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Spark in the Dark

by Stellar Fish

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 Spark in the Dark, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-15 to 2026-10-14, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 13 to 15, up 2, most of that change came early in the window.100%50%0%Sep 15Oct 14Ratings

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 15 to Oct 14

  • Ratings — people finished and cared1315+2
  • 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 1513
Sep 1613
Sep 1714
Sep 1814
Sep 1914
Sep 2014
Sep 2114
Sep 2214
Sep 2314
Sep 2414
Sep 2514
Sep 2614
Sep 2714
Sep 2814
Sep 2914
Sep 3014
Oct 114
Oct 214
Oct 314
Oct 414
Oct 514
Oct 614
Oct 714
Oct 815
Oct 915
Oct 1015
Oct 1115
Oct 1215
Oct 1315
Oct 1415
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-14
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion15+1+2

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 · Rpg532+62+81Position on itch.io's Top rated · Rpg chart across 47 readings: climbing, #607 to #532 (best #531, worst #614).
On 8 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #perma-death13+2+2Position on itch.io's Top rated · #perma-death chart across 36 readings: climbing, #15 to #13 (best #13, worst #15).
Top rated · #isometric33+1+3Position on itch.io's Top rated · #isometric chart across 36 readings: climbing, #36 to #33 (best #33, worst #36).
Top rated · #ai-generated65+50Position on itch.io's Top rated · #ai-generated chart across 55 readings: slipping, #58 to #65 (best #57, worst #70).
Top rated · #procedural79+7+11Position on itch.io's Top rated · #procedural chart across 36 readings: climbing, #90 to #79 (best #79, worst #90).
Top rated · #dungeon-crawler81+5+4Position on itch.io's Top rated · #dungeon-crawler chart across 38 readings: climbing, #85 to #81 (best #81, worst #86).
Top rated · #dark-fantasy122+10+7Position on itch.io's Top rated · #dark-fantasy chart across 38 readings: climbing, #132 to #122 (best #121, worst #132).
Top rated · #survival-horror123+15+20Position on itch.io's Top rated · #survival-horror chart across 36 readings: climbing, #143 to #123 (best #123, worst #144).
Top rated · #atmospheric889+89+115Position on itch.io's Top rated · #atmospheric chart across 54 readings: climbing, #1002 to #889 (best #887, worst #1009).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
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.