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Basil Returns!

by Twinbeard

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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

29 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 Basil Returns!, 29 daysLead and lag over 29 days, 2026-09-07 to 2026-10-05, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 15 to 16, up 1, most of that change came late in the window.100%50%0%Sep 7Oct 5Ratings

Each line is scaled to its own change across these 29 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 7 to Oct 5

  • Ratings — people finished and cared1516+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 715
Sep 815
Sep 915
Sep 1015
Sep 1115
Sep 1215
Sep 1315
Sep 1415
Sep 1515
Sep 1615
Sep 1715
Sep 1815
Sep 1915
Sep 2015
Sep 2115
Sep 2215
Sep 2315
Sep 2415
Sep 2515
Sep 2615
Sep 2715
Sep 2815
Sep 2915
Sep 3016
Oct 116
Oct 216
Oct 316
Oct 416
Oct 516
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-05
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion16+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 rated · Platformer1,007Position on itch.io's Top rated · Platformer chart across 6 readings: slipping, #1005 to #1007 (best #1005, worst #1007).
On 6 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #dogs67+4Position on itch.io's Top rated · #dogs chart across 29 readings: climbing, #71 to #67 (best #67, worst #71).
Top rated · #nature68+9Position on itch.io's Top rated · #nature chart across 27 readings: climbing, #74 to #68 (best #67, worst #77).
Top rated · #wholesome76+4Position on itch.io's Top rated · #wholesome chart across 27 readings: climbing, #77 to #76 (best #75, worst #80).
Top rated · #non-violent125+4Position on itch.io's Top rated · #non-violent chart across 27 readings: climbing, #130 to #125 (best #123, worst #131).
Top rated · #pico-8232+20Position on itch.io's Top rated · #pico-8 chart across 27 readings: climbing, #246 to #232 (best #231, worst #252).
Top rated · #exploration597+33Position on itch.io's Top rated · #exploration chart across 28 readings: climbing, #616 to #597 (best #594, worst #630).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-09-07
Price
free
Average rating
4.81 / 5

No devlog has been posted since we started watching on 2026-09-07. 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.