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SIDE EFFECTS

by hi rohun

  • Strategy

Open on itch.io

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

12 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 SIDE EFFECTS, 12 daysLead and lag over 12 days, 2026-08-20 to 2026-08-31, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 502 to 503, up 1, most of that change came early in the window.100%50%0%Aug 20Aug 31Ratings

Each line is scaled to its own change across these 12 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 Aug 31

  • Ratings — people finished and cared502503+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 20502
Aug 21503
Aug 22503
Aug 23503
Aug 24503
Aug 25503
Aug 26503
Aug 27503
Aug 28503
Aug 29503
Aug 30503
Aug 31503
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-08-31
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion5030

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 · Strategy73Position on itch.io's Top rated · Strategy chart across 3 readings: holding, #73 to #73 (best #73, worst #73).
Top sellers · Strategy155Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Strategy chart across 3 readings: slipping, #150 to #155 (best #150, worst #155).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated1,938+3Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 12 readings: slipping, #1927 to #1938 (best #1927, worst #1942).
Top sellers3,112+62Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 12 readings: climbing, #3175 to #3112 (best #3019, worst #3222).

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
4.50 / 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.