This week, developer RocketWerkz Studio and porting developer GRIP Studios announced that their player versus environment survival title ‘ICARUS: Console Edition’ will launch across Xbox Series and PlayStation 5 consoles sometime early next year.
Previously released on PC via Steam earlier in the decade, the game is set on the hostile planet of Icarus, where humanity’s attempt at terraforming a new home spectacularly failed. Players will encounter both Earthlike and extraterrestrial environments filled with unrelenting storms, deadly fauna, toxic air, and sky-shattering lightning storms. As they fight to survive on the alien surface, humanity’s bravest souls will have to explore, craft, hunt, and prospect for invaluable exotic matter, as they try to endure this formidable final frontier.
Have a gander below for more details on ICARUS: Console Edition. No crossplay details have been mentioned at this time.
ICARUS: Console Edition features both the original base game released on PC, together with the New Frontiers Expansion, which unleashes the non-terraformed, alien region of Prometheus for an additional 64km2 of terrain to explore. Prometheus also adds a further three deadly biomes, a host of mutated, indigenous apex predators, over 30 additional workshop items, and the ability to craft more than 100 new items that make the difference between surviving or succumbing to Icarus’ threatening environments.
The New Frontiers Expansion also includes six narrative-driven missions across a single story arc, unveiling secrets lurking in the planet’s shadows.
ICARUS: Console Edition features:
- An alien planet that fights back: Every element of Icarus resists humanity’s presence, with flora, fauna, and even the planet’s atmosphere, trying to drive players back into orbit.
- Explore solo or in a party: Up to four players can drop onto the hostile alien world of Icarus, and strive to survive in the ultimate, uncompromising PvE experience.
- Two massive maps to explore: ICARUS: Console Edition includes the base game plus the New Frontiers expansion from the start, giving players 128km2 of terrain to conquer.
- Compelling progression and rewards: Begin with basic gear and advance to sophisticated tech, forge permanent upgrades with exotic matter, and master the arts of hunting, building, fishing, and survival.
- New frontiers, new deadly threats: Discover new maps, mutated creatures, ridable mounts, and untapped resources on the Prometheus region in the New Frontiers Expansion.
