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sidechain

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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 sidechain, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-10 to 2026-10-09, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 10 to 11, up 1, most of that change came early in the window.100%50%0%Sep 10Oct 9Ratings

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 10 to Oct 9

  • Ratings — people finished and cared1011+1
  • 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 1010
Sep 1110
Sep 1210
Sep 1310
Sep 1410
Sep 1510
Sep 1610
Sep 1710
Sep 1810
Sep 1910
Sep 2010
Sep 2110
Sep 2211
Sep 2311
Sep 2411
Sep 2511
Sep 2611
Sep 2711
Sep 2811
Sep 2911
Sep 3011
Oct 111
Oct 211
Oct 311
Oct 411
Oct 511
Oct 611
Oct 711
Oct 811
Oct 911
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-09
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion110+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

Categories

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · Action963-6Position on itch.io's Top rated · Action chart across 18 readings: slipping, #952 to #963 (best #952, worst #963).
On 6 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #party-game32+2+3Position on itch.io's Top rated · #party-game chart across 30 readings: climbing, #35 to #32 (best #32, worst #35).
Top rated · #minigames92+1+5Position on itch.io's Top rated · #minigames chart across 30 readings: climbing, #97 to #92 (best #92, worst #99).
Top rated · #weird256-2+24Position on itch.io's Top rated · #weird chart across 30 readings: climbing, #278 to #256 (best #254, worst #287).
Top rated · #experimental3120+32Position on itch.io's Top rated · #experimental chart across 31 readings: climbing, #344 to #312 (best #308, worst #353).
Top rated · #point-and-click492-2+38Position on itch.io's Top rated · #point-and-click chart across 30 readings: climbing, #521 to #492 (best #475, worst #537).
Top rated · #narrative772+3+61Position on itch.io's Top rated · #narrative chart across 28 readings: climbing, #829 to #772 (best #757, worst #850).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-09-07
Price
free
Average rating
5.00 / 5

No devlog has been posted since we started watching on 2026-09-07. itch.io publishes only the most recent devlog date, so anything posted before then leaves no trace here.

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.