Origins TCG explained in five minutes

What it is

Origins TCG is a digital trading card game by Koin Games, a studio based in Tampa, Florida, founded in 2021 by industry veterans. Its cast is made of public-domain legends reimagined in one original world: Robin Hood, Mulan, the Queen of Hearts, Winnie-the-Pooh, King Arthur, Dracula and many more.

The pitch is free-to-compete: every card you need to play competitively is earned by playing. Money only buys collectible versions of cards, which can be graded, traded and sold. The developers call it "zero pay-to-win".

How a match works

• Three lanes. You and your opponent fight on three boards at once. Each lane has its own location, drawn from a pool of more than a hundred that rotate and change the rules of that board.
• Simultaneous turns. Both players act at the same time, so there is no waiting. A match lasts about seven minutes.
• Cards attack. Unlike pure "lane counting" games, units fight each other: Power is what you hit for, Health is what you can take.
• Keywords. The game uses On Reveal (triggers when the card is played), On Death, First Strike, Double Attack and Deathtouch, among others.
• One Legendary leads the deck. Decks are 25 cards and every deck is built around a Legendary card with a signature ability: Mulan repeats your allies' On Reveal abilities, the Queen of Hearts repeats their On Death abilities. Eleven Legendaries are playable: all 11 Legendaries, card by card.

Modes

The demo had a tutorial, missions against bosses with their own AI, and online play; since 27 October 2026 the game is in Early Access, where your account, collection and progression from the demo now live. Patch 0.6.1 of the closed playtest added a ranked ladder with divisions up to Grandmaster, a world leaderboard and Victory Points. Ranked opened for everyone on 15 October 2026, and update 0.8 of 27 October opened the Grandmaster Division and its leaderboard: how it works is in our Origins TCG ranked guide.

How to play today

1. Get Origins TCG from its Steam page: it is Free To Play, in Early Access since 27 October 2026. If you played the demo, your account and collection are already there, and the demo can be uninstalled. Since update 0.8 collectible cards can be bought, sold and listed on the Steam Market.
2. Join the official Discord for tournaments, AMAs with the team and the playtests of the next builds.
3. Since patch 0.7 of 29 September 2026 the game supports 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish (Spain), Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Simplified Chinese and Spanish (Latin America). The Steam page, read on 28 October 2026, lists the same 13 for the interface, with full audio in English only. Mobile is planned for 2027.

Where the game is going

Origins TCG has been in Early Access on Steam since 27 October 2026, with update 0.8, and Koin aims for version 1.0 around March 2027: "roughly March 17th, 2027" according to the Steam page, a date that may change. Before that, the demo got its first big update on 21 September 2026 and patch 0.7, the final balance patch before the tournament, on 29 September; ranked opened on 15 October, and the studio's biggest tournament so far, the Crimson Cup, was played during Steam Next Fest and won by CoachCrono on 25 October. The Kickstarter for the Alpha Edition opened on 27 October 2026. See the roadmap and our Kickstarter guide.