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Hardware Tycoon

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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

13 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 Hardware Tycoon, 13 daysLead and lag over 13 days, 2026-08-20 to 2026-09-01, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 863 to 864, up 1, most of that change came early in the window.100%50%0%Aug 20Sep 1Ratings

Each line is scaled to its own change across these 13 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 Aug 20 to Sep 1

  • Ratings — people finished and cared863864+1
  • 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
Aug 20863
Aug 21863
Aug 22863
Aug 23863
Aug 24864
Aug 25864
Aug 26864
Aug 27864
Aug 28864
Aug 29864
Aug 30864
Aug 31864
Sep 1864
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-09-01
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion8640

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 · Strategy44Position on itch.io's Top rated · Strategy chart across 4 readings: holding, #44 to #44 (best #44, worst #44).
Top rated · Simulation118Position on itch.io's Top rated · Simulation chart across 4 readings: holding, #118 to #118 (best #117, worst #118).
Top sellers · Strategy207Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Strategy chart across 4 readings: slipping, #199 to #207 (best #199, worst #207).
Top sellers · Simulation472Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Simulation chart across 4 readings: slipping, #464 to #472 (best #464, worst #475).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated1,301-9Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 13 readings: slipping, #1298 to #1301 (best #1292, worst #1303).
Top sellers4,266-8Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 13 readings: climbing, #4278 to #4266 (best #4146, worst #4324).
On 1 tag chart
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #2d333-4Position on itch.io's Top rated · #2d chart across 13 readings: slipping, #331 to #333 (best #329, worst #335).

A climb is places gained, so a positive number means it moved up. The line rises when the game is climbing, which is the opposite direction to the raw position.

Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Average rating
4.49 / 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.