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itch.ioRank 8462026-10-16

Lookouts

by paranoidhawk

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Velocity

+0.003

Lookouts Velocity, last 14 days: rising 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

Ratings are running ahead of comments.

By the average day in this window, comments had taken 40% of their change and ratings 47%. 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 Lookouts, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-17 to 2026-10-16, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Ratings are running ahead of comments. Furthest apart on 2026-10-05, 29 points between ratings and comments. Comments: 956 to 976, up 20, most of that change came late in the window. Ratings: 2,532 to 2,560, up 28, the change came at a steady pace.100%50%0%Sep 17Oct 1629 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.

Series — over Sep 17 to Oct 16

  • Comments — people are talking956976+20
  • Ratings — people finished and cared2,5322,560+28
  • 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 179562,532
Sep 189562,532
Sep 199572,532
Sep 209582,533
Sep 219612,534
Sep 229612,534
Sep 239612,536
Sep 249612,537
Sep 259612,539
Sep 269612,539
Sep 279612,539
Sep 289632,540
Sep 299632,542
Sep 309632,544
Oct 19632,546
Oct 29632,546
Oct 39632,546
Oct 49632,548
Oct 59632,550
Oct 69642,550
Oct 79652,552
Oct 89662,553
Oct 99672,553
Oct 109682,552
Oct 119692,553
Oct 129702,555
Oct 139722,558
Oct 149742,558
Oct 159742,559
Oct 169762,560
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-16
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent976+9+20
Ratings conversion2,560+6+28

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

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All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated37-1-1Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 58 readings: slipping, #36 to #37 (best #36, worst #37).
Top sellers240+169-112Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 58 readings: climbing, #2520 to #240 (best #48, worst #2560).
On 11 tag charts
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Top rated · #transgender100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #transgender chart across 38 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #western100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #western chart across 38 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #wild-west100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #wild-west chart across 38 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #queer200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #queer chart across 38 readings: holding, #2 to #2 (best #2, worst #2).
Top rated · #gay300Position on itch.io's Top rated · #gay chart across 38 readings: holding, #3 to #3 (best #3, worst #3).
Top rated · #lgbtqia300Position on itch.io's Top rated · #lgbtqia chart across 38 readings: holding, #3 to #3 (best #3, worst #3).
Top rated · #narrative600Position on itch.io's Top rated · #narrative chart across 38 readings: holding, #6 to #6 (best #6, worst #6).
Top rated · #lgbt900Position on itch.io's Top rated · #lgbt chart across 38 readings: holding, #9 to #9 (best #9, worst #9).
Top rated · #no-ai16-1-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #no-ai chart across 38 readings: slipping, #15 to #16 (best #15, worst #16).
Top rated · #romance2000Position on itch.io's Top rated · #romance chart across 38 readings: holding, #20 to #20 (best #20, worst #20).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.86 / 5

Last devlog 2026-04-01 — 198 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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