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This Won't Work

by vinceakatori

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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

30 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 This Won't Work, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-15 to 2026-10-14, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 14 to 20, up 6, most of that change came late in the window.100%50%0%Sep 15Oct 14Ratings

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 15 to Oct 14

  • Ratings — people finished and cared1420+6
  • 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 1514
Sep 1614
Sep 1714
Sep 1814
Sep 1914
Sep 2014
Sep 2114
Sep 2215
Sep 2315
Sep 2415
Sep 2516
Sep 2616
Sep 2716
Sep 2816
Sep 2916
Sep 3016
Oct 116
Oct 216
Oct 316
Oct 416
Oct 516
Oct 617
Oct 718
Oct 818
Oct 918
Oct 1018
Oct 1118
Oct 1219
Oct 1320
Oct 1420
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-14
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion20+2+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 sellers · Visual Novel379-29Position on itch.io's Top sellers · Visual Novel chart across 20 readings: slipping, #153 to #379 (best #122, worst #379).

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top sellers2,499-1,858Position on itch.io's Top sellers chart across 23 readings: slipping, #736 to #2499 (best #641, worst #3342).
On 7 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #yandere271-23+6Position on itch.io's Top rated · #yandere chart across 36 readings: climbing, #272 to #271 (best #233, worst #279).
Top rated · #dark514-92+33Position on itch.io's Top rated · #dark chart across 38 readings: climbing, #544 to #514 (best #384, worst #557).
Top rated · #mystery615-96+49Position on itch.io's Top rated · #mystery chart across 36 readings: climbing, #660 to #615 (best #485, worst #666).
Top rated · #first-person705-161+64Position on itch.io's Top rated · #first-person chart across 37 readings: climbing, #769 to #705 (best #497, worst #778).
Top rated · #psychological-horror751-138+59Position on itch.io's Top rated · #psychological-horror chart across 35 readings: climbing, #803 to #751 (best #551, worst #818).
Top rated · #story-rich1,247-214+82Position on itch.io's Top rated · #story-rich chart across 33 readings: climbing, #1321 to #1247 (best #973, worst #1333).
Top rated · #horror1,552+453Position on itch.io's Top rated · #horror chart across 21 readings: climbing, #2238 to #1552 (best #1552, worst #2239).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-09-07
Price
free
Average rating
4.80 / 5

No devlog has been posted since we started watching on 2026-09-07. 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.