Can't tell if it is balanced between factions in high end clashes and it takes some time to get used to manual combat or meaning of different settlements sizes (and how it affects your strategy) but it is quite original Heroes-like game. It feels a bit rough in a few places but maybe because the game is not copy-paste from other titles and my brain was expecting slightly different game behaviour, flow or style. There is enough to learn and explore to make it interesting so it deserves 4 on 5 star scale.