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itch.ioRank 16432026-10-18

[RPG] GROVE: "Dark Places" (v0.308)18+

by GROVE DEVELOPMENT

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Velocity

-0.001

[RPG] GROVE: "Dark Places" (v0.308) Velocity, last 14 days: falling 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 2026-10-18. Topic views did not. We also have itch.io chart positions for it, which is the fourth component. It was observed on 13 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 did not move at all (1,307 throughout); ratings moved by 7, 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 [RPG] GROVE: "Dark Places" (v0.308), 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-19 to 2026-10-18, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. No ordering to read here. Comments: 1,307 throughout, no change at all. Ratings: 1,530 to 1,537, up 7, most of that change came early in the window.100%50%0%Sep 19Oct 18CommentsRatings

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 19 to Oct 18

  • Comments — people are talking1,3071,3070
  • Ratings — people finished and cared1,5301,537+7
  • 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 191,3071,530
Sep 201,3071,530
Sep 211,3071,530
Sep 221,3071,531
Sep 231,3061,532
Sep 241,3061,532
Sep 251,3061,532
Sep 261,3061,532
Sep 271,3061,532
Sep 281,3061,532
Sep 291,3061,532
Sep 301,3061,532
Oct 11,3061,535
Oct 21,3061,535
Oct 31,3061,536
Oct 41,3061,536
Oct 51,3061,536
Oct 61,3061,536
Oct 71,3071,536
Oct 81,3071,536
Oct 91,3071,536
Oct 101,3071,536
Oct 111,3071,537
Oct 121,3071,537
Oct 131,3071,537
Oct 141,3071,537
Oct 151,3071,537
Oct 161,3071,537
Oct 171,3071,537
Oct 181,3071,537
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-18
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent1,30700
Ratings conversion1,5370+7

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

On 2 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #adult1600Position on itch.io's Top rated · #adult chart across 60 readings: holding, #16 to #16 (best #16, worst #16).
Top rated · #erotic1700Position on itch.io's Top rated · #erotic chart across 41 readings: holding, #17 to #17 (best #17, worst #17).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.85 / 5

Last devlog 2026-05-04 — 167 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.

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.