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itch.ioRank 12332026-10-19

ACADEMY3418+

by Young & Naughty

Open on itch.io

Velocity

0.000

ACADEMY34 Velocity, last 14 days: rising across 14 days, -0.00 to 0.00 (low -0.00, high 0.00).

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 2026-10-19. Topic views 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 comments.

By the average day in this window, comments had taken 51% of their change and ratings 60%. 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 ACADEMY34, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-20 to 2026-10-19, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Ratings are running ahead of comments. Furthest apart on 2026-10-12, 26 points between ratings and comments. Comments: 2,200 to 2,229, up 29, the change came at a steady pace. Ratings: 1,956 to 1,977, up 21, most of that change came early in the window.100%50%0%Sep 20Oct 1926 pts apartCommentsRatings

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 20 to Oct 19

  • Comments — people are talking2,2002,229+29
  • Ratings — people finished and cared1,9561,977+21
  • 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 202,2001,956
Sep 212,2021,958
Sep 222,2021,959
Sep 232,2041,957
Sep 242,2041,958
Sep 252,2041,960
Sep 262,2041,962
Sep 272,2091,963
Sep 282,2101,965
Sep 292,2101,966
Sep 302,2131,966
Oct 12,2131,966
Oct 22,2141,966
Oct 32,2151,969
Oct 42,2161,969
Oct 52,2161,969
Oct 62,2171,971
Oct 72,2181,971
Oct 82,2181,971
Oct 92,2181,973
Oct 102,2181,973
Oct 112,2201,975
Oct 122,2201,976
Oct 132,2221,977
Oct 142,2241,977
Oct 152,2241,977
Oct 162,2251,977
Oct 172,2271,977
Oct 182,2291,977
Oct 192,2291,977
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-19
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent2,229+9+29
Ratings conversion1,977+1+22

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 · #adult10200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #adult chart across 61 readings: holding, #102 to #102 (best #101, worst #103).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.55 / 5

Last devlog 2026-10-16 — 3 days ago. 7 more have landed since we started watching on 2026-08-20, about one every 6 days. 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.