Is this game dead?

[Inky_Quill]

I tried to get in a match the other day but gave up after 20 minutes in the queue. According to Steam Charts, there were only 150 people playing at the time while the game only averages around 500 a month. Is there any hope left or is it time to jump ship?

[SeansShow]

Its the matchmaking being scatty at times, sometimes backing out of queuing and going into it again works, sometimes restarting the game works, you shouldnt be waiting 20 minutes though.

[Ardhous]

I never had to wait for such a long time. Maybe because I am a rookie...

[Delta]

I sometimes find myself playing with the same people and/or waiting 10 minutes for a game, but I'd say Armello is far from being a dead game. Try to re-enter the queue, that usually helps. And heck, even if there would have been 4 people left playing this game, it'd still be better than having a million players online, half of which ruin it completely...

[Heliotropic Rose]

Nowhere near dead but there are peak times for sure.

[JadeWing]

Short answer: No.
Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooo.

[The]

I get long queue times when I'm using a VPN. Weird.

[FableNights]

Dead? No. The Developers are technically still working on the game, so therefore it's not dead.
Dying? Absolutely. Buggy game with some bugs hanging around for a full year or more, long queue times, even at 'peak' hours and more often then not the only people around are either veterans or teamers with brand new players being very rare.

You can still play, just expect to run into a lot of bugs, game issues, NMAs, and Veterans who've been playing for hundreds if not over a thousand hours.

[The]

According to this website[steamdb.info], Armello has always had a few hundreds of people playing the game at the same time, with some hours being more active than others. Saying that the game "is dead" is simply untrue, as the playerbase remained constant from day-one.

[Meneluma]

Originally posted by Chance:

According to this website[steamdb.info], Armello has always had a few hundreds of people playing the game at the same time, with some hours being more active than others. Saying that the game "is dead" is simply untrue, as the playerbase remained constant from day-one.

Using steamdb for accurate infomation on the player count stopped being particularly accurate ever since the free daily chest appeared in the shop. Some people do go to the game just to get the chest every day.

No one has defined what a game being dead is. Steam had a few comic examples of battle royales that had 10 players online at their peak.
But Armello hasn't got any updates at all for like over a year now? Haven't had to "update" the game in a long while, the old chest rotation and dice drop events don't even need an update since everything's been set up for that ages ago.
And the upcoming one is focused on the console version?
The fact that there were no hotfixes for this long most definetly means that there's plenty of bugs. The launch of Dragon Clan was messy and there was like one patching update after that and then nothing, at all.