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itch.ioRank 15162026-10-16

Cantata

by Fir & Fireweed

Open on itch.io

Velocity

-0.001

Cantata Velocity, last 14 days: rising across 14 days, -0.00 to -0.00 (low -0.00, high 0.00).

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 2026-10-16. 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

No ordering to read here.

Across this window, comments moved by 4, under its floor of 20; ratings moved by 12, under its floor of 20. Timing two counters against each other needs both of them to have risen, by more than the floor this page sets for that counter so a handful of events cannot read as an ordering, and to have stayed between their own start and end values — a counter that went past one of those and came back has no share of its change to time. The shapes are drawn; which of them moved first is not claimed.

Lead and lag for Cantata, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-17 to 2026-10-16, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. No ordering to read here. Comments: 632 to 636, up 4, most of that change came early in the window. Ratings: 989 to 1,001, up 12, the change came at a steady pace.100%50%0%Sep 17Oct 16CommentsRatings

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 17 to Oct 16

  • Comments — people are talking632636+4
  • Ratings — people finished and cared9891,001+12
  • 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 17632989
Sep 18632989
Sep 19632989
Sep 20632990
Sep 21632992
Sep 22633990
Sep 23634990
Sep 24634993
Sep 25635993
Sep 26635993
Sep 27635994
Sep 28635994
Sep 29635994
Sep 30635994
Oct 1635994
Oct 2635994
Oct 3635994
Oct 4635995
Oct 5635996
Oct 6635996
Oct 7635997
Oct 8636997
Oct 9636997
Oct 10636998
Oct 116361,000
Oct 126361,000
Oct 136361,000
Oct 146361,000
Oct 156361,001
Oct 166361,001
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-16
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent6360+4
Ratings conversion1,001+4+12

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 rated9400Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 58 readings: holding, #94 to #94 (best #93, worst #94).
On 12 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #medieval100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #medieval chart across 38 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #character-customization600Position on itch.io's Top rated · #character-customization chart across 40 readings: holding, #6 to #6 (best #6, worst #6).
Top rated · #text-based700Position on itch.io's Top rated · #text-based chart across 38 readings: holding, #7 to #7 (best #7, worst #7).
Top rated · #meaningful-choices800Position on itch.io's Top rated · #meaningful-choices chart across 38 readings: slipping, #7 to #8 (best #7, worst #8).
Top rated · #multiple-endings1200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #multiple-endings chart across 38 readings: holding, #12 to #12 (best #12, worst #12).
Top rated · #amare1300Position on itch.io's Top rated · #amare chart across 57 readings: holding, #13 to #13 (best #13, worst #13).
Top rated · #fantasy1300Position on itch.io's Top rated · #fantasy chart across 39 readings: holding, #13 to #13 (best #13, worst #13).
Top rated · #lgbt2300Position on itch.io's Top rated · #lgbt chart across 38 readings: holding, #23 to #23 (best #23, worst #23).
Top rated · #interactive-fiction2400Position on itch.io's Top rated · #interactive-fiction chart across 38 readings: holding, #24 to #24 (best #24, worst #24).
Top rated · #story-rich2800Position on itch.io's Top rated · #story-rich chart across 38 readings: slipping, #27 to #28 (best #27, worst #28).
Top rated · #no-ai4000Position on itch.io's Top rated · #no-ai chart across 38 readings: holding, #40 to #40 (best #40, worst #40).
Top rated · #romance4100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #romance chart across 38 readings: slipping, #40 to #41 (best #40, worst #41).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.89 / 5

Last devlog 2026-10-15 — yesterday. 1 more has landed since we started watching on 2026-08-20, about one every 41 days. The platform publishes only the most recent devlog date, so this is a floor rather than the project’s history.

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.