Farms Race cover
2024BGG rank #6,147

Farms Race

by Daniel Dranove, Tom Weiner · Medium Brow Games

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Players2–4
Time60–120m
ComplexityMedium-Light
Age14+

About the game

What is Farms Race?

Recently featured by Shut Up & Sit Down in their first ever Board Games Direct video. Radioactive waste from local power plants has granted you and your fellow farm animals both sentience and an insatiable hunger for power. Now you must take up the weapons of your former masters, the humans, to fight both them and each other for control of the countryside. Farms Race is a strategy game that parodies peaceful Eurogames like Catan and Agricola. Players play as the Supreme Leader of a species of farm animal racing to accumulate 10 Victory Points by building Barns and Armories, recruiting Spies, building the most nukes, and conquering opponents' regions with their herds. —description from the publisher

How it plays

Mechanics

Area Majority / InfluenceDice RollingDie Icon ResolutionHexagon GridHidden Victory PointsIncomeModular BoardMoving Multiple UnitsPush Your LuckRaceTake ThatTradingVariable Player PowersVariable Set-up

On the shelf

Categories

AnimalsEconomicFarmingHumorNegotiationScience FictionTerritory Building

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