Final Girl Companion

Review by eFreeware

Final Girl Companion is a digital helper for the Final Girl board game, published by the game's own maker, Van Ryder Games. It does not try to be a game in its own right: the app is built to sit alongside the physical box, and it only makes sense if you already own that box. For $2.99 you get a set of tools that take over the fiddly parts of a session, from picking a setup to recording what happened.

The reason to consider it is simple enough. Final Girl sessions involve a killer, a location, a Final Girl and a pile of rules that shift depending on which combination you are playing, and the app gathers those pieces in one place. It arrived in April 2024 and has been updated since, with the most recent changes covering things like Podarchs counts, Ursula and Raptors health, and killer name formatting. With more than 10,000 installs and a 4.6 average from 102 ratings, it has found an audience among players of the game.

What appeals to me is the focus. This is not a general board game utility dressed up for one title; every screen is tied to Final Girl's own content, and the value comes from how often you would otherwise be flipping through rulebooks and scenario sheets mid-session.

Setting up a session without the rulebook shuffle

The core of the app is game management. It will randomly set up a game for you, which removes the small ceremony of choosing a killer, a location and a Final Girl before you have even started playing. For anyone who owns several expansions, that randomizer is likely the feature used most often, since it keeps sessions varied without you having to make the choice yourself.

Alongside that, the app holds rules for individual killers and locations, so a question about a specific card or ability can be answered without hunting through paper. It also displays the Desperate die death text, a small touch that keeps one more piece of the game's flavor on screen rather than in the box.

Collection management is the other half of this. If your shelf has grown past the base game, tracking what you own in the app gives you a reference point for what you can actually play, and it pairs naturally with the random setup tool.

Scenario mode, lore and the paid extras

Some of the deeper content sits behind in-app purchases. Scenario mode, which includes full scenario setup and the associated rules, is one of those paid features, and it is the one I would weigh most carefully, because scenarios change how a session plays rather than just smoothing it. The lore entries for Final Girls and Killers are also part of the paid set, as is the display of Gruesome death texts when victims are killed, where those texts are available.

The app itself costs $2.99 and carries no ads, so the purchase price is the entry point rather than the whole cost. Anyone considering it should treat the in-app purchases as a separate decision from the download, and decide whether scenario play and the lore material matter enough to them to add to the base price.

The rest of the app is available without those extras: setup, collection tracking, per-killer and per-location rules, the Desperate die text, achievements and game logs.

Logs, achievements and the record of your games

The tracking side is more substantial than it first appears. The app keeps game logs, including whether Extreme Horror mode was used and which Special Actions came up, and it produces statistics on the games you have played. Achievements give that record a bit of direction, turning a run of sessions into something you can look back on rather than a series of evenings you half remember.

Manual editing is the detail I appreciate most in this part. If you played games before you started using the app, you can enter those logs by hand, so your statistics are not stuck starting from the day you installed it. That is a small feature, but it is the kind of thing that decides whether a tracking tool is worth bothering with at all.

None of this replaces the board. It records what happened on it, and the value builds over time as the log fills up.

What kind of player gets the most from it

This is for people who already own Final Girl and play it with some regularity. If you have a single copy and bring it out occasionally, the app is a convenience; if you have accumulated several killers, locations and Final Girls, the collection view and the randomizer start to earn their place, because the number of possible combinations is exactly what makes choosing one a chore.

It also suits players who like a record of their sessions. Statistics, achievements and editable logs appeal to the same instinct as keeping score, and the app is built around that habit rather than around teaching the game. Scenario players who want the setup and rules handled for them are the other clear audience, provided they are willing to pay for that part separately.

The content rating is Teen, which fits the source material rather than anything the app adds on its own. The app requires the physical board game to be of any use, and that is worth stating plainly: it is a companion, and the box is the thing you are actually playing.

A helper worth its price for regular players

Final Girl Companion does one job and does it in a focused way: it takes the setup, reference and record-keeping that surround a session and puts them on your phone. At $2.99 with no ads, the base cost is modest for a tool you would reach for every time you play, and the in-app purchases let you decide separately whether scenario mode, lore and Gruesome death texts are worth adding.

If you own Final Girl and play it often enough that rulebook lookups and setup decisions have become the slow part of the evening, this is an easy recommendation.

The recent updates suggest the developer is still tending to it, which matters for an app tied to a game with expanding content. For the committed player, that combination of low price and ongoing attention makes it a reasonable addition to the box.

What's new in version 1.3.1

* Fixed initial Podarchs count * Allowed Ursula & Raptors max health change * Removed "The" in killers names * Bug fixes