Revive

Relive civilization 5,000 years after everything was destroyed. Lead your tribe and explore the frozen earth. Use its resources. Recruit survivors from the surface for your cause. Build factories with powerful machines. And populate ancient locations to relearn your tribe's forgotten technologies.

Revive is a 1-4 player game with asymmetrical player powers, a highly variable setup and no combat or direct conflict. As you complete the 5-part campaign, you can unlock additional content, and once all content is unlocked, you can replay the game indefinitely.

How to play Revive.

At the beginning of the game, each player receives a set of citizen cards, a tribe board and a huge double-layer player board. The tribal board shows your unique tribal skills and ancient technologies that you can relearn during the game. On the double-layer player board, you can place your own machines and upgrade your card slots.

The main objective of the game is to reach and populate the great ancient locations. These ancient locations are random and because they are important sources of victory points, they will shape your strategy differently each game.

On your turn, you take two actions: 
Play a card (the effect is determined by which card slot you use)
Explore (reveal an area tile and recruit a new citizen card)
Populate (populate an old location to learn a new technology)
Build factory (adjacent sites determine which machine paths you advance)
In addition, with power you may activate any number of your machines, changing your actions.

Instead of taking two actions, you may hibernate. This circulates your cards, moving your played cards to your rest area and releasing the cards in your rest area back to you. In addition, you regain your used power, allowing you to reactivate your machines.

The multifunction cards play an important role: Each card shows a resource ability (at the top) and a special ability (at the bottom). If you play a card in one of your top slots, you activate the resource ability; in a lower slot, you activate the special ability. You can install slot modules in the card slots and they are activated when you play a card that matches its color. It is possible to find combinations that allow you to link cards together, so you activate multiple slot modules and abilities in one action.

Building factories takes advantage of the power of the surrounding terrain and allows you to place your marker on one of three machine paths. This can unlock machines that can be activated using energy.

When you reach certain milestones, you can take an artifact from the main board. Each artifact increases one of the three score categories on your personal scorecard.

The game ends when all artifacts are taken and the player with the most points wins.