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itch.ioRank 72026-10-17

Doki Doki Literature Club!

by Team Salvato

Open on itch.io

Velocity

+0.446

Doki Doki Literature Club! Velocity, last 14 days: rising across 14 days, 0.00 to 0.45 (low -0.01, high 0.45).

Confidence 60%

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, topic views and ratings had a measurable acceleration on 2026-10-17. Comments did not. We also have itch.io chart positions for it, which is the fourth component. It was observed on 14 of the last 14 days. How this is computed.

Which counter moved first

Lead and lag

30 days

Ratings are running ahead of topic views.

By the average day in this window, topic views had taken 11% of their change and ratings 50%. That is the reverse of the order the signal is built on — the audience arrived before the attention did, which reads as a game being found rather than one breaking out.

Lead and lag for Doki Doki Literature Club!, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-18 to 2026-10-17, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Ratings are running ahead of topic views. Furthest apart on 2026-10-14, 84 points between ratings and topic views. Topic views: 87,518 to 153,395, up 65,877, most of that change came late in the window. Ratings: 6,464 to 6,548, up 84, the change came at a steady pace.100%50%0%Sep 18Oct 1784 pts apartTopic viewsRatings

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 18 to Oct 17

  • Topic views — people are looking87,518153,395+65,877
  • Ratings — people finished and cared6,4646,548+84
  • 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.

DayTopic viewsRatings
Sep 1887,5186,464
Sep 1988,0736,465
Sep 2087,8066,470
Sep 2187,3616,472
Sep 2287,6216,471
Sep 2387,8616,474
Sep 2488,0396,478
Sep 2588,4036,481
Sep 2688,6616,488
Sep 2788,9906,495
Sep 2889,2706,497
Sep 2989,1716,500
Sep 3089,4636,501
Oct 189,7386,504
Oct 289,9686,509
Oct 390,1586,511
Oct 490,4216,512
Oct 590,3946,514
Oct 690,6226,516
Oct 790,8746,515
Oct 890,7816,521
Oct 991,0236,523
Oct 1091,2786,526
Oct 1191,0646,532
Oct 1291,3366,534
Oct 1391,6556,536
Oct 1490,8906,539
Oct 15152,9636,541
Oct 16153,1936,546
Oct 17153,3956,548
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Topic views aperture153,395+62,117+66,013
Ratings conversion6,548+22+87
Topic replies210+117+125

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
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All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated130+1Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 59 readings: climbing, #16 to #13 (best #13, worst #16).
Top sellers80+38+11Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 59 readings: climbing, #83 to #80 (best #34, worst #228).
On 4 tag charts
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Top rated · #cute400Position on itch.io's Top rated · #cute chart across 41 readings: holding, #4 to #4 (best #4, worst #4).
Top rated · #horror400Position on itch.io's Top rated · #horror chart across 39 readings: holding, #4 to #4 (best #4, worst #4).
Top rated · #romance80+1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #romance chart across 39 readings: climbing, #10 to #8 (best #8, worst #10).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.82 / 5
Community topics
20
Last community post
2026-10-16

Last devlog 2018-04-09 — 3113 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.