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Octopus City Blues

by Ghost in a Bottle

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Velocity

This game has no Velocity yet. The scoring pass only ranks games that clear an audience floor and have enough history to measure acceleration over — everything below that line is collected but not scored, which is most of the catalogue.

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 Octopus City Blues, 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: 20 throughout, no change at all.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 cared20200
  • 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 1220
Sep 1320
Sep 1420
Sep 1520
Sep 1620
Sep 1720
Sep 1820
Sep 1920
Sep 2020
Sep 2120
Sep 2220
Sep 2320
Sep 2420
Sep 2520
Sep 2620
Sep 2720
Sep 2820
Sep 2920
Sep 3020
Oct 120
Oct 220
Oct 320
Oct 420
Oct 520
Oct 620
Oct 720
Oct 820
Oct 920
Oct 1020
Oct 1120
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-11
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion2000

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

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On 10 tag charts
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Top rated · #surreal200+3-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #surreal chart across 33 readings: slipping, #199 to #200 (best #199, worst #203).
Top rated · #retro796+3-19Position on itch.io's Top rated · #retro chart across 33 readings: slipping, #776 to #796 (best #775, worst #799).
Top rated · #story-rich917+8-11Position on itch.io's Top rated · #story-rich chart across 33 readings: slipping, #905 to #917 (best #904, worst #931).
Top rated · #horror1,456+51-35Position on itch.io's Top rated · #horror chart across 33 readings: slipping, #1418 to #1456 (best #1418, worst #1522).
Top rated · #pixel-art1,651-1-37Position on itch.io's Top rated · #pixel-art chart across 33 readings: slipping, #1612 to #1651 (best #1612, worst #1655).
Top rated · #2d1,906+14-41Position on itch.io's Top rated · #2d chart across 53 readings: slipping, #1842 to #1906 (best #1841, worst #1926).
Top rated · #no-ai2,986-72Position on itch.io's Top rated · #no-ai chart across 13 readings: slipping, #2866 to #2986 (best #2866, worst #2986).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.90 / 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

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