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itch.ioRank 19212026-10-16

Fear Me [Jeff the Killer's Dating Sim]

by Neesa

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Velocity

-0.004

Fear Me [Jeff the Killer's Dating Sim] Velocity, last 14 days: falling across 14 days, 0.01 to -0.00 (low -0.00, high 0.01).

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

Ratings are running ahead of comments.

By the average day in this window, comments had taken 37% of their change and ratings 49%. That is the reverse of the order the signal is built on — the audience arrived before the attention did, which reads as a game being found rather than one breaking out.

Lead and lag for Fear Me [Jeff the Killer's Dating Sim], 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. Ratings are running ahead of comments. Furthest apart on 2026-09-27, 23 points between ratings and comments. Comments: 823 to 854, up 31, most of that change came late in the window. Ratings: 1,329 to 1,391, up 62, the change came at a steady pace.100%50%0%-3%Sep 18Oct 1723 pts apartCommentsRatings

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. The axis runs past its ends because a counter went beyond its final value inside the window and came back — a deleted comment, a withdrawn rating. The scale is widened rather than the curve clipped, so the round trip stays visible.

Series — over Sep 18 to Oct 17

  • Comments — people are talking823854+31
  • Ratings — people finished and cared1,3291,391+62
  • 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 188231,329
Sep 198241,332
Sep 208271,335
Sep 218271,337
Sep 228281,337
Sep 238221,339
Sep 248231,340
Sep 258241,341
Sep 268241,344
Sep 278241,345
Sep 288281,348
Sep 298291,349
Sep 308291,353
Oct 18301,356
Oct 28311,357
Oct 38321,358
Oct 48361,362
Oct 58371,366
Oct 68371,367
Oct 78381,370
Oct 88421,370
Oct 98431,373
Oct 108431,373
Oct 118441,378
Oct 128451,382
Oct 138471,384
Oct 148471,387
Oct 158501,388
Oct 168501,388
Oct 178541,391
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent854+7+29
Ratings conversion1,391+15+64

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 Novel79-1+3Position on itch.io's Top rated · Visual Novel chart across 50 readings: climbing, #89 to #79 (best #77, worst #89).
Top sellers · Visual Novel250+61+17Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Visual Novel chart across 47 readings: climbing, #315 to #250 (best #68, worst #920).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated164-2+13Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 59 readings: climbing, #199 to #164 (best #162, worst #199).
Top sellers1,901-1,263+177Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 58 readings: slipping, #1677 to #1901 (best #289, worst #6525).
On 8 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #creepypasta200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #creepypasta chart across 41 readings: holding, #2 to #2 (best #2, worst #2).
Top rated · #survival-horror20+1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #survival-horror chart across 39 readings: climbing, #3 to #2 (best #2, worst #3).
Top rated · #thriller300Position on itch.io's Top rated · #thriller chart across 39 readings: holding, #3 to #3 (best #2, worst #3).
Top rated · #dark-humor50+1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #dark-humor chart across 41 readings: climbing, #6 to #5 (best #5, worst #6).
Top rated · #psychological-horror15-2-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #psychological-horror chart across 39 readings: holding, #15 to #15 (best #13, worst #15).
Top rated · #yandere19-10Position on itch.io's Top rated · #yandere chart across 39 readings: holding, #19 to #19 (best #18, worst #19).
Top rated · #dating-sim41-1-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #dating-sim chart across 41 readings: holding, #41 to #41 (best #39, worst #41).
Top rated · #no-ai72-1+5Position on itch.io's Top rated · #no-ai chart across 39 readings: climbing, #80 to #72 (best #70, worst #80).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.74 / 5

Last devlog 2026-08-26 — 52 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.

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