Farms & Factories

Farms & Factories is a fast-paced engine-building card game for 2-5 players themed around the Gilded Age. Try to score as many points as you can by building up your Company Town and dodging other players' Actions like Manipulate and Angry Mob!

You can purchase Farms & Factories here.

How to play

Interested in learning how to play? Check out the play video from our 2017 Kickstarter.

Or you can pilot the game yourself via Tabletop Simulator here (or with the Inventions expansion here).

Each turn you choose to construct a building or play an action. Buildings like Ranches, Foundries, and Apartments represent investments that will pay off in the long run. Each turn, they let you score cards, draw cards, or even make extra plays.

Actions, meanwhile, have an immediate and powerful effect. You can Collapse your rival’s profitable Gold Mine, steal your opponents’ hard-earned points with Burglary, or boost your economy with Land Grab.

When the deck runs out of cards, the player with the most points wins. Easy to learn but tough to master, veteran gaming groups and family board game nights alike will find a home for Farms & Factories!

Inventions

Looking to add to the fun? Check out our first expansion, Inventions! Take control of a new card type, Technologies, which give you unique abilities that aren't shared by other players. But watch out – these powers don't come cheap, costing precious points out of your score pile! Will the power of the Telephone, the Fountain Pen, or even Smokeless Gunpowder put you ahead of the competition?

You can purchase Inventions with the base game or as a standalone expansion.

About the artist

Caitlin Hillyard is a web producer for C-SPAN. In her free time she enjoys painting and playing violin.