In survival game Icarus, corrupted terraforming leads to an 'interstellar gold rush'

In survival game Icarus, corrupted terraforming leads to an 'interstellar bonanza'

30 trillion miles from Earth, the planet Icarus underwent a terraforming effort meant to create a habitable new paradise for fallible life. It didn't work out. The terraforming system failed due to the reaction of exotic resources hidden on the planet, resulting in an environment that's extremely toxic to man. Whoops.

But among tragedy, thither's profits, and the failed terraforming of Icarus has created a space-age golden rush. While the exotic minerals construct the major planet unliveable, those same resources are extremely valuable backrest on Earth. And since humans ass't safely live on Icarus, the goal now is to launch missions from the orbiting space platform down to the planet's surface, harvest as more than of the exotic material as potential, then get the hell out of there.

Icarus, the co-op survival game being developed aside studio RocketWerkz and Dean Hall, creator of DayZ, spells all this out in the new lore trailer you can watch above. And hey, guess what? We got to play a trifle of Icarus with Dean Hall and members of the RocketWerkz team up last week. You give notice read our early impressions of Icarus Hera, including a moment when Foyer caught flaming and I tested to extinguish the flames by licking him with a broom.

The new "No Rescue" trailer above is a combination of live actors and CGI, and gives United States of America the backstory of the survival game, as wellspring As a bit of mystery. Some of the the great unwashe who survived prospecting missions on Icarus, for example, think the terraforming failure was no chance event after all.

"Doesn't it feel like a coincidence that they explicit the satellite unliveable just when they discovered the most valuable material in the universe?" asks a grizzled former prospector in the trailer.

The trailer also lays out the gameplay loop of the session-based selection gimpy, which has missions that stern go anyplace from hours to weeks and stern reenforcement equal to eight co-op players (it can also be played unaccompanied). "It was all about the exotics," says another former prospector in the trailer. "You find them, you sell them back out at the station, you get more gear. You go up back polish, find Sir Thomas More. Drop, survive, and repeat."

There's also the mystery of Mo Chau, a scientist who disappeared during a military mission. Around prospectors assume she was lost in a rage or killed by a bear (transplanted from World to Icarus on with plants and else wildlife during the terraforming process), while others think she simply chose to stay behind, despite the extremum dangers of the alien planet. In the trailer, though, Chau certainly didn't look too happy to cost left behind. As Dean Hall told us when he revealed the game at the PC Gaming Show last yr, if the mission timer runs out and you young lady your dropship back into orbit, you lose everything: your part, their progress, and all the gear they've got with them.

"RocketWerkz has a multi-year plan for Icarus," reads the press press release sent to PC Gamer, "adding chapters with additional playable content and lore. The first chapter, The Prototypical Cohort, begins in Icarus' most Earth-like biomes before the game expands to to a greater extent alien and threatening zones."

We don't yet have a unblock date for Icarus, though it's planned to launching on Steam clean old in 2021. If you'Ra interested in seeing more, RocketWerkz will be streaming some gameplay from Icarus untaped on its Jerk channel on Thursday, Apr 8, at 5 pm PT / 8 pm ET.

Chris started playacting PC games in the 1980s, started written material about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting post-free to write approximately them in the late 2000s. Following few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer leased him in 2014, probably sol he'd stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a bon-hate relationship with selection games and an unhealthy fascination with the intimate lives of NPCs. He's also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so atomic number 2 can make up his own.