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Origin Story

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$21.3 $30 In stock

Category: Board Game

Origin Story is a 1-5 player competitive tableau-building, trick-taking game played over 5 rounds.

Your inner superhero is ready to emerge, one chapter at a time. Reveal your backstory, gather gadgets and allies, develop a grudge against your archenemy, and unleash an ultimate ability as you transform. Use a combination of brains, love, speed, and strength to craft your origin story.

Each round represents a chapter in your development and grants a new card to add to your player mat. Charge your cards and use their abilities to score more points than your opponents.

Designed by Jamey Stegmaier and Pete Wissinger, Origin Story is an engine-building, trick-taking game played over 5 rounds. Each round represents a chapter in your development and grants a new card to add to your player mat. Charge your cards and use their abilities to score more points than your opponents.

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                Customer Reviews (5.0 / 5 · 2 reviews)

                Jason R. ★★★★★

                We've played it three nights in a row now, and the way your hero's backstory builds across those 5 rounds keeps everyone at the table engaged. The tableau-building really gives you that satisfying puzzle of balancing your gadgets with the trick-taking hands. Even at 5 players it flows smoothly witho

                Richard ★★★★★

                The trick-taking mechanic really adds a clever layer of strategy to building my hero’s backstory, and I love how the 5-round structure keeps each game tight. My friends and I were fully invested in revealing our chapters.