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.

Origin Story is a 1-5 player competitive tableau-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.

Gameplay Overview
Origin Story is one of Stonemaier's most inventive recent releases — a game that combines trick-taking and tableau building into a surprisingly cohesive superhero narrative. Over five rounds, each representing a chapter of your character's transformation, you draft cards into your personal player mat, gradually building a set of charged abilities that generate points and shape your strategy. The trick-taking layer drives the story forward: winning and losing tricks both matter depending on what you're trying to accomplish, and the cards you add to your tableau change what each trick is worth to you. In the climactic final round, you reveal the superhero identity you've been secretly building toward — a satisfying payoff that makes every game feel like it told a complete story. Designed by Jamey Stegmaier and Pete Wissinger with gorgeous artwork by Clémentine Campardou, it's a compact, elegant game that earns its place alongside the best trick-takers in the hobby.