FARSHORE vs EVERDELL | A Side-By-Side Comparison
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- How different is Farshore? Farshore is the new standalone game set in the Everdell world. It shares some of the same core mechanics with Everdell, but where do the games differ? Is Farshore unique enough to stand on its own two feet? Does Farshore deserve to exist as its own game?
Everdell Farshore is available for preorder at TabletopTycoon.com
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This game was sent to us by the publisher in exchange for our fair and honest review.
00:00 Introduction
00:47 What is Farshore
03:06 Similarities
04:15 Different card abilities
06:44 Farshore Anchors vs Everdell Doors
08:51 Easier to get Cards, Harder to get Resources
12:04 Let's Talk about Boats
13:24 Treasure Really Lightens the Game
15:12 Maps are Powerful
18:10 No open location cards
19:15 Scoring Breakdown/Overview
20:34 Everdell print is harder to read
21:12 Expansions may solve issues
21:40 Farshore seems more refined
22:38 Is One better?
26:04 Final thoughts
27:07 Does FARSHORE Deserve to Exist?
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Great review you two! That was a good idea to play farshore first so you had fresh eyes on it. I just pre-ordered it, and I also own Everdell. I'm happy to own both because I really like the Everdell universe that they are building. The theme is adorable and my family loves it. Thanks again and have a relaxing weekend!
If you play with Everdell base game with Everdell Newleaf exp. You have the anchor kinda have the same funktion with the Golden leaf token. So you have both the base game Doors and the Golden leaf. 😀
So I would recommend you try playing with Base Everdell with Newleaf and then compare again. 😊
I agree with what was said above AND would add Bellfaire to this. Primarily for the extra common event, and generalized special events, and resource conversion tile. That plus the “stack repeat cards” rule would more equalize the games.
Exactly! Newleaf is AMAZING and has so much great stuff in it. I love the visitor cards for more scoring and the train for more resources and the tickets for extra actions. More cards in the "meadow". Ugh. It's so so good. Must have in my opinion.
@@PatrickKerwin yep! Bellfair is also great. Love the special events without specific card requirements. And player powers are so fun. The market is great too.
Great vid ! I play with my 11 and 9 year old so I'm happy they've released Farshore. My daughter was attracted to Everdell based on theme and artwork but once we watched some vids on it, she was turned off by how specific it can be. Farshore seems much more accessible, easier and fun for families and they like high scoring games - Ticket To Ride for instance.
I think it will be a great fit based on what you've said - definitely more forgiving when it comes to comboing cards and racking up points!
With young kids or really early gamers My Lil Everdell is great. Both my 7 and 9 year olds enjoyed it and it definitely far simpler than Farshore.
Thanks for the thorough comparison! Hearing your pros and cons, I think we might stick with Everdell. As for the expansions, we’ve only played Bellfaire & Pearlbrook. Bellfaire adds a market, which doesn’t offer „wild“ resources, but something similar: you can exchange resources for other resources. Plus there are player powers which let you use one resource (eg wood or berries) to replace other resources. Pearlbrook offers extra scoring options, which are stronger than the original Everdell events.
So I guess with the expansions Everdell does offer everything that Farshore has. It’s still tighter, the card combos ARE very specific; and you need to put a lot of thought into it. But that’s what we like about it.
Maybe Farshore is just right for less frequent players. :)
Oof. I'll be sticking with my Everdell Complete Collection. I was excited about a "new" Everdell game and Farshore is basically just Everdell 2.0. Pass for me easily. Especially at that price point. There are several elements in the expansions that solve for some of the issues you mentioned. Newleaf and Bellfair are must haves in my opinion.
The very small text , in Everdell was a deal breaker for us. We simply could not read the cards , without great effort , which slowed the game tremendously. If the card text is larger in Farshore , then we might try it. Thanks for the video!
Great video, I'm waiting for the french version here. What type of characters can we get with Farshore ?
EVERDELL HAS EIGHT EXPANSIONS OMG GUYS
Thank you for answering what is probably the most common question about this'n. I'm IN.
Allison, you would probably like the experience of Dune:Imperium if you like the fight for every point. Great game that has tension the whole time!
She definitely does - she's played a partial game at GAMA a couple of years ago and we have the game with Rise of Ix at home waiting to be played! Tried to set up a group to play multiple times and stuff always comes up, but we'll get a game in soon.
I've played over 100 games of Everdell, and I'm not even joking. My wife and I are very familiar with it to the point where we can blow through the game, with expansions, in less than forty minutes.
We've only played Farshore a few times so far and I can promise that they are very different games with similar concepts.
Everdell is absolutely about synergizing and creeping your resource production along to achieve a clean burn by whatever means necessary to fully maximize everything you touch. I'm highly skeptical of anyone claiming otherwise. Everdell is a brutal game in the cutest possible package. If you're not going for total synergy at exact cost you'll come up wildly short against anyone that is. If your city isn't full you'll likely lose (if you don't use Pearlbrook's game-breaking wonders). If you don't have a good plan you'll burn.
Farshore is about capitalizing on opportunism to the max and presenting multiple paths to achieving victory if you actually stick to them. Your city synergy matters significantly less (although it still does a bit) and taking advantage of the winds is absolutely critical. Making decisions like spending treasure (2pts) for a 2pt card that also costed resources on top of it that didn't allow you to gain further points just to fill out your city is shooting yourself in the foot (and that's something that doesn't exist in Everdell). If you're inflexible in Farshore you're toast.
They're the same universe, same company, and same art style, but wildly different in my opinion.
I like them both because they're very different beasts to the core.
This is the first of your videos I've seen and it seems that Alison got cut off a little in this? For example somewhere around 11 minutes in she goes to say something and gets a finger in her face and it seems that you'll come back to her point later but I'm not sure you ever do? Or if you do she doesn't get to say it herself...
This is honestly something we've (I guess I've - daniel) been working on. While we do discuss ahead of time some of our points these are completely unscripted and I tend to talk faster and think quicker on my feet, and tend to jump in when there's pauses because I'm probably a little over sensitive to silence and "dead air" so it's something that's been pointed out and I've become much more aware of in our videos we do together. that's not really relevant to the specific place you pointed out, and I agree, the finger was a bad look, but the reason I did that in this case was to make sure that we got through all of the objective side-by-side comparison parts before we got too much into our opinions about the game. We wanted to make sure that those parts were compartmentalized so if you only want the objective comparison you can watch that or if you only want our opinions you can for the most part just see that, although they are sprinkled throughout. But yeah, the finger in the face was unintentional and I can totally see how that came across on camera, and I'm honestly not sure if we circled back to her point.
The text on the cards of Everdell was the ONE reason why I could never introduce Everdell to my folks. Farshore being less "tight" is a bonus on top. This is going to be their Xmas present! (my mom LOVES puffins)
Farshore has a combination of base Everdell, Newleaf (golden doors/ankers), Pearlbrook (treasure/pearls) and Spirecrest (map tiles/journey tiles).
edit: I think as you meantioned at the end people will always be closer in Everdell, in farshore I can very much see a more weathered gamer just running away with the game.
One more thing I love Everdell at 2p and at 3p(with non beginners). Never would like a 4p game due to downtime. Farshore with the way more snappy turns i think higher playercounts are great, however a 2p game with those map tiles might be less enjoyable.
That was my assumption, that Farshore had the best elements of all of the expansions built into a more refined base game. There's definitely more runaway opportunities in Farshore, if someone focuses hard on maps and the other players don't notice, but there also seem to be fewer opportunities for a situation where very specific cards appearing or not appearing in the market could make or break your strategy - if you can grasp the gameplay you can probably do okay for yourself. That said, Peyton (10) did have trouble stringing all of those strategies together cohesively but I think with a couple more games some things would click and he would do much better.
@@PlaytheGameHQ if you have issues with cards not appearing I would point you towards the boarder variant on bgg or using the duplicates in the meadow stack like in Farshore. These are not official rules but Wilson uses these ideas in Newleaf and now Farshore. Newleaf adds a couple new ways of getting more cards and "fixes" the amount of cards you see in any given game. Worth checking out after 10-15 plays of the base game.
Easier, more accessible, more forgiving. None of that is what I want more of in Everdell. I’ve played just base game Everdell a lot. It’s very nuanced. Would love to try Farshore. Thanks for the comparison.
I think for those that love Everdell, Farshore is going to be a step down in terms of nuance and overall complexity, but I think it's going to combine a lot of things that people like from the expansions into a cleaner package, and be great for newcomers to the Everdell world.