DayZ Creator's New Game Icarus Gets Intense Trailer | Game Rant
The zombie survival game DayZ began as a mod for Bohemia Interactive Studio's ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead by Dean Hall that became a game of its own after he was hired by Bohemia. It officially released in 2018 and continues to add new features on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One to this day, having contributed to a phenomenon of survival-based titles through the 2010s. Now Hall has debuted a new game called Icarus that promises to be the "future" of the genre.
Icarus was announced on June 7 through news releases published on the game's website, one of which promotes the reunion of Hall and former DayZ Creative Director Brian Hicks, called "two of the godfathers of survival games." A full trailer for the game was shown as part of the 2020 PC Gaming Show, much of which should look familiar for fans of games like Beam Team Games' Stranded Deep, Endnight Games' The Forest, or Studio Wildcard's Ark: Survival Evolved in terms of gathering materials and building structures.
Where this new title stands out is in its aesthetic, asking players to survive and thrive on a "resource-rich frontier" alien world reminiscent of Hello Games' No Man's Sky; and in its tense tone, with "harsh environments" and "easily provoked" wildlife that require players to return to their orbiting space station to craft new technology. It is going to be a free-to-play, multiplayer co-operative title according to the game's website.
One of Icarus' biggest selling points as shown in its PC Gaming Show trailer is its "persistent metagame progression." Players can collect certain resources to make themselves more capable of surviving on the alien world, extending each session on the planet from 30-minutes to potentially days at a time.
While Icarus may be missing the zeitgeist of survival games that titles like DayZ helped spawn, the ongoing success of mainstays like Minecraft shows the genre still has legs. Whether or not Icarus is the "future of survival" as it advertises itself will have to be seen whenever it releases.
At the moment, Icarus' release date is listed as "coming soon" on Steam, so it's unclear when prospective fans can expect to play it. Hall announced the creation of RocketWerkz in 2014, and even though the studio previously put out Stationeers in the survival genre it should be interesting to see how this reunion of DayZ alumni shakes out.
Icarus is in development for PC.
Source: Icarus Website, Steam
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