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A Role to Play

by Echo Project

Open on itch.io

Velocity

-0.004

A Role to Play Velocity, last 14 days: falling across 14 days, 0.00 to -0.00 (low -0.00, high 0.01).

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 A Role to Play, 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: 262 to 265, up 3, 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 cared262265+3
  • 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 18262
Sep 19262
Sep 20262
Sep 21262
Sep 22262
Sep 23262
Sep 24262
Sep 25262
Sep 26262
Sep 27262
Sep 28262
Sep 29262
Sep 30262
Oct 1262
Oct 2262
Oct 3262
Oct 4262
Oct 5262
Oct 6263
Oct 7263
Oct 8263
Oct 9264
Oct 10264
Oct 11264
Oct 12264
Oct 13264
Oct 14265
Oct 15265
Oct 16265
Oct 17265
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion265+1+3

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 rated · Visual Novel441+4-21Position on itch.io's Top rated · Visual Novel chart across 50 readings: slipping, #413 to #441 (best #413, worst #445).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated1,063+5-31Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 59 readings: slipping, #1013 to #1063 (best #1013, worst #1070).
On 10 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #coming-of-age600Position on itch.io's Top rated · #coming-of-age chart across 41 readings: holding, #6 to #6 (best #6, worst #6).
Top rated · #bara1500Position on itch.io's Top rated · #bara chart across 55 readings: holding, #15 to #15 (best #15, worst #15).
Top rated · #yaoi260-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #yaoi chart across 39 readings: slipping, #25 to #26 (best #25, worst #26).
Top rated · #queer320-3Position on itch.io's Top rated · #queer chart across 39 readings: slipping, #29 to #32 (best #29, worst #32).
Top rated · #monsters34+1-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #monsters chart across 39 readings: slipping, #33 to #34 (best #33, worst #35).
Top rated · #furry420-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #furry chart across 39 readings: slipping, #40 to #42 (best #40, worst #42).
Top rated · #gay570-2Position on itch.io's Top rated · #gay chart across 39 readings: slipping, #54 to #57 (best #54, worst #57).
Top rated · #dark64-1-3Position on itch.io's Top rated · #dark chart across 41 readings: slipping, #60 to #64 (best #60, worst #64).
Top rated · #fantasy145+2-2Position on itch.io's Top rated · #fantasy chart across 40 readings: slipping, #142 to #145 (best #142, worst #147).
Top rated · #no-ai472+2-26Position on itch.io's Top rated · #no-ai chart across 39 readings: slipping, #440 to #472 (best #440, worst #476).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.74 / 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.