Deus
79 questions players ask about Deus. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-05.
Setup
Building and Placement
- Can a region hold two buildings of the same type?
- Can buildings of two different players share a region?
- Where can I place a new standard building?
- Do I pay 3 VP to build on an edge region next to my own buildings?
- What counts as controlling a region?
- Can I play a card when I have no wooden piece of that type left on my player board?
- Can I pay 4 gold in place of several resources, or buy resources with gold?
- Can I have two copies of the same card in my columns?
- Do ships and military units count as buildings?
- Do resources spent on construction go back to the general supply?
Temples
- Does a temple count as a building of my colour for card effects?
- Can I still play a temple card when the temple pieces have run out?
- Where can a temple be placed?
- What does a temple cost, and what do I need before building more?
- Does building a temple activate a column?
- Is a temple's score 12 VP plus its effect?
- If several temples score the same region, does each count it?
- Can I move my army out of a region if it leaves my temple alone there?
- Does the purple card scoring per temple count temple cards or wooden temples?
Barbarian Villages
- When does a barbarian village attack happen?
- If building triggers a village attack, do I still activate the column's cards?
- Can an army keep moving after its move would complete a barbarian village attack?
- Can I trigger an attack by ending my move in an enemy region?
- What happens to a barbarian village once its VP are gone?
- Who wins a barbarian village's VP?
- Can I score the same village again by re-surrounding it?
Military Movement
Offerings and Hand
- When I offer a temple card (Jupiter) to a god, do I also get that god's building?
- What happens when I have no cards left after my action?
- Do I refill my hand after constructing a building?
- How many cards do I draw after offering to Minerva?
- Do extra cards in an offering add to the effect?
- Must I take a military building when offering to Mars?
- Can I offer to a god if I have no buildings of its type left?
- What if the draw and discard piles are both empty?
- Where do buildings gained from a yellow card go?
Card Effects
- Does the Siege Tower need the village to be surrounded?
- How does the Forum score pairs of regions?
- Can I sell zero resources on a maritime card?
- What is a lot on a card that sells up to 2 lots?
- How many times can a card trigger when I build?
- How does the Ballista count villages?
- Does a mountain production card trigger per building?
- Can one production building be chosen by two cards in one turn?
- How much does the Galley charge for resources?
- What does the Commercial Port let me trade?
- How does the Baker's Guild score?
End of the Game
Deus: EgyptExpansion
- Do the orange Egypt cards give gold or VP?
- When does the Temple of Apis give 1 VP?
- Can I mix Egypt cards into the base deck?
- How do I tell Egypt cards apart?
- What piece do Egypt temples let me place?
- Do I pay 2 gold to build in a Garrison column?
- Which barques do players start with?
- How far can a Camel move a unit?
- Does a combat token move when an army enters?
- Does a Combat token count as a building when attacking a village?
- Can I move a boat carrying a unit?