Records & Tier List
Hand-picked extremes, headline records, and a look at how the community actually loses. Win rates are nudged toward the community average so investigators with very few games don't get over- or under-ranked.
Investigator Tier List
Tiers by win rate, with a nudge toward the community average so investigators with very few games don't get over- or under-ranked. S = clearly above average; D = clearly below. Investigators need at least 30 games to qualify. Cards marked with * are borderline — hover to see their chances of landing in nearby tiers.
Modern = standardized to modern expansion-table play (big-box games, 2018+). The all-time list ranks the core investigators near the bottom largely because they soaked up the brutal base-only era; the modern list re-tiers on a level field. How this works →
Pacing & Length
How long does a typical game of Eldritch Horror actually take? Two views of the same 17,157 games — one shows how many tables are still playing as the clock ticks, the other reads "what fraction of games end by minute X?" and marks the quarter, half, and three-quarter mark.
How long do games actually last?
The chance a game is still going at minute X. The shaded area is your night.
Cumulative session length
Share of games that have ended by minute X. The curve crosses the halfway mark at the typical session length (around 160 minutes).
Both charts trim the longest tail (the top 1%, around 420 minutes and up); the 148 marathon sessions above that aren't drawn so the rest of the curve stays readable.
Score distribution
Final scores from every game where one was recorded. A low score is a good game: gates, monsters and rumors add points, while leftover doom, clues and blessings subtract them. Most games sit just above zero, the negative tail to the left holds the cleanest wins, and the long tail to the right runs through scrappy wins into defeats.
Anatomy of a Defeat
How does the community actually lose? The flow below follows every game from start to the way it ended; the donut zooms in on the losses; the bars rank the Ancient Ones and rumors that get teams killed most often.
Game outcome flow
Every community game, traced from start to finish — green for wins, red for losses, branching out into the specific way each game ended.
How defeats happen
A breakdown of every way the community has lost a game.
Deadliest Ancient Ones
How often each Ancient One's games actually end with it waking up.
Rumors that most often fail
When a defeated team writes down which rumor sealed their fate, these are the names that show up the most.
Devour data is per-game, not per-investigator: each investigator on a team where any devour occurred is credited equally. Use the rate as a team-context signal, not a personal one.
Hall of Fame
The most extraordinary individual games on record. Each card lists the top 5 in its category.
Won at the Brink
Victories at doom 0–2 — the team beat the Ancient One on the very turn it would have awakened.
- 0 Doom
- 0 Doom
- 0 Doom
- 0 Doom
- 0 Doom
Baffling Defeats
Losses at very high doom (not by awakening). Mythos depletion, elimination, devastation — the team failed despite the Ancient One being far from waking.
- 14 DoomRise of the Elder Things · Daisy, Ursula · Dec 4, 2023
- 13 Doom
- 13 Doom
- 13 DoomSyzygy · Jacqueline, Leo, Marie, Zoey · Sep 17, 2016
- 12 Doom
Speedruns
Victories logged in the shortest sitting.
- 30 min Length (min)
- 30 min Length (min)
- 30 min Length (min)
- 30 min Length (min)
- 30 min Length (min)
Marathon Sessions
The longest games ever logged.
- 908 min Length (min)
- 879 min Length (min)
- 876 min Length (min)
- 870 min Length (min)
- 840 min Length (min)
Eight-Player Victories
Wins with the most investigators on the table.
- 8 Team sizeAtlach-Nacha · Agnes, Daisy, George, Hank, Jacqueline, Luke, Monterey, Ursula · Aug 25, 2018 · Bears 14-6
- 8 Team sizeYog-Sothoth · Charlie, Daisy, Dexter, Hank, Harvey, Lily, Minh, Norman, Rex, Tony, Wendy · Nov 20, 2016 · krambis12
- 8 Team size
- 8 Team size
- 8 Team size
Solo / Small-Team Triumphs
Wins with the smallest team.
- 1 Team size
- 1 Team size
- 1 Team sizeAzathoth · Silas · Feb 25, 2020
- 1 Team size
- 1 Team size
Cleanest Wins
The lowest reported scores in winning games — a low score means few gates and monsters left standing, with doom and clues to spare.
- -33 Score
- -31 Score
- -30 ScoreRise of the Elder Things · Charlie, Daisy, Jacqueline, Jim, Leo, Marie, Mary, Skids · May 11, 2026 · avo1185
- -29 Score
- -28 ScoreRise of the Elder Things · Akachi, Charlie, Daisy, Leo, Lily, Lola, Trish, Ursula, Wilson · May 29, 2020 · Jax
Worst-Scoring Defeats
The highest scores anyone reported in a losing game. The rules only score a win, so read these as the submitter's own tally of how bad the board had got.
- 36 Score
- 30 Score
- 23 Score
- 22 Score
- 21 Score
Most Rumors Passed
Games with the most rumors successfully passed.
- 8 Rumors passed
- 4 Rumors passed
- 4 Rumors passed
- 4 Rumors passed
- 4 Rumors passed
Most Rumors Failed
Games drowning in failed rumors.
- 4 Rumors failedCthulhu · Charlie, Silas, Wilson, Zoey · Jul 14, 2025
- 4 Rumors failed
- 3 Rumors failed
- 3 Rumors failed
- 3 Rumors failed
Comebacks
Chance of winning by final doom
At doom 0 the Ancient One is one tick away from waking up; higher doom = more breathing room. Even from doom 0 the community wins roughly three out of four games — beating the AO on the very turn it would have woken.
Last-second victories (doom 0–2)
Genuine comebacks: games the team won with the Ancient One a single nudge away from waking up.
- doom 0vs YigJim · Lily · Mark · Norman · Silas · Trish
- doom 0vs Shub-NiggurathDiana · Lily · Mark
- doom 0vs YigAkachi · Charlie · Jacqueline · Leo · Norman
- doom 0vs CthulhuCharlie · Jacqueline · Mark · Roland
- doom 0vs IthaquaJim · Leo · Lily · Trish
- doom 0vs YigJim · Leo · Patrice
- doom 0vs Yog-SothothDaisy · Jim
- doom 0vs Yog-SothothAgnes · Luke · Michael · Zoey
- doom 0vs YigJim · Leo
- doom 0vs Yog-SothothLily
- doom 0vs Yog-SothothJenny · Wendy
- doom 0vs Nephren-KaGeorge · Mary · Monterey · Silas · Skids · Tommy · Ursula