Recall Game Review

The top of the SPIEL Essen 2025 Hotness list on Board Game Geek for about two weeks was the new exploration Eurogame Recall. One reason the game was so hot: the same people who designed Recall previously gave us Revive, a top-100 title on BGG and one of the best strategy games I’ve played since COVID.

My buddy John and I had the chance to demo Recall on the final day of this year’s SPIEL, and one of the game’s designers, Kristian Amundsen Østby, happened to be the person teaching our demo. We played about half of a normal game, and afterwards John verbalized what I was thinking: “Recall…yeah, Recall is pretty good.”

I picked up a review copy at the show and got four more full plays done when I got the game back home. The verdict hasn’t changed…Recall is, in fact, pretty good.

The Key is the Keys

Recall is an action selection game for 1-4 players that takes about 30 minutes per player. More importantly, Recall is NOT Revive 1.5, or Revive Light, or Revive Anything. Recall is absolutely a standalone game, which is important to call out, because despite everyone’s best efforts to frame it differently, there really isn’t a reason to…

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