Over the three years because the launch of co-op survival recreation Icarus, developer RocketWerkz has frequently up to date it. And by frequently, I imply on a weekly foundation: the latest replace is the 153rd since December of 2021. That’s a lotta patches!
As a celebration of every thing that is been added to Icarus since launch, which incorporates new operations and missions, new weapons and objects, new creatures and a complete fishing system, plus DLC that doubled the scale of the map, Icarus is giving gamers one more new toy: a flamethrower.
And to encourage extra folks to mild up (the flamethrower, I imply) Rocketwerkz can also be giving everybody a free weekend. Dive in and play the bottom recreation all weekend lengthy on Steam, freed from cost. If you need to stick round after, there’s extra excellent news: Icarus is 50% off for the subsequent week, and there are reductions on the assorted editions and expansions, too.
If you’ve got by no means performed, the premise is that there was a giant company gold rush to mine treasured minerals on the planet Icarus, however within the midst of terraforming the world for habitation every thing went flawed. Now the air is poisonous, the climate is brutal, there’s a mixture of alien and animal life on the planet, and prospectors (such as you and your mates) are making journeys down from an orbiting area station to gather what sources you possibly can.
I’ve been away from Icarus for some time myself, so I would dive again on this weekend, or probably subsequent—I see that cows are being added within the following replace, and I’m extra of a farming fan than a flamethrower fanatic. Even for those who’re not right into a punishing survival expertise, I’ve discovered it may be a terrific sit back recreation: construct a homestead, elevate some bizarre alien creatures, farm, fish, and solely take harmful missions while you need to.
Just watch out for those who invite some mates over: I’ve had loads of fires by chance burn my place down, and that was earlier than they added flamethrowers. And since I requested Dean Hall for an image of the flamethrower to make use of on this article and he despatched me a number of, listed below are the remainder:
