ICARUS

 PC
ICARUS Image
Metascore
67

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
4.7

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 33 Ratings

Your Score
0 out of 10
Rate this:
  • 10
  • 9
  • 8
  • 7
  • 6
  • 5
  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1
  • 0
  • 0
  • Summary: ICARUS is a session-based PvE survival game for up to eight co-op players.

    Endure a savage alien wilderness on Icarus, humanity's greatest mistake. Survive its brutal environment as you explore, harvest, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune. From their orbital station, prospectors    ICARUS is a session-based PvE survival game for up to eight co-op players.

    Endure a savage alien wilderness on Icarus, humanity's greatest mistake. Survive its brutal environment as you explore, harvest, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune.

    From their orbital station, prospectors drop to the planet surface for limited time sessions, where they learn to endure the alien environment, complete faction missions and search for valuable exotic materials. Those that survive return to orbit as seasoned veterans, converting their exotics into advanced technology, and taking on ever more challenging drops with newfound knowledge. Those that get left behind... are lost forever.    … Expand

Trailer

Play Sound
Please enter your birth date to watch this video:
You are not allowed to view this material at this time.
Icarus First Cohort Launch Trailer

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. WellPlayed
    Dec 15, 2021
    90
    Icarus boldly stakes its claim amongst giants in the field and swiftly proves to be a worthy contender. Everything I saw in the lead up to the release of Icarus made it seem too good to be true, but my faith and patience was rewarded many times over when I finally got to drop planetside for the first time, and the time after that, and the time after that. Icarus is going up on my list of favourite things to come out of New Zealand, alongside pavlova and Lord of the Rings.
  2. PCGamesN
    Dec 13, 2021
    70
    A refreshing take on the survival sandbox with a robust approach to progression and countless ways to tackle each mission. Sadly, harsh penalties, bugs, and crashes combine to make this a frustrating off-world expedition.
  3. Gamersky
    Dec 21, 2021
    70
    Despite its flaws, the superior picture quality and solid basic experience still give ICARUS a lot of potential. The level-based mission design makes ICARUS significantly different from traditional survival games, but it also makes most of the player's efforts in vain. If its mission rewards are more generous, the items unlocked in the space station have a wider range of uses, and the settings of character growth system are more reasonable, then I believe that players will also have a better gaming experience than they do now.
  4. GamingTrend
    Jan 4, 2022
    70
    Icarus is an absolutely gorgeous, engaging, and challenging survival crafting game. When it’s working correctly, it is a fantastic entry into the genre. When it’s not, the problems are deep and varied. Disconnects, corrupt characters, bugs, and balance problems abound. I look forward to seeing it reach its potential, but it’s hard to see it as anything other than a game that exited Early Access too soon.
  5. PC Games
    Dec 17, 2021
    60
    Icarus is a hardcore survival game with an innovative concept. Despite its great potential, the story is non-existent. The game punishes playing alone and is in dire need of some polishing when it comes to enemy AI and bugs.
  6. PC Invasion
    Dec 7, 2021
    40
    Unfinished, buggy, and broken, Icarus should not have released at this stage. With mind-numbing repetition and baffling design decisions, it's a survival game that's more frustrating than challenging.
This publication does not provide a score for their reviews.
This publication has not posted a final review score yet.
These unscored reviews do not factor into the Metascore calculation.

In Progress & Unscored

?
  1. Rock, Paper, Shotgun
    Dec 10, 2021
    I’m honestly confused by how much I enjoyed my time with Icarus. It relies on repetitive loops and often uneventful hiking, on tedious punishments and uninspired objectives. I am not a patient person, and yet, it does enough. The storms are terrifically atmospheric, basic crafting still feels compelling when you’re doing it for the umpteenth time, and oh, I haven’t even mentioned the way it models individual planks tumbling and getting stuck on each other when you chop down a wall. Despite the jank, Icarus’s (eseses) systems feel meticulous, on scales both big and small.

User Reviews

Write a Review
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 27
  3. Negative: 15 out of 27
  1. NakedVegas
    Dec 5, 2021
    10
    Amazing game!
    The negative reviews are laughable. Either people complaining about graphics and optimization due to their cheap graphics card    Amazing game!
    The negative reviews are laughable. Either people complaining about graphics and optimization due to their cheap graphics card or quit after 30 mins not even getting passed the 2 starter missions. This game is deep and continues to impress you even after playing ever beta weekend. Highly recommend this to anyone looking for a survival game. Bring friends, it is tough.
    #BearBonesCrew    … Expand
  2. Asarig
    Mar 13, 2022
    10
    Un juego que no es para gente que no se maneja en el tipo de juego survival desnudo, empiezas con nada y poco a poco segun avanzas en lasUn juego que no es para gente que no se maneja en el tipo de juego survival desnudo, empiezas con nada y poco a poco segun avanzas en las extracciones puedes seguir mejorando a tu explorador, con misiones limitadas por tiempo de 7 dias, donde si no lo retiras y pasa el tiempo todo tu progreso será eliminado con la muerte de tu personaje, sin considerar algunas fallas en la optimización, este es uno de los pocos juegos que me ha logrado amarrar completamente.… Expand
  4. Nerodon
    Dec 6, 2021
    9
    An amazing new take on the survival genre.
    Getting some space station unlocks and going back in feels really good.
    Basically, a rogue-like    An amazing new take on the survival genre.
    Getting some space station unlocks and going back in feels really good.

    Basically, a rogue-like applied to survival! Playing with friends is definitely the best way to go. 20hours played this weekend, utterly hooked!

    Some performance issues but all relatively minor, patches come with fixes quickly, and can't wait to see where the game goes in the future with extra content and updates.

    There are a lot of hateful reviews mad at the performance issues, but they are hardly worth crying about, the game works fine for most people, sometimes a tweak to some settings or driver update or alternate between DX11 or DX12 fixes the issue. I think there's a ton of hate because of the ongoing backlash for BF2042 and people come on here saying that the same thing is going on everywhere, but it is NOT at all comparable.

    Although I honestly agree that the game could have been delayed another few weeks, but really, in the end, the game is a real gem, fun to play and worth every penny!    … Expand
  5. Kerber
    Dec 4, 2021
    3
    Game has a great potential. Unfortunately it is pushed as unfinished and still on early access level as final product. Optimisation is notGame has a great potential. Unfortunately it is pushed as unfinished and still on early access level as final product. Optimisation is not implemented, still present bugs and unpolished menues, resources usage way above needs and fps drops without reason.

    Someone thought that pushing game in such development stage is good just to grab some holidays sale numbers. And that is plane wrong. Unless you got it for free no reason to waste time on it in this stage. And check steam reviews if in doubt.    … Expand
  6. Clod_Grondle
    Dec 8, 2021
    2
    Review after playing with a team of 4 after 4 days:

    Runs at about 40fps on a 3080ti with a 5900xt and looks like a crummy early access    Review after playing with a team of 4 after 4 days:

    Runs at about 40fps on a 3080ti with a 5900xt and looks like a crummy early access game. The forest has the same, if not better graphics. Has serious memory leaks on release.

    Extremely grindy and repetitive, game mechanics exist to rob you of any sense of progress.

    Endless gathering to build everything - and you'll be building the same things every hour or so. There is no point in investing in a base as you will have to tear it down when you move camp, and it will be destroyed once you complete the mission.

    Sparse content - there's lots of stuff to unlock but it's all mechanically identical - you fire the same arrows at the same charging enemies but with bigger numbers.

    Samey, overlong and dull missions.

    Very easy to waste talent points on skills that turn out to be useless

    All the animals have the same AI - they just run at you. The worms spit at you. not exactly groundbreaking stuff.

    full of bugs. You can be randomly launched 50 feet in the air and die upon landing. Your stuff disappears constantly. Animals get stuck on geometry. Buildings clip through geometry.

    Awful UI and frustrating inventory management dropping stuff because something needs to be transferred from one window to another in order to wear it or whatever.

    unusuable map - it doesn't zoom in close enough to actually find people when they're nearby, all the icons are too big and stack on top of each other.

    If a player in your group skips a mission, they don't share your progess when you unlock other missions    … Expand
  7. f0reverr
    Jan 6, 2023
    0
    Literally no one should purchase this game. I am honestly astonished the developers are able to sleep at night knowing this atrocity isLiterally no one should purchase this game. I am honestly astonished the developers are able to sleep at night knowing this atrocity is labeled as a full release. This game is MAYBE equivalent to an early level Alpha build of Ark: Survival Evolved. From nonexistent optimization that they try to mask with resolution downscaling to some of the worst AI I've ever witnessed in modern gaming to a lazy progression system that makes no logical sense, this game truly has a bit of all negative things that exist. I wouldn't recommend to my worst enemy, if you want this type of gameplay just buy Ark instead, just about everything this game does Ark does better and with graphical optimizations and more than two brain cells involved in the development process. Also, don't pay attention to the positive review andy's they're just fantasizing about sucking off Dean Hall and are used to running games on the Lowest quality setting so they can't see how absolutely horrible this game is optimized, even with a 4090 (the best graphics card money can buy you right now) this game is borderline unplayable for anyone with any kind of actual standards or expectations beyond "durrr hurr the game runs on my PC and doesn't give me a virus 10/10"… Expand
  8. Nunubuffs
    Dec 4, 2021
    0
    Unoptimized garbage. If you like being disappointed, go for it. Don't except nothing much other then another New World/ BF2042 type game,Unoptimized garbage. If you like being disappointed, go for it. Don't except nothing much other then another New World/ BF2042 type game, early access alpha build with 0 to no content & trash optimization. That's the tweet, put your wallet away and walk away from this god awful game.… Expand

See all 27 User Reviews

Trailers

Current PC Games

Full List »
93 Sektori
92 Resident Evil Requiem
91 Mixtape
91 Death Stranding 2: On The Beach
90 Lost and Found Co.
89 Rhythm Doctor
88 Mewgenics
88 Dying Light: The Beast Restored Land Definitive Edition
87 Lumines Arise
87 Cross Blitz
87 Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
87 Tombwater
87 Hermit and Pig
87 PRAGMATA
86 Diablo II: Resurrected - Reign of the Warlock
86 Perfect Tides: Station to Station
86 Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven
85 Esoteric Ebb
84 Titanium Court
68 Last Man Sitting
All Current Games »