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itch.ioRank 8902026-10-17

CaptchaWare

by PaperHatProjects

Open on itch.io

Velocity

+0.003

CaptchaWare Velocity, last 14 days: rising across 14 days, -0.01 to 0.00 (low -0.01, 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 2026-10-17. 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 moved by 9, under its floor of 20; ratings moved by 14, 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 CaptchaWare, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-18 to 2026-10-17, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. No ordering to read here. Comments: 283 to 292, up 9, the change came at a steady pace. Ratings: 835 to 849, up 14, most of that change came early in the window.100%50%0%Sep 18Oct 17CommentsRatings

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.

Series — over Sep 18 to Oct 17

  • Comments — people are talking283292+9
  • Ratings — people finished and cared835849+14
  • 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 18283835
Sep 19284837
Sep 20284837
Sep 21284838
Sep 22285838
Sep 23287838
Sep 24287838
Sep 25287840
Sep 26287843
Sep 27287844
Sep 28287844
Sep 29287844
Sep 30287844
Oct 1287844
Oct 2287845
Oct 3287845
Oct 4288845
Oct 5288845
Oct 6288845
Oct 7288846
Oct 8288846
Oct 9288846
Oct 10289846
Oct 11289846
Oct 12289846
Oct 13291848
Oct 14291848
Oct 15291848
Oct 16291848
Oct 17292849
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent292+3+9
Ratings conversion849+3+14

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 · Simulation1100Position on itch.io's Top rated · Simulation chart across 50 readings: holding, #11 to #11 (best #11, worst #11).
Top rated · Puzzle170-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · Puzzle chart across 50 readings: slipping, #16 to #17 (best #16, worst #18).
Top sellers · Simulation916-14-50Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Simulation chart across 50 readings: slipping, #844 to #916 (best #844, worst #921).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated133+2-2Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 59 readings: slipping, #132 to #133 (best #131, worst #135).
On 5 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #parody100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #parody chart across 39 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #minigames300Position on itch.io's Top rated · #minigames chart across 39 readings: holding, #3 to #3 (best #3, worst #3).
Top rated · #ai-generated400Position on itch.io's Top rated · #ai-generated chart across 58 readings: holding, #4 to #4 (best #4, worst #4).
Top rated · #funny800Position on itch.io's Top rated · #funny chart across 39 readings: holding, #8 to #8 (best #8, worst #8).
Top rated · #singleplayer280-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #singleplayer chart across 39 readings: slipping, #27 to #28 (best #27, worst #29).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.86 / 5

Last devlog 2026-02-27 — 232 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.