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He@rtstrings - Otome Visual Novel$3.99

by Izumi Games

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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 He@rtstrings - Otome Visual Novel, 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: 8 throughout, no change at all.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 cared880
  • 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 188
Sep 198
Sep 208
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Sep 308
Oct 18
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What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion800

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 · Visual Novel893+2-746Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Visual Novel chart across 50 readings: slipping, #847 to #893 (best #76, worst #903).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top sellers6,383-223-6,045Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 58 readings: slipping, #6098 to #6383 (best #338, worst #6383).
On 2 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #otome1,055-5-18Position on itch.io's Top rated · #otome chart across 39 readings: slipping, #1034 to #1055 (best #1034, worst #1055).
Top rated · #comedy1,485-20-33Position on itch.io's Top rated · #comedy chart across 31 readings: slipping, #1451 to #1485 (best #1449, worst #1485).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
paid
Average rating
4.50 / 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.