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A Needle In A Haystack: Sorting Game

by Thinflow Games

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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

23 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 A Needle In A Haystack: Sorting Game, 23 daysLead and lag over 23 days, 2026-09-25 to 2026-10-17, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 19 throughout, no change at all.100%50%0%Sep 25Oct 17Ratings

Each line is scaled to its own change across these 23 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 25 to Oct 17

  • Ratings — people finished and cared19190
  • 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
Sep 2519
Sep 2619
Sep 2719
Sep 2819
Sep 2919
Sep 3019
Oct 119
Oct 219
Oct 319
Oct 419
Oct 519
Oct 619
Oct 719
Oct 819
Oct 919
Oct 1019
Oct 1119
Oct 1219
Oct 1319
Oct 1419
Oct 1519
Oct 1619
Oct 1719
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-17
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion190

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 · Simulation424+10Position on itch.io's Top rated · Simulation chart across 22 readings: slipping, #420 to #424 (best #419, worst #434).
Top rated · Adventure972+31Position on itch.io's Top rated · Adventure chart across 22 readings: climbing, #975 to #972 (best #968, worst #1007).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated5,319-31Position on itch.io's Top rated chart across 22 readings: slipping, #5253 to #5319 (best #5253, worst #5350).
Newest6,993Position on itch.io's Newest chart across 7 readings: slipping, #386 to #6993 (best #386, worst #6993).
New & popular7,189-6,684Position on itch.io's New & popular chart across 10 readings: slipping, #214 to #7189 (best #214, worst #7189).
On 6 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #survival164-2Position on itch.io's Top rated · #survival chart across 21 readings: slipping, #159 to #164 (best #159, worst #171).
Top rated · #arcade194-1Position on itch.io's Top rated · #arcade chart across 22 readings: slipping, #188 to #194 (best #188, worst #194).
Top rated · #3d461-3Position on itch.io's Top rated · #3d chart across 22 readings: slipping, #458 to #461 (best #458, worst #469).
Top rated · #pixel-art1,218-11Position on itch.io's Top rated · #pixel-art chart across 21 readings: slipping, #1194 to #1218 (best #1194, worst #1218).
Top rated · #singleplayer1,233-11Position on itch.io's Top rated · #singleplayer chart across 21 readings: slipping, #1229 to #1233 (best #1222, worst #1280).
Top rated · #no-ai2,210-23Position on itch.io's Top rated · #no-ai chart across 21 readings: slipping, #2154 to #2210 (best #2154, worst #2241).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-09-25
Price
free
Average rating
5.00 / 5

No devlog has been posted since we started watching on 2026-09-25. itch.io publishes only the most recent devlog date, so anything posted before then leaves no trace here.

Go to the source

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