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It is already out in Early Access: Origins TCG has been free to play on Steam since 27 October 2026, with version 0.8, the update that ended the demo. Koin Games aims to leave Early Access with version 1.0 around 17 March 2027, a date the Steam page gives as indicative and subject to change (read on 28 October 2026). Before that, the free demo was on Steam from 15 July to 27 October 2026. Our roadmap keeps every confirmed date.
Since patch 0.7 of 29 September 2026 the game supports 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian and Simplified Chinese (official patch notes). The Steam page lists the same 13 for the interface, with full audio in English only (read on 30 September and again on 28 October 2026). To change language, right-click the game in your Steam library, then Properties, Language. OriginsMeta is in English, Italian, Spanish, French (since 7 October 2026), Portuguese, German and Russian (all three since 20 October 2026), with the game's own card texts in Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Russian (the German and Russian ones read in the game on 20 October 2026).
Not yet. The Steam page lists Windows and macOS (read on 25 September 2026). On its pre-registration page Koin Games writes that mobile pack opening is coming: “We have our sights set on 2027 for Origins on Mobile.” Neither page says whether that means Android, iOS or both. The game had a soft launch on the App Store in selected regions in November 2025, before the studio moved card trading to Steam.
No. Origins TCG is the digital trading card game by Koin Games, on Steam, with a cast of public-domain legends such as Robin Hood, Mulan and Dracula. “Riftbound Origins” is a card set of Riftbound, the League of Legends trading card game (official Riftbound site, read on 25 September 2026): another game, not made by Koin Games. Searching for “Origins” decks or cards can bring up both.
Koin Games says no: every player gets every card for free, and what you buy are collectible versions — graded, limited, tradable on the Steam Market — so money changes what you own, not what you can play. On the Steam page (read on 28 October 2026) Koin writes that the game will remain free-to-play and free-to-compete forever, during Early Access and after, that spending money will never unlock stronger cards or give an advantage in gameplay, and that Early Access will feature some premium paid features. What money buys, in detail, is in our guide.
Until 2 December 2026 at 08:01 UTC, according to the campaign page. It opened on 27 October 2026, the day Origins TCG went into Early Access, and Koin Games announced it on Steam with the post “The Origins Kickstarter is LIVE”. The campaign is for the Alpha Set “Myths & Legends”, a Kickstarter exclusive of 218 cards that Koin says it will release gradually throughout Early Access. Koin Games' CEO, Tim Jooste, had given the date on X on 17 September 2026 (“back the Alpha Edition Kickstarter (Oct 27th)”), and the demo's main menu showed it as “Coming soon – Oct 27”. Our Kickstarter guide keeps everything up to date.
Yes. The demo ended on 27 October 2026 with version 0.8, and Koin Games' Steam post about it says: “Your account, collection, progression, and everything else now live in the Early Access version of Origins.” On the official Discord, Koin's Studio Head, Mawr, added that all progress has been transferred to Early Access and that the demo can be uninstalled. Earlier, on 21 September 2026, Koin had already let whoever played the demo, the playtest or both keep whichever progress was further ahead, “so no one will have to unlock cards again”.
Right now: ranked opened in the demo with update 0.7.1 of 15 October 2026, four days before Steam Next Fest, and since 27 October 2026 it is part of the Early Access version. Version 0.8 opened the Grandmaster Division, with its world leaderboard, and the first ranked season of Early Access should end sometime in early December, with limited-edition rewards for those who finish at the highest ranks (Koin's plan, which may change). Ranked already existed in the closed playtest, from patch 0.6.1 of 14 August 2026: a ladder of divisions up to Grandmaster.
From 19 to 25 October 2026, during Steam Next Fest: five qualifiers of 512 spots each between the 19th and the 22nd (AMER on the 19th at 7pm EST, EMEA on the 20th at 7pm CEST, AMER on the 21st at 9pm EST, APAC and EMEA on the 22nd), playoffs on the 24th, finals on the 25th. Prizes worth $10,000 in total, split between cash, collectibles and promo cards: the winner gets a 1/1 Dracula promo card, two booster box cases and $1,500, promo cards go down to the top 32 and packs to the top 256. Sign-ups are on Koin's official Discord, and check-in closes five minutes before each qualifier: miss it and you can't play. It was won by CoachCrono on 25 October 2026, from the losers bracket.
You register more than one deck, and the decks must differ from each other. Your opponent bans one of your decks, and you win the match by beating them with each of the decks that are left. At the Crimson Cup there are three decks with at least 8 unique cards between each pair, decklists stay hidden until the top 4 (in the ban you only see the Legendary), and best-of-five matches have no ban: you must win with all three. Koin first ran it at Big Bob's Playtest Battle, where each deck needed a different Legendary and at least nine cards of difference.
Twenty-five: one Legendary and twelve different cards, each played in two copies. You pick the thirteen names, the game doubles the twelve base cards for you. The deck builder on this site enforces the rule and tells you what is missing.
There are 12 in the game, with the stats of the patch of 4 November 2026: Dorothy, Dr. Frank, Dracula, King Arthur, Legion of the Dead, Merlin, Mulan, Queen of Hearts, Robin Hood, Three Not So Little Pigs, Van Helsing and Wicked Stepmother. Dr. Frank came into the game with that patch, in the Relentless deck of the boss Cyber Queen, and has not been checked in the game yet. Every deck is led by exactly one of them; Legion of the Dead is the only spell, the other eleven are units. Each has its own page in our card database, with the card text, the stats and the balance history.
4Dorothy (Legendary)4 · 3/3
6Dr. Frank (Legendary)6 · 2/2
4Dracula (Legendary)4 · 3/2
7King Arthur (Legendary)7 · 7/7
7Legion of the Dead (Legendary)7
5Merlin (Legendary)5 · 5/5
4Mulan (Legendary)4 · 2/4
4Queen of Hearts (Legendary)4 · 3/3
8Robin Hood (Legendary)8 · 4/4
7Three Not So Little Pigs (Legendary)7 · 3/3
4Van Helsing (Legendary)4 · 3/4
4Wicked Stepmother (Legendary)4 · 4/6To bring a deck from the game to this site, paste its code (it starts with KGBLDC) into the box at the top of our deck builder and press “Import”: the box also reads a share link or a text list, and names any card it cannot match. The other way round, a deck page on OriginsMeta has a “Copy game code” button when the site has the ID of every card in the deck; in the deck builder, on the same condition, the code is under “Share”. That is the code to paste into Origins.
In our card database: the 130 cards of the game with their current stats and the balance history of each one, all checked in the game's collection on 11 November 2026, with the official text in English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Russian and Simplified Chinese as it reads in the game. Plus 22 created cards, the ones that exist only when another card makes them: they are not in the game's collection, so they have not been checked in the game, and their text is the one in the game's files. In the game, the collection is on the Cards tab of My Decks: turn on the “Unowned” filter to see the cards you don't own yet as well.
Costs, stats, rarities, alignments and texts of the 130 cards in the game's collection were checked one by one in the game on 11 November 2026, on Early Access version 0.8.2: in the collection, and in the game's own texts in English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Russian and Simplified Chinese. Balance changes come from the official patch notes on Steam and on the official Discord; when a card changes without being in the notes, as Trash for Treasure did on 4 November, the site follows the game. Created and removed cards are not in the game's collection, so they have not been checked in the game; the text of created cards is the one in the game's files. The illustrations are the official ones from Koin Games; the sagas and the notes on each legend are ours.
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