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The Tier List Report

What the internet actually agrees on

Every day, thousands of people rank things on TierBuddy. We turn that into data — consensus rankings, the most divisive picks, and honest methodology you can check before you cite us. A recurring data study, free to read and free to embed.

gamingJuly 7, 2026

What Gamers Actually Agree On

We aggregated 320 public "best games of all time" tier lists — 9,959 individual rankings — into one consensus ranking. Then we measured what the internet can't agree on.

320 lists9,959 rankings#1 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wildmost divisive Death Stranding
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How the report works

The report aggregates public, SFW tier lists from across TierBuddy. For every item we read where people placed it (S through F), score each placement on a 6-point scale, and compute two numbers: a consensus (the average) and a controversy score (how much people disagree). It is self-selected community data — not a survey — and we say so plainly. The full method is on each report.

Why does this matter? A critic score tells you what one reviewer thought. A consensus built from thousands of ordinary rankings tells you what everyone actually believes — including how much they fight about it. The most interesting number here is rarely the winner; it is the variance, the games and picks that split a room straight down the middle.

Every report is reproducible: the same corpus produces the same numbers, the dataset is generated by a documented, open pipeline, and the charts are free to embed as long as you link back. We publish new reports on a quarterly cadence, and only continue a vertical when the last one earned its keep.