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Co-op survival game Icarus celebrates 153 consecutive weekly updates by giving you a flamethrower and a free weekend

Pabio November 8, 2024

In the three years since the release of co-op survival game Icarus, developer RocketWerkz has continually updated it. And by continually, I mean on a weekly basis: the latest update is the 153rd since December 2021. That’s a lot of fixes!

To celebrate everything that has been added to Icarus since launch, including new operations and missions, new weapons and items, new creatures and a comprehensive fishing system, as well as DLC that has doubled the size of the map, Icarus offers players yet another new toy: a flamethrower.

And to encourage more people to light up (the flamethrower, I mean), Rocketwerkz is also offering everyone a free weekend. Dive in and play the base game for free all weekend on Steam. If you want to stay after, there is more good news: Icarus is 50% off for next weekand there are also discounts on different editions and expansions.

If you’ve never played, the premise is that there was a great gold rush to mine valuable minerals on the planet Icarus, but in the midst of terraforming the world for habitation, everything went wrong turned. Now the air is toxic, the weather is brutal, there’s a mix of alien and animal life on the planet, and prospectors (like you and your friends) are descending from an orbiting space station to collect all the resources possible.

I’ve been away from Icarus for a while myself, so I might return to it this weekend, or maybe next. I see cows being added in the next update, and I’m more of a farming fan than a flamethrower enthusiast. . Even if you don’t like grueling survival experiences, I found this can be a great relaxing game: build a farm, raise strange alien creatures, farm, fish, and only carry out dangerous missions when you want.

Just be careful if you invite friends over: I’ve had many fires accidentally burn down my house, and that was before they added flamethrowers. And since I asked Dean Hall for a photo of the flamethrower to use in this article and he sent me several, here are the rest:

A man in an astronaut outfit using a flamethrower