ICARUS

8.5/10
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ICARUS Review — Mission-Driven Sandbox Survival

ICARUS, an ambitious new survival sandbox title from RocketWerkz and its game-runner Dean Hall (of DayZ fame) was released last December after 2 years of development and a marathon of 8 Beta Testing weekends, spread over 4 months. After that…

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Food – ICARUS

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…

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How to Create a Portable Shelter – ICARUS

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…

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How to Survive in the Arctic Biome – ICARUS

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…

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How to Create a Shelter – ICARUS

The weather on Icarus is not your friend, and wind and rain will make quick work of anything useful you leave out in the open. If you want shelter from the storm for you and your stuff, you’ll need to…

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How to Get Oxygen – ICARUS

Don’t let the blue skies and abundant greenery fool you — the atmosphere of Icarus isn’t breathable, and you’ll need to find yourself some O2 soon after you land. In this guide, we’ll go over the basics of acquiring Oxygen…

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Resources – ICARUS

As a crafting-focused game, you can’t do anything on Icarus without first collecting the necessary resources. We’ve got guides covering every type of resource, explaining what’s available where and how to get ahold of it. Simply click on a resource…

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How to Survive in the Forest Biome – Icarus

The forest is probably where you’ll start your Icarus adventure, as it is where most of the beginner prospects land you. While not without its dangers, it’s a relatively safe place to learn the ropes of the game and start…

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ICARUS Biomes

The planet of Icarus shares many similarities with Earth, thanks in no small part to the attempt to terraform it. If you want to survive your drops, you’ll need to familiarize yourself with the flora, fauna, and environmental hazards of…

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How to Level Up Fast in ICARUS

Icarus is a harsh and unforgiving place, a product of a failed terraforming project. Surviving here will require more than just a stone axe — but, in order to craft these you’ll need to level up. While most activities in…

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ICARUS How to Find Hidden Caves

Struggling to find a single cave after landing at the prospect site? Feeling exhausted, getting critically low on food and water after making two circles around the entire perimeter of your landing site? The bad news is, yes, you probably…