AnnouncementBehind the game
Orion is a backgammon game made with the care usually reserved for far bigger genres. The rules are the ones you already know. Everything around them, the table you sit at, the rival across from you, the reason to come back tomorrow, is what we have spent our time on.
A voyage, not a lobby
Instead of a single anonymous table, Orion is a journey across twelve destinations, each with its own host, its own room, and its own stakes. You begin at Hassan's cafe in Tangier and climb toward Orion itself, the table at the end of the voyage.
- Twelve destinations, from Tangier Cafe to Orion, each with a resident host and their own board.
- Leagues that run from Driftwood to Orion, so a ladder always sits above you.
- Clubs and friends, with private one-on-one challenges.
- Provably fair dice on every server-backed table, checkable by anyone.
Fair by construction
The dice are the heart of a dice game, so they are the part we refused to ask for trust on. Orion commits to its dice before a game begins and reveals the seed afterwards, and a public verifier lets anyone recompute the rolls in their own browser.
Where we are
Season One, The First Crossing, opens on 1 September 2026. That date is ours and it is fixed. Per-store availability is not ours, so we do not freeze it into a sentence: the download door at orion.arthea.ai/go carries the App Store and Google Play links and always shows what is available right now. The verifier is already public, and this news section is where changes get recorded as they happen.
The dice are locked in before the game starts, so nobody, not even us, can change them.