Oct 104281,012
Oct 114291,015
Oct 124311,018
Oct 134321,020
Oct 144331,023
Oct 154331,025
Oct 164331,028
Oct 174331,028
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent433+5+32
Ratings conversion1,028+16+70

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 rated · Visual Novel174+5+6Position on itch.io's Top rated · Visual Novel chart across 50 readings: climbing, #195 to #174 (best #172, worst #195).
Top sellers · Visual Novel667+9-371Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Visual Novel chart across 50 readings: holding, #663 to #667 (best #25, worst #680).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated368+11+19Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 59 readings: climbing, #448 to #368 (best #366, worst #448).
Top sellers4,649-3,641-2,469Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 59 readings: slipping, #375 to #4649 (best #88, worst #4649).
On 9 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #monsters11+1+2Position on itch.io's Top rated · #monsters chart across 39 readings: climbing, #14 to #11 (best #11, worst #14).
Top rated · #creepy230+3Position on itch.io's Top rated · #creepy chart across 41 readings: climbing, #26 to #23 (best #23, worst #27).
Top rated · #indie2400Position on itch.io's Top rated · #indie chart across 39 readings: climbing, #25 to #24 (best #24, worst #25).
Top rated · #dark250+1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #dark chart across 41 readings: climbing, #26 to #25 (best #25, worst #28).
Top rated · #psychological-horror33+10Position on itch.io's Top rated · #psychological-horror chart across 39 readings: climbing, #34 to #33 (best #32, worst #36).
Top rated · #yandere3600Position on itch.io's Top rated · #yandere chart across 39 readings: climbing, #39 to #36 (best #35, worst #40).
Top rated · #2d98+2+4Position on itch.io's Top rated · #2d chart across 59 readings: climbing, #118 to #98 (best #97, worst #118).
Top rated · #romance130+3+4Position on itch.io's Top rated · #romance chart across 39 readings: climbing, #141 to #130 (best #129, worst #147).
Top rated · #no-ai168+7+7Position on itch.io's Top rated · #no-ai chart across 39 readings: climbing, #181 to #168 (best #165, worst #182).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.68 / 5

Last devlog 2026-08-03 — 75 days ago. That was already the most recent devlog when we started watching on 2026-08-20, so there is no cadence to read from it yet. The platform publishes only the most recent devlog date, so this is a floor rather than the project’s history.

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