If you can look past a handful of cons though, this game has some great potential and can be a blast in single-player mode. Additionally, some players have reported game freezing bugs, and the matching in multiplayer mode can be lengthy given the game's age.

There's a lot to like about Armello, but there are a few less than stellar facets of the game, the first being that Armello hasn't been updated since 2018. Did I mention that the animations and art style are also gorgeous? To take the throne, you explore the land, hire your own agents, obliterate your foes, and even employ magic to give yourself a brutal edge in the war for dominance. You play as one of three characters, each on a quest to become Queen or King of Armello. That's a bit of an oversimplification though, as Armello combines strategy board games with card gaming elements wrapped up in a grandiose fantasy RPG storyline. However the 2D artwork is gorgeous and the in-game graphics and animations are nice.You wouldn't be far off the mark to describe Armello as Game of Thrones with animals. I love board games but there are many other board games, both physical and digital, that are better and cheaper than this one. In general it is just rather shallow, dull and repetitive. Most of your time is spent waiting for the other players to take their turns, more so even than most other board games thanks to all of the neutral units taking their turns. Quests and encounters consist of a random die roll.

Meaningful decisions don't really come up, each player will tend to do their own thing, clicking on the next 'quest' and hoping to randomly have the most prestige when the game ends. Winning or losing is almost entirely based on luck.

However, killing or curing the king hardly ever happens as you have to be incredibly lucky for either to be feasible, so pretty much every time the game will run out of turns and the player who happens to have the highest prestige wins. Armello has some similarities to Talisman, in that a way to win is in the middle of the board, but you need to improve your character's stats and gather useful equipment before you have any chance at it. Armello has some similarities to Talisman, in that a way to win is in the middle of the Great artwork but a disappointing board game. Great artwork but a disappointing board game.

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