Recent reviews by Vex

ive tried this game 2 times, one on release and the other march 2025 .. the first time i played i was bored within the first 2 hours and hopped off not to return till today. and today ive managed to play 3 hours and i just dont know if i want to continue again. im a fan of open world survival crafting games but for some reason this just doesnt hit for me. usually the start of a game is supposed to pull you in but it just doesnt do that. feels empty. maybe playing with others will fill in the gap of emptiness but im not sure. i dont recommend for solo play or for groups less than 4. in my 3 hours and first boss i already wanted to move on.

id say usually for me to recommend a game i would need to think of it as atleast as a 7/10, for me SOTF scores around a 6. my playtime shows 18.7 hours but 4.3 were from launch but i gave up on it and waited to come back at a later time. i just finished a 14.3 hour run with a tm8 so thats what this review is about.

ill start by saying building is completely optional, other than a quick tent or campfire and (1) required building we didnt do anything else. bunkers do have beds that can be used to sleep/save and that worked out for us the whole time. also energy bars and soda kept stamina up so we really didnt stress that part too much.

the lore, the bunkers, notes, and vids seemed really cool, going through and seeing some of these places were nice, finding out who certain people are and finding out what each of these factions had to do with the island.. like it all seemed to be building up to some big twist or big plot.. but in the end it fell flat. i have so many questions left unanswered.. it felt either rushed to complete the game or just dropped completely. what did sort of seem like it made sense just didnt mean anything. the ending and the end game item you craft just seems like a waste of time..

combat was pretty much same as i remember the first one. so nothing to add on that, its not hard nor easy so that wasent bad. the map is nice, traversal on anything other than running and glider is a bit rough. weather had almost no bearing to the game other than stamina drop from cold. the mechanics seemed rather meh. nothing we havent seen before.

all in all, 6/10... it leaves you expecting more and theres just nothing left. no point to build or maintain a base, no point for the end game item but 1 main thing but this isnt really a game you stick around post credits to do stuff in. while typing im thinking of going lower tbh, 6/10 might be generous...

thanks for the game though, i would definetly give a 3rd game a try but i hope if you ever do that you answer all the loose ends and make the story better.. and make base building and survival actaully meant somthing.

base game is 1/15 of the content
DLC's cost an arm and a leg, even discounts are bad.. 50% off still means $700 in dlc, which just ISNT RIGHT
lower the cost, make a bundle containing all for WAYYY LESSS, like $100 for everything for a short time.

as far as icarus goes, this is a survival game but its like 20% survival. food-water-oxygen are the 3 main things you will need to have to survive. which those are relatively very easy to find and create a stock pile of. there is storm event that you also need to deal with but that is easily countered with shelter. which there is tiered storms which requires better shelter from thatch-wood-stone-metal-concrete.. each type being able to stand harder weather. other than that the other 80% of this game is gathering material, from going cave to cave or hunting animals for bones and leather... finding and planting crops to have material for food to make buffs, or to craft better equipment all to complete whatever mission you have. some missions are as simple as mining or farming, other missions could be to kill a certain animal or build certain gadgets or buildings. missions can take 30min-10hrs+.. its all on how fast you want to grind for stuff. every mission is also its own instance so you restart each time from ground zero however you can earn credits from completing missions so you can buy gear to take with you into future expeditions. there is a open world mode to have fun and just progress aswell for those who look a more relaxed time.

all in all i think icarus is good, i think the devs care alot and i respect them for it. ive never seen a dev team do weekly updates actually adding content like that before, and theyve built a pretty solid game. ill just say if your coming into this game thinking its gonna be some sort of hardcore survival game, thats not really correct, its more of a material gathering game with survival sheets. 8/10 (in my top 10 games list)

BEST colony sim game ive ever played. right above kenshi for me.. might be alil learning curve but once you get it down its great!. i will say vanilla is fun, but is limited after awhile, i do recommend dlcs.. id say biotech>royalty>ideology(only if you want to spice up colony) >.. anamoly (not really needed)... those will add alot of fun to your game.. and not to mention the mods for this game whew, the modding community for this game is amazing. you can find alot of stuff to mess around with and try. will be buying any dlc this game gets

does anyone know how to delete the browser history on the computer in game.... asking for a friend

i almost uninstalled withing 20 minutes of owning, couldnt even get past the first cutscene of the game because of the constant freezing and pausing of the cutscenes.. had to google search what was happening. after another 20min of searching i read that it was the launcher, well i did what people said to bypass it and still, couldnt get through the VERY FIRST CUTSCENE, so then i searched again because i never finished this game way back then and wanted to really play... so then i saw "run as admin" so i did.. and it WORKED and i got a good 5 hours of gameplay. enjoying it so far, barely any issues and cutscene worked perfectly.. twas great.. but then i closed the game and decided to play a few hours later. started it up how i did to make it run good, its now running horrible again, cutscenes are stutter freezing, sound is breaking then coming on again, im watching the cutscene replay a certain part 3 times... its actually depressing. im gonna keep trying because i want to finish this, but im very unsatisfied i have to deal with issues like this.. minor bugs or somthing sure, game breaking lag,stutters, sound.. shameful.

if u wanna watch different groups of melee units basically form a line up against eachother and do the same motions over and over until one side loses this is the game for you,

if you wanna watch 200000 ranged units shooting 200000 projectiles at other ranged units also shooting 200000 projectiles until one side loses this is also the game for you...

numbers are there but its just boring to watch for the most part.. u could get some excitement ig with "chuck norris" vs 200000 tanks and see how it goes but thats all this is. 3/10.. i price this is $3

one of the best tycoon games ive played, also has multiplayer which in my opinion is super cool to have implemented. id love to see more MP additions but altogether very much worth the purchase!

50% COD, 30% battlefield, 10% squad, 10% roblox on steroids

-Grind for levels to unlock new guns
-Kills with weapons Unlock attachments and camos
-local, squad, and squad leader voice chats
-Not very Tactical its mostly run and gun
-no real sense of logistics
-full rekit off respawn.. if its a tight area of battle grenades and rockets are almost endless
-you will always find action.. or action finds you
-Medic is pretty much the best class
-Bleed aspect can be annoying
-maps are "just" big enough. since it can be tight, tactics are kinda pushed to "shoot first think never"

its more of an arcade shooter placed into a milsim setting, which isnt really bad but its not for EVERYONE. if you arent used to this type of game just be ready to die from 37 angles while aiming at somone. id give it a 8/10, id like to see a logistics update so ammunition and supplies arent endless. forward bases for teams would be cool too.