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itch.ioRank 17532026-10-16

Waterworks!

by scriptwelder

Open on itch.io

Velocity

-0.002

Waterworks! Velocity, last 14 days: falling across 14 days, 0.00 to -0.00 (low -0.01, 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

No ordering to read here.

Across this window, comments moved by 4, under its floor of 20; ratings moved by 22. 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 Waterworks!, 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: 327 to 331, up 4, most of that change came early in the window. Ratings: 1,359 to 1,381, up 22, 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 talking327331+4
  • Ratings — people finished and cared1,3591,381+22
  • 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 183271,359
Sep 193281,360
Sep 203281,360
Sep 213281,361
Sep 223281,359
Sep 233281,361
Sep 243281,361
Sep 253281,363
Sep 263281,363
Sep 273281,365
Sep 283281,366
Sep 293281,366
Sep 303281,367
Oct 13281,369
Oct 23291,370
Oct 33291,371
Oct 43301,371
Oct 53301,371
Oct 63311,372
Oct 73311,372
Oct 83311,372
Oct 93311,373
Oct 103311,373
Oct 113311,375
Oct 123311,376
Oct 133311,378
Oct 143311,378
Oct 153311,380
Oct 163311,381
Oct 173311,381
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent3310+4
Ratings conversion1,381+7+23

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 · Strategy500Position on itch.io's Top rated · Strategy chart across 50 readings: holding, #5 to #5 (best #5, worst #5).
Top rated · Simulation900Position on itch.io's Top rated · Simulation chart across 50 readings: holding, #9 to #9 (best #9, worst #9).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated96+1+1Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 59 readings: climbing, #100 to #96 (best #96, worst #100).
On 8 tag charts
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Top rated · #board-game100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #board-game chart across 43 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #economy100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #economy chart across 41 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #educational100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #educational chart across 41 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #historical100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #historical chart across 39 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #medieval200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #medieval chart across 39 readings: holding, #2 to #2 (best #2, worst #2).
Top rated · #card-game300Position on itch.io's Top rated · #card-game chart across 41 readings: holding, #3 to #3 (best #3, worst #3).
Top rated · #pixel-art1800Position on itch.io's Top rated · #pixel-art chart across 39 readings: climbing, #19 to #18 (best #18, worst #19).
Top rated · #no-ai4100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #no-ai chart across 39 readings: holding, #41 to #41 (best #41, worst #41).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
free
Average rating
4.82 / 5

Last devlog 2023-04-02 — 1294 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

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