Viticulture: Bordeaux and Revive: Call of the Abyss

About this episode

The episode reviews two board game expansions, Viticulture: Bordeaux and Revive: Call of the Abyss.

In Episode 292 we give our hot take review on two board game expansions - Viticulture: Bordeaux and Revive: Call of the Abyss Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 0:35 Viticulture: Bordeaux 0:51 Gameplay and Mechanisms 19:36 Production and Theme 21:29 Final Thoughts 28:03 Revive: Call of the Abyss 28:51 Gameplay and Mechanisms 39:04 Production and Theme 40:33 Final Thoughts 45:29 News and Listener Shoutout If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us at https://www.patreon.com/boardgamehottakes Follow us on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/boardgamehottakes.bsky.social Join our Board Game Arena Community: https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=11417205 Join our Discord server at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/vMtAYQWURd⁠⁠

People in this episode

Host: Board Game Hot Takes

Topics covered

• board game expansions
• Viticulture
• Revive
• gameplay mechanics
• production and theme
• final thoughts
• listener engagement

Keywords

• Viticulture
• Revive
• board game expansions
• gameplay
• production
• theme
• hot take review

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Board Game Arena, Discord

Products: Viticulture: Bordeaux, Revive: Call of the Abyss

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