Finally finished Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Torna the Golden Country (I have few grivences, but I enjoyed it overall) and finally decided to give Armello a shot since I've really been interested in that game for a while now and whoo boy, am I glad I did. I've only played through the prologue so here are some quick impressions
I'm not super well versed in tabletop games. I've played a couple here and there (L5R, Pandemic, etc.) but I'm not someone you'd call an expert or heck, even a novice on the medium but if I were to sum up Armello I'd say it's basically a mix between Civ and a tabletop game with dice rolls (if there is already a game that is exactly that, then use that as an example). The premise is the land is ruled by a king, who is a Lion, but he has been overtaken with a disease known as "The Rot" which corrupts him and caused him grow malicious and slowly go insane.
You play one of four characters (a wolf, rat, rabbit and bear) where you travel the land/game board, do quest, fight, explore dungeons, etc. and the name of the game is to achieve one of the four victory conditions which is either slaying the king, getting a higher rot level than him, having a higher prestige level than all the other players on the board or by collecting 4 macguffins to cleanse the land of said rot. Oh yeah, did I mention it's also a card collecting game?
I've only played the prologue which acts as a tutorial, so I can't speak of how an actual game plays out but man, I was absolutely amazed by all the mechanics at play. The board is grid/tile based like your average 4X game. You can use items and equip weapons and armor on your player character, use spell cards to buff yourself or debuff your opponents and even trickery cards to get political favors. It's insane how much depth this thing has... initially. Like I said before, I've only played the prologue so I don't know how much longevity this game has, but I will say, it made a fantastic first impression.
As for preforamce, it ran flawless in both docked and undocked. The font is a bit small when playing portable, so that's a bummer but it isn't terrible. Oh, it also has touch controls too so you can theoretically play it tablet mode only.