Games like ICARUS
If ICARUS is your kind of game, the closest matches are Satisfactory, Green Hell and Valheim — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its building options are amazing, constant updates and improvements and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →ICARUS is a survival experience developed by RocketWerkz, released in 2021 at $34.99 USD, set on a terraformed world where something went catastrophically wrong. Players navigate solo or cooperatively through procedurally generated environments, constructing bases, engaging in combat, and managing survival mechanics across both open-world exploration and structured narrative missions. Reviewers note players find the experience challenging and tense, with the world demanding constant attention to survive. Players highlight that developers actively incorporate community feedback through regular updates, maintaining engagement with the evolving experience. The title holds a 77% positive rating from over 29,000 Steam reviews, though it is not currently supported on Steam Deck.
About ICARUS: ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Players who liked ICARUS also play
Steam players who put hours into ICARUS also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with ICARUS.
Top pick for ICARUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ICARUS.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ICARUS.
Second-strongest match for ICARUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares base building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with ICARUS.
Third-strongest match for ICARUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
The Planet Crafter
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ICARUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with ICARUS.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Voidtrain
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with ICARUS.
Ranked #5 for ICARUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Sons Of The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with ICARUS.
Ranked #6 for ICARUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
CryoFall
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with ICARUS.
Ranked #7 for ICARUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
CryoFall is a sci-fi colony simulation survival game set on a forgotten planet in a distant future. Master technology, agriculture, trading, industry, cybernetics, exploration, and more!
Soulmask
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with ICARUS.
Ranked #8 for ICARUS fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ICARUS.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Reviewers mention these as similar to ICARUS
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The Long Dark
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ICARUS.
Reviewers of ICARUS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ICARUS.
THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares base building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with ICARUS.
Reviewers of ICARUS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Sons Of The Forest
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with ICARUS.
Reviewers of ICARUS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
Sent to find a missing billionaire on a remote island, you find yourself in a cannibal-infested hellscape. Craft, build, and struggle to survive, alone or with friends, in this terrifying new open-world survival horror simulator.
No Man's Sky
WHY THIS
Shares base building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with ICARUS.
Reviewers of ICARUS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
No Man's Sky is a game about exploration and survival in an infinite procedurally generated universe.
ARK: Survival Evolved
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ICARUS.
Reviewers of ICARUS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
Stranded on the shores of a mysterious island, you must learn to survive. Use your cunning to kill or tame the primeval creatures roaming the land, and encounter other players to survive, dominate... and escape!
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of ICARUS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with ICARUS.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Conan Exiles
WHY THIS
Shares base building and a tense mood with ICARUS.
Reviewers of ICARUS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with ICARUS.
Reviewers of ICARUS cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ICARUS.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ICARUS at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under ICARUS on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with ICARUS.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under ICARUS on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with ICARUS.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Phasmophobia
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under ICARUS on Steam right now. Shares Action with ICARUS.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under ICARUS on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~71% under ICARUS on Steam right now. Shares Action with ICARUS.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Schedule I
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under ICARUS on Steam right now. Shares Action and Simulation with ICARUS.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under ICARUS on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with ICARUS.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with ICARUS.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with ICARUS.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from RocketWerkz
Other recommendable Steam games by RocketWerkz, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Stationeers
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ICARUS.
Another title from RocketWerkz, the studio behind ICARUS. Shares Action and Simulation with ICARUS.
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Out of Ammo
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ICARUS.
Another title from RocketWerkz, the studio behind ICARUS. Shares Action with ICARUS.
Out of Ammo is an intense VR Tower Defense / FPS hybrid strategy game that will have you constructing defenses, calling in artillery, issuing orders, and taking direct control of your soldiers in order to survive a relentless enemy onslaught.
Out of Ammo: Death Drive
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ICARUS.
Another title from RocketWerkz, the studio behind ICARUS. Shares Action with ICARUS.
Death Drive is the apocalyptic sequel to Out of Ammo, a hybrid VR Tower Defense / FPS strategy game. Embark on a wild road trip developed exclusively for VR. Build defenses, scavenge scrap and and kill undead zombie hordes using an arsenal of firearms, melee weapons and mounted defenses.
Art of the Rail
WHY THIS
Another title from RocketWerkz, the studio behind ICARUS. Shares Simulation with ICARUS.
Spiritual remake of the classic transport tycoon games. Build a profitable transport network and grow your worlds economy, either on your own in singleplayer or in multiplayer whether cooperatively or competitively.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Satisfactory
WHY THIS
Shares base building and an immersive mood with ICARUS.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure and Simulation with ICARUS.
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Green Hell
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with ICARUS.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares base building, procedural generation and an immersive mood with ICARUS.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with ICARUS.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
The Planet Crafter
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with ICARUS.
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Frequently asked about ICARUS
- Does ICARUS work on Steam Deck?
- ICARUS is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does ICARUS cost?
- ICARUS is listed on Steam at 34.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does ICARUS have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — ICARUS supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to ICARUS?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ICARUS are Satisfactory, Green Hell, Valheim.
- Who developed ICARUS?
- ICARUS was developed by RocketWerkz.
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