Really excellent concept. Good marriage of a survival game with rogue-like elements. Probably not for the survivalist purist nor the rogue-like purist, but if you enjoy both genres this game will definitely appeal to you.

The biggest sell of this game is that this is probably the most active and high functioning dev team I've ever seen on any title. There is a staggering amount of communication and fixes being pushed to address normal issues that effect the overall game play or QoL. In any other game I've played in the past, these things could be overlooked or unaddressed for months or years. I have full confidence that this dev team is not only super capable, but that will continue to support this title with dogged insistence as long as there is a community of players to provide feedback. Really admirable.

Only negative feedback I have is that the talent and tech trees are punishingly permanent. As of now there is no respec option and as you grow and learn the game your first character will be stuck with all the mistakes you made while learning. There are even some missions that force you to adopt certain tech just to complete them, which ultimately means that you have to waste skill points that you'll never get back. You don't even have a finalize option, where you move a few points around and take them back before exiting the menu--if you put a point in, its there, forever. Ultimately, you have to re-roll a new character to benefit from the learned errors you made before and keep shooting for that ultimate efficient build. However, this has also been a rewarding part of the process for me. It can be frustrating, but not something that takes away from the game in my opinion.

Really pretty game as well. Lots of the performance issues I had at launch have been addressed by patches and it runs relatively smooth especially considering the amount of textures and effects being loaded around you in the world; fire, light, water, leaves, all the bushes individual leaves, etc.

For this being a brand new title, with many years of content ahead of it, Icarus shines now and with time will only become more luminous. Def worth your time.

Really excellent concept. Good marriage of a survival game with rogue-like elements. Probably not for the survivalist purist nor the rogue-like purist, but if you enjoy both genres this game will definitely appeal to you. The biggest sell of this game is that this is probably the most active and high functioning dev team I've ever seen on any title. There is a staggering amount of communication and fixes being pushed to address normal issues that effect the overall game play or QoL. In any other game I've played in the past, these things could be overlooked or unaddressed for months or years. I have full confidence that this dev team is not only super capable, but that will continue to support this title with dogged insistence as long as there is a community of players to provide feedback. Really admirable. Only negative feedback I have is that the talent and tech trees are punishingly permanent. As of now there is no respec option and as you grow and learn the game your first character will be stuck with all the mistakes you made while learning. There are even some missions that force you to adopt certain tech just to complete them, which ultimately means that you have to waste skill points that you'll never get back. You don't even have a finalize option, where you move a few points around and take them back before exiting the menu--if you put a point in, its there, forever. Ultimately, you have to re-roll a new character to benefit from the learned errors you made before and keep shooting for that ultimate efficient build. However, this has also been a rewarding part of the process for me. It can be frustrating, but not something that takes away from the game in my opinion. Really pretty game as well. Lots of the performance issues I had at launch have been addressed by patches and it runs relatively smooth especially considering the amount of textures and effects being loaded around you in the world; fire, light, water, leaves, all the bushes individual leaves, etc. For this being a brand new title, with many years of content ahead of it, Icarus shines now and with time will only become more luminous. Def worth your time.