Armello
Fair · Multiplayer · 2015
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $24.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $11.90/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 10 SM4.0 capable GPU with 1GB VRAM, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Armello is a grim fairy-tale board game come to life, with every match combining deep, tactical card play, rich tabletop strategy and RPG elements. Leverage subterfuge, spells and careful strategy to wrangle control of the game's chaotic odds as you quest for the throne.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in February 2019. 95 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gloomhaven ($9.79, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Talisman: Digital Classic Edition ($6.99, scores 51).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 564 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic, player trading); the score docks it lightly for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 2.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 91, 43 times as much.
At 2.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
61% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
61 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Very good game, its chill but support many strategies, the newer classes from DLC are bad for the game. Also some bugs lately, but in general is very good game.
A pretty chill board game where your game plan gets ruined instantly, and somehow you still have a chance to win or lose right up to the end. There's some imbalance between classes, but it's still interesting to play after some pause. 9 lion kings out of 10.
"Unplayable due to constant crashes and game-breaking bugs. Sprites disappear mid-run, the game plays by itself while the screen freezes on a single card. It is mind-boggling that this game is still so unstable years after launch."
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Armello scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/290340/armelloThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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