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Return to Ash$5.99

by Serenity Forge

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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 Return to Ash, 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: 20 to 21, up 1, the change came at a steady pace.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 cared2021+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 1220
Sep 1320
Sep 1420
Sep 1520
Sep 1620
Sep 1720
Sep 1820
Sep 1920
Sep 2020
Sep 2120
Sep 2220
Sep 2320
Sep 2420
Sep 2520
Sep 2620
Sep 2721
Sep 2821
Sep 2921
Sep 3021
Oct 121
Oct 221
Oct 321
Oct 421
Oct 521
Oct 621
Oct 721
Oct 821
Oct 921
Oct 1021
Oct 1121
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-11
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion210+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 sellers · Visual Novel977-20-38Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Visual Novel chart across 37 readings: slipping, #921 to #977 (best #110, worst #987).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated4,716+33+177Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 53 readings: climbing, #4837 to #4716 (best #4693, worst #4948).
Top sellers6,776+11-113Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 52 readings: slipping, #6610 to #6776 (best #689, worst #6792).
On 9 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #black-and-white41-1-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #black-and-white chart across 39 readings: holding, #41 to #41 (best #38, worst #41).
Top rated · #card-game73-1+2Position on itch.io's Top rated · #card-game chart across 35 readings: climbing, #75 to #73 (best #71, worst #76).
Top rated · #surreal134-10Position on itch.io's Top rated · #surreal chart across 33 readings: holding, #134 to #134 (best #131, worst #139).
Top rated · #anime294+14+14Position on itch.io's Top rated · #anime chart across 50 readings: climbing, #304 to #294 (best #294, worst #315).
Top rated · #multiple-endings379+6+6Position on itch.io's Top rated · #multiple-endings chart across 33 readings: climbing, #383 to #379 (best #375, worst #395).
Top rated · #narrative384+2+13Position on itch.io's Top rated · #narrative chart across 33 readings: climbing, #396 to #384 (best #384, worst #401).
Top rated · #fantasy497+9+18Position on itch.io's Top rated · #fantasy chart across 34 readings: climbing, #512 to #497 (best #492, worst #520).
Top rated · #lgbt634+4+16Position on itch.io's Top rated · #lgbt chart across 30 readings: climbing, #649 to #634 (best #632, worst #658).
Top rated · #no-ai1,938+31+33Position on itch.io's Top rated · #no-ai chart across 33 readings: climbing, #1962 to #1938 (best #1917, worst #2026).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
paid
Average rating
5.00 / 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.