Tierlists, Top 10s, list articles… it’s all a very convenient way to structure certain things and give your opinions in an easily digestable manner. Here’s an overview of what Ancient Evils added to the evergrowing pile of rankings on the internet:
Investigator Rankings
Putting all investigators into tiers and ranking them against each other provides a great excuse to review your own thoughts on the matter and can be a basis for a lot of additional discussion. There are two criteria I rank the investigators by in independent tierlists: One, by perceived overall power. Two, by personal enjoyment of their playstyle and deckbuilding.
2024 Investigator Power Ranking
2024 Investigator Enjoyment Ranking
2025 Updates to both Rankings
Scenario Difficulty
Near the end of 2023, i ranked all of the scenarios by how difficult i thought they are in general. I did this over the course of 9 articles, plus a 10th article with some additional analysis on the results.
The ranking: #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 | #9
Analysis: #10
Scenario Enjoyment
In early 2021, i ranked all scenarios by my enjoyment of them. I did this in multiple parts as part of my weekly soapboxing column.
2021: Ranking NotZ, Dunwich, Carcosa
2021: Ranking TFA, TCU, TDE
2021: Ranking TIC
One year later, i repeated this with a bit more additional comments on the scenarios.
2022: NotZ, Dunwich, Carcosa
2022: Forgotten Age, Circle Undone
2022: Dream-Eaters, Innsmouth, Edge of the Earth
2022: Analysis
In 2023, I didn’t do the whole thing all over again, i only updated 2022’s rankings with the scenarios of The Scarlet Keys
2023: Updating the 2022 scenario rankings
This list has not been updated in 2024 or 2025, as i was establishing the investigator tierlists instead.
Top 10 Lists
I don’t do these type of “lightweight” articles all that often, but a few have come up over the time, mostly as filler when there wasn’t anything more interesting going on or between the holidays.
Top 10: Unsettling Encounter Artwork
Top 10: Favorite encounter artwork
Top 10: Most fun basic weaknesses
Top 10: Favorite treacheries
Top 10: Favorite enemies
Top 10: Most punishing encounter cards