January 27, 2023
•It’s Week 60, and this time RocketWerkz overhauled a system so pervasive that it might change how we experience each mission…
December 16, 2022
•This update may change the way you play ICARUS. The player limit has been relaxed (though the details are important), and Dro…
December 9, 2022
•ICARUS had a somewhat of a rough start, if its old Steam reviews are to serve as any sort of an indicator. RocketWerkz went f…
October 28, 2022
•This week, Rocketwerkz has expanded the open map Olympus Outpost into its own game mode, the Open World survival mode. You ca…
September 23, 2022
•ICARUS just took a giant step–or ride–toward the likes of survival sandbox games like Ark, 7 Days to Die, No Man’s Sky, and…
September 2, 2022
•This week rounds out the equipment attachments set with the addition of ranged weapon attachments. We also got an update on t…
August 26, 2022
•This week brings a solid round of bug fixes and quality-of-life and performance improvements, as well as a new construction l…
August 19, 2022
•When the Alteration Benches were introduced, the focus was on tools and melee weapons. With the Week 37 update, armors receiv…
August 12, 2022
•Enemy weak points (and strong points) just got a big overhaul with the Week 36 Update. A new training mission will let you ex…
August 5, 2022
•The update for Week 35 has been in the works for some time, and now it comes to the public branch. The new Attachment System…
July 30, 2022
•For anyone who’s been playing Icarus since launch, the three biomes (Riverlands don’t count) have become so familiar that mos…
July 29, 2022
•With the Week 34 update, the Styx just got a little creepier. A new world boss, The Black Wolf, will be stalking prospectors…
July 22, 2022
•This week, while RocketWerkz delivers another mission with time pressure and a unique hunting requirement, they also hyped a…
July 15, 2022
•Queue up the Queen because (finally) we are under pressure. Time pressure, that is. Add to that some outpost mining expansion…
July 8, 2022
•This Week’s update heralds a host of improvements and bug fixes driven by community feedback. Chief among them are a new free…
March 3, 2022
•ICARUS, an ambitious new survival sandbox title from RocketWerkz and its game-runner Dean Hall (of DayZ fame) was released la…
August 4, 2022
•The RICOCHET expedition combines some of the mechanics of the Olympus expedition Dry Run with the action in the ZEPHYR expedi…
August 1, 2022
•The Black Wolf world boss is introduced in the LUPINE mission, which is the Styx version of KILL LIST: Extermination. In exch…
July 31, 2022
•The Styx mission FLATLINE is a unique combination of the recovery elements of FORSAKEN and the hunting tasks in AGRICULTURE:…
July 30, 2022
•As you might expect, VERTIGO has some climbing, but it is nothing like the WATERFALL expedition. VERTIGO begins with radar sc…
July 27, 2022
•The mission ABYSS is a frantic race through all three biome types — including the Ring Lake region, a Forest Biome with max-…
July 27, 2022
•Apparently, Icarus grows worms in all sizes and biomes! ZEPHYR introduces a new Giant Worm beast to the Styx map, and you eng…
July 26, 2022
•This mission unlocks the Olympus Outpost, which allows you to establish outposts anywhere on the 64 sq. km. Olympus map. NIGH…
July 24, 2022
•Death awaits you with big pointy teeth… and poisonous venom… and giant snowy claws. The Styx is a mythical river separati…
July 21, 2022
•MAELSTROM is a Scan and Expedition mission with strong-to-heavy storms. Each fight defending your scanner is long and intense…
May 5, 2022
•To create tools that are more complicated than a stone axe or a mortar and pestle, you’ll need to do some mining. Here’s what…
May 5, 2022
•Exotics! Lore-wise, they’re the reason every faction in space is so interested in Icarus. Gameplay-wise, they’re the currency…
May 5, 2022
•In ICARUS, you’ll spend most of your time completing prospects (missions) for the various factions attempting to extract reso…
April 24, 2022
•It is finally time to track down the Sandworm that you encountered while opening up the Desert region in the mission EL CAMIN…
April 20, 2022
•The VOYAGER-like mission, CRYOGENIC takes prospectors all across the northern part of the map to complete a series of multi-p…
April 14, 2022
•The Group 15 research unit of the UDA has a theory that exotics are getting into Icarus wildlife and causing mutations which…