How to Win at Final Girl (tips and tricks)

Many people have complained that this game is too luck based and very hard to win. My win percentage as of recording this video is 76% over 47 plays, which either proves I am extremely lucky or there are certainly ways to strategize around the bad luck. In this video, I share my top 10 tips for success at Final Girl. I do encourage you to keep in mind that sometimes these strategies will need to be adjusted based on enemies, locations, and situations that arise during games, and, of course, following these tips does not mean you will always win (sometimes the bad luck just cannot be overcome no matter how well you strategize), but they will certainly help.
This is a start of a series of How to Win at Board Games, which will go over some tips and tricks for winning games. I will probably focus on solo board games for this, but I may include some that go over card/ combos that can be powerful in multiplayer games as well at some point. I especially want to focus on games that are considered hard to win by many, which is why Friday is the next one I plan to do. If you have any suggestions for board games I could do this for, let me know in the comments!

[@Amalga_Heart]

The two tips I want to add to this is simple: First, never, ever give up. Doesnt matter how desperate the situation seems, doesnt matter if defeat seems guaranteed... just dont give up. Because you never know. I've had some absolutely stupid wins pulled out of the jaws of seemingly guaranteed losses, such as one playthrough with the Poltergeist in Maple Lane (basically the worst place to fight her) where I had to dig to the bottom of every item deck before Carolyn finally showed up, and then survive multiple turns of the Poltergeist's teleport + attack finale AND heal to full before leaving... seemed impossible, did it anyway, through careful combinations of well timed actions and item usage (after all, I'd drawn so many of them).

[@feynmanm]

Nice list! I would add the tip: Resist that compulsion to play every card every turn. This is probably not a problem for some, but for me, I have to be disciplined and evaluate the upside vs downside of every card play. Often I realize early in a turn that the downside is way too severe (often because I don't have good cards to discard on 3s & 4s). So then I just stop playing cards, wait until next turn, and enjoy a monster hand. Monster hands as such are generated 2 or 3 times per game and pair very well with Improvise like my man said.

[@davidcashin1894]

Love the aluminum bat. Used it for the first time. There is nothing better than beating the Minor Dark Powers and extra health out of the baddy!

[@shelfhelpgaming]

Great video! I was wanting to make one just like this, but you beat me to it. I can't believe how many playthroughs I have seen where people constantly trash the Focus cards and only buy the Distraction card after they are dangerously close to rolling one die. Gotta be proactive about that horror level and keep it in the green to maximize chances of success.

[@EM-pn5kq]

Nice video. I agree that a lot of people credit too much of the game to luck.

[@silverfang6668]

Excellent advice, thank you!

[@alanmeek6281]

Hey man! Glad I found your channel. This is definitely one of my favorite games at the moment. Great tips!

[@smallboxgames557]

Great video for a great game!

[@billthornton2852]

Great stuff!! Thank you.

[@ReconPro]

Great tips! 👍

[@michaelhill6453]

Great video; thanks. I might actually win a game now!

[@alexbiersner3350]

The first advice I can give is to come to the realization that not every victim can or should be saved. Of course, try yoir best to save the ones that seem possible. But there will be times where the majority of the victims and you are on opposite sides of the map and the killer is so much closer to them. Just accept that those victims will die and keep moving to either saving the victims closer to you or maybe even searching for items. On the flip side, it will help you a lot if you can save enough victims to havr your character card flip to its special ability side. So, definitely pick and choose when you wanna save victims.

[@tabsteel5795]

Ok. I’m 0-4 against Hans. Will watch this and let you know how it goes.

[@bryanscollick8305]

Were you secretly taping my Final Girl plays?? May I have your permission to share this video with people who always say that FG is too luck based. What players do not get is this is a hand/resource management game and not a traditional dungeon crawler. All this tips you provide are what I do. In Season 2 I was 10-3 and one loss was from the insta-death finale from The Thing!! I see the game in two Phases- Phase 1 is Horror/Save/Search. Reduce horror, save victims and find a weapon. Phase 2- Guard/Retaliate/Blow&Strike- time to take on the killer and win the day. Thanks again for saying out loud what I figured out as well!

[@81Earthangel]

Improvise I use quite a lot to set up a big turn. But planning I used only once in 12 games.

[@corican]

After watching this video, I realized that I have been playing on Deluxe Hard Mode for all my games:

[@erickmain]

The card symbols on the dice can make them successes if you burn cards?! I’m not sure how I missed this in the rules. To make 3s and 4s successful would have changed my plays so much! I basically have been playing on hard mode lol! Wow I feel silly.

[@rockassassin64]

I think a very important piece of Advice is that some Times you will be in a situation in which you can not win unless Your final health token has extra hearts on it. If you find yourself in the situation, you need to prepare for the possibility that you can survive. Getting the pop back app does not automatically equalswimming so sometimes you realize this is the situation you're in. You don't do anything that turn. Keep all the stuff you have in your hand in your hand and then buy what you need. 41 very active turn even the possibility of having to run away. I said you're not using anything on this term. Because you're prepared to die. You can spend those cards for extra time where you need it

[@serge-lejeuunepassionensoc5204]

I'm close to 60%, so I should use improvise and planning to higher my % of wins.

[@faerieknight2298]

Just got the core box and a couple feature film boxes. First game was brutal. I kept rolling nothing but 1's and 2's when trying to do things. Then Within the first 3 turns all but two victims got killed due to brutal Events and the Terror cards triggering the killer and his puppets to all move and attack, then I got cornered by Geppetto and his puppets and killed on turn 4. In the second game I again had a bad run of luck with dice rolls combined with Event cards comboing with Terror cards to wipe out most of the victims in a turn or two. At least in the 2nd game I did some damage to the killer, even if half of the damage was 'wasted' clearing a minor dark power.