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Buddy Simulator 1984

by Not a Sailor Studios

  • Simulation

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 Buddy Simulator 1984, 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: 37 throughout, no change at all.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 cared37370
  • 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 2037
Aug 2137
Aug 2237
Aug 2337
Aug 2437
Aug 2537
Aug 2637
Aug 2737
Aug 2837
Aug 2937
Aug 3037
Aug 3137
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-08-31
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion370

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 · Simulation258Position on itch.io's Top rated · Simulation chart across 3 readings: holding, #258 to #258 (best #258, worst #258).
Top sellers · Simulation414Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Simulation chart across 3 readings: slipping, #405 to #414 (best #405, worst #414).
Top rated · Adventure591Position on itch.io's Top rated · Adventure chart across 3 readings: slipping, #590 to #591 (best #590, worst #591).
Top sellers · Adventure868Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Adventure chart across 3 readings: slipping, #843 to #868 (best #843, worst #868).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated3,076-9Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 12 readings: slipping, #3062 to #3076 (best #3062, worst #3076).
Top sellers3,554+68Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 12 readings: climbing, #3627 to #3554 (best #3467, worst #3672).

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
4.95 / 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

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