 The developers cite the "Heroes of Might and Magic" series and their own "" series as inspirations.The developers describe the game's genre as "RTS vs. RPG" – the game can be played as an action role-playing game with a solo hero unit or as a traditional base-building real-time strategy game.The game engine uses a 3-D world map with 2-D unit sprites, although larger units and the heroes are fully 3-d models.