Ninety-eight years ago, T.S. Elliot wrote, "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper." Revive the board game posits several other theories. As you control of one of several tribes in a post-post-apocalypse scenario trying to repopulate the world.
In one of the most interesting lore dumps in board gaming, even though these tribes were all driven underground by the apocalypse. They all came up with different theories about what happened.
Sadly, those theories aren't so farfetched.
The Hofstadterians, for instance, believe that the world ran out of water. Which, according to The World Counts, is likely to happen sometime in 2040. Truthfully, an awful situation. Putting the apolocalypse aside, this belief the Hofstadterian's have changed their culture, and the way you play the game. Given their grave concerns about water scarcity, they want to be around water more than the other tribes.
Each tribe paints a different, but equally bleak picture of what happened to the planet. But Revive doesn't dwell on this past, it is a hopeful board game about survival and thriving in this new world. As these tribes are looking to emerge from their underground caves, like a pack of hibernating bears who slept through their alarms.
That's the story and it's really engaging.
As a board game, however, Revive is all about victory points. In the rulebook, there's a list of how you earn victory points as long as my arm. But of all these options, the biggest and most compelling one is the personal objective cards you get at the start of the game.
These cards give you three objectives, one purple, one silver, and one orange. They align with the three different colours of artefacts you find within the game. When you score at the end of the game, you multiply your objective scores by the number of matching artefacts you own.
Throughout the game, it's up to you to determine which of these objectives really matter and make sure you grab the matching artefacts. So how do you get artefacts?
Well, like points, you get them from everywhere. Though in general, you'll use cards to gain resources. Then use these resources to explore the map, build cities to expand from in the future, and populate ancient abandoned cities with your tribesfolk. As you do this, you'll power up your tribe, and uncover artefacts along the way.
The Hofstadterians... otherwise known as the Hoffs
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