An alien world for the taking. Explore, survive and make your fortune — or die trying.

A resource-rich frontier world has opened up for human exploration and exploitation, where hopefuls claim prospects for a limited time to mine for exotic resources.

Icarus takes a session-based approach to survival games. Players take limited-time drops onto a broken planet in search of rare exotic matter, which fuels advanced tech and player progression in the game’s gritty sci-fi universe. While navigating each prospect's unique challenges, players must collect meta-resources to permanently progress, explore the damaged planet, gather resources, craft tools and machinery, build shelter, hunt wildlife, extract the exotic matter and return to their dropship in time.

RocketWerkz's session-based sci-fi survival game Icarus has been confirmed to launch on Steam starting December 4, 2021.

Originally scheduled to launch in August, then delayed a few times, Icarus instead opened a series of Beta Weekends for players who pre-ordered the game.

The beta became Steam’s top-selling game during its first beta weekend and has had over 200,000 pre-orders and beta test players.

“After three months of beta testing and feedback from one of the most engaged gamer communities I’ve ever seen, Icarus is ready for launch,” says gamerunner Dean Hall.

“We believe the key to making a great survival game is listening to community feedback and being able to rapidly iterate. We deliberately built our architecture so we could add new items, missions, biomes, talents and balance changes each beta weekend and that’s something we plan to continue after launch too. Icarus will be a living, evolving game.”

The recommended PC specs are:

• OS: Windows 10 (64-bit versions)
• Processor: Intel i7-9700
• Memory: 32 GB RAM
• Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 3060ti
• DirectX: Version 11
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 70 GB available space

The minimum specs are:

• OS: Windows 10 (64-bit versions)
• Processor: Intel i5 8400
• Memory: 16 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB
• DirectX: Version 11
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Storage: 70 GB available space

Icarus is available to pre-order on Steam, with one last Beta Weekend on 20-21 November before its 4 December launch.

Harsh environments demand an envirosuit, regular oxygen, food and water, shelter and constant attention. The wildlife is easily provoked, and your plans may need to change on the fly. Take the resources you find back to orbit to craft advanced technology for your drop, either with a crew or solo.

Use your time wisely or be left empty-handed or even left behind. Calculate the risks, stretch your endurance and resources. How far are you willing to go?

Icarus is coming to PC (Steam) on December 4, 2021, followed by PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.