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NightShift

by Octopus 8 Studios

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

27 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 NightShift, 27 daysLead and lag over 27 days, 2026-09-20 to 2026-10-16, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 8 throughout, no change at all.100%50%0%Sep 20Oct 16Ratings

Each line is scaled to its own change across these 27 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 20 to Oct 16

  • Ratings — people finished and cared880
  • 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
Sep 208
Sep 218
Sep 228
Sep 238
Sep 248
Sep 258
Sep 268
Sep 278
Sep 288
Sep 298
Sep 308
Oct 18
Oct 29
Oct 39
Oct 49
Oct 59
Oct 69
Oct 79
Oct 89
Oct 99
Oct 109
Oct 118
Oct 128
Oct 138
Oct 148
Oct 158
Oct 168
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-16
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion8-1

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

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
New & popular6,969-5,842Position on itch.io's New & popular chart across 15 readings: slipping, #15 to #6969 (best #15, worst #6969).
Newest7,122-5,350Position on itch.io's Newest chart across 10 readings: slipping, #246 to #7122 (best #246, worst #7122).
On 4 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #top-down897-161Position on itch.io's Top rated · #top-down chart across 18 readings: slipping, #882 to #897 (best #734, worst #897).
Top rated · #survival1,559Position on itch.io's Top rated · #survival chart across 7 readings: slipping, #1212 to #1559 (best #1212, worst #1559).
Top rated · #dark1,560-276Position on itch.io's Top rated · #dark chart across 24 readings: slipping, #1526 to #1560 (best #1274, worst #1560).
Top rated · #psychological-horror2,387-408Position on itch.io's Top rated · #psychological-horror chart across 15 readings: slipping, #2321 to #2387 (best #1956, worst #2387).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-09-11
Price
free
Average rating
4.50 / 5

No devlog has been posted since we started watching on 2026-09-11. 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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