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itch.ioRank 11652026-10-16

HOW WE KNOW WE'RE ALIVE

by Motvind Studios

Open on itch.io

Velocity

0.000

HOW WE KNOW WE'RE ALIVE 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 2026-10-16. 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 fell by 1; ratings moved by 4, under its floor of 20. 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 HOW WE KNOW WE'RE ALIVE, 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: 375 to 374, down 1, most of that change came early in the window. Ratings: 1,082 to 1,086, up 4, 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 talking375374-1
  • Ratings — people finished and cared1,0821,086+4
  • 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 183751,082
Sep 193751,082
Sep 203751,082
Sep 213751,082
Sep 223751,082
Sep 233741,083
Sep 243741,083
Sep 253741,083
Sep 263741,083
Sep 273741,083
Sep 283741,084
Sep 293741,084
Sep 303741,084
Oct 13741,084
Oct 23741,084
Oct 33741,084
Oct 43741,084
Oct 53741,084
Oct 63741,084
Oct 73741,084
Oct 83741,084
Oct 93741,085
Oct 103741,085
Oct 113741,086
Oct 123741,086
Oct 133741,086
Oct 143741,086
Oct 153741,086
Oct 163741,086
Oct 173741,086
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent3740-1
Ratings conversion1,086+1+4

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 · Adventure230-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · Adventure chart across 50 readings: slipping, #22 to #23 (best #22, worst #23).
Top sellers · Adventure557-233-11Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Adventure chart across 50 readings: slipping, #488 to #557 (best #102, worst #598).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated1610-6Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 59 readings: slipping, #156 to #161 (best #155, worst #161).
Top sellers2,738-979-383Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 59 readings: slipping, #1421 to #2738 (best #381, worst #2738).
On 7 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #experimental300Position on itch.io's Top rated · #experimental chart across 40 readings: holding, #3 to #3 (best #3, worst #3).
Top rated · #atmospheric180-2Position on itch.io's Top rated · #atmospheric chart across 57 readings: slipping, #17 to #18 (best #16, worst #18).
Top rated · #point-and-click18-1-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #point-and-click chart across 39 readings: slipping, #17 to #18 (best #17, worst #18).
Top rated · #female-protagonist1900Position on itch.io's Top rated · #female-protagonist chart across 40 readings: climbing, #20 to #19 (best #19, worst #20).
Top rated · #pixel-art34+1-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #pixel-art chart across 39 readings: slipping, #33 to #34 (best #33, worst #35).
Top rated · #singleplayer410-2Position on itch.io's Top rated · #singleplayer chart across 39 readings: slipping, #39 to #41 (best #39, worst #41).
Top rated · #2d520-3Position on itch.io's Top rated · #2d chart across 59 readings: slipping, #49 to #52 (best #49, worst #52).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.79 / 5

Last devlog 2021-05-01 — 1995 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

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.