Icarus
An alien world for the taking. Explore, survive and make your fortune if you dare. Icarus is a multiplayer co-operative survival game with persistent metagame progression.
What it feels like
The survival narrative and resource-gathering loop suggests sincere engagement with wilderness survival rather than irony or parody.
What it's about
An alien world shaped by terraforming gone wrong establishes a clear sci-fi setting with speculative technology as backdrop. Surviving a savage, hostile wilderness after terraforming failure is the core narrative and mechanical hook. Terraforming gone wrong creates a broken, dangerous world that echoes post-apocalyptic survival scenarios.
How it plays
Crafting is explicitly featured as a core loop, with players combining gathered materials to progress. Survival game fundamentals like exploration, hunting, and resource gathering against a hostile alien wilderness are core to the experience. Building is prominently mentioned as a core feature, allowing players to construct structures in the alien world.
How it looks and sounds
Steam tags and survival game conventions suggest first-person perspective, though third-person is also mentioned as a tag option.
How it's structured
The game emphasizes exploring a large alien wilderness with open-world operations allowing non-linear progression through a savage, explorable environment. Solo or multiplayer co-operative play is highlighted as a core feature, with explicit online co-op gameplay mentioned in Steam description. The metagame progression system is explicitly named and carries progression across runs, making it central to long-term engagement.
Kindred games
Shares Survival Against Nature, Science Fiction, Open World, Online Co-op.
Both lean into Survival Against Nature, Science Fiction, Open World, Online Co-op.
Shares Survival Against Nature, Open World, Survival Needs, Online Co-op.
Both lean into Survival Against Nature, Open World, Survival Needs, Online Co-op.
Shares Open World, Science Fiction, Online Co-op, Base Building.
Both lean into Open World, Science Fiction, Online Co-op, Base Building.
Closest hidden gems
A lesser-known kindred — Open World, Survival Against Nature, Survival Needs, Crafting. 88% positive across 4,765 Steam reviews.
Both lean into Open World, Survival Against Nature, Survival Needs, Base Building.
A lesser-known kindred — Open World, Survival Against Nature, Survival Needs, Resource Management. 85% positive across 4,314 Steam reviews.
Both lean into Open World, Survival Against Nature, Survival Needs, Resource Management.
A lesser-known kindred — Science Fiction, Resource Management, Survival Against Nature, Base Building. 96% positive across 4,811 Steam reviews.
Both lean into Science Fiction, Resource Management, Base Building, Survival Against Nature.