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Aether Story

by Phanxgames

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

30 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 Aether Story, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-11 to 2026-10-10, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 13 throughout, no change at all.100%50%0%Sep 11Oct 10Ratings

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 11 to Oct 10

  • Ratings — people finished and cared13130
  • 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 1113
Sep 1213
Sep 1313
Sep 1413
Sep 1513
Sep 1613
Sep 1713
Sep 1813
Sep 1913
Sep 2013
Sep 2113
Sep 2213
Sep 2313
Sep 2413
Sep 2513
Sep 2613
Sep 2713
Sep 2813
Sep 2913
Sep 3013
Oct 113
Oct 213
Oct 313
Oct 413
Oct 513
Oct 613
Oct 713
Oct 813
Oct 913
Oct 1013
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-10
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion1300

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

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Top rated · Rpg834-1-32Position on itch.io's Top rated · Rpg chart across 43 readings: slipping, #801 to #834 (best #799, worst #834).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top sellers5,446+4-178Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 51 readings: slipping, #5248 to #5446 (best #5132, worst #5451).
On 7 tag charts
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Top rated · #mmorpg600Position on itch.io's Top rated · #mmorpg chart across 32 readings: slipping, #5 to #6 (best #5, worst #6).
Top rated · #16-bit9400Position on itch.io's Top rated · #16-bit chart across 52 readings: holding, #94 to #94 (best #94, worst #95).
Top rated · #multiplayer1960-2Position on itch.io's Top rated · #multiplayer chart across 32 readings: slipping, #193 to #196 (best #193, worst #198).
Top rated · #top-down278-2-8Position on itch.io's Top rated · #top-down chart across 32 readings: slipping, #270 to #278 (best #270, worst #278).
Top rated · #fantasy914+5-17Position on itch.io's Top rated · #fantasy chart across 33 readings: slipping, #896 to #914 (best #896, worst #927).
Top rated · #retro1,193-2-24Position on itch.io's Top rated · #retro chart across 23 readings: slipping, #1169 to #1193 (best #1169, worst #1196).
Top rated · #pixel-art2,381Position on itch.io's Top rated · #pixel-art chart across 6 readings: slipping, #2339 to #2381 (best #2339, worst #2381).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.92 / 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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