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itch.ioRank 23222026-10-10

What Friends Are For

by crocodill3s

Open on itch.io

Velocity

-0.014

What Friends Are For Velocity, last 14 days: flat across 14 days, -0.01 to -0.01 (low -0.04, high 0.04).

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 2026-10-10. 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 What Friends Are For, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-12 to 2026-10-11, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 69 to 75, up 6, most of that change came early in the window.100%50%0%Sep 12Oct 11Ratings

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 12 to Oct 11

  • Ratings — people finished and cared6975+6
  • 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 1269
Sep 1369
Sep 1470
Sep 1570
Sep 1671
Sep 1771
Sep 1871
Sep 1971
Sep 2071
Sep 2171
Sep 2271
Sep 2371
Sep 2472
Sep 2572
Sep 2672
Sep 2773
Sep 2874
Sep 2974
Sep 3074
Oct 174
Oct 274
Oct 374
Oct 474
Oct 574
Oct 675
Oct 775
Oct 875
Oct 975
Oct 1075
Oct 1175
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-11
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion75+1+6

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
Top rated2,989+86+264Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 53 readings: climbing, #3515 to #2989 (best #2987, worst #3529).
On 8 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #satire1100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #satire chart across 32 readings: holding, #11 to #11 (best #10, worst #11).
Top rated · #renpy187+3+14Position on itch.io's Top rated · #renpy chart across 32 readings: climbing, #201 to #187 (best #187, worst #201).
Top rated · #anime209+4+19Position on itch.io's Top rated · #anime chart across 49 readings: climbing, #234 to #209 (best #209, worst #234).
Top rated · #comedy226+3+11Position on itch.io's Top rated · #comedy chart across 34 readings: climbing, #238 to #226 (best #226, worst #238).
Top rated · #multiple-endings261+10+21Position on itch.io's Top rated · #multiple-endings chart across 32 readings: climbing, #280 to #261 (best #261, worst #284).
Top rated · #short564+26+83Position on itch.io's Top rated · #short chart across 32 readings: climbing, #642 to #564 (best #564, worst #647).
Top rated · #2d789+21+94Position on itch.io's Top rated · #2d chart across 52 readings: climbing, #931 to #789 (best #786, worst #935).
Top rated · #no-ai1,236+35+130Position on itch.io's Top rated · #no-ai chart across 32 readings: climbing, #1361 to #1236 (best #1236, worst #1366).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.79 / 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.