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The Black Hole Explorer

by Zackk

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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 The Black Hole Explorer, 30 daysLead and lag over 30 days, 2026-09-19 to 2026-10-18, each series scaled to its own change so the timing can be compared. Not enough of the ladder to compare. Ratings: 8 to 22, up 14, the change came at a steady pace.100%50%0%Sep 19Oct 18Ratings

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 19 to Oct 18

  • Ratings — people finished and cared822+14
  • 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 198
Sep 208
Sep 2110
Sep 2210
Sep 2310
Sep 2410
Sep 2510
Sep 2611
Sep 2711
Sep 2813
Sep 2914
Sep 3016
Oct 116
Oct 216
Oct 317
Oct 417
Oct 517
Oct 618
Oct 718
Oct 818
Oct 918
Oct 1019
Oct 1120
Oct 1221
Oct 1321
Oct 1422
Oct 1522
Oct 1622
Oct 1722
Oct 1822
What the platform publishes

Counters

Read 2026-10-18
CounterNow7d30d
Ratings conversion22+2+14

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

All of itch.io

ChartNow7d30dHistory
Newest5,713Position on itch.io's Newest chart across 7 readings: slipping, #783 to #5713 (best #783, worst #5713).
New & popular7,139-6,136Position on itch.io's New & popular chart across 12 readings: slipping, #75 to #7139 (best #75, worst #7139).
On 4 tag charts
ChartNow7d30dHistory
Top rated · #bara142-1+23Position on itch.io's Top rated · #bara chart across 54 readings: climbing, #165 to #142 (best #140, worst #167).
Top rated · #wholesome196Position on itch.io's Top rated · #wholesome chart across 7 readings: climbing, #209 to #196 (best #196, worst #209).
Top rated · #yaoi368+15Position on itch.io's Top rated · #yaoi chart across 17 readings: climbing, #405 to #368 (best #364, worst #405).
Top rated · #gay897Position on itch.io's Top rated · #gay chart across 4 readings: slipping, #890 to #897 (best #890, worst #897).
Everything else we hold

Activity and where to go next

First seen by us
2026-08-23
Price
free
Average rating
3.55 / 5

No devlog has been posted since we started watching on 2026-08-23. 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.