Gaming Guides

If you haven’t ventured outside of the Forest Biome after completing some starter missions, the Desert is a great place to start. The Desert Biome is somewhat of a middle ground between the plentiful Forest and the merciless Arctic. The…

Learning how to construct a shelter is a crucial skill to possess if you plan on surviving more than a night or two on-planet. In this guide on construction, we’ll go over the basics of creating shelters and other structures…

Wood is one of the first resources you’ll use to craft in ICARUS, and it continues to be relevant deep into the Tech tree. Currently, wood is found in significant quanitity only in the Forest biome. To harvest wood, you’ll…

Water is the resource prospectors tend to worry about the least — until they don’t have any. Thirst can kill an unprepared prospector as surely as a storm or a wolf pack. Where to Find Water Water Source Effect Misc…

Crafting your way from the stone age to rifles and carbon-composite armor is hungry work, and you’ll need to make sure you keep your belly full while prospecting. In this guide, we’ll go over the basics of finding and processing…

Unlike other survival crafting games, Icarus isn’t about setting up a huge, permanent base and filling it with loot. Instead, the session-based gameplay encourages strategies that allow for quick and dirty shelter solutions, and faction missions sometimes require you to…

Cold and quiet. ICARUS’s snow biome is a deceptively calm place. First-time visitors, mesmerized by the otherworldly sights, are enticed to keep pressing in: they do not anticipate just how many things can go wrong quickly — very quickly. At…