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itch.ioRank 6152026-10-16

Don't eat the cashier!

by DETCc

Open on itch.io

Velocity

+0.005

Don't eat the cashier! Velocity, last 14 days: rising across 14 days, 0.00 to 0.01 (low -0.00, high 0.01).

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

The rungs are moving together.

By the average day in this window, comments had taken 38% of their change and ratings 42%. Neither is far enough ahead to read as leading.

Lead and lag for Don't eat the cashier!, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-17 to 2026-10-16, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. The rungs are moving together. Comments: 1,191 to 1,217, up 26, most of that change came late in the window. Ratings: 4,889 to 5,062, up 173, the change came at a steady pace.100%50%0%-4%Sep 17Oct 16CommentsRatings

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. The axis runs past its ends because a counter went beyond its final value inside the window and came back — a deleted comment, a withdrawn rating. The scale is widened rather than the curve clipped, so the round trip stays visible.

Series — over Sep 17 to Oct 16

  • Comments — people are talking1,1911,217+26
  • Ratings — people finished and cared4,8895,062+173
  • 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 171,1914,889
Sep 181,1924,893
Sep 191,1934,898
Sep 201,1934,898
Sep 211,1954,906
Sep 221,1954,906
Sep 231,1904,913
Sep 241,1914,919
Sep 251,1924,924
Sep 261,1944,929
Sep 271,1954,932
Sep 281,1964,936
Sep 291,1974,936
Sep 301,1984,943
Oct 11,1994,949
Oct 21,2004,952
Oct 31,2014,958
Oct 41,2024,969
Oct 51,2044,977
Oct 61,2044,982
Oct 71,2044,989
Oct 81,2044,995
Oct 91,2045,001
Oct 101,2085,011
Oct 111,2125,024
Oct 121,2135,035
Oct 131,2145,043
Oct 141,2145,052
Oct 151,2155,060
Oct 161,2175,062
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-16
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent1,217+13+26
Ratings conversion5,062+60+176

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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All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated700Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 58 readings: holding, #7 to #7 (best #7, worst #8).
Top sellers66-2-12Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 58 readings: climbing, #84 to #66 (best #36, worst #176).
On 9 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #2d100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #2d chart across 58 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #female-protagonist100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #female-protagonist chart across 39 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #creepy200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #creepy chart across 40 readings: holding, #2 to #2 (best #2, worst #2).
Top rated · #dating-sim200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #dating-sim chart across 40 readings: holding, #2 to #2 (best #2, worst #2).
Top rated · #interactive-fiction200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #interactive-fiction chart across 38 readings: holding, #2 to #2 (best #2, worst #2).
Top rated · #monsters200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #monsters chart across 38 readings: holding, #2 to #2 (best #2, worst #2).
Top rated · #no-ai200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #no-ai chart across 38 readings: holding, #2 to #2 (best #2, worst #2).
Top rated · #otome400Position on itch.io's Top rated · #otome chart across 38 readings: holding, #4 to #4 (best #4, worst #4).
Top rated · #romance500Position on itch.io's Top rated · #romance chart across 38 readings: holding, #5 to #5 (best #5, worst #5).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.92 / 5

Last devlog 2025-10-12 — 369 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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