The Encroaching Dark
at a Glance
Field reports gathered from 2,855 hands, cross-referenced. The corpus reaches back to Nov 22, 2013; the most recent dispatch arrived Jul 29, 2026.
“The board does not care about your build order.
The doom track does.”
Across 21,263 community-submitted games, the corpus keeps insisting on one shape: the games that hold together early hold together late, and the games that bleed Doom early rarely recover. The hardest pulls remain reliably hard — Cthulhu still drags the global average down more than any other Ancient One.
Pulse of the corpus
104 months of logging
Monthly submission counts across the most recent 104 buckets. Trailing four-month average: 73 / month.
The corpus stretches from Nov 22, 2013 to Jul 29, 2026 — roughly 13 years of community labor. The Ancient Ones unwilling to be tabulated have not yet been named.