Armello

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 83%Very Positive · 83%2015

$24.99

US Steam price, checked 5 h ago

The verdict

A gorgeous, dice-and-card digital board game that's best with a group of friends. Skip it if you rely on matchmaking or hate heavy RNG, since online is nearly dead, buggy and has no reconnect.

Great for

Groups of friends who enjoy dice-driven, backstabbing board games with charming art

Main risk

Dead matchmaking, no reconnect and unfixed bugs make online play unreliable in an abandoned game

What players love

Great fun with friends

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“Really fun game with friends. Solo is fine, but it's way more fun with real people who can react to the”
Steam review · 12.2 h played ↗

“An amazing competitive game to play with friends. It has the right amount of planning with randomness to make it fun for everyone.”
Steam review · 131.9 h played ↗

“Good game, especially with friends: you can help each other win, make alliances, or pull dirty tricks instead.”
Steam review · translated · 179.4 h played ↗

Beautiful art and music

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“The art style and soundtrack are gorgeous, and each character has enough personality to make experimenting with different playstyles fun.”
Steam review · 3.4 h played ↗

“The art, music, and atmosphere are simply enchanting.”
Steam review · 188.2 h played ↗

“beautiful graphics and pleasant music perfectly complement the stylized design”
Steam review · translated · 35.9 h played ↗

Authentic, easy-to-learn board game feel

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“The most a game has felt like a real boardgame in a long time.”
Steam review · 137.4 h played ↗

“Anyone can play it, even if you are not into boardgame cause it is so easy to learn!”
Steam review · 11.6 h played ↗

Varied characters and multiple ways to win

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews

“Having so many characters and so many ways to win makes it easily replayable, and the art and animations are fantastic.”
Steam review · 265.1 h played ↗

“love the characters and the multiple ways to play, you don't have to be combat heavy which i really appreciate.”
Steam review · 42.9 h played ↗

“It's good that the game has as many as 4 ways to win.”
Steam review · translated · 71.6 h played ↗

Playable solo against AI

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“the ability to play solo, which doesn't diminish interest in the match at all”
Steam review · translated · 35.9 h played ↗

“I've always played Armello mostly in single player mode and I still find it fun and charming.”
Steam review · 50.5 h played ↗

Rich lore and collectible dice

Mentioned in ~1 in 11 positive reviews

“The collectable dice are fun to pursue, and the challenges and achievements keep you engaged for many games.”
Steam review · 159.4 h played ↗

What players complain about

Abandoned with long-standing bugs and crashes

Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews

“Unplayable due to constant crashes and game-breaking bugs.”
Steam review · 6.6 h played ↗

“it always crashes to desktop before being able to finish...sometimes on the first turn, sometimes later, but ALWAYS.”
Steam review · 2.7 h played ↗

“the project is basically abandoned, and all they've done since the last DLC drop in 2019 is rotate the dice sets around”
Steam review · 285.9 h played ↗

No reconnect and unstable multiplayer

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“IT DOESN'T HAVE A WAY TO RECONNECT!!!”
Steam review · 109 h played ↗

“1 D/C means we all gotta start over. Without reconnect the game is basically unplayable for me now.”
Steam review · 133 h played ↗

“How can you make a good multiplayer-focused game with an absolutely broken multiplayer”
Steam review · translated · 21.4 h played ↗

Extreme RNG undermines strategy

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“Entire game is RNG, very little to do with skill or decision making.”
Steam review · 31.5 h played ↗

“A good strategy board game was ruined by wild Mario Party-style randomness.”
Steam review · translated · 3.2 h played ↗

Dead player base and empty matchmaking

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“Game is dead. You're lucky to get 1 group of 4 people in the middle of the day(in American timezones) and never will any other time”
Steam review · 394.5 h played ↗

“after a half an hour of waiting on matchmaking I gave up”
Steam review · 4.1 h played ↗

“the game is dead, probably only arrange games with friends on Discord”
Steam review · translated · 1.8 h played ↗

Expensive DLC and monetization

Mentioned in ~1 in 10 negative reviews

“i would def not pay ANYWHERE near full price for it.”
Steam review · 8.3 h played ↗

“each DLC costs a third of the base game price, mounting the total for the game up to around £50 when not on sale.”
Steam review · 63.5 h played ↗

Poor camera, fog and clunky UI

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews

“I hate the blurry fog that engulfs everything when you zoom out of the game board.”
Steam review · 1.7 h played ↗

“Until you turn off the fog in the game, you won't get a good grade.”
Steam review · 2.5 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Verified

Minimum

OSWindows 7 (64-Bit)

ProcessorDual-core 2.0 GHz (SSE2)

Memory2 GB RAM

GraphicsDirectX 10 SM4.0 capable GPU with 1GB VRAM

Storage4 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows 7 or later (64-bit)

ProcessorQuad-core 2.5GHz (SSE2)

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsDirectX 11 SM4.0 capable GPU with 2GB VRAM

Storage4 GB available space

OSWindows 7 (64-Bit)

ProcessorDual-core 2.0 GHz (SSE2)

Memory2 GB RAM

GraphicsDirectX 10 SM4.0 capable GPU with 1GB VRAM

Storage4 GB available space

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