Minor Update - 09-16-2026
- - Golden Goose Egg: Damage Penalty increased from -10% to -15%
- - Golden Goose Egg: Stored souls now count towards net worth (affects comeback reward calculations)
- - Golden Goose Egg: Souls per minute reduced from 90 to 80
Deadlock / Balance intelligence
Deadlock Golden Goose Egg
Item performance and patch changes. Expensive does not automatically mean overpowered.
Observed win rate
48.07%
Wins ÷ purchase observations
Purchase observations
560,670
API matches field
Players in sample
210,821
API players field
Average buy time
3.8m
Minutes into a match
Sample: 2026-09-17 through 2026-10-16 UTC · Normal mode, ranked + unranked, all ranks. Retrieved . Deadlock API. Observed matches only; not the entire player population. Refreshes hourly; upstream item statistics may be cached for six hours.
Item statistics are observational. Winning players buy different items, and later purchases select for longer matches. Do not interpret purchase win rate as the causal effect of buying this item.
The paper trail
Golden Goose Egg patch history
Every explicitly attributed change found in the 26 available archive entries. This is the available archive, not a claim of complete lifetime coverage. Linked-only announcements may omit change text.
Gameplay Update - 05-22-2026
- - Golden Goose Egg: Permanent buff from every 100 souls to every 80
Gameplay Update - 03-06-2026
- - Golden Goose Egg: souls per buff improved from every 200 souls to every 150
- - Golden Goose Egg: Now has a 2 second channel to hatch