Personally, I think the game was balanced.

But I think the consensus is more to say that as an individual role, Inferno was just too much.
So if he was say a 5 and the rest of the mafia was a 1.
Sure, together they added up to a 10 but it would be more fun if they were each a 2 instead.

Btw Pax, I checked East of West out from the library because of you.

Something like that, yes. Every role/power needs to have a counter, but there was no (night) counter for Inferno.

East of West has some great worldbuilding, and Death is one of my favorite characters. Just wait until you see why I paired him up with Fury.

This I agree with. I don't think that the game was inherently imbalanced, and it was mostly fun in spite of Inferno's role.

Volume 3 is sitting next to me. I've gone through the first two already.

It was gross.

I don't think Inferno was necessarily unbalanced. Gfish managing to avoid a lynch was huge. Mafia played great at the moments the town was playing poorly. Overall I thought it was a close, intense, game.