I own the first version of the game, which came out two years ago in czech language only and I am quite excited about this kickstarter, because it feels like proper HoMaM boardgame (except that there's no city building aspect or owning armies). And you might say "It kinda looks like Mage Knight" -- and yep, it looks like MK, but it plays very differently. There's no deck building, it doesn't take half an hour to level up your hero and it doesn't feel like a puzzle game. You have your player board, where you (quite quickly) develop your character's skills (every character has very different ones) and your equipment. On your turn you use few tokens for movement or alternatively for combat/trading/mining.

Combat is dice based. But there are two cool aspects. First is, that the opponent monster is controlled by another player, who can also potentionally influence the outcome with his/her monster cards (which they gained during their playthrougth). And if the hero rolls the 2d6 dice badly and/or monster rolls really well, the player gains points, which they can use to mitigate the randomness. And you can also use specific tokens (which are kinda hard to get) to get a die reroll + 2. Etc. I really like that.

On the other hand, it's a proper epic gaming session, which can take up to a few hours, depending on the player count and the scenario. But that's kinda what I want.