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itch.ioRank 15292026-10-16

plant daddy

by brady soglin

Open on itch.io

Velocity

-0.001

plant daddy Velocity, last 14 days: rising across 14 days, -0.02 to -0.00 (low -0.02, high 0.03).

Confidence 60%

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, topic views and ratings had a measurable acceleration on 2026-10-16. Comments 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, topic views fell by 3,942; ratings moved by 2, 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 plant daddy, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-17 to 2026-10-16, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. No ordering to read here. Topic views: 249,808 to 245,866, down 3,942, most of that change came early in the window. Ratings: 1,766 to 1,768, up 2, most of that change came early in the window.200%100%50%0%-59%Sep 17Oct 16Topic viewsRatings

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runs past its ends because a counter went beyond its final value inside the window and came back — a deleted comment, a withdrawn rating.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 17 to Oct 16

  • Topic views — people are looking249,808245,866-3,942
  • Ratings — people finished and cared1,7661,768+2
  • 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.

DayTopic viewsRatings
Sep 17249,8081,766
Sep 18249,9201,768
Sep 19250,1461,769
Sep 20250,3681,769
Sep 21250,5251,770
Sep 22250,6751,768
Sep 23250,8651,769
Sep 24251,0491,769
Sep 25251,3071,769
Sep 26251,4971,768
Sep 27251,7171,768
Sep 28251,9161,768
Sep 29252,1321,768
Sep 30242,9711,768
Oct 1243,1671,768
Oct 2243,3551,768
Oct 3243,5351,768
Oct 4243,7851,768
Oct 5243,9531,768
Oct 6244,1471,768
Oct 7244,3651,768
Oct 8244,5621,768
Oct 9244,7191,768
Oct 10244,8251,769
Oct 11244,9961,769
Oct 12245,2101,769
Oct 13245,3371,769
Oct 14245,4891,768
Oct 15245,7161,768
Oct 16245,8661,768
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-16
CounterNow7d30d
Topic views aperture245,866+1,147-3,869
Ratings conversion1,7680+4
Topic replies2,575+3-114

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 · Simulation1500Position on itch.io's Top rated · Simulation chart across 49 readings: slipping, #14 to #15 (best #14, worst #16).
Top sellers · Simulation503-32-36Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Simulation chart across 49 readings: slipping, #439 to #503 (best #436, worst #503).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated203-1-4Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 58 readings: slipping, #196 to #203 (best #196, worst #204).
Top sellers4,317-210-349Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 58 readings: slipping, #3975 to #4317 (best #559, worst #4317).
On 7 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #idle100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #idle chart across 38 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #incremental100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #incremental chart across 38 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #procedural300Position on itch.io's Top rated · #procedural chart across 38 readings: holding, #3 to #3 (best #3, worst #3).
Top rated · #relaxing900Position on itch.io's Top rated · #relaxing chart across 38 readings: holding, #9 to #9 (best #9, worst #9).
Top rated · #casual1100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #casual chart across 40 readings: holding, #11 to #11 (best #11, worst #11).
Top rated · #comedy140-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #comedy chart across 40 readings: slipping, #13 to #14 (best #13, worst #14).
Top rated · #cute50-2-2Position on itch.io's Top rated · #cute chart across 40 readings: slipping, #48 to #50 (best #48, worst #50).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.67 / 5
Community topics
23
Last community post
2026-10-11

Last devlog 2021-06-14 — 1950 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

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