Great expansions bring new life into their base games. Our marketing of Far Away: Corporate Espionage focused on the additional missions and new creature AI system, but there’s more to it than that. The next couple of blogs are going to focus on other additions and enhancements players can expect. First, we want to highlight the Hollows: a new terrain type with its own exploration system.
I don’t like the combat in Gloomhaven. I’m the sap who read the rulebook enough times to know how all the bad guys act, so I end up being the computer my friends play against. It’s like being a Dungeon Master with none of the creative flair. Gloomhaven is a big enough game that it can take critiques from one more rando, but I’m driven to write this because of a persistent comment on Far Away’s creature management. Some folks can find that phase tedious or disproportional to the explorer phase. It’s a fair observation and, obviously, you can say whatever they want on the internet. To me, Gloomhaven has all the same problems and fewer of the emotional or narrative rewards Far Away offers. In analyzing the difference, I want to understand the role these systems play on the player.
We funded Far Away: Corporate Espionage! Of course, reaching the goal isn’t the end. We want to make the game even better. Any extra funds will go into that objective. As a way to quantify those efforts, we have listed stretch goals. It’d be amazing to reach them and add some long-requested extra features.
