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itch.ioRank 10042026-10-14

Aria's Story

by Lydia

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Velocity

+0.001

Aria's Story Velocity, last 14 days: falling across 14 days, 0.01 to 0.00 (low -0.00, high 0.01).

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 2026-10-14. 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 did not move at all (201 throughout); ratings moved by 6, 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 Aria's Story, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-15 to 2026-10-14, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. No ordering to read here. Comments: 201 throughout, no change at all. Ratings: 863 to 869, up 6, most of that change came late in the window.100%50%0%-17%Sep 15Oct 14CommentsRatings

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. The axis runs past its ends because a counter went beyond its final value inside the window and came back — a deleted comment, a withdrawn rating. The scale is widened rather than the curve clipped, so the round trip stays visible.

Series — over Sep 15 to Oct 14

  • Comments — people are talking2012010
  • Ratings — people finished and cared863869+6
  • 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 15201863
Sep 16201864
Sep 17201864
Sep 18201864
Sep 19201864
Sep 20201865
Sep 21201865
Sep 22201862
Sep 23200862
Sep 24200862
Sep 25200862
Sep 26200862
Sep 27200863
Sep 28201863
Sep 29201863
Sep 30201863
Oct 1201863
Oct 2201863
Oct 3201863
Oct 4201863
Oct 5201863
Oct 6201864
Oct 7201865
Oct 8201867
Oct 9201868
Oct 10201869
Oct 11201869
Oct 12201869
Oct 13201869
Oct 14201869
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-14
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent20100
Ratings conversion869+4+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

Categories

ChartNow7d30dHistory
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Top rated · Adventure300-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · Adventure chart across 47 readings: slipping, #28 to #30 (best #27, worst #30).
Top sellers · Puzzle371-222-49Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Puzzle chart across 47 readings: slipping, #320 to #371 (best #31, worst #371).
Top sellers · Adventure726-419-1Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Adventure chart across 47 readings: slipping, #684 to #726 (best #72, worst #741).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated189-1-5Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 56 readings: slipping, #183 to #189 (best #181, worst #189).
Top sellers3,263-1,704-249Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 56 readings: slipping, #3036 to #3263 (best #394, worst #3263).
On 5 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #exploration50-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #exploration chart across 37 readings: slipping, #4 to #5 (best #4, worst #5).
Top rated · #spooky60-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #spooky chart across 36 readings: slipping, #5 to #6 (best #5, worst #6).
Top rated · #rpgmaker150-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #rpgmaker chart across 36 readings: slipping, #14 to #15 (best #14, worst #15).
Top rated · #mystery180-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #mystery chart across 36 readings: slipping, #17 to #18 (best #17, worst #18).
Top rated · #multiple-endings220-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #multiple-endings chart across 36 readings: slipping, #21 to #22 (best #21, worst #22).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.81 / 5

Last devlog 2020-06-18 — 2309 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.