itch.ioRank 11282026-10-16
The Ratchelor: A Rat Dating Sim
Velocity
0.000
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 2026-10-16. 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.
Lead and lag
No ordering to read here.
Across this window, comments moved by 2, under its floor of 20; ratings moved by 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.
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
- Comments — people are talking404 to 406up +2
- Ratings — people finished and cared1,366 to 1,386up +20
- 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.
| Day | Comments | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 18 | 404 0% | 1,366 0% |
| Sep 19 | 404 0% | 1,367 5% |
| Sep 20 | 404 0% | 1,367 5% |
| Sep 21 | 404 0% | 1,369 15% |
| Sep 22 | 404 0% | 1,368 10% |
| Sep 23 | 404 0% | 1,368 10% |
| Sep 24 | 405 50% | 1,369 15% |
| Sep 25 | 405 50% | 1,371 25% |
| Sep 26 | 405 50% | 1,374 40% |
| Sep 27 | 405 50% | 1,374 40% |
| Sep 28 | 405 50% | 1,374 40% |
| Sep 29 | 405 50% | 1,376 50% |
| Sep 30 | 405 50% | 1,377 55% |
| Oct 1 | 405 50% | 1,377 55% |
| Oct 2 | 405 50% | 1,377 55% |
| Oct 3 | 405 50% | 1,377 55% |
| Oct 4 | 405 50% | 1,377 55% |
| Oct 5 | 405 50% | 1,379 65% |
| Oct 6 | 405 50% | 1,379 65% |
| Oct 7 | 405 50% | 1,379 65% |
| Oct 8 | 405 50% | 1,379 65% |
| Oct 9 | 405 50% | 1,380 70% |
| Oct 10 | 405 50% | 1,381 75% |
| Oct 11 | 405 50% | 1,381 75% |
| Oct 12 | 405 50% | 1,382 80% |
| Oct 13 | 405 50% | 1,383 85% |
| Oct 14 | 405 50% | 1,383 85% |
| Oct 15 | 405 50% | 1,383 85% |
| Oct 16 | 405 50% | 1,384 90% |
| Oct 17 | 406 100% | 1,386 100% |
Counters
| Counter | Now | 7d | 30d |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comments intent | 406 | unchanged 0 | up +1 |
| Ratings conversion | 1,386 | up +4 | up +21 |
On itch.io's own charts
Categories
| Chart | Now | 7d | 30d | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top rated · Visual Novel | position 43 | unchanged 0 | unchanged 0 |
All of itch.io
| Chart | Now | 7d | 30d | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top rated | position 82 | unchanged 0 | up +1 |
On 8 tag charts
| Chart | Now | 7d | 30d | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top rated · #love2d | position 1 | unchanged 0 | unchanged 0 | |
| Top rated · #mouse-only | position 2 | unchanged 0 | unchanged 0 | |
| Top rated · #hand-drawn | position 3 | unchanged 0 | unchanged 0 | |
| Top rated · #funny | position 6 | unchanged 0 | unchanged 0 | |
| Top rated · #indie | position 8 | unchanged 0 | unchanged 0 | |
| Top rated · #cute | position 18 | unchanged 0 | up +1 | |
| Top rated · #dating-sim | position 25 | unchanged 0 | unchanged 0 | |
| Top rated · #romance | position 36 | unchanged 0 | unchanged 0 |
Activity and where to go next
- First seen by us
- 2026-08-20
- Price
- free
- Average rating
- 4.86 / 5
Last devlog 2024-02-17 — 973 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
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