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Farms Race

Farms Race

  • 3-4 Players
  • Ages 14+
  • 1-2 Hours

Fascist farm animals lob nukes at each other and battle for control of the countryside in this dystopian parody of peaceful, eurostyle games.

Farms Race combines resource gathering, area control, shifting alliances, asymmetric mutations, and nuclear annihilation – all in under 2 hours. Don’t let peace and prosperity ruin another board game night - buy Farms Race today!

Upgrade to the Deluxe Edition and get everything you need to play Farms Race with up to 5 players,  plus an expansion's worth of content, higher quality components, and bonus goodies to build out your game. Here's what's inside:

  • 1 Additional Playable Species: Rabbits (Up to 5 players can play!)
  • 8 Additional Mutation Cards
  • 6 Additional Spy Cards
  • Wooden Human Worker, Victory Point, Nuke, and Turmoil Tokens
  • Metal Current Player Coin
  • Tuck Box for sleeved cards (custom card sleeves coming later this year!)
  • Canvas Dice Bag
  • 1 Extra Region of each Resource
  • Extra pair of Resource Dice
  • 4 Extra Combat Dice
  • 25 Extra Resource Cards

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4 Steps to domination

  • BUILD

    At first glance, Farms Race looks like any other peaceful trading game.

  • MUTATE

    But you play as the Supreme Leader of a trigger happy, mutant species of farm animal.

  • CONQUER

    Rise up against the humans and then battle each other for control of the countryside.

  • NUKE

    You also get to nuke your friends.

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HOW TO PLAY

Learn how to establish your own authoritarian regime with our friends at Meeple University.

Want more? Check out our full rulebook or detailed overview. 2-player rules available for free download on boardgamegeek.

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Michael Czegledi
Prepare to be Blown Away!

This game is a seamless combination of resource management, strategy luck, backstabbing, and alliances.

The game rewards you for playing well and incentivizes you to take action. The more land you conquer the more stuff you'll have. But the more your neighbors will want to nuke you. The unique mutations vastly change the game and will demand you to adapt your playdtyle to a more aggressive or passive one each game.

Something I particularly like is that you don't stop making meaningful choices at any point in the game...if you're behind you can end up sneaking a win while your opponents exhaust eachother.

The game pieces are solid in quality and will last a long while barring any acts of God or angry juicebox weilding toddlers.

The artwork is charming and funny and does an excellent job capturing the vibe of what the power a Mutation is bestowing upon you.

5/5 Game is amazing. Easy to pick up but has plenty to master.

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Bobby

This game is fantastic! Easy to learn, game play is quick, and super fun!

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Jordan

Incredible game, tons of fun, and impeccable quality. I am thoroughly impressed and pleased with this purchase!

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Polly
Catan and Risk combined. Genius

We played this for the first time last night. Avid boardgames lovers it was brilliant and completely unpredictable we also noticed the quality of the product, really impressive and well thought out. On top of the world one minute, in a flaming pile of nuki nothingness the next.
We loved the process of the game play. Take a minute to read the instructions it's quite detailed but best thing is to get playing.
People annoying you? Nuke em.
Brilliant. Highly recommend.

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Dana
Great game

Played the game with my reguler group of board game guys we all had a blast hoping for a expansion for 5 and 6 players

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FAQs

What is Farms Race?

Farms Race is the supreme leader of board games. It’s light-hearted, aggressive, and plays like Catan with nukes. 

Is it good?

Over 100% of our playtesters gave it positive reviews, according to internal polling.

What's so good about it?

It's fast-paced, asymmetric, well-balanced, and accessible. It's also pretty funny, if we do say so ourselves.

Where are the tech trees, variable unit types, and complex economic engines, like in Eclipse and Scythe?

We think the best strategy games are like Go and Chess - the rules are simple but the choices are complex and meaningful. So that’s what we did with Farms Race: every turn you have a small number of important decisions to make, and you need to pay a lot of attention to what’s going on around you. Don't get us wrong though, we love Eclipse and Scythe!

What’s all this about “Euros”?

Euros, or German-style games, are peaceful trading games like Catan, Agricola, and Carcassonne. They offer idyllic pastoral escapism to anxious nerds, and winning is about as exciting as counting sheep (we’re looking at you Agricola). 

Farms Race parodies the genre by mixing familiar Euro-style themes with a more historically accurate dose of conflict and warfare.

Wow… so “Euro” and “Gyro” are different then?

Yes. We love them both but you can’t eat a “Euro”.

So do you or don’t you like “Euros”?

We like them but, as ‘Muricans, we think they need nukes and guns.

Are you communists?

No. We believe in a kind of anarcho-syndicalist commune. See here for more info.

But Farms Race is communist, right?

Yes, definitely. Pig brother is watching.

Is that Kim Jong-un on one of the cards?

That’s just a totally normal sheep who might nuke you at any given moment for no
reason. 

What can Farms Race teach me about the decline of American democracy?

Oh, you’re not going to learn *anything* by playing; we promise.

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