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itch.ioRank 10502026-10-16

Do NOT Take This Cat Home

by Pixeliminal

Open on itch.io

Velocity

+0.001

Do NOT Take This Cat Home Velocity, last 14 days: falling across 14 days, 0.00 to 0.00 (low -0.00, high 0.00).

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 2026-10-16. 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 did not move at all (895 throughout); ratings moved by 7, 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 Do NOT Take This Cat Home, 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. Comments: 895 throughout, no change at all. Ratings: 1,205 to 1,212, up 7, the change came at a steady pace.100%50%0%Sep 17Oct 16CommentsRatings

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 17 to Oct 16

  • Comments — people are talking8958950
  • Ratings — people finished and cared1,2051,212+7
  • 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 178951,205
Sep 188951,205
Sep 198951,205
Sep 208951,207
Sep 218951,208
Sep 228951,205
Sep 238921,205
Sep 248921,206
Sep 258921,206
Sep 268921,206
Sep 278921,207
Sep 288921,207
Sep 298921,208
Sep 308921,208
Oct 18921,208
Oct 28921,208
Oct 38921,208
Oct 48921,209
Oct 58921,209
Oct 68921,209
Oct 78921,209
Oct 88921,209
Oct 98931,209
Oct 108941,209
Oct 118941,209
Oct 128951,209
Oct 138951,211
Oct 148951,211
Oct 158951,212
Oct 168951,212
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-16
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent895+20
Ratings conversion1,212+3+7

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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All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated12200Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 58 readings: slipping, #120 to #122 (best #120, worst #123).
Top sellers2,795-268-369Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 58 readings: slipping, #417 to #2795 (best #331, worst #2795).
On 10 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #scary200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #scary chart across 38 readings: holding, #2 to #2 (best #2, worst #2).
Top rated · #cats50+1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #cats chart across 40 readings: holding, #5 to #5 (best #5, worst #6).
Top rated · #renpy900Position on itch.io's Top rated · #renpy chart across 38 readings: climbing, #10 to #9 (best #9, worst #10).
Top rated · #creepy1000Position on itch.io's Top rated · #creepy chart across 40 readings: slipping, #9 to #10 (best #9, worst #10).
Top rated · #indie1000Position on itch.io's Top rated · #indie chart across 38 readings: holding, #10 to #10 (best #10, worst #10).
Top rated · #psychological-horror1100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #psychological-horror chart across 38 readings: holding, #11 to #11 (best #11, worst #11).
Top rated · #yandere1300Position on itch.io's Top rated · #yandere chart across 38 readings: holding, #13 to #13 (best #13, worst #13).
Top rated · #multiple-endings1400Position on itch.io's Top rated · #multiple-endings chart across 38 readings: holding, #14 to #14 (best #14, worst #14).
Top rated · #interactive-fiction3200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #interactive-fiction chart across 38 readings: holding, #32 to #32 (best #32, worst #32).
Top rated · #horror360-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #horror chart across 38 readings: slipping, #35 to #36 (best #35, worst #36).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.81 / 5

Last devlog 2026-04-18 — 181 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.

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