Armello, A Grim Fairy-tale Game That Plays Like A Board Game, It’s Very Fun

Armello is a game of chance, trickery and cards as you try to outwit your opponents at every turn to become the King.

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My thoughts
The opening cinematic for the game was fantastic! Myself and Samsai both agreed we could easily watch some sort of movie as well done as that, really good stuff.

Myself and Samsai played against each other online in Armello recently, and we found it to be a pretty interesting game, and a big time sink. I’m pretty sure our game went on for about an hour, and I could easily see myself playing more of this.

It has a lot of interesting mechanics, and it will take time master all of them. I apparently fail at every aspect of this game. The card system is really quite nice: You have three different types of cards you can pick from armour and weapons to spells and downright devious trickery cards. Spell cards, for example, could remove health from another player, or even place a bounty on their head.

It’s not purely an online game though, so don’t be alarmed. You will get four prologue chapters to complete with a little bit of story in each while they also teach you the mechanics of the game, and then the single-player which is the same as the online mode but with all AI controlled players.

The game is played out on a randomly generated map, so it’s different every time. It wouldn't be so fun if it was the same every time, so being able to replay the game keeps it feeling fresh. This is an advantage of it being a PC game, and not an actual board game.

There’s also a few different ways to win, which makes it interesting to try and outwit your opponents. You can win by killing the king, waiting for him to die with your character having a high prestige, or have four spirit stones.

It’s really quite fun, as no one but you knows what cards you hold. They can either help you, or really annoy your opponents. One way to win is to have the most prestige when the King dies, so it’s nice to have a card to steal prestige from everyone—like I did. Slightly annoying to then lose and gain a prestige during a battle with a Bane because I died.

As expected, I lost miserably, and Samsai gained the crown. Luckily though, our streamed game saw me gain a win, so I’m pretty happy with that.
Final thoughts: It’s a very interesting game, and really quite fun to play with friends. Go check it out!

Check out Armello on Steam. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.