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H.E.R.O. Is Back (C64/C128)

by LC-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 H.E.R.O. Is Back (C64/C128), 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: 17 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 cared17170
  • 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 1817
Sep 1917
Sep 2017
Sep 2117
Sep 2217
Sep 2317
Sep 2417
Sep 2517
Sep 2617
Sep 2717
Sep 2817
Sep 2917
Sep 3017
Oct 117
Oct 217
Oct 317
Oct 417
Oct 517
Oct 617
Oct 717
Oct 817
Oct 917
Oct 1017
Oct 1117
Oct 1217
Oct 1317
Oct 1417
Oct 1517
Oct 1617
Oct 1717
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion1700

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 · Platformer55+61-33Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Platformer chart across 50 readings: climbing, #328 to #55 (best #18, worst #353).
Top rated · Platformer580-8-18Position on itch.io's Top rated · Platformer chart across 50 readings: climbing, #623 to #580 (best #560, worst #625).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top sellers634+795-310Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 59 readings: slipping, #465 to #634 (best #271, worst #3758).
On 6 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #commodore-642100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #commodore-64 chart across 41 readings: slipping, #20 to #21 (best #20, worst #21).
Top rated · #arcade306-7-15Position on itch.io's Top rated · #arcade chart across 57 readings: climbing, #330 to #306 (best #291, worst #331).
Top rated · #retro824-3-18Position on itch.io's Top rated · #retro chart across 39 readings: slipping, #805 to #824 (best #805, worst #824).
Top rated · #pixel-art1,723-15-46Position on itch.io's Top rated · #pixel-art chart across 39 readings: slipping, #1666 to #1723 (best #1666, worst #1723).
Top rated · #singleplayer1,732-18-55Position on itch.io's Top rated · #singleplayer chart across 39 readings: slipping, #1668 to #1732 (best #1668, worst #1775).
Top rated · #2d2,008-27-70Position on itch.io's Top rated · #2d chart across 59 readings: climbing, #2075 to #2008 (best #1914, worst #2092).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.94 / 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

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