Records & Tier List
Curated extremes, hand-picked records, and the anatomy of how players actually lose. Win rates are Bayesian-shrunk; tier breakdown uses z-scores against the cross-investigator distribution.
Investigator Tier List
Tier breakdown by shrunk win rate (prior strength = 10). A z-score of ≥ 1.5 above the cross-investigator mean lands in S; ≤ -1.5 lands in D. Requires 30+ games. A parametric bootstrap on (wins, games) reveals which letters are confident versus boundary cases: cards marked with * are uncertain — hover for the tier-probability distribution.
Pacing & Length
How long does a typical game of Eldritch Horror run? Two complementary views of the same 17,127-game distribution — a survival curve showing how the pool of still-running games shrinks over time, and an ECDF marking the quartiles of session length.
How long do games actually last?
P(game still running at minute t). The shaded area is your night.
Cumulative session length
% of games ≤ X minutes. The curve crosses 50% at the median session length (~160 min).
Both charts clip the long tail at the 99th percentile (~420 min); 150 marathon sessions above that are excluded from the visible curve.
Score distribution
Final scores across every game with a recorded score. The community's reward function is bimodal — clean wins cluster high, defeats taper into the negatives.
Anatomy of a Defeat
How does the community actually lose? The flow below traces every recorded game from start to its outcome detail; the donut zooms into the defeat side; the bars rank Ancient Ones and rumors by their lethality.
Game outcome flow
Every community game from start to outcome — green = victory, red = defeat, branching by detail.
How defeats happen
Breakdown of every losing outcome detail.
Deadliest Ancient Ones
Share of each Ancient One's games that end with it actually awakening.
Rumors that most often fail
When a defeated team is asked which rumor sealed their fate, these are the names that come 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.
- -14 Doom
- -13 Doom
- -12 Doom
- -10 Doom
- -9 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
- 13 Doom
Speedruns
Victories logged in the shortest sitting.
- 1 min Length (min)
- 1 min Length (min)
- 2 min Length (min)
- 2 min Length (min)
- 2 min Length (min)
Marathon Sessions
The longest games ever logged.
- 2160 min Length (min)
- 2102 min Length (min)
- 1502 min Length (min)
- 908 min Length (min)
- 879 min Length (min)
Eight-Player Victories
Wins with the most investigators on the table.
- 8 Team sizeNephren-Ka · Carolyn, Darrell, George, Gloria, Mandy, Mary, Michael, Rex, Tony, Vincent, Wendy, Wilson, Zoey · Mar 18, 2021 · Jax
- 8 Team size
- 8 Team size
- 8 Team sizeIthaqua · Agatha, Akachi, Charlie, Daisy, George, Jacqueline, Lily, Trish, Wilson · Sep 4, 2021 · nWe Nerd Weekend 2021
- 8 Team sizeYog-Sothoth · Charlie, Jacqueline, Jim, Lily, Lola, Mark, Norman, Trish · Aug 24, 2016 · Lucid Software
Solo / Small-Team Triumphs
Wins with the smallest team.
- 1 Team size
- 1 Team size
- 1 Team size
- 1 Team size
- 1 Team size
Highest-Scoring Wins
The biggest reported scores in winning games.
- 46 Score
- 40 Score
- 31 Score
- 30 Score
- 27 Score
Worst-Scoring Defeats
Total catastrophe — the lowest reported scores in losing games.
- -8 Score
- -7 Score
- -6 Score
- -2 Score
- -1 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 failed
- 4 Rumors failedCthulhu · Charlie, Silas, Wilson, Zoey · Jul 14, 2025
- 3 Rumors failed
- 3 Rumors failedShub-Niggurath · Bob, Michael, Minh, Monterey, Rita, Roland, Silas, Trish, Zoey · Aug 5, 2017 · Honoured
- 3 Rumors failed
Comebacks
Comeback probability: P(win) by final doom
At doom 0 the Ancient One is at the awakening threshold; higher doom = safer. The community wins roughly three-quarters of doom-0 games — beating the AO on the very turn it would have woken.
Last-second victories (doom 0–2)
Real comebacks: games won while the Ancient One was at or near the awakening threshold.
- 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-Ka"Skids" · George · Mary · Monterey · Silas · Tommy · Ursula