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Death and Taxes

by Placeholder Gameworks

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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

14 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 Death and Taxes, 14 daysLead and lag over 14 days, 2026-08-20 to 2026-09-02, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 699 throughout, no change at all.100%50%0%Aug 20Sep 2Ratings

Each line is scaled to its own change across these 14 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 Aug 20 to Sep 2

  • Ratings — people finished and cared6996990
  • 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
Aug 20699
Aug 21699
Aug 22699
Aug 23699
Aug 24699
Aug 25699
Aug 26699
Aug 27699
Aug 28699
Aug 29699
Aug 30699
Aug 31699
Sep 1699
Sep 2699
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-09-02
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion6990

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 · Simulation119Position on itch.io's Top rated · Simulation chart across 5 readings: holding, #119 to #119 (best #119, worst #119).
Top sellers · Simulation405Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Simulation chart across 5 readings: climbing, #406 to #405 (best #405, worst #415).
Top rated · Visual Novel524Position on itch.io's Top rated · Visual Novel chart across 5 readings: slipping, #520 to #524 (best #520, worst #524).
Top sellers · Visual Novel526Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Visual Novel chart across 5 readings: slipping, #517 to #526 (best #515, worst #530).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated1,334-5Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 14 readings: slipping, #1320 to #1334 (best #1320, worst #1335).
Top sellers3,590+2Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 13 readings: climbing, #3628 to #3590 (best #3468, worst #3673).
On 2 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #atmospheric177+1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #atmospheric chart across 12 readings: slipping, #176 to #177 (best #176, worst #179).
Top rated · #2d342-2Position on itch.io's Top rated · #2d chart across 14 readings: slipping, #336 to #342 (best #336, worst #343).

A climb is places gained, so a positive number means it moved up. The line rises when the game is climbing, which is the opposite direction to the raw position.

Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Average rating
4.52 / 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.