Been playing more of the 9 Kings demo. Still unsure if I want to buy it when it comes out because it's horrifically imbalanced and it's already been solved. The choices you have to make are obvious.

Basically, there are units, structures, and bonuses that scale and then everything else that doesn't. You never take anything that doesn't scale while trying to get two blacksmiths, at least one library, and the Steel Coat enchantment. This will allow a unit to have 500+ damage against enemies with only 30 HP. Steel Coat is completely broken because it negates an attack entirely for each stack. That means it outscales HP.

If you don't get Steel Coat, a library, and blacksmiths, you can't win. It's just a matter of how quickly you can get those all stacked on one unit, then 2 more with similar setups. And because of Steel Coat, all your units have to be ranged or have high movement speed. Otherwise, you lose all your stacks of Steel Coat while enemies have theirs untouched.

The devs are aware of all this, but launch is about a week away. I'm not sure if they'll balance things by then. I hope they do because there's a solid game underneath all this.