Recall is a deep strategy game that revolves around engine building and exploration. Each player begins the game with one of fourteen unique tribes and one of eighteen unique gadgets, both of which significantly impact your strategy and abilities. Lead your tribe, explore the lands, and discover traces of ancient civilizations to shape your path to success. On your turn, you can either use a key card to activate an action space, or you can "recall" to produce resources and reclaim your key cards.

When you use a key card, the card's abilities are combined with the effects of the selected action space to determine your actions. These actions allow you to populate lands, explore new areas, move followers, or build workshops, vaults, and monuments. As the game progresses, you can improve your tribe by acquiring new key cards, upgrading action spaces, and collecting skill stones or relics. A key part of the game is exploring excavation sites to discover traces of ancient civilizations. These locations unlock powerful abilities, ancient gadgets, and crucial scoring opportunities.

Three times during the game, players must choose between two paths, each providing a direct bonus and affecting one of the game's final score categories. The optional digital companion website allows players to archive their tribes at the end of the game, making them discoverable as ancient civilizations in future games. Experience the richness of strategy and exploration in Recall, where every decision shapes your tribe's legacy.