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itch.ioRank 8392026-10-17

Yearning: A Gay Story

by bobcgames

Open on itch.io

Velocity

+0.003

Yearning: A Gay Story Velocity, last 14 days: rising across 14 days, 0.00 to 0.00 (low 0.00, high 0.00).

Confidence 20%

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, ratings had a measurable acceleration on 2026-10-17. Topic views and 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

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 Yearning: A Gay Story, 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. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 299 to 300, up 1, most of that change came late in the window.100%50%0%Sep 18Oct 17Ratings

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

  • Ratings — people finished and cared299300+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 18299
Sep 19299
Sep 20299
Sep 21299
Sep 22299
Sep 23299
Sep 24299
Sep 25299
Sep 26299
Sep 27299
Sep 28299
Sep 29299
Sep 30299
Oct 1299
Oct 2299
Oct 3299
Oct 4299
Oct 5299
Oct 6299
Oct 7299
Oct 8299
Oct 9299
Oct 10299
Oct 11299
Oct 12299
Oct 13300
Oct 14300
Oct 15300
Oct 16300
Oct 17300
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion300+1+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 sellers · Visual Novel458+5-32Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Visual Novel chart across 50 readings: slipping, #425 to #458 (best #113, worst #479).
Top rated · Visual Novel797+11-14Position on itch.io's Top rated · Visual Novel chart across 50 readings: slipping, #771 to #797 (best #770, worst #808).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated2,149+12-14Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 59 readings: slipping, #2105 to #2149 (best #2104, worst #2168).
Top sellers3,270-281-372Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 59 readings: slipping, #2898 to #3270 (best #758, worst #3270).
On 10 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #bara27+10Position on itch.io's Top rated · #bara chart across 55 readings: holding, #27 to #27 (best #27, worst #28).
Top rated · #yaoi41+30Position on itch.io's Top rated · #yaoi chart across 39 readings: slipping, #40 to #41 (best #40, worst #44).
Top rated · #queer63+2-2Position on itch.io's Top rated · #queer chart across 39 readings: slipping, #60 to #63 (best #60, worst #65).
Top rated · #slice-of-life88+1-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #slice-of-life chart across 39 readings: holding, #88 to #88 (best #85, worst #91).
Top rated · #gay107+20Position on itch.io's Top rated · #gay chart across 39 readings: slipping, #106 to #107 (best #106, worst #110).
Top rated · #dating-sim305+2-6Position on itch.io's Top rated · #dating-sim chart across 41 readings: slipping, #301 to #305 (best #298, worst #310).
Top rated · #lgbt327+3-5Position on itch.io's Top rated · #lgbt chart across 39 readings: slipping, #320 to #327 (best #320, worst #331).
Top rated · #interactive-fiction399+4-5Position on itch.io's Top rated · #interactive-fiction chart across 39 readings: slipping, #389 to #399 (best #389, worst #404).
Top rated · #romance527+8-3Position on itch.io's Top rated · #romance chart across 39 readings: slipping, #521 to #527 (best #521, worst #542).
Top rated · #no-ai921+2-30Position on itch.io's Top rated · #no-ai chart across 39 readings: slipping, #875 to #921 (best #875, worst #929).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.58 / 5

No devlog has been posted since we started watching on 2026-08-20. 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.