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itch.ioRank 9282026-10-12

The Roottrees are Dead

by jjohnstongames

Open on itch.io

Velocity

+0.001

The Roottrees are Dead Velocity, last 14 days: rising across 14 days, 0.00 to 0.00 (low -0.00, high 0.00).

Confidence 50%

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, comments and ratings had a measurable acceleration on 2026-10-12. Topic views 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

No ordering to read here.

Across this window, comments moved by 1, under its floor of 20; ratings moved by 22. Timing two counters against each other needs both of them to have risen, by more than the floor this page sets for that counter so a handful of events cannot read as an ordering, and to have stayed between their own start and end values — a counter that went past one of those and came back has no share of its change to time. The shapes are drawn; which of them moved first is not claimed.

Lead and lag for The Roottrees are Dead, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-13 to 2026-10-12, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. No ordering to read here. Comments: 307 to 308, up 1, most of that change came late in the window. Ratings: 1,012 to 1,034, up 22, the change came at a steady pace.100%50%0%Sep 13Oct 12CommentsRatings

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 13 to Oct 12

  • Comments — people are talking307308+1
  • Ratings — people finished and cared1,0121,034+22
  • Topic views 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.

DayCommentsRatings
Sep 133071,012
Sep 143071,012
Sep 153071,014
Sep 163071,016
Sep 173071,016
Sep 183071,016
Sep 193071,016
Sep 203071,016
Sep 213071,018
Sep 223071,019
Sep 233071,021
Sep 243071,023
Sep 253071,024
Sep 263071,024
Sep 273071,024
Sep 283071,024
Sep 293071,025
Sep 303071,025
Oct 13071,027
Oct 23071,027
Oct 33071,028
Oct 43071,030
Oct 53071,030
Oct 63071,030
Oct 73071,030
Oct 83081,031
Oct 93081,032
Oct 103081,033
Oct 113081,034
Oct 123081,034
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-12
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent308+1+1
Ratings conversion1,034+4+23

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 · Puzzle1300Position on itch.io's Top rated · Puzzle chart across 45 readings: holding, #13 to #13 (best #13, worst #13).
Top sellers · Puzzle528+8-34Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Puzzle chart across 45 readings: slipping, #485 to #528 (best #484, worst #536).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated890+2Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 54 readings: climbing, #91 to #89 (best #89, worst #92).
Top sellers4,432-6-177Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 54 readings: slipping, #4241 to #4432 (best #4096, worst #4434).
On 3 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #family-friendly100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #family-friendly chart across 35 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #point-and-click60+1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #point-and-click chart across 34 readings: climbing, #7 to #6 (best #6, worst #7).
Top rated · #singleplayer1700Position on itch.io's Top rated · #singleplayer chart across 34 readings: holding, #17 to #17 (best #17, worst #17).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.90 / 5

Last devlog 2025-07-03 — 466 days ago. That was already the most recent devlog when we started watching on 2026-08-20, so there is no cadence to read from it yet. The platform publishes only the most recent devlog date, so this is a floor rather than the project’s history.

Go to the source

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