Oros

About this board game

Oros is a strategy game for 1–4 players, with a playing time of about 120 minutes, in which Demigods reshape a shared landscape while gathering wisdom and building sacred places.

Each player acts as a Demigod sent by the Wise One, guiding Followers through study, worship, and experience. The central environment is a constantly changing puzzle of land tiles, where players can shift rows, move and collide tiles, form volcanoes, and trigger eruptions that help create mountains.

Players manage their opportunities on individual mats using a minimal worker placement system. Followers move between action spaces, while gained wisdom improves the abilities available through those spaces. This creates a personal action economy that develops differently for every player over the course of the game.

• Manipulate the landscape: Shift, move, collide, build up, erupt, and reposition land within a shared environment.
• Gather wisdom: Worship in sacred places and use wisdom to improve actions and pursue end-game goals.
• Build on mountains: Construct sacred places of study and worship, with their final value enhanced through wisdom.
• Explore evolving strategies: Solve changing spatial puzzles while adapting to the choices of the other Demigods.

Building sacred places also advances a ziggurat that serves as the game’s timer. When a player reaches its top, the current round is completed before the final scores are tallied.

At the heart of Oros is the freedom to transform the play area through creative problem solving and abstract thinking. With its shifting terrain, erupting volcanoes, evolving action systems, and many possible approaches, every game offers a different competitive challenge.