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Heroes Never Lose: Professor Puzzler's Perplexing Ploy cover art

Heroes Never Lose: Professor Puzzler's Perplexing Ploy

Magic Pants · Spearhead · 2015-11-23

Steam

ActionCasualIndieEarly Access

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Nov 24, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), 2016 (Wii U)

Heroes Never Lose: Professor Puzzler's Perplexing Ploy is a hero-themed action puzzler with a super-powered twist!

Heroes Never Lose: Professor Puzzler's Perplexing Ploy is an Action, Casual, Indie, and Early Access game released in 2015, priced at $8.99, with an estimated 0 .. 20,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (86% of 73 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-02

86%
positive of 73 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$8.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 22,337 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.8k–4.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 73 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $7.64 at Steam (2015-11-24)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920152022Week of 2015-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerShared/Split ScreenCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsStatsSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play Together

2 supported languages: English, French

Player tags

IndieActionArcadeCasualPuzzleMatch 3FightingSuperheroEarly Access

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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