2025Adam Kwapiński
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Mainly playthroughs and reviews
1 - 5 players120 - 180 minHeavy weight
Origins: First Builders
2021Adam Kwapiński
- Videos
- 51
- Creators
- 44
Mainly reviews. Origins: First Builders is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 24 reviews, 12 how-to-play guides, 8 recorded sessions, 6 unboxings, and 1 other video.
1 - 4 players
60 - 120 min
Heavy weight: Expect a long teach
From BoardGameGeek
They came to this planet, and they chose you. They uplifted your people and promised great prosperity. They provided the wisdom and the resources to build your cities sky high. They taught you the ways of culture, science, and warfare. They promised knowledge for any willing to learn. Come, Archon, guide your citizens to victory, under the watchful eyes of the Builders, our benefactors from beyond the skies above. In Origins: First Builders, you are an archon, guiding a population of freemen, influencing the construction of buildings and monuments, climbing the three mighty zodiac temples, and taking part in an arms race - all in an effort to leave the greatest mark on mankind's ancient history. You start the game with a city consisting of just two building tiles: the Agora tile and the Palace tile. As the game develops, your city will grow in both size and strength as you add new building tiles, each of which has a special ability that triggers when it is first added to a city and when closing a district. Your placement on the military track indicates the rewards you receive when you attack and your chances of becoming first player. Origins: First Builders is played over a number of rounds, with a round ending only after each player has passed. If a game end condition has not yet been triggered, the game continues with a new round. The game finishes at the end of the round when one or more of the following conditions has been met: At most three colors of tower disks are still in stock. No gold remains above any district card. No citizen die of the proper color can be added to the citizen offer. A player has moved all three of their zodiac disks to the top space of each temple track. The temple area is divided into three tracks: the sea temple, the forest temple, and the mountain temple. You score points only for your two least-valued temples, and once all the points have been summed, whoever has the most VPs wins.
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Which Origins: First Builders video should I watch?
Origins: First Builders has 51 videos from 44 creators: 24 reviews, 12 how-to-play guides, 8 playthroughs, 6 unboxings and 1 other video. They date from 2021 to March 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Origins: First Builders - Tutorial & Playthrough" by Getting Games, which runs 1 h 29 min. For a quicker teach, "Apprendre à jouer en 5 min. - L'école du jeu" by L'École du jeu runs 5 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Origins: First Builders Review - with Tom Vasel" by The Dice Tower. 24 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Origins: First Builders - GameNight! Se9 Ep34 - How to Play and Playthrough" by BoardGameGeek, one of 8 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Nemesis: Retaliation, Frostpunk: The Board Game, Nemesis and Nemesis: Lockdown, also by Adam Kwapiński.
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About Origins: First Builders
From BoardGameGeek:
They came to this planet, and they chose you. They uplifted your people and promised great prosperity. They provided the wisdom and the resources to build your cities sky high. They taught you the ways of culture, science, and warfare. They promised knowledge for any willing to learn. Come, Archon, guide your citizens to victory, under the watchful eyes of the Builders, our benefactors from beyond the skies above. In Origins: First Builders, you are an archon, guiding a population of freemen, influencing the construction of buildings and monuments, climbing the three mighty zodiac temples, and taking part in an arms race - all in an effort to leave the greatest mark on mankind's ancient history. You start the game with a city consisting of just two building tiles: the Agora tile and the Palace tile. As the game develops, your city will grow in both size and strength as you add new building tiles, each of which has a special ability that triggers when it is first added to a city and when closing a district. Your placement on the military track indicates the rewards you receive when you attack and your chances of becoming first player. Origins: First Builders is played over a number of rounds, with a round ending only after each player has passed. If a game end condition has not yet been triggered, the game continues with a new round. The game finishes at the end of the round when one or more of the following conditions has been met: At most three colors of tower disks are still in stock. No gold remains above any district card. No citizen die of the proper color can be added to the citizen offer. A player has moved all three of their zodiac disks to the top space of each temple track. The temple area is divided into three tracks: the sea temple, the forest temple, and the mountain temple. You score points only for your two least-valued temples, and once all the points have been summed, whoever has the most VPs wins.
Designer
Adam Kwapiński
Artists
Zbigniew Umgelter, Aleksander Zawada
Publisher
Board&Dice
Categories
Mechanics