How to Play Revive: Cards, Tribes, Machines & Exploration
Revive is an asymmetric civilization-building eurogame with a campaign-style unlock structure. Players use cards, machines and tribe technologies to explore and repopulate a frozen world.
Scope: base game including its campaign unlock structure; no external expansions.
Play cards into your player board
Cards are placed into action slots on your personal board, generating resources and actions depending on the slot and card.
Explore the map
Spend the required resources to reveal new areas, gain exploration rewards and open future building or population locations.
Populate ancient sites
Population actions establish your tribe on map spaces and can unlock bonuses, scoring and access to further development.
Build factories
Factories strengthen your economy and often interact with resource production, cards or end-game scoring.
Activate machines
Machine development creates persistent or repeatable effects on your player board, making later turns more efficient.
Advance tribe technology
Each tribe develops asymmetric technologies. Unlocks change the rules of your personal engine and should guide which map and card actions you prioritize.
Campaign unlocks
The included campaign gradually introduces content, but once unlocked the game remains replayable rather than permanently consumed.
Endgame
When the standard end condition is reached, score map presence, technology, objectives and other printed final categories.