Our first major expansion for Icarus is coming. Icarus: New Frontiers launches August 24th and brings with it a new map, with all new biomes, mutated alien creatures, narrative missions, craftables, exotics, and more.
Icarus' First Cohort was dropped into safe Earth-like terraformed zones. Icarus: New Frontiers will take you deep into new regions of Icarus where alien creatures and habitats survived but were altered by the terraforming process - such as searingly hot volcanic regions, murky swamplands and eerie alien grasslands.
New technology also means you’ll be able to stay on the planet in Open World mode for consecutive Missions, so you better get comfortable with your new home away from home.
Jump in and have a read of all the details of what’s to come.
Icarus: New Frontiers
New Frontiers comes packed with new content. Regardless of how you like to play, there will be something for you and your team to jump into.
- A brand new map, with three new biomes - the searingly hot volcanic region, murky swamplands and eerie alien grasslands
- New extreme weather events for each biome, reflective of the atmospheric conditions of each environment
- 10+ mutated alien creatures. The terraforming process drastically impacted the local wildlife, and while it didn’t kill the creatures as it did in other zones, it terribly mutated them into the species you face now. Dreadwings, Lava Hunters, Needlers, Dracs, Drifters - their nicknames only tell half the story
- Six new narrative missions that play out in a sequenced story, leading you on a gradually darkening journey
- New mission logic and technology, allowing you to launch any mission, big or small, from your Open World (this will be added to the base game too, in our future Hypatia update)
- 100+ new items to craft, deploy and use across Icarus, along with five new raw resources generating a range of new recipes and tiers: Obsidian, Scoria, Crystalised Miasma, and more
- Native and exclusive to this new zone of Icarus are the new Red Exotics, found in exotic flora found around the map
- With this new currency come 30+ new items in the orbital workshop for you to purchase and a new system which allows you to purchase these from the surface via cargo pods
This is just the content coming at launch - as with all RocketWerkz games, we’ll continue to drop regular updates with more content, fixes, tweaks, improvements, and features. We’re done 85 consecutive weekly updates with Icarus so far, and we’re not stopping now.
Launching on 24 August
New Frontiers will launch on Steam on August 24th (EDT). Visit the Store Page to check timing in your region, and to Wishlist so you’re reminded when it launches.
As our first major expansion, this is the largest content and game update since launch, hence the version number will officially reach 2.0 with this update. Our ongoing weekly updates and larger content patches (Hypatia is next) will continue to add content to the base game as well as the new expansion, so even if you don’t have the expansion Icarus will continue to grow.
In the coming weeks we’ll reveal more details including screenshots and gameplay footage, so keep your eyes peeled.
If you don’t own New Frontiers, but someone in your gaming group does, you’ll be able to join and play in their hosted sessions without needing to own the expansion yourself. The only limitation is you can’t host the session, otherwise, you won’t be restricted. You’ll also be able to join Dedicated Server sessions of New Frontiers even if you don’t have it yourself, so there many ways to play if you aren’t sure about buying it yet.
