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Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten DX$14.99

by leveluplabs

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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 Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten DX, 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: 14 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 cared14140
  • 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 1814
Sep 1914
Sep 2014
Sep 2114
Sep 2214
Sep 2314
Sep 2414
Sep 2514
Sep 2614
Sep 2714
Sep 2814
Sep 2914
Sep 3014
Oct 114
Oct 214
Oct 314
Oct 414
Oct 514
Oct 614
Oct 714
Oct 814
Oct 914
Oct 1014
Oct 1114
Oct 1214
Oct 1314
Oct 1414
Oct 1514
Oct 1614
Oct 1714
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion1400

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 · Strategy583-8-27Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Strategy chart across 46 readings: slipping, #543 to #583 (best #533, worst #587).
Top rated · Strategy945-6-27Position on itch.io's Top rated · Strategy chart across 50 readings: slipping, #908 to #945 (best #908, worst #945).
On 8 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #moddable4100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #moddable chart across 39 readings: holding, #41 to #41 (best #41, worst #41).
Top rated · #strategy-rpg61+10Position on itch.io's Top rated · #strategy-rpg chart across 39 readings: slipping, #60 to #61 (best #60, worst #62).
Top rated · #tower-defense158-3-12Position on itch.io's Top rated · #tower-defense chart across 39 readings: slipping, #148 to #158 (best #146, worst #158).
Top rated · #jrpg190-1-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #jrpg chart across 39 readings: slipping, #188 to #190 (best #188, worst #191).
Top rated · #funny1,007-9Position on itch.io's Top rated · #funny chart across 20 readings: slipping, #976 to #1007 (best #976, worst #1007).
Top rated · #female-protagonist1,732-8-25Position on itch.io's Top rated · #female-protagonist chart across 31 readings: slipping, #1699 to #1732 (best #1699, worst #1732).
Top rated · #fantasy1,863Position on itch.io's Top rated · #fantasy chart across 7 readings: slipping, #1851 to #1863 (best #1851, worst #1863).
Top rated · #story-rich2,315-4-46Position on itch.io's Top rated · #story-rich chart across 17 readings: slipping, #2251 to #2315 (best #2250, worst #2317).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-29
Price
paid
Average rating
4.43 / 5

No devlog has been posted since we started watching on 2026-08-29. itch.io publishes only the most recent devlog date, so anything posted before then leaves no trace here.

Go to the source

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