ICARUS

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4.7

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 33 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 33
  3. Negative: 17 out of 33

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  1. 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 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    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
  2. Andrudis
    Dec 13, 2021
    3
    This game have a good potential and some nice survival mechanics, but currently it is plagued by terrible optimization, absurd design decisions, lack of meaningful progression balance and general inconsistency in lore.

    Permadeath in not integrated in gameplay loop in any way - currently it serves only to punish players, who were forced to take a few days break because of technical or    This game have a good potential and some nice survival mechanics, but currently it is plagued by terrible optimization, absurd design decisions, lack of meaningful progression balance and general inconsistency in lore.

    Permadeath in not integrated in gameplay loop in any way - currently it serves only to punish players, who were forced to take a few days break because of technical or real life issues. Not to mention there is no any clear warning and most players do not know about existence of Permadeath until they will permanently lose their character with all his/her progress

    Mission timers - do not create any real pressure because most missions can be completed in 0.5-4h even solo, so 7days timer does not correlate with gameplay in any way

    Tech tree progression where you can unlock tools blueprints many levels before you'll be able to unlock blueprints for crafting component to actually craft that tool - is a clear indication nobody cared about any balance or even simple fool-proof validation of existing progression before release.

    This game is too buggy and unpolished to call it a Released Product - in reality it is an Early Beta at best.    … Expand
  3. EReviews
    Dec 15, 2021
    0
    Icarus is such a letdown and a far stray from what the trailers showed. This game does run horribly and IDK what this guy means by a "cheap" graphics card. I have friends complaining from 1080 all the way to 3080. Games like this one is the reason why indies get a bad rep. Also after yet ANOTHER patch/hotfix it corrupted some data and I started getting blue screens. There is absolutely noIcarus is such a letdown and a far stray from what the trailers showed. This game does run horribly and IDK what this guy means by a "cheap" graphics card. I have friends complaining from 1080 all the way to 3080. Games like this one is the reason why indies get a bad rep. Also after yet ANOTHER patch/hotfix it corrupted some data and I started getting blue screens. There is absolutely no lore, no endgame, and has the tiniest map I've seen in this modern era of gaming. Icarus tries to cash in on the current trend of empty shell sandbox games like Tarkov, but in the end you're looting everything for what? To lose it all and go back out to do... Nothing? At least Tarkov has some hidden elements and some lore to dive into. There is absolutely no secrets and no discovery in this game. You drop, scan, kill animals and repeat. *Side note it looks like they don't know how to code birds because there are none at all … Expand
  4. Athanath
    Dec 11, 2021
    4
    Incredibly boring and repetitive. No story, world building makes no sense. Seems like it was built to intentionally troll its players.
  5. SherlockHolmess
    Jan 1, 2022
    3
    What a horrible release.... Performance is a mess. Graphics don't look good at all. Game is buggy.... I could go on but i keep it short. ATM Icarus is not even in Beta state... it's at least Alpha. The game itself may have potential but in it's current form, not playable. I will wait some months and update my review if the game becomes better.
  6. rageslash
    Jan 8, 2022
    0
    1) Its not a complete game. The lie that it is awful. I really want to like this game. I have done many missions and sunk over 50 hours into this. I really want to like it but the game design decisions that were made are bad. I can forgive bugs, but deliberate poor design I cannot.
    Missions that require ludicrous amount of resources, but then they dont have enough of those resources spawn    1) Its not a complete game. The lie that it is awful. I really want to like this game. I have done many missions and sunk over 50 hours into this. I really want to like it but the game design decisions that were made are bad. I can forgive bugs, but deliberate poor design I cannot.
    Missions that require ludicrous amount of resources, but then they dont have enough of those resources spawn to do it. The whole time limit thing is just a poor idea. Yes they removed perma-death (that should of never made it to release) but the time limit makes it so taking any break longer than a week while in a mission is impractical. The amount of wildlife is just spammed wild life. Long grinding of materials. Ridiculous debuffs that grind you and your progress to a halt.
    The game itself is not the worse, The devs did heck of a job to make something look great. However, the choices made just put an anchor around the neck of this game and drags it WAY down.    … Expand
  7. VendonJura
    Jan 18, 2022
    1
    Actually I do like this game but it has all survival illness that was ever made and even many many more.
    ✅ The Graphic is not bad
    ✅ The Sound effects are rlly great especially the weather sounds. I just love them ✅ There is always something there to do ✅ You can play with your friends BUT it is Peer2Peer, means, the host is your server ✅ Ingame Achievements like harvest 100 copper ✅    Actually I do like this game but it has all survival illness that was ever made and even many many more.
    ✅ The Graphic is not bad
    ✅ The Sound effects are rlly great especially the weather sounds. I just love them
    ✅ There is always something there to do
    ✅ You can play with your friends BUT it is Peer2Peer, means, the host is your server
    ✅ Ingame Achievements like harvest 100 copper
    ✅ This game has the most satisfieing bow mechanic I ever seen. It feels so good to use a bow in this game
    ✅ This game has damage popup numbers, I don't even buy many games which does not have it
    ❌ FPS Drops especially in the desert/snow
    ❌ WORST Shadow of all time.
    ❌ There is absolutely no optimisation at all. Recommended is a RTX 3060Ti, apperantly you need a 5000 € to play this game with good fps
    ❌ Structure durability is wrong, Stone has 2500 and the last tier has 1000 durability. These deffs clearly don't know what they are doing
    ❌Some missions are almost impossible to do. There are missions where you have to harvest several 100ts of food like 200 pumpkins etc. but this food spoils so redicolously fast that it's almost impossible to do this quest solo without having to learn unwanted talents or blueprints like the fridge.
    ❌ As I've mentioned before, the spoiltime in this game is a joke. In what world does 1 steak spoil in less than 10 hour?
    ❌ Everything you do in a mission will be lost as soon as you leave the map. It whipes everything. No matter what you achieve on this mission. There are missions where you have to build outposts for others but why? They get whiped out as soon as you leave the place. Structures which you place will get destroyed by a storm that appears when you leave the place BUT the little lvl 1 rabbit and bushes are not harmed. Yeah sure
    ❌ Crafting, this is one of the dumbest mechanics in this game. Not the crafting itself but the materials needed for each craft. Forexample the Stone Structures, you need Iron to craft stone structures but there are no iron structures. Or the fact that you need like 30 concrete bags for a machine bench which is used to craft electronics. In what world you need CONCRETE in electronic benches?
    ❌ Thatch is useless since it get destroyed during any weather event, same for wood. Even stone gets destroyed in snow biom dua of weight of snow no matter if you support your base with beams or not. So why is this Iron needed in stone structures then?
    ❌ No respawn of nodes.
    ❌ Balancing of bears is a joke, as soon as a bear spots you, its over. They can climb up 70 degree walls like its nothing.
    ❌ Most of the time when you die, your gear glitches and clips in your face so you won't see anything at all especially when using a bow. You have to unequip and Equip your gear again.
    ❌ If you are close to lvl up at 99% and die, you lose all 99% and have to go all over vom 0% to reach the lvl up. If you die again, you are at 0% again. Enjoy
    ❌ This game is an EARLY ACCESS or even an Alpha title but it's being solt as a full and finished release with missing items in the game like mushrooms and blueprints which say, comming soon.
    ❌ Sometimes you don't even get rewards at all by finishing a mission dua to a bug.
    ❌ You are wearing an sealed space suit because you can not breath the air on this so called alien planet with 1 alien worm and thats it. You get Pneumonia in that sealed suit when you are in a cave for to long but you can be under water just fine. Well atleast your character learned to eat and drink through his helmet.
    ❌ Since humans can not breath that toxic Oxygen on that planet, you have to inhale stones to get Oxygen. I've seen alllllot of stupid ideas but this one is on another lvl of dumb.
    ❌This game has allllot of bugs. I can not count how often items just fell through terrain. If you die and you have workshop items with you and are unlucky, you will lose them.
    ❌ Invisible walls on many places. You can noreach some nodes thanks to that stuff.
    ❌ You can not even fully harvest most nodes at all. Most of them are below the terrain where you can not pick axe them. This crap happens most of the time in caves. I had harvested 30 nodes and 7 of them I could harvest fully.
    ❌ This game has like 1000 talents you can learn like 40 of them. No Skillreset nor anything close to it. Although most people are asking for this features weeks ago, they just get ignored and instead new buggy missions. Thats all we got.
    ❌ Animal Spawns are a chaos, they spawn near to the player. One animal even spawned inside my character. I couldn't move because of it and got killed by a bear who spawned just behing me. Then I killed the bear after comming back and BAM 10 seconds that bear respawned.
    ❌ You can not stop the worm spawns by placing foundations on their spawns. They still spawn inside your foundation and destroy it.
    ❌ Wolfs etc. can bite through your stone / concrete structures like its some berry.    … Expand
  8. Iceman6891
    Feb 4, 2022
    0
    When the CEO of a company decides that he is going to forum ban someone offering constructive criticism for their product, that should say enough about the company and their products to discourage others from getting involved with them.

    Dean Hall, or as he is known on the Steam forums as "rocket2guns" is as arrogant as he is a scam artist. Icarus is a fine example of the mentality that    When the CEO of a company decides that he is going to forum ban someone offering constructive criticism for their product, that should say enough about the company and their products to discourage others from getting involved with them.

    Dean Hall, or as he is known on the Steam forums as "rocket2guns" is as arrogant as he is a scam artist. Icarus is a fine example of the mentality that he displays.

    I pre-ordered Icarus back in July just before the BETA weekends began. I had read multiple reports regarding Dean and the history of games that his company had essentially created and then abandoned. I’d read the stories of him bragging about his Lamborghini Aventador. I’d read the reviews of products talking about how people who were offering constructive criticism on forums were banned. But I very much believe in giving others a chance. And Icarus, in my opinion, was a great concept and could provide a lot of entertainment.

    I can now say that I was wrong in so many ways. Having been a staunch supporter of both this product and the company producing it for so long, I now understand all of the reviews, reports and criticism that others had offered in the past. My own constructive criticism netted me a permanent ban from the Icarus forums on Steam. And that was the nail in the coffin.

    What does Icarus get right? It is a great concept. That’s about it. Coming from that great concept is a game that is VERY OBVIOUSLY so broken that it should have been released in Early Access. But instead, it was released as a Full release title. Content was still lacking, the game wasn’t optimized at all, and there were more bugs than many early access titles have. After playing for almost every Beta weekend, I felt like that the official release should have been delayed while they worked on truly polishing the game and getting it to a more presentable state.

    But even after release and the peak of roughly 52k players, I continued to support the game. But the real killer of this game was the very poor communication from the development team. Apparently, they do not have a community manager. Dean Hall himself (rocket2gunz) is the only one to respond. And 2 months to the day from release, we’re only now hearing information on how the development team plans to address one of the biggest issues plaguing the game: a lack of any ability to respec the talent points of a character.

    Until now, the answer has been to simply “make a new character” and grind out the 40+ levels of talents again just so that you can try a new talent build. This mentality along with the poor communication and now coupled with the suppression and downright censorship of my constructive criticism has led me to writing this review to warn anyone who may be considering giving this game (or any other game produced by RocketWerkz) to stay away. This is only my opinion based on my personal experience. But I can definitely say that those other reviews that you read are telling the truth. I’ve now witnessed it for myself.    … Expand
  9. Axeroz
    Oct 9, 2022
    0
    No Polish language (translation), that's why such a rating
    NO POLISH TRANSLATION THAT'S WHY SUCH A RATING
  10. SovietPuma
    Dec 7, 2021
    0
    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.
  11. RDonnell
    Dec 4, 2021
    1
    Another game by dean hall aka the guy behind unoptimized and then abandoned Day Z. Abandoned Day Z only to learn no lessons. This game should be removed from sale. Buggy and unoptimized early access trash. Requires 32gb of ram as they are so lazy. I will not be fooled twice by dean hall agan. He will abandon Icarus as well. Dean Hall to me is like Peter Molinox except Molinox ruined moreAnother game by dean hall aka the guy behind unoptimized and then abandoned Day Z. Abandoned Day Z only to learn no lessons. This game should be removed from sale. Buggy and unoptimized early access trash. Requires 32gb of ram as they are so lazy. I will not be fooled twice by dean hall agan. He will abandon Icarus as well. Dean Hall to me is like Peter Molinox except Molinox ruined more games haha… Expand
  12. 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, 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.
  13. 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 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.    Game 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
  14. deanhole
    Dec 6, 2021
    0
    Unfortunately a complete disaster caused by mismanagement that forced the developers to ship an incomplete product. The cherry on top are those responses to reviews written by the marketing department on Steam pretending to be a "developer", apologizing for shipping an incomplete and buggy game, which they claim to be FINE, ACCEPTABLE.
    "Sorry. We, a team of 50 people (?) Never noticed    Unfortunately a complete disaster caused by mismanagement that forced the developers to ship an incomplete product. The cherry on top are those responses to reviews written by the marketing department on Steam pretending to be a "developer", apologizing for shipping an incomplete and buggy game, which they claim to be FINE, ACCEPTABLE.
    "Sorry. We, a team of 50 people (?) Never noticed that the game crashed randomly or that there were hundreds of bugs .. Sorry !!!" but keep playing for at least 2 hours so you can't get a refund.
    I think if you sell a product that doesn't work ... and the supplier still convinces you to keep it ... that it's called SC**Something else!
    And also, congratulations on posting a fake review here and on Steam too - it just demonstrates the childish, immature and arrogant mindset behind those pseudo producers and managers who can't even ship a decent game.
    Congratulations on ruining a title that could have been a real hit!
    Now is the time to find someone to blame and run away.
    I wonder if anyone of those has the decency to resign and admit the failure. Oh.. that's not gonna happen of course! Why don't we blame the developers instead?    … Expand
  15. 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 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 toLiterally 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

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67

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. 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.
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  2. 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.
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  3. 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.
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