Armello

Hit end turn because of lag and instead of a warning that I had AP left cost me the game.

My girlfriend said "This is a game about being mean.

Armello is a game of both strategy and adaptability and takes a while to learn both sides of the coin and what winning condition works best for you. To a novice, it can be pretty overwhelming as you get to learn the mechanics and understand which cards are helpful to which characters, which stats would be best improved, and what win condition are most achievable in every given match. And sometimes no matter how well you feel like you plan, no matter how achievable your win condition goal seems, someone or something will put a wrench in things and you end up losing. This is a game where sometimes you just have to lose gracefully and try again. But to me, that's what makes it interesting enough that I always want to come back to it at some point. It's a very solid, interesting digital board game with all kinds of strategy that takes a while to really understand and master. The graphics are really fun and have their own unique personality. You probably won't be here for the animated trailer. That feels pretty reminiscent of 2000s era flash animation of Newgrounds. But you will be here for the nice card art, the interesting board set up, and the charged dice roll fights. The music score and sound effects are also very solid and help pull you into the game. This game does require a lot of patience though to really understand. When I first played it, I had no idea what I was doing and even teaching it to my friends takes quite a bit of time and quite a bit of patience, so it's not very beginner friendly. But if you want to pull your friends into a new game and they already play a lot of board games, they're more likely to pick up on it and have a good time. Or you can play solo against computers and that works just as well imo. Mind you online play is a little flimsy. It does work but I have had some issues at times getting friends connected to the server with me or sometimes friends will disconnect mid-game. So, bear that in mind. Overall, an excellent game that feels balanced enough with its base characters at least. I only own the base game so I have no opinion of the expansions and additional clans.