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The Unexpected Quest$12.99

by rionix

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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 The Unexpected Quest, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-12 to 2026-10-11, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 17 throughout, no change at all.100%50%0%Sep 12Oct 11Ratings

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 12 to Oct 11

  • Ratings — people finished and cared17170
  • 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 1217
Sep 1317
Sep 1417
Sep 1517
Sep 1617
Sep 1717
Sep 1817
Sep 1917
Sep 2017
Sep 2117
Sep 2217
Sep 2317
Sep 2417
Sep 2517
Sep 2617
Sep 2717
Sep 2817
Sep 2917
Sep 3017
Oct 117
Oct 217
Oct 317
Oct 417
Oct 517
Oct 617
Oct 717
Oct 817
Oct 917
Oct 1017
Oct 1117
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-11
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion1700

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 sellers · Strategy311-20-15Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Strategy chart across 44 readings: slipping, #281 to #311 (best #279, worst #311).
Top sellers · Rpg622+7-25Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Rpg chart across 44 readings: slipping, #600 to #622 (best #593, worst #637).
Top rated · Strategy766-5-16Position on itch.io's Top rated · Strategy chart across 44 readings: slipping, #740 to #766 (best #740, worst #766).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top sellers6,502-1-185Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 52 readings: slipping, #6270 to #6502 (best #6152, worst #6507).
On 6 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #unreal-engine156+2-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #unreal-engine chart across 33 readings: slipping, #155 to #156 (best #155, worst #159).
Top rated · #management178-4-4Position on itch.io's Top rated · #management chart across 33 readings: slipping, #172 to #178 (best #172, worst #179).
Top rated · #casual1,132-5-28Position on itch.io's Top rated · #casual chart across 35 readings: slipping, #1099 to #1132 (best #1099, worst #1134).
Top rated · #fantasy1,6080-31Position on itch.io's Top rated · #fantasy chart across 34 readings: slipping, #1573 to #1608 (best #1573, worst #1619).
Top rated · #story-rich2,037-48Position on itch.io's Top rated · #story-rich chart across 24 readings: slipping, #1989 to #2037 (best #1988, worst #2039).
Top rated · #3d2,087-40Position on itch.io's Top rated · #3d chart across 21 readings: slipping, #2029 to #2087 (best #2028, worst #2087).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
paid
Average rating
4.53 / 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

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.