ICARUS

well made game, immersive, you progress by exploring, building, hunting. Expansions feel too expensive unless on offer, very nice time sink!

If you want a second job of tracking and grinding resources, then this is the game for you. The physics and terrain engines allow things to be hidden right under the 'top' of the terrain mesh—items, trees, wood, and animal corpses randomly disappear beneath the ground where you can't reach or find them. On top of that, the logical order in the tech tree doesn't actually match what you can make. They just kind of stuck things wherever it fits, so you end up needing item 7 on Tier 4 just to make item 3. Automated machinery and high-tier tech don't actually eliminate the tedious multi-step crafting loops either; they just demand rarer resources to build machines that still force you to micromanage manual ingredient ratios. Even firearms are incredibly grinding to make—one single bullet takes multiple iron bars, and the casings aren't even reusable, making you wonder why you should bother. Stringing power lines is horrible. The game doesn't explain anything, forcing you to use the R view to ensure lines are blue and correctly connected. Snapping is awkward, and utility poles can't even be placed more than a single grid space apart, wasting endless trees just trying to connect a single thing. Oh, and items, deployables, and workstations just randomly disappear for no reason. I went to go mine something in a cave, came back, and my skinning bench was just gone. No bundle items left behind, no idea why. Nothing around it was damaged, so... After yet another cabinet randomly disappeared, I uninstalled it. That's four things randomly disappearing while out doing other activities, with no bundle left behind with the contents, and nothing. TODAY, in less than 3 hours. There is no reason for it to disappear—nothing was attacking, the structure was undamaged, and nothing makes sense other than a major bug in the game. Uninstalled, I am done.

With the hours I have played, I obviously would recommend this to anyone who plays survival games. The building system is nice, weather effects are good, you can automate mining, mounts are good. Downside - starting a new world is a whole lot of work, although you can buy a bunch of equipment, and send mounts to space, you can't ship useful resources or equipment to space. I did buy it on special - so for $5 its been great. Also bought a couple of the expansions - including pets.

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Survival, crafting, multiplayer, etc

Don't be intimidated by the amount of DLCs ICARUS has. I have bought the base game during a sale for four bucks and it's the best value on the market right now. I have reached 40 hours yet there's so much more to do, build, upgrade and explore. Definitely recommend!

Only buy this game if you are prepared to scream and cry constantly for the first five hours of game time. Be prapared to spawn into the game and INSTANTLY get killed by random creatures that are waiting for you in the area where your pod touches down, before you can create even the most basic weapons. Be prepared to be swamped by wolves, bears, boars and angry birds AT THE SAME TIME by the time you have crafted your first stone axe. Be prepared for your items to have zero reliability ... you can use your stone knives twice before they break, for instance. Twice. Most of the time, you can't get through an actual fight using even a brand new one, before it breaks. This is a very, -very- bad game. By far the worst purchase I've made in the last 13 months, only surpassed in the last three or four years, by Dune: Awakening with it's flying sandworms and random insta-deaths without explanation and disappearing gear and frankly, I think the ONLY REASON why this isn't worse yet, is because I've only just gotten it, whereas I was a big enough idiot to sink 450 hours into Dune. Don't waste your money. if they GAVE this game away for free, I would not recommend it.