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There’s a lot to learn, but it’s also quite intuitive, and I highly recommend playing through each tutorial at least once so you can go into your first multiplayer game armed and dangerous. It looks great and it sounds great, but how does it play? Well, without wanting to become an instruction manual I’ll do my best to explain.įollowing the outstanding Ghibliesque introduction – a sort of dark Redwall – you can delve straight into a four part extensive tutorial which perfectly pitches the game at you. The presentation is fantastic, with everything from the music and user interface to the animations and playing cards being precisely crafted. The world is populated by anthropomorphic beasts, with each set of animals belonging to various clans. Armello is a strategy board game at heart, it’s randomly generated hex world populated with villages, mountains, forests and other points of interest reminiscent of La Citta, with a hint of Civilization. Anything published in the UK by Rio Grande, I’m there. As Zen Studios does with their digital pinball machines, League of Geeks has the goal of creating a thorough, engaging tabletop experience, whilst harnessing the digital platform to provide features which would be impossible in a physical version. Having already sunk a few hours into the pre-release beta (it was originally developed for tablets), I can tell you that Armello is quite the unique experience.
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