Steam co-op open world survival game that pits you against mutated beasts on a failed terraforming project gets 80% discount
If you're a fan of the survival craft genre, you might want to check out Icarus while it's on sale, at a record-low price of just $6.99 on Steam — down from the usual $34.99. Icarus is a co-op survival game in which you must "explore the savage wilderness of terraforming gone wrong." It features an open world, and you can choose to explore, craft, and build your base freely or complete regular timed missions
The Planet Crafter gone wrong — Icarus gameplay and reviews
Owing to the setting — an abandoned terraforming outpost — Icarus takes place in an environment that will feel familiar but just a touch off-kilter and abnormally hostile. Occasionally, you'll run into a gorilla that's not quite a gorilla, or a tortoise that's a little more aggressive than it might normally be, or any one of a dozen other animals that are familiar but not quite right — and it's up to you to survive these encounters, learn about your foes, and adapt.
In addition to the hostile fauna, the moon itself is also trying to kill you with its toxic atmosphere and volatile storms, not to mention the usual resource gathering and management that will result in succumbing to hunger, exhaustion, or thirst. Icarus employs a mix of a persistent world and procedurally generated elements to keep things feeling fresh from session to session and mission to mission. If you decide to play in a
Icarus has all the trappings of a traditional open-world base-building, survival-craft game, including intense battles against ferocious native fauna, fully customisable abodes, a vast open world filled with different biomes to explore, and rewarding progression. While nothing you create or build on Icarus will remain from mission to mission, there is progression that carries over between missions, including skills, blueprints, and abilities, all of which make each successive mission more rewarding and more approachable.
The Steam reviews for Icarus are generally positive, with the review score currently at 75% positive, and many players praise Icarus for incorporating lessons learned from other open world survival games while simultaneously mixing it up with a fresh setting and mechanics. It is often compared to survival craft greats, like Green Hell and Valheim. One common complaint about Icarus, however, is the drip-feed expansion model that the developer has decided to employ, which eventually makes owning all the "chapters" become quite costly.
Icarus calls for an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB as its minimum GPU specification, so some tweaking should get it running smoothly on handheld devices, like the $649.99 Asus ROG Ally.
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