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itch.ioRank 11482026-10-16

Backpack Hero$19.99

by Thejaspel

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Velocity

0.000

Backpack Hero 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

No ordering to read here.

Across this window, comments moved by 5, under its floor of 20; ratings moved by 6, under its floor of 20. 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 Backpack Hero, 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: 2,499 to 2,504, up 5, most of that change came late in the window. Ratings: 2,202 to 2,208, up 6, the change came at a steady pace.100%50%0%-17%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runs past its ends because a counter went beyond its final value inside the window and came back — a deleted comment, a withdrawn rating.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 talking2,4992,504+5
  • Ratings — people finished and cared2,2022,208+6
  • 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 182,4992,202
Sep 192,4992,202
Sep 202,4992,202
Sep 212,4992,202
Sep 222,4992,201
Sep 232,4992,203
Sep 242,4992,203
Sep 252,4992,203
Sep 262,4992,203
Sep 272,4992,203
Sep 282,4992,203
Sep 292,4992,203
Sep 302,4992,203
Oct 12,4992,203
Oct 22,4992,203
Oct 32,4992,205
Oct 42,4992,205
Oct 52,4992,205
Oct 62,4992,206
Oct 72,4992,206
Oct 82,4992,207
Oct 92,5002,207
Oct 102,5012,207
Oct 112,5032,208
Oct 122,5042,208
Oct 132,5042,208
Oct 142,5042,207
Oct 152,5042,208
Oct 162,5042,208
Oct 172,5042,208
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Comments intent2,504+4+5
Ratings conversion2,208+1+6

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 · Strategy300Position on itch.io's Top rated · Strategy chart across 50 readings: holding, #3 to #3 (best #3, worst #3).
Top rated · Rpg700Position on itch.io's Top rated · Rpg chart across 50 readings: holding, #7 to #7 (best #7, worst #7).
Top sellers · Strategy87+56+45Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Strategy chart across 50 readings: slipping, #37 to #87 (best #11, worst #160).
Top sellers · Rpg155+120+148Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Rpg chart across 50 readings: slipping, #84 to #155 (best #16, worst #305).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated580-1Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 59 readings: slipping, #56 to #58 (best #56, worst #58).
Top sellers1,604+1,066+979Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 59 readings: climbing, #1901 to #1604 (best #152, worst #2778).
On 9 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #card-game100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #card-game chart across 41 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #deck-building100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #deck-building chart across 41 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #dungeon-crawler100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #dungeon-crawler chart across 41 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #turn-based100Position on itch.io's Top rated · #turn-based chart across 39 readings: holding, #1 to #1 (best #1, worst #1).
Top rated · #roguelike200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #roguelike chart across 39 readings: holding, #2 to #2 (best #2, worst #2).
Top rated · #roguelite200Position on itch.io's Top rated · #roguelite chart across 39 readings: holding, #2 to #2 (best #2, worst #2).
Top rated · #pixel-art800Position on itch.io's Top rated · #pixel-art chart across 39 readings: holding, #8 to #8 (best #8, worst #8).
Top rated · #cute1300Position on itch.io's Top rated · #cute chart across 41 readings: holding, #13 to #13 (best #13, worst #13).
Top rated · #2d1500Position on itch.io's Top rated · #2d chart across 59 readings: holding, #15 to #15 (best #15, worst #15).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-20
Price
paid
Average rating
4.81 / 5

Last devlog 2023-11-15 — 1067 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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