ICARUS
Skip · Multiplayer · 2021
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 40, under the fair line, at $34.99.
- Cost per hour
- $0.97/hr
- Reviews▼
- 75% of 69,433
- Genre rank
- Top 29% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reviews, Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 36.1h
- To 100%
- 200.3h 5.5x the story
- Finish
- 5% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 171
Price and sales
- Sales
- 30 on record
- Typical cut
- 35% off
- Steam low
- $3.49 December 2025
- Sale every
- 74d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4,132 now
- Recent reviews
- 78% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 63% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
80% start to <1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
30 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 35 percent off across all of them, roughly 11 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 29 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Green Hell ($24.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Nightingale ($29.99, scores 18).
More about ICARUS
19 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 798 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 347 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 31 percent of the 4,296 reviews written there were positive, against 75 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 36.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 200, 5.5 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
You will have an awesome experience if you follow my recommendations 1- Target the game on sales 2- Get the base game definitely 3- Get the great hunt DLC 4- Do the great hunt quest chain on olympus, if you finish it you can do some quests in the base quests but dont focus on base quests. 5- Skip styx completely and dont buy it 6- Get new frontier DLC, its a new experience compared to olympus with very good time...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game is fun (mostly) but challenging. If you don't like to grind, this isn't the game for you, this game has led to sooo many crash out / rage quit moments if I'm being honest. Somehow I keep coming back because I really like the concept and the fact that new things are constantly being added to the game.
paid dlcs so meh. then all the content is also lacking something? i think fun is the word i am looking for. spent 217 hrs mostly building i like designing camps in games but meh the rest is just meh nothing sandwich.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB, 70 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
ICARUS scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1149460/icarusReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.