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a cat & his boy$2.99

by howdy riceball

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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 a cat & his boy, 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: 7 to 8, up 1, most of that change came early 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 cared78+1
  • 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 187
Sep 197
Sep 207
Sep 217
Sep 228
Sep 238
Sep 248
Sep 258
Sep 268
Sep 278
Sep 288
Sep 298
Sep 308
Oct 18
Oct 28
Oct 38
Oct 48
Oct 58
Oct 68
Oct 78
Oct 88
Oct 98
Oct 108
Oct 118
Oct 128
Oct 138
Oct 148
Oct 158
Oct 168
Oct 178
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion80+1

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 sellers · Adventure502-248+441Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Adventure chart across 50 readings: climbing, #899 to #502 (best #53, worst #953).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top sellers2,498-2,075+1,326Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 59 readings: climbing, #3825 to #2498 (best #281, worst #3882).
On 7 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #gameboy-rom186-1+24Position on itch.io's Top rated · #gameboy-rom chart across 39 readings: climbing, #211 to #186 (best #181, worst #212).
Top rated · #1-bit2940+39Position on itch.io's Top rated · #1-bit chart across 59 readings: climbing, #331 to #294 (best #289, worst #335).
Top rated · #cats391-5+64Position on itch.io's Top rated · #cats chart across 41 readings: climbing, #447 to #391 (best #382, worst #458).
Top rated · #gameboy473Position on itch.io's Top rated · #gameboy chart across 8 readings: climbing, #570 to #473 (best #473, worst #574).
Top rated · #top-down755-5Position on itch.io's Top rated · #top-down chart across 27 readings: climbing, #897 to #755 (best #745, worst #899).
Top rated · #cozy767-6Position on itch.io's Top rated · #cozy chart across 23 readings: slipping, #735 to #767 (best #735, worst #771).
Top rated · #story-rich2,537-12Position on itch.io's Top rated · #story-rich chart across 8 readings: slipping, #2485 to #2537 (best #2485, worst #2554).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
paid
Average rating
4.75 / 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.