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Farms Race

Farms Race

  • 2-4 Players (5 with Deluxe)
  • 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 for 2-4 players. 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

Is the Deluxe Edition out of stock? You can buy our Deluxe Upgrade Bundle for the same price.

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Mensa Select Award Winner

Farms Race Deluxe Edition is a winner of the Mensa Mind Games® competition, sponsored by American Mensa.

The Mensa Select seal indicates that a game is original in concept, challenging, and well-designed. Additionally, these games are a good value for the price, easy to comprehend and play, and, above all, fun!

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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Customer Reviews

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Matt long
Super fun game and easy to learn

So fun. What a great spin off Catan. Takes cut throat to a new level

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Jay Leahy
A very well recieved birthday present

I bought this for my cousin. He's very happy with it and loves the artwork on the game

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Manuel
„Many“ Questions

Hi! We really enjoyed playing Farms Race. Although since we are a really competetive group of people playing boardgames there were many discussions about rules wich couldnt really be solved by the instruction manual (german Version). For example the Mutation which can heal troops during or after combat really isnt clear. What does „during combat“ mean? If i nuke a field and attack afterwards the 1hp troops, can he heal them before the damage is dealt ?! We would really like a way bigger q&a about specific spots. If u are interest me and my friends could make a list with (for us) unclear situations.

best wishes from Berlin

Manuel

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Tom Curtis
Big enough game...

I think everyone at the table enjoyed it, found a nice balance between being too serious and too silly. Maybe a shorter version could accompany the full game as the whole thing (set up and learning rules included) took the best part of 2 hours

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Peter Irvine
Love Catan, you will definitely love this game

Awesome game. Simple to play, enough depth and variety. Map layout suggestions are fantastic making it easier to play whether you are playing with 2 players or right the way up to 5 players. I would imagine with an expansion to map tiles and player pieces you could do 6 players or maybe even more!
The style of play with regards to resource selection and the dice is a very nice touch and keeps the game moving at pace, which is where Catan suffers. Great you can actually wipe out another player also and just win by points.

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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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