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itch.ioRank 16132026-10-17

Please Answer Carefully

by litrouke

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Velocity

-0.001

Please Answer Carefully Velocity, last 14 days: falling 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 2026-10-17. 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 4, under its floor of 20; ratings moved by 24. 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 Please Answer Carefully, 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. No ordering to read here. Comments: 1,283 to 1,287, up 4, most of that change came late in the window. Ratings: 3,136 to 3,160, up 24, the change came at a steady pace.100%50%0%Sep 18Oct 17CommentsRatings

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

  • Comments — people are talking1,2831,287+4
  • Ratings — people finished and cared3,1363,160+24
  • 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 181,2833,136
Sep 191,2833,136
Sep 201,2833,137
Sep 211,2833,137
Sep 221,2833,136
Sep 231,2833,137
Sep 241,2833,139
Sep 251,2833,141
Sep 261,2833,142
Sep 271,2833,143
Sep 281,2833,145
Sep 291,2833,145
Sep 301,2843,147
Oct 11,2843,148
Oct 21,2843,149
Oct 31,2843,149
Oct 41,2843,151
Oct 51,2843,152
Oct 61,2853,153
Oct 71,2853,153
Oct 81,2853,153
Oct 91,2853,153
Oct 101,2863,155
Oct 111,2863,155
Oct 121,2863,156
Oct 131,2863,157
Oct 141,2863,158
Oct 151,2873,158
Oct 161,2873,159
Oct 171,2873,160
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent1,287+1+4
Ratings conversion3,160+5+24

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

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated268-8-9Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 59 readings: slipping, #254 to #268 (best #254, worst #268).
On 7 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #mouse-only800Position on itch.io's Top rated · #mouse-only chart across 39 readings: holding, #8 to #8 (best #8, worst #8).
Top rated · #twine1100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #twine chart across 39 readings: holding, #11 to #11 (best #11, worst #11).
Top rated · #text-based1500Position on itch.io's Top rated · #text-based chart across 39 readings: holding, #15 to #15 (best #15, worst #15).
Top rated · #psychological-horror23-1-3Position on itch.io's Top rated · #psychological-horror chart across 39 readings: slipping, #20 to #23 (best #20, worst #23).
Top rated · #short43-10Position on itch.io's Top rated · #short chart across 39 readings: slipping, #42 to #43 (best #41, worst #43).
Top rated · #interactive-fiction5600Position on itch.io's Top rated · #interactive-fiction chart across 39 readings: holding, #56 to #56 (best #55, worst #56).
Top rated · #horror75-1-4Position on itch.io's Top rated · #horror chart across 39 readings: slipping, #71 to #75 (best #71, worst #75).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.55 / 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.