Icarus is a science fiction cooperative survival game from the developer Dean Hall, who you might know from the infamous DayZ. The game will be free-to-play, and unlike DayZ it will not be open-ended, instead it will be a session-based game.
There is a space station orbiting an alien place, and that is your starting point. The game allows you to invite your buddies at the station, and together you can prepare for a planetary drop. Players can choose a contract to complete, and every contract has different requirements.
The main objective in Icarus is basically to find materials and bring them back to your station. These materials can be used in various ways, such as unlocking new technologies, improving your space station, crafting vehicles, and more.
These contracts could take half an hour to complete, or up to forty-eight hours. Be advised that those are real-time minutes and hours, meaning that some contracts may need multiple sessions in order to be completed.
You can watch the Icarus reveal and interview from the PC Gaming Show below.
The game is also featuring perma-death, meaning if you die you will lose everything, including your progression. According to Hall, players can revive and heal each other. However, if a player is late, the drop ship will leave the player behind, which ultimately means death.
Icarus is aiming for a release in 2021.
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Lost interest the moment I read its dayz creators
Oh yes, Dean hall, the dude that abandoned DayZ incomplete, has currently an game in early acess for about 2 years i think and here it is announcing a new game… seems familiar ? Well at least this one will be f2p but i wound’t get very hopefull, probaly will be stuck in development hell for years.
I feel as if when they sit to make a game they think of ways to rob the player base BEFORE they even know what the actual game should be about, look, sound or play. In this day and age, I believe that this is how they go about game development.
DayZ isn’t even finished after all these years. Why would we trust them exactly ?
He left DayZ development years ago to form his own studio (Rocketwerkz). They made Stationeers and a VR game called Out of Ammo.
I did not know. Thank you. So how did he leave the project ?
Dean was a modder known as “Rocket”, he made the DayZ mod for Arma2 and after its success Bohemia hired him to lead the project for a standalone version. After a couple of years doing that he decided it was time to move on and make his own games with his own dev team.
I remember having a discussion with Dean at CES about 4 years ago, he always has time for people, a good down to earth guy and I hope his game does well. Im always put off by F2P though as it usually translates to P2W.