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itch.ioRank 14812026-10-16

Butterfly Soup

by Brianna Lei

Open on itch.io

Velocity

0.000

Butterfly Soup Velocity, last 14 days: falling 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 2026-10-16. 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.

Which counter moved first

Lead and lag

30 days

No ordering to read here.

Across this window, comments fell by 1; ratings moved by 8, under its floor of 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.

Lead and lag for Butterfly Soup, 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. No ordering to read here. Comments: 1,461 to 1,460, down 1, most of that change came late in the window. Ratings: 4,274 to 4,282, up 8, most of that change came late in the window.100%50%0%Sep 18Oct 17CommentsRatings

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 talking1,4611,460-1
  • Ratings — people finished and cared4,2744,282+8
  • 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 181,4614,274
Sep 191,4614,275
Sep 201,4614,275
Sep 211,4614,276
Sep 221,4614,274
Sep 231,4614,274
Sep 241,4614,274
Sep 251,4614,274
Sep 261,4614,274
Sep 271,4614,274
Sep 281,4614,275
Sep 291,4614,275
Sep 301,4614,275
Oct 11,4614,275
Oct 21,4614,276
Oct 31,4614,277
Oct 41,4614,277
Oct 51,4614,277
Oct 61,4614,277
Oct 71,4614,277
Oct 81,4614,278
Oct 91,4614,279
Oct 101,4604,279
Oct 111,4604,279
Oct 121,4604,281
Oct 131,4604,281
Oct 141,4604,282
Oct 151,4604,282
Oct 161,4604,282
Oct 171,4604,282
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent1,460-1-1
Ratings conversion4,282+3+9

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
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Top sellers · Visual Novel356-186-199Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Visual Novel chart across 50 readings: slipping, #159 to #356 (best #39, worst #382).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated140+1Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 59 readings: holding, #14 to #14 (best #14, worst #16).
Top sellers2,629-1,139-1,492Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 59 readings: slipping, #1118 to #2629 (best #197, worst #2629).
On 10 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #female-protagonist200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #female-protagonist chart across 40 readings: holding, #2 to #2 (best #2, worst #2).
Top rated · #slice-of-life200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #slice-of-life chart across 39 readings: holding, #2 to #2 (best #2, worst #2).
Top rated · #yuri200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #yuri chart across 39 readings: holding, #2 to #2 (best #2, worst #2).
Top rated · #2d300Position on itch.io's Top rated · #2d chart across 59 readings: holding, #3 to #3 (best #3, worst #4).
Top rated · #anime300Position on itch.io's Top rated · #anime chart across 57 readings: slipping, #2 to #3 (best #2, worst #3).
Top rated · #renpy300Position on itch.io's Top rated · #renpy chart across 39 readings: holding, #3 to #3 (best #3, worst #3).
Top rated · #interactive-fiction40+1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #interactive-fiction chart across 39 readings: climbing, #5 to #4 (best #4, worst #5).
Top rated · #no-ai40+1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #no-ai chart across 39 readings: climbing, #5 to #4 (best #4, worst #6).
Top rated · #lgbt50+1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #lgbt chart across 39 readings: climbing, #6 to #5 (best #5, worst #6).
Top rated · #romance90+1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #romance chart across 39 readings: holding, #9 to #9 (best #9, worst #10).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.89 / 5

Last devlog 2026-05-02 — 168 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.

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