The First Cohort were the first to arrive on Icarus. Part-adventurer, part prospector, they came alone and in groups, seeking their fortunes: dropping to the surface on limited-time permits, harvesting the planet’s resources to survive and extracting exotics before returning to space. In orbit, exotics unlock advanced tech to take on ever more challenging drops.
Those that get left behind… are lost forever.
SOME FATES ARE WORSE THAN DEATH…
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ICARUS is a session-based PvE survival game for up to eight co-op players or solo.
Confront and conquer a brutal PvE world determined to wear you down or tear you apart. From toxic atmosphere to savage wildlife and game-altering weather events, Icarus is a planet with a temper. Preparation and planning are everything. Whether it’s to find a source of oxygen, stalk your next meal or stock supplies for a long journey into the wilderness.
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Immerse yourself in a deceptively familiar, yet alien, world. The First Cohort of prospectors has been granted initial mining licenses for over 64 square kilometers of hand-crafted terrain full of hidden corners and resources to mine and diverse biomes to explore. Use the resources around you to survive – every single tree is harvestable, every rock can be voxel mined.
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Master two separate tech trees: planet-side and orbital. Use the planet’s resources to craft handmade tools, buildings and machinery to protect yourself and aid your mission. Then return to orbit with your prize – rare exotic materials that you can engineer into advanced tech. As you progress, choose which tech to take on your next drop so you can travel further, gather faster, automate production or survive longer.
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Your time on Icarus is limited, so use every second wisely. The orbital space station waits for no one. If you fail to return to your dropship in time, there is no rescue – your character’s progression and tech is lost to planet Icarus. Drop sessions can vary from hours to days long with varied missions and locations. Every drop has a clear goal and time limit, but how you overcome its challenges is up to you.
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NEWS
Icarus gets a DLSS 3 performance boost
Icarus has always been a good-looking but deadly environment, but now it will kill you faster. Working with our friends at NVIDIA we have upgraded Icarus to support DLSS 3.0. The result was a 2.6X on average increase in performance enabling max setting, ray-traced...
New Frontiers: Available now
AUCKLAND, New Zealand -- 24 August, 2023 -- Icarus: New Frontiers, the relaunch of the popular survival game developed by RocketWerkz, is available now on Steam. New Frontiers is a major expansion set in Prometheus, a merciless new region where terraforming has failed...
Icarus with NVIDIA Reflex
Our partnership with NVIDIA has been integral to Icarus' development, and we’re excited to bring NVIDIA Reflex to the game. NVIDIA Reflex improves games' responsiveness to inputs, reducing latency and delivering a better experience for all our players using NVIDIA....
Styx Map & Missions Pack DLC
As a thank you to our players and fans, RocketWerkz has made its new DLC Map ‘Styx’ available. This new 64km² map doubles the size of Icarus' playable area. With it come new missions, new creatures and fresh regions of Icarus to explore. What to expect: An entire new...
RocketWerkz premiere short film “Icarus: Fatal Sky”
Watch the 20-minute documentary ahead of Icarus’ launch this weekend RocketWerkz has released an epic twenty-minute long documentary-style short film “Icarus: Fatal Sky,” blending live action and game footage to welcome players to the universe of its sci-fi survival...
Watch the Making of Icarus: Episode 1
RocketWerkz is opening up development of its upcoming survival game Icarus by publishing Episode 1 in the Making of Icarus series. For the past 18 months a videographer has been embedded in the studio filming early game development, design decisions and team meetings...
Watch Icarus: No Escape
RocketWerkz has released an eight minute long documentary-style trailer “Icarus: No Rescue” combining live action and game footage to introduce players to the world of its unique sci-fi survival game Icarus. Developed by DayZ creator Dean Hall’s studio RocketWerkz,...
Dean Hall reveals new survival game Icarus
Dean Hall reveals new survival game Icarus Dean Hall, creator of influential survival game DayZ, has unveiled a teaser trailer for his next sci-fi survival game Icarus. Icarus is a multiplayer co-operative survival game set on an Earth-like alien world with persistent...
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