2 September 2026 13:42 UTC · Community Announcements · duf_oxymoron
Hello everyone! We know we've been quiet over the summer while we were away on holiday, but the new school year has started and everyone is hopefully refreshed and back at the office. Our hands are full working on the upcoming faction DLC, and we promise to share more concrete details very soon! Until then, here is a regular patch focused mostly on bug fixes and small improvements: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43007216/0f5c7b6012d0443c71446559c0ac17647066e169.jpg Changes: Added music and ambient sounds for the underground cave layer Changed Limerite icon to better match color of the resource on the map
20 July 2026 10:50 UTC · Community Announcements · igor_oxymoron
hotfix 20/07/2026
16 July 2026 14:07 UTC · Community Announcements · duf_oxymoron
Hello everyone! Summer - time of vacations is upon us (at least here in Europe), but even if we are planning to spend some time outside soon, preferably with cold drink in hand, we present you another smaller update. Check it out and have a nice summer! Next post will hopefully bring some news about upcoming DLC.Changes:BattleArena - New challenge - Wager aura coins and fight the strongest enemy commander.The Arena - New multiplayer map for 2 player quick skirmish - level up your commander, select your army and fight!The energy that will be spent by the player's commander in the quick battle i
22 June 2026 14:56 UTC · Community Announcements · duf_oxymoron
Hello everyone, Big day for Heroes of Science and Fiction! Quite recently, we've released our latest game update and what would you know? It's already time for another one! Today, we're dropping Update #8, and a brand new Map Pack DLC, all at once. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43007216/cccf99b03b5cbed4020f6b411606f4db79d2992a.png New DLC: Typhon Map Pack (available with a 10% release discount) It contains new planet (it's actually a moon orbiting a gas giant) of the same name, which contains 7 maps One of them - called The Ultimate Challenge - will sure test your strategy skills. DLC maps contain new un
9 June 2026 14:44 UTC · Community Announcements · ja_oxymoron
Hi everyone! We're hard at work putting the finishing touches on our upcoming DLC, while also polishing new content and quality of life improvements for the next major update, which is coming soon. In the meantime, to make the wait a little easier, we're excited to bring you smaller update of Heroes of Science and Fiction! This one brings a new battle feature, a round of UI improvements, performance optimisations, and a solid batch of fixes.ChangesDisplay equipped artifacts and equipment in battle,Heroes in kill zones are killed at start of each player's turn and not immediately at start of th
29 April 2026 12:06 UTC · Community Announcements · Oxymoron Games
Hi everyone! As work on the game continues, we're happy to bring you yet another regular update of Heroes of Science and Fiction! What's included? New features including the quick battle dialog, some new music, more optimizations and quite a few fixes of issues that got reported here on Steam and on our discord. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43007216/ca64f33755380ab1f9a24663175ef1491782cc8c.png Features and improvements Quick battle window that pops up before a combat encounter (can be disabled in options if you want to play all battles yourself) Start-turn dialog in singleplayer can be disabled in optio
14 April 2026 12:21 UTC · Community Announcements · Oxymoron Games
We're happy to announce a new update of Heroes of Science and Fiction, this time with more features (and no fewer bugfixes). :) Also, we have a small roadmap update to give you a better idea what features and content is coming in the upcoming months, see below! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43007216/6e93c3221265a28f875a5a88bfa281fe54823402.png Features and improvements Iron mole mode and old-school hazard are now separate options Single commander mode Team play in multiplayer, including shared fog of war, sending resources Added Vsync option to sync only to half of the refresh rate of the monitor Enabled
30 March 2026 14:31 UTC · Community Announcements · Oxymoron Games
Hi everybody, while our tech team keeps working on fixes, optimizations and multiplayer features, we have some small news from our main artist. :) Heroes of Science and Fiction now has the full set of community items, including trading cards, badges and profile backgrounds! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43007216/edc1070b075e08963ca8e9c61addb3e832ba8b6c.png And here are release notes for the latest patch - we decided to release it as soon as possible because of the included fix of broken difficulty in the campaign. More improvements are on the way! Release notes - Patch #4 (673adb71)! More performance/fra
26 March 2026 15:11 UTC · Community Announcements · Oxymoron Games
Hi everybody, with just over a week since the launch of the full version of Heroes of Science and Fiction, we have a quick update for you about how everything went - plus some more related news! First, big thanks to everybody who got the game at launch, welcome to the community! Generally, with close to 10 000 new players, it went better than expected (also, better than the EA launch in 2024). We hope you'll enjoy the game for a long long time and that this positive trend will continue in the long run! :) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43007216/a853a4f35d13243d2df5f65c8a0cdbb5fd1dab9c.jpg Patches and futu
17 March 2026 16:05 UTC · Community Announcements · Oxymoron Games
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43007216/610b8faa443291f91e1a3ef399b62f9d61a56d42.jpg Hi, everyone! We're happy to announce that Heroes of Science and Fiction 1.0 is finally here! After over a year in Early Access, the final update has arrived and the full game is now available with all factions, campaigns and other content! Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQkdlLmUV2Q {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43007216/cb9913b65748d9f5129a14215d6e0a9d851c6b56.png Mostly for our current players: what's new! Campaign for the Children of the Source to bring the story line to a conclusion! Online multiplayer Achievements AI i
6 March 2026 13:56 UTC · Community Announcements · Oxymoron Games
Hi, we're excited (and slightly nervous) to announce that we have the first version of online multiplayer ready to be tested by the community! The main purpose of this test is to catch all remaining critical bugs and to get to a stable version that can't get stuck in a battle etc. It's definitely recommended to save your game before any big battles with other players! Hopefully this will already be quite fun, but please adjust your expectations! :) On the other hand, we should be able to quickly update the beta with any important fixes! To join the test, just go to the game in your library on
17 February 2026 15:26 UTC · Community Announcements · Oxymoron Games
Save the date! :) After over a year in Early Access and after 12 game updates that brought new factions, campaigns, map editor and more, we are excited to announce the release date of Heroes of Science and Fiction 1.0 - one month from now! Teaser Trailer - 17th March 2026! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43007216/ac93d37d9dbc969521a54c9b38f73c3cc68bd626.jpg Development progress We're finishing and polishing the final campaign, multiplayer, achievements, working on AI improvements and a new planet with a set of fresh skirmish maps. You can also look forward to other bits of content, including new items and
23 January 2026 14:42 UTC · Community Announcements · Oxymoron Games
Hi everybody! With the finish line in sight, let us give you one more detailed update about our progress towards the full release of Heroes of Science of Fiction! Apologies you have not heard from us much in the last few weeks, but everybody is now focusing on getting the game out as soon and as polished as possible. In a way it's hard to believe the project has been 6 years in the making, but it's great to see the game finally so close to the original vision and the planned scope! We also know a lot of you are eager to learn the official release date, it should get announced soon with a littl
19 December 2025 12:52 UTC · Community Announcements · Oxymoron Games
Hi everybody, It's hard to believe the end of the year is upon us once again! So, let us take the opportunity to wish you all Happy Holidays and relaxing times with your loved ones! Looking back at 2025 - what has the Oxymoron team been up to? Well, there was no time to take the foot off the gas yet as we've been pushing hard to complete the promised updates of Heroes of Science and Fiction and get us close to its full release (which is now not too far away). We've added two new playable factions, two campaigns, the map editor, a lot of content and features and even managed to successfully go
11 December 2025 14:03 UTC · Community Announcements · Oxymoron Games
Hi everybody, we managed to prepare one more game update for you before the Holidays! This time the main focus is game balance, but there are also quite a few new items, creatures and a map with a twist. As usually, this is not all that we've been working on, as some of the team are focusing on content and improvements for the looming full release, which will come with the last campaign, maps, AI improvements and more. Now, release notes and all the details: New creatures Void Walker teleports to a different location every phase and gives you an option to teleport back to any visited tile when
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