Beautiful graphics and atmosphere
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The graphics are brilliant; the environment and weather in particular create a great atmosphere.”
Steam review · 75.8 h played ↗
ICARUS
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mostly Positive · 75%Mostly Positive · 75%RocketWerkz2021Survival · Open World Survival Craft · Base Building
$34.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 6 h ago
The verdict
A deep, beautiful survival-crafting game with strong progression, building and co-op, held back by heavy grind, poor optimization and very expensive DLC. Skip it if you hate grinding or weak PCs.
Great for
Survival-crafting fans who enjoy long progression, base building and co-op or solo play
Main risk
Expensive DLC paywalls, heavy grind and FPS drops that get worse as your base grows
What players love
Fun with friends or solo, replayable
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Co-op is where ICARUS really shines.”
Steam review · 965.6 h played ↗
Frequent weekly updates and engaged devs
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“EVERY THURSDAY the developers drop a update and almost always add some form of new content”
Steam review · 1497.9 h played ↗
Deep crafting, tech tree and progression
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“the talent system is huge and so is the tech tree.”
Steam review · 71 h played ↗
Satisfying base building
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“the building systems are super easy and smooth”
Steam review · 277.3 h played ↗
Huge amount of content
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews
“Truly ridiculous amount of content in the base game.”
Steam review · 734.2 h played ↗
What players complain about
Expensive DLC paywalls content
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“80% of it is locked behind almost $300 of DLC.”
Steam review · 7.5 h played ↗
Buggy, crashes and janky AI
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“the pathfinding of Tamed animals is EXTREMELY BAD.”
Steam review · 357.2 h played ↗
Poor optimization and low FPS
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“you can start the game with 300fps, and when a storm starts your fps goes to 1fps if you have 500+ building peaces”
Steam review · 679 h played ↗
Relentless, repetitive grind
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“95% of the gameplay is grinding. And not in a good way.”
Steam review · 82 h played ↗
Quests send you back and forth across the map
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 negative reviews
“Every mission is 3+ hours of running even with a fast mount.”
Steam review · 436.5 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unsupported70 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 10 (64-bit versions)
ProcessorIntel i5 8400
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GTX 1060 6GB
Storage70 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 10 (64-bit versions)
ProcessorIntel i7-9700
Memory32 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA RTX 3060ti
Storage70 GB available space
OSWindows 10 (64-bit versions)
ProcessorIntel i5 8400
Memory16 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GTX 1060 6GB
Storage70 GB available space
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