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itch.ioRank 9032026-10-17

First Cut

by Drasnus

Open on itch.io

Velocity

+0.003

First Cut Velocity, last 14 days: rising 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 2026-10-17. 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 moved by 4, under its floor of 20; ratings moved by 11, 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 First Cut, 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: 599 to 603, up 4, most of that change came late in the window. Ratings: 833 to 844, up 11, 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 talking599603+4
  • Ratings — people finished and cared833844+11
  • 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 18599833
Sep 19599833
Sep 20599835
Sep 21599835
Sep 22599834
Sep 23599835
Sep 24599835
Sep 25599835
Sep 26599835
Sep 27599835
Sep 28599835
Sep 29599836
Sep 30600836
Oct 1600836
Oct 2600836
Oct 3600836
Oct 4600837
Oct 5600837
Oct 6600838
Oct 7600839
Oct 8600839
Oct 9600839
Oct 10601838
Oct 11601840
Oct 12602841
Oct 13602843
Oct 14602843
Oct 15603843
Oct 16603844
Oct 17603844
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent603+2+4
Ratings conversion844+6+11

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 rated534+12-9Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 59 readings: slipping, #517 to #534 (best #516, worst #550).
Top sellers3,320-294-386Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 59 readings: slipping, #2936 to #3320 (best #262, worst #3320).
On 5 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #fighting400Position on itch.io's Top rated · #fighting chart across 40 readings: holding, #4 to #4 (best #4, worst #4).
Top rated · #gore70-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #gore chart across 39 readings: slipping, #6 to #7 (best #6, worst #7).
Top rated · #multiplayer90-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #multiplayer chart across 39 readings: slipping, #8 to #9 (best #8, worst #9).
Top rated · #pixel-art105+70Position on itch.io's Top rated · #pixel-art chart across 39 readings: slipping, #104 to #105 (best #104, worst #112).
Top rated · #2d140+5-3Position on itch.io's Top rated · #2d chart across 59 readings: slipping, #135 to #140 (best #134, worst #145).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.65 / 5

Last devlog 2024-01-17 — 1004 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.

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.