Director of DayZ, Dean Hall Finally Launching Icarus This Saturday

Director of DayZ, Dean Hall finally launching Icarus this Saturday. The game originally planned to launch in August but opted to release the game to beta testers and made a bunch of adjustment.

“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 Dean Hall in a press release.

Icarus is a session-based PvE survival game for up to eight co-op players, where you have to endure the wildness of savage alien and survive the brutal environment while seeking your future. The orbital station will land on a planet surface for a limited time and players have to gather whatever valuable exotic materials the can search for. You have to survive and keep going. Those who are left behind…. are lost forever.

“Icarus was once destined to be a second Earth, but when terraforming collapsed – the air turned toxic and humanity’s hopes of colonizing a new world died. Icarus became a joke, a symbol of humanity reaching for the stars and failing. Yet when xeno-biologists discovered the cause of the failure – exotic matter – new interest was ignited. Valuable beyond reckoning, these ‘exotics’ sparked a gold rush, fueling political tensions on Earth, and bringing prospectors flocking to Icarus.”

Icarus is only available on Steam and it will be officially release in approximately 5 days. You can pre-purchase the game now with a discount of 10% until 14 December. By pre-purchasing, you will also get access to the beta version. The game also comes in two editions: Standard Edition and Deluxe Edition.

Standard Edition:
• Beta Weekends Access
• Icarus: First Cohort
• 1x Forest Biome Outpost (persistent map)
• Timed XP bonus on launch

Deluxe Edition:
• Beta Weekends Access
• Icarus: First Cohort
• Icarus: New Frontiers DLC (when released)
• Icarus: Dangerous Horizons DLC (when released)
• Icarus: First Cohort exclusive in-game envirosuit with built-in water slot
• Extra Arctic Biome Outpost (persistent map)
• Extra Forest Biome Outpost (persistent map)
• Timed XP bonus on launch

If you are ready to embark your journey on Icarus, be ready to survive the brutal environment, explore the deceptively familiar, yet alien world, craft and progress from three separate tech trees: planetary tech, player talents and orbital workshop, spend every limited time on Icarus as escape, and build an outpost where you can finally escape the limited time and danger.

Pre-purcahse Icarus now and always remember, SOME FATES ARE WORSE THAN DEATH