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The Excavation Project

by Basilium

Open on itch.io

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

4 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 The Excavation Project, 4 daysLead and lag over 4 days, 2026-10-14 to 2026-10-17, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 6 to 11, up 5, most of that change came early in the window.100%50%0%Oct 14Oct 17Ratings

Each line is scaled to its own change across these 4 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 Oct 14 to Oct 17

  • Ratings — people finished and cared611+5
  • 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
Oct 146
Oct 1510
Oct 1611
Oct 1711
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion11

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

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
New & popular1,290Position on itch.io's New & popular chart across 5 readings: slipping, #32 to #1290 (best #32, worst #1290).
Newest7,170Position on itch.io's Newest chart across 5 readings: slipping, #730 to #7170 (best #730, worst #7170).
On 5 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #automation90Position on itch.io's Top rated · #automation chart across 4 readings: climbing, #125 to #90 (best #90, worst #125).
Top rated · #sandbox309Position on itch.io's Top rated · #sandbox chart across 4 readings: climbing, #405 to #309 (best #309, worst #405).
Top rated · #clicker492Position on itch.io's Top rated · #clicker chart across 4 readings: climbing, #720 to #492 (best #490, worst #720).
Top rated · #idle638Position on itch.io's Top rated · #idle chart across 4 readings: climbing, #917 to #638 (best #635, worst #917).
Top rated · #incremental728Position on itch.io's Top rated · #incremental chart across 4 readings: climbing, #1023 to #728 (best #725, worst #1023).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-10-13
Price
free
Average rating
4.09 / 5

No devlog has been posted since we started watching on 2026-10-13. 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.