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Lead commanders across a fractured star system, gather resources, build cities, develop armies, and fight turn-based battles.
Released 17 Mar 2026
Build Map Defenses
Teleport Between Bases
Use Tactical Consumables
A turn-based sci-fi strategy that combines exploration and exciting clashes on the battlefield. Take control over several different species, raise powerful armies for your heroes and destroy your opponents! This HoMM-like is set in a scifi universe, with new mechanics on top of the classic formula.
Developed by Oxymoron Games · Published by Oxymoron Games
Several space-faring factions compete for control of the isolated Siren star system, where the ruins of a lost civilization lie scattered across its habitable planets. You lead commanders through this setting, exploring the map and confronting rival forces.
Explore to claim resources, visit sites, and recruit units, while developing faction bases to expand your forces. You can also build structures on the map, collect usable items, and equip commanders with gear and artifacts.
Commanders gain levels, choose skills, and improve their exploration, combat, or ability strengths. Each faction has its own units and special features, while turn-based battles reward positioning, unit abilities, and the use of commanders’ special abilities. Campaigns and skirmish maps provide different ways to play.
In this sample, players who enjoy the game often praise its familiar Heroes-style loop of exploring, building bases, gathering resources, and commanding turn-based battles, with a science-fiction setting and additional map and unit abilities. Campaign writing and humor, distinctive visuals and music, and faction or unit designs also recur as positives. Some reviewers, however, find the factions or maps repetitive, and others criticize the AI, long turns, or technical performance.
Heroes of Science and Fiction (formerly known as Silence of the Siren) is a turn-based strategy game where several different space-faring civilizations fight over control of a distant star system. Explore what’s left on the planets and secure resources to build mighty cities. Raise powerful armies and defeat your opponents on the battlefield!
Content in the full game
Heroes of Science and Fiction contains 5 playable factions, four campaigns with 4 levels each and 30+ skirmish maps set in colorful environments.
Each faction brings its own base, 7 upgradeable unit types, a special skill and a set of commanders to choose from. There are 24 skills, 54 active commander abilities and various pieces of equipment, consumables and artifacts.
The Siren star system, birthplace of a galactic alliance, and the homeworld of a lost Primals civilization, has been cut from the rest of the galaxy. As a result, the carefully built alliance split into bickering factions and secluded colonies. These days, hardly anyone pays attention to the ruins scattered all over the few habitable planets of a freshly isolated system. The deeper you venture into the uncharted regions, the stronger the feeling of endangerment grows. There is something else. An entity, a shade, an echo of whispers from below.
Explore what's left on the planets and secure important resources. Use them to upgrade your bases with advanced technology and to hire massive armies. Play as several different factions, recruit skilled commanders, teach them new skills and lead them into battle. Overcome obstacles on the map to gather powerful equipment and ancient artifacts.
Encounter a wide range of enemies in turn-based combat, use your tactical thinking to gain advantage on the battlefield. Learn the unique moves of your units, deploy your commander's special abilities and outsmart even much stronger opponents.
Explore a rich sci-fi world and discover secrets of a lost civilization
Collect powerful artifacts, secure important resources, upgrade your bases and hire the strongest units
Level-up your commanders and crush your opponents in exciting turn-based battles
Take control over several different species and factions
Old-school strategy game with modern controls and intuitive UI
| Platforms | Windows, Linux |
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| Achievements | 67 |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 3 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
