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itch.ioRank 18592026-10-17

TOUCHSTARVED: A Dark Romance Visual Novel

by Red Spring Studio

Open on itch.io

Velocity

-0.003

TOUCHSTARVED: A Dark Romance Visual Novel 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 2026-10-17. 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 moved by 9, under its floor of 20; ratings moved by 52. 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 TOUCHSTARVED: A Dark Romance Visual Novel, 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: 855 to 864, up 9, the change came at a steady pace. Ratings: 3,520 to 3,572, up 52, the change came at a steady pace.111%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. 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runs past its ends because a counter went beyond its final value inside the window and came back — a deleted comment, a withdrawn rating.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 talking855864+9
  • Ratings — people finished and cared3,5203,572+52
  • 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 188553,520
Sep 198553,521
Sep 208563,522
Sep 218563,524
Sep 228563,519
Sep 238563,521
Sep 248563,524
Sep 258563,528
Sep 268573,529
Sep 278573,534
Sep 288573,535
Sep 298573,536
Sep 308583,538
Oct 18593,540
Oct 28593,541
Oct 38593,543
Oct 48593,544
Oct 58623,549
Oct 68623,552
Oct 78623,552
Oct 88623,553
Oct 98623,553
Oct 108643,554
Oct 118653,556
Oct 128653,563
Oct 138643,564
Oct 148643,567
Oct 158643,568
Oct 168643,572
Oct 178643,572
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent8640+9
Ratings conversion3,572+18+52

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 Novel1300Position on itch.io's Top rated · Visual Novel chart across 50 readings: holding, #13 to #13 (best #13, worst #13).
Top sellers · Visual Novel58-31-24Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Visual Novel chart across 50 readings: slipping, #46 to #58 (best #14, worst #101).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated2100Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 59 readings: holding, #21 to #21 (best #21, worst #21).
Top sellers383-217-235Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 59 readings: slipping, #109 to #383 (best #54, worst #963).
On 9 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #survival100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #survival chart across 39 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #fantasy200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #fantasy chart across 40 readings: holding, #2 to #2 (best #2, worst #2).
Top rated · #singleplayer200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #singleplayer chart across 39 readings: holding, #2 to #2 (best #2, worst #2).
Top rated · #monsters300Position on itch.io's Top rated · #monsters chart across 39 readings: holding, #3 to #3 (best #3, worst #3).
Top rated · #indie400Position on itch.io's Top rated · #indie chart across 39 readings: holding, #4 to #4 (best #4, worst #4).
Top rated · #narrative400Position on itch.io's Top rated · #narrative chart across 39 readings: holding, #4 to #4 (best #4, worst #4).
Top rated · #horror500Position on itch.io's Top rated · #horror chart across 39 readings: holding, #5 to #5 (best #5, worst #5).
Top rated · #dating-sim600Position on itch.io's Top rated · #dating-sim chart across 41 readings: holding, #6 to #6 (best #6, worst #6).
Top rated · #romance1200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #romance chart across 39 readings: holding, #12 to #12 (best #12, worst #12).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.88 / 5

Last devlog 2025-07-31 — 443 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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