If you've played 4X games before, you should be able to find your way around.
For the big picture, yes, but when you go into details, it's hard to say whether you missed something to make it work or it's a plain bug.
Also, some mechanisms aren't described or aren't obvious. I see heroes wandering on the map, what should I do to recruit them?
- research some adventure tech, it seems (Recruiting). Ok!
- perhaps build an Inn or a Pub to draw them. Problem is, there is placeholder text instead of telling you what do pubs, estates and such...
- must I watch the color of the guy to know whether he's already been recruited by another Kingdom? Should be written somewhere.
- should I send a unit to contact him? It seems to only trigger combat.
See? It's just an exemple but since I didn't play the beta these last two months and didn't visit here much, hard to understand.
I guess we'd better wait till Beta 1Z and somewhat fixed mechanisms.