Icarus is a very solid PvE survival game that's been kicking around on the PC for more than four years, accruing a pretty significant player base in the process.
It had a particularly tough start to life in the wild, but the development team at RocketWerkz were noticeably diligent about rolling out updates and they have even released three major expansions, leaving the game in a much more impressive state in 2025.
Now, the console versions are on the way, with new releases for both the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.
In a recent interview with Eurogamer, studio head honcho Dean Hall (who is best known as the creator of zombie survival DayZ), shared his thinking when it came to the big gap between the PC and console releases.
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"Instead of holding PC development back because of console, and holding console development back because of PC - personally that bothers me intensely as a consumer; I really, really, really don't like that..." Hall confirmed.
"I wanted the console version to be the best console version that could be, and I wanted the PC version to be the best version it could be, and that means there are some content differences and some of the content on the console was packed differently."
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So if PC gaming is an anathema to you and you're wondering what it's all about, Icarus is a game that should impress even the most seasoned survival game player.
The game takes place on an Earth-like terraformed planet that went massively wrong for our scientists. That means that instead of a planet defined by its habitability and beauty, it's instead a land of toxic atmosphere and terrifyingly aggressive wildlife.
You play as a prospector, who drops from an orbital station to seek their fortune on a planet that can be very lucrative, assuming it doesn't kill you first.
It features all of the good stuff that you'd expect from a game in the genre, including a ton of crafting and harvesting, as well as plenty of exploration to be getting on with.
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There will be some differences between the PC and console versions, as Hall mentioned earlier, though the specifics of what that actually means in practice are yet to be determined.
The Xbox and PlayStation releases don't have fully confirmed release dates as of yet, though we do know that they'll be out at some point in early 2026.