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itch.ioRank 12982026-10-18

Symptoms of Deceit18+

by strawberry squid

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Velocity

0.000

Symptoms of Deceit Velocity, last 14 days: falling across 14 days, 0.01 to -0.00 (low -0.01, high 0.01).

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 2026-10-18. Topic views did not. We also have itch.io chart positions for it, which is the fourth component. It was observed on 13 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 moved by 1, under its floor of 20; ratings moved by 14, 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 Symptoms of Deceit, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-19 to 2026-10-18, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. No ordering to read here. Comments: 190 to 191, up 1, the change came at a steady pace. Ratings: 898 to 912, up 14, the change came at a steady pace.100%50%0%-100%Sep 19Oct 18CommentsRatings

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. The axis runs past its ends because a counter went beyond its final value inside the window and came back — a deleted comment, a withdrawn rating. The scale is widened rather than the curve clipped, so the round trip stays visible.

Series — over Sep 19 to Oct 18

  • Comments — people are talking190191+1
  • Ratings — people finished and cared898912+14
  • 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 19190898
Sep 20190899
Sep 21190901
Sep 22190902
Sep 23189901
Sep 24189901
Sep 25189902
Sep 26189903
Sep 27189904
Sep 28189904
Sep 29190904
Sep 30191904
Oct 1191905
Oct 2191906
Oct 3191906
Oct 4191906
Oct 5191908
Oct 6191909
Oct 7191909
Oct 8191909
Oct 9191909
Oct 10191909
Oct 11191909
Oct 12191909
Oct 13191909
Oct 14191911
Oct 15191911
Oct 16191911
Oct 17191911
Oct 18191912
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-18
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent1910+1
Ratings conversion912+3+14

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

On 1 tag chart
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #adult73-3-5Position on itch.io's Top rated · #adult chart across 60 readings: slipping, #66 to #73 (best #66, worst #73).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.74 / 5

Last devlog 2026-07-05 — 105 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.

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.