Armello

9/10 Happy 10 Years to Armello. I never wrote Steam Reviews before but I feel obligated to start with one of my favorites on Steam ever since I got my own account 10 years ago when I started college. So call it biased but the game holds a special place in my heart having played and followed it all this time. For starters, the game's presentation is amazing. The art for the characters, the board environment, the dice, and especially the art work on the cards give the world of Armello so much character. It has a nice anthropomorphize style more of Redwall or Zootopia (funny because the game came out before Zootopia) than anything people would typically associate with furries. Second of all, the gameplay itself is solid. An excellent Board Game you would have find at your local game shop. And the heroes themselves all have their own plays tyles that are still flexible enough for you to achieve different victories not intended for them. Wanna kill the King as Rot Sana? Achieve Prestige Victory as Sylas? Collect all the Soul Stones as friggin Fang? All can be achieved with ingenuity and the will of RNG. The hero characters are also well thought out and each one of them has their own little backstory and skills that sets them apart. With 24 by the time Dragon Clan came out I'm pleasantly shocked they could think of this many unique play styles with the simple gameplay loop of draw and use cards, move around, and fight other characters. The time the game came out, was before modern gaming practices had most developers hop on to freemium or Fortnite trends that just kill a lot of AAA and indie games before shutting down. Not here. Though the game has no grand campaign to go with it's rich world, the single player is just the one game and you can tackle it as many times you want with which ever characters you want to play with. No battle passes or loot box tokens to unlock either giving you unneccessary FOMO on characters. Just buy one of the expansions and four heroes are yours forever. And every purchase I've made from the base game to the dlc characters has been worth the price. The only downsides I can see and why I give this game only an 9/10 is that the game has always had low player counts even in it's heyday. THe concurrant player count only ever reached the thousands back when character packs were released or when the game ported to other consoles with crossplay. But as a fully realized and finished game, the game is not going to get anymore major updates and only a few dedicated players remain. I dock one point only because the public multiplayer is all but dead and can take close to 30 minutes or even an hour to find a game. My reccomendation to fix this is find friends within the community for private matches. Thank You League of Geeks, for 10 years of fun and hope your next project will be as successful. Solium Infernum is on my buylist, and I await any new projects you develop.