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Icarus for PC is a session-based survival game and – a heads up for Greek mythology fans who might otherwise be disappointed – it involves a fictional planet called Icarus: it is not about the boy who didn’t listen to his dad, Daedalus (Dadalus?) and flew too close to the sun with rather terminal consequences! About the Game The storyline is simply told: an attempt was made, a short time before the story begins, to terraform Icarus, but something went horribly wrong because the planet was full of ‘exotics’ – unknown substances that wreaked havoc with the terraforming process. The player’s task is to investigate the exotics for your bosses at UDA, transport them safely to Earth and, of course, sell them for a massive profit if at all possible. You live on a space station that is orbiting the planet and are dropped down to the land once you have accepted a mission contract. Every mission has a timer, and you must return to home base before this timer runs out. Once time is up, your escape pod returns to the space station, and your character will remain on the surface, along with any power-ups and loot – permanently! (See The Nitty Gritty below for more about this.) As with most survival games, you are given the bare minimum with which you can survive. You must use your rudimentary tools to survive, build better tools and keep yourself always improving. You have to gather all sorts of resources as well as looking for the exotic substances: oxygen, food, water, and material to construct shelters to protect you from the hostile environment. Night and day are equally hard to survive, although in different ways. Amongst other things, you will face major weather events, such as lightning setting your camp on fire, storms pushing you off course, and the very dark nights are hard