Heroes of Science and Fiction
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An indie game with no listed tag niche or notable engine signal, Heroes of Science and Fiction is tied to developer slug oxymoron-games. It released in 2026 at $29.99, self-published under the same oxymoron-games slug, and has 786 Steam reviews marked 0% positive / Mixed.
Overview
Heroes of Science and Fiction is a 2026 Indie game developed by Oxymoron Games and published by Oxymoron Games. On Steam it has gathered 823 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Oxymoron Games with publisher Oxymoron Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 27,000 to 63,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Heroes of Science and Fiction can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
823
Positive
90%
Steam appid
2147380
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.027K to 63K
units (median: 45K)
≈ $465K to $1.1M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2026 | -10 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_90% | +10 |
| final NB | 55 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Heroes of Science and Fiction at roughly 27,000 to 63,000 copies, with a median around 45,000, derived from its 823 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $775K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
8 observed days · window low $13.50Across 8 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $13.50 to $14.99. The tracked-window low was $13.50 on 2026-07-17.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- GOG.com -50%$14.99 Buy
- Steam reference$29.99 Buy
- Humble Store$29.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-22 06:18 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
linuxwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Heroes of Science and Fiction sold?
- indielist estimates Heroes of Science and Fiction has sold between 27,159 and 63,371 units (median 45,265), derived from its 823 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Heroes of Science and Fiction?
- Heroes of Science and Fiction was developed by Oxymoron Games and published by Oxymoron Games.
- Who published Heroes of Science and Fiction?
- Heroes of Science and Fiction was published by Oxymoron Games, developed by Oxymoron Games. See Oxymoron Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Heroes of Science and Fiction released?
- Heroes of Science and Fiction was released in 2026.
- How many reviews does Heroes of Science and Fiction have on Steam?
- Heroes of Science and Fiction has 823 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
- Is Heroes of Science and Fiction worth playing?
- Steam players rate Heroes of Science and Fiction 90% positive across 823 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Heroes of Science and Fiction can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Oxymoron Games's other releases and Oxymoron Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Heroes of Science and Fiction sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Heroes of Science and Fiction page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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