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Polar Peril

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 Polar Peril, 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: 10 to 22, up 12, 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 cared1022+12
  • 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 1810
Sep 1910
Sep 2010
Sep 2110
Sep 2210
Sep 2310
Sep 2410
Sep 2511
Sep 2616
Sep 2721
Sep 2821
Sep 2921
Sep 3021
Oct 122
Oct 222
Oct 322
Oct 422
Oct 522
Oct 622
Oct 722
Oct 822
Oct 922
Oct 1022
Oct 1122
Oct 1222
Oct 1322
Oct 1422
Oct 1522
Oct 1622
Oct 1722
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion220+12

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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Top sellers · Adventure450Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Adventure chart across 7 readings: slipping, #138 to #450 (best #138, worst #450).
Top rated · Puzzle744-3Position on itch.io's Top rated · Puzzle chart across 21 readings: climbing, #889 to #744 (best #739, worst #889).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top sellers1,212-13Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 19 readings: slipping, #701 to #1212 (best #701, worst #5067).
Top rated5,424-33Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 17 readings: climbing, #5661 to #5424 (best #5386, worst #5662).
Newest6,993Position on itch.io's Newest chart across 7 readings: slipping, #430 to #6993 (best #430, worst #6993).
New & popular7,069-6,875Position on itch.io's New & popular chart across 13 readings: slipping, #6 to #7069 (best #6, worst #7069).
On 10 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #gameboy-rom240+46Position on itch.io's Top rated · #gameboy-rom chart across 37 readings: climbing, #73 to #24 (best #24, worst #74).
Top rated · #sokoban620Position on itch.io's Top rated · #sokoban chart across 23 readings: climbing, #154 to #62 (best #60, worst #154).
Top rated · #8-bit109-1+129Position on itch.io's Top rated · #8-bit chart across 59 readings: climbing, #235 to #109 (best #108, worst #239).
Top rated · #top-down123-1+160Position on itch.io's Top rated · #top-down chart across 39 readings: climbing, #280 to #123 (best #122, worst #286).
Top rated · #retro578+1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #retro chart across 30 readings: climbing, #1209 to #578 (best #576, worst #1228).
Top rated · #cute761+1+568Position on itch.io's Top rated · #cute chart across 41 readings: climbing, #1320 to #761 (best #757, worst #1331).
Top rated · #short1,062-8Position on itch.io's Top rated · #short chart across 22 readings: climbing, #1957 to #1062 (best #1051, worst #1957).
Top rated · #pixel-art1,246-6Position on itch.io's Top rated · #pixel-art chart across 21 readings: climbing, #1862 to #1246 (best #1235, worst #1862).
Top rated · #2d1,439-12Position on itch.io's Top rated · #2d chart across 22 readings: climbing, #2139 to #1439 (best #1426, worst #2139).
Top rated · #no-ai2,259-26Position on itch.io's Top rated · #no-ai chart across 20 readings: climbing, #2635 to #2259 (best #2224, worst #2635).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.95 / 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.