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itch.ioRank 12652026-10-17

Texting the Awkward Ace Guy You've Had a Crush on Since High School

by justacarrot

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Velocity

0.000

Texting the Awkward Ace Guy You've Had a Crush on Since High School Velocity, last 14 days: flat across 14 days, 0.00 to 0.00 (low 0.00, high 0.00).

Confidence 20%

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, ratings had a measurable acceleration on 2026-10-17. Topic views and comments 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

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 Texting the Awkward Ace Guy You've Had a Crush on Since High School, 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: 315 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 cared3153150
  • 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 18315
Sep 19315
Sep 20315
Sep 21315
Sep 22315
Sep 23315
Sep 24315
Sep 25315
Sep 26315
Sep 27315
Sep 28315
Sep 29315
Sep 30315
Oct 1315
Oct 2315
Oct 3315
Oct 4315
Oct 5315
Oct 6315
Oct 7315
Oct 8315
Oct 9315
Oct 10315
Oct 11315
Oct 12315
Oct 13315
Oct 14315
Oct 15315
Oct 16315
Oct 17315
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion31500

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 · Visual Novel688-5-20Position on itch.io's Top rated · Visual Novel chart across 50 readings: slipping, #660 to #688 (best #658, worst #688).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated1,825-10-32Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 59 readings: slipping, #1775 to #1825 (best #1755, worst #1825).
On 10 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #boys-love41-1-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #boys-love chart across 41 readings: slipping, #40 to #41 (best #40, worst #41).
Top rated · #queer540-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #queer chart across 39 readings: slipping, #53 to #54 (best #53, worst #54).
Top rated · #lgbtqia580-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #lgbtqia chart across 39 readings: slipping, #57 to #58 (best #57, worst #58).
Top rated · #cozy820-2Position on itch.io's Top rated · #cozy chart across 41 readings: slipping, #77 to #82 (best #77, worst #82).
Top rated · #gay930-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #gay chart across 39 readings: slipping, #92 to #93 (best #92, worst #93).
Top rated · #lgbt2890-5Position on itch.io's Top rated · #lgbt chart across 39 readings: slipping, #285 to #289 (best #284, worst #289).
Top rated · #cute294+1-4Position on itch.io's Top rated · #cute chart across 41 readings: slipping, #286 to #294 (best #286, worst #296).
Top rated · #interactive-fiction332+1-5Position on itch.io's Top rated · #interactive-fiction chart across 39 readings: slipping, #328 to #332 (best #325, worst #335).
Top rated · #romance479-4-14Position on itch.io's Top rated · #romance chart across 39 readings: slipping, #465 to #479 (best #462, worst #480).
Top rated · #no-ai794-6-22Position on itch.io's Top rated · #no-ai chart across 39 readings: slipping, #756 to #794 (best #755, worst #794).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.60 / 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.