I specifically said that the game was swingy in advertisements and I stand by that. All factions had significant Power but were vulernerable in multiple ways.
That the game went to LYLO I think overall shows that it was balanced.
Fate played a pretty effective game overall. He worked hard (or at least this was my impression) to make sure the Days were short which stymied discussion about the Serial Killer role and allowed him to attack Riceballtail Day 5 on inactivity. Anyone thinking critically about that attack (taking the time to do so) would be easily able to see that the string of 48hour or less days artifically limited the posting some players could make. Fate's biggest mistake was not timely submitting his N3 kill - had he actually sent in the kill on Surye Day 4 would have been a possible Kingmaker Scenario for Town.
The Mafia overall played pretty poorly. Losing Kats Day 1 was very painful and Glass's strong defense of Kats / Chainsaw on several people was obv. NoPoint's 'gambit' Day 4 was horrible exectured since he had access to a Tracker claim and forgot that AGar had claimed the N1 invention. Furthermore he could have killed Fate had he not waited for the deciding hammer from ThAd with the daykill. Being greedy (wanting to save the Daykill for Day 5) cost the Mafia.
Town play was so so. Overall Night actions were used pretty effectively, IMO. LLD's missing the deadline N1 changed the face of the game as AGar would have seen her visit Fate and likely been able to further confirm he was Not Town. RBT and ThAd's play Day 5 was very disappointing. ThAd in particular not bothering to assess anything other than that Fate 'deserved' to win if he was SK bordered on Not Playing to Win in my mind.
I think in the end the faction that played the best (Serial Killer) won, which in general is a pretty good guidline for a fairly well balanced game.
I disagree with those who stated that NoPoint's outing of Fate was poor sportsmanship. He had information that he could use in a quasi-Kingmaker situation and was NOT prevented by the rules as established from using it. In the end it was not any real issue as ThAd didn't bother to pay attention to it anyway.
I'll be happy to discuss any issues the players had with the game.
Thanks all for playing! I hope you had fun.