Icarus: New Survival MMO moved to steam, beta comes

Dean Hall, the inventor of the Survival Classiker Dayz, is currently working on a new game: Icarus. That should actually appear in August. Now, however, there is a shift with a consolation patch: From the end of August, pre-orderers can gamble the beta.

What is this for a game? The new Survival MMO of Rocketwerk plays in space and has a dystopic sci-fi flair. After a failed terraforing project, the "Icarus program" was discovered on the "Second Earth" a special material.

You belong to one of the troops troupe researching on the new planet, collecting material and exploring the new planet. You return to the new planet again and again and puts your life on the game. Because you have to resist various dangers:

• Wildlife of the planet do not like you there and you have to go to the fight
• Hunger and thirst want to be fought so that you can explore the world at all
• Oxygen is also slow, because the air of the planet itself is toxic
• Randomly occurring weather events make life difficult for you

The focus of the game is strongly on PVE aspects and offers classic survival features such as crafting and exploration. However, she is always under time pressure. If you do not reach the landing ship, which brings you back to the orbital station, you will be left behind. Icarus is one of our 8 new survival games you can look forward to 2021.

When and where ICarus appears? Actually, ICarus should appear on the 12th of August, but has now been moved to November (via Steam). As a platform, only the PC (Steam) is known. There will be several betas before the release.

• Here you come to the Steam page of Icarus

Roadmap reveals beta content

This offers the beta: Together with the announcement of the shift, the developers delivered a roadmap on which you can see which content you can play. The beta is divided into several weekends:

• 28.-29. August: Focus on exploration and construction, only the forest biom is playable
• 11.-12. September: Storms sweeping over the world and are a danger, still only in the forest
• 25.-26. September: The Arctic BIOM is accessible and brings new animals and snowstorms
• 9.-10. October: You can explore the desert biom with his new dangers
• 23.-24. October: Factions come for which your missions can do
• 6.-7. November: A special community event with prices

The beta from August is no longer under an NDA, as the developer streamers and Content Creator invite to produce content for their community. So you will probably be able to see videos and streams to Icarus from the 28th of August.

How do I do with the beta? If your iCarus pre-ordered, you will receive a guaranteed access to the beta tests. However, the developers also want to distribute Keys to Content Creator so they can invite their community. So, just look at Twitch when you want to join.

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Icarus currently sounds promising and with Dean Hall sits a creative head behind the project. Dayz, which also comes from his pen, is considered one of the founders of the modern survival genre. It is still enormously popular and is one of the best and most popular survival games at all:

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