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Broke Signal Badlands$14.99

by Forward Instinct

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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 Broke Signal Badlands, 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. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 11 throughout, no change at all.100%50%0%Sep 17Oct 16Ratings

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

  • Ratings — people finished and cared11110
  • 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 1711
Sep 1811
Sep 1911
Sep 2011
Sep 2111
Sep 2211
Sep 2311
Sep 2411
Sep 2511
Sep 2611
Sep 2711
Sep 2811
Sep 2911
Oct 111
Oct 211
Oct 311
Oct 411
Oct 511
Oct 611
Oct 711
Oct 811
Oct 911
Oct 1011
Oct 1111
Oct 1211
Oct 1311
Oct 1411
Oct 1511
Oct 1611
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-16
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion1100

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

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Top sellers · Adventure561-82Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Adventure chart across 14 readings: slipping, #176 to #561 (best #176, worst #561).
Top sellers · Rpg793-34-16Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Rpg chart across 50 readings: slipping, #750 to #793 (best #77, worst #793).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top sellers2,635-1,920-449Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 16 readings: slipping, #584 to #2635 (best #584, worst #2635).
On 5 tag charts
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Top rated · #glitch670-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #glitch chart across 38 readings: slipping, #66 to #67 (best #66, worst #67).
Top rated · #survival812-8-32Position on itch.io's Top rated · #survival chart across 38 readings: slipping, #776 to #812 (best #776, worst #812).
Top rated · #multiple-endings1,148-1-36Position on itch.io's Top rated · #multiple-endings chart across 37 readings: slipping, #1107 to #1148 (best #1107, worst #1148).
Top rated · #retro2,536+1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #retro chart across 14 readings: slipping, #2504 to #2536 (best #2504, worst #2538).
Top rated · #atmospheric2,736Position on itch.io's Top rated · #atmospheric chart across 3 readings: slipping, #2725 to #2736 (best #2725, worst #2736).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-29
Price
paid
Average rating
4.64 / 5

No devlog has been posted since we started watching on 2026-08-29. 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.