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Games like Guns of Icarus Online

If Guns of Icarus Online is your kind of game, the closest matches are Guns of Icarus Alliance, Stars of Icarus and Comanche — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its funny, intense and nostalgic. 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.

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Guns of Icarus Online is a steampunk multiplayer airship combat game released in 2012 by Muse Games. Players crew massive steampunk vessels, loading cannons and keeping their ships flying through coordinated repairs. The core experience emphasizes teamwork over individual prowess, with each role aboard an airship contributing to victory or defeat. Reviewers highlight that crew coordination matters more than individual skill, and players describe the experience as funny, intense, and nostalgic. The game features weekly community events, supports event-hosting and LAN party play, and maintains a 92% positive rating from over 6,300 Steam reviews. Priced at $4.99, it is marked as playable on Steam Deck and spans the Action, Indie, Adventure, and Simulation genres with mechanics centered on airship-repair, cannon-combat, and crew-coordination.

About Guns of Icarus Online: Assemble your crew, take to the skies in the premier PvP airship combat game. Guns of Icarus Online is all about flying massive airships, shooting big turret weapons, and working as a team for supremacy of the skies. Everyone as one, victory or death, together.

2012ActionIndieAdventureSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 64Windows · macOS · Linuxby Muse Games
Guns of Icarus Online — Steam game cover
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Airship repair and engineering are deepCommunity and devs are exceptionally welcomingCrew coordination matters more than individual skillFunnyIntenseNostalgic

Players who liked Guns of Icarus Online also play

Steam players who put hours into Guns of Icarus Online 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.

  1. Guns of Icarus Alliance

    WHY THIS

    Shares crew coordination and an intense mood with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Top pick for Guns of Icarus Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Own the skies in steam-powered airships! Guns of Icarus Alliance is a team-based online game that pits co-op crews against both rival teams and an AI that learns your tactics. Players become part of the story as each battle shapes history in an ever-changing steampunk world.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Stars of Icarus

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Guns of Icarus Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guns of Icarus Online.

    The ultimate space battle PvP experience. Captain frigates, pilot fighters, and man the guns. In the forgotten arenas of space, communication with your crew is key. Victory or death, together.

    2026ActionIndieSimulationSteam ↗
  3. Comanche

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Third-strongest match for Guns of Icarus Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Comanche is a modern helicopter shooter set in an alternative future. Fight in the evolving singleplayer campaign, or master your skills in Conflicts missions.

    2021ActionSimulation19.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Counter-Strike

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Ranked #4 for Guns of Icarus Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Play the world's number 1 online action game. Engage in an incredibly realistic brand of terrorist warfare in this wildly popular team-based game. Ally with teammates to complete strategic missions. Take out enemy sites. Rescue hostages. Your role affects your team's success. Your team's success affects your role.

    2000Action9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Counter-Strike: Source

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Ranked #5 for Guns of Icarus Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Counter-Strike: Source blends Counter-Strike's award-winning teamplay action with the advanced technology of Source™ technology.

    2004Action9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Task Force

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Ranked #6 for Guns of Icarus Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Task Force is the ultimate tactical shooter sandbox that focuses on close quarters infantry combat. It's made by a small indie team of 3 developers that strive to create exceptional action simulation games.

    2022ActionStrategyIndieSteam ↗
  7. Insurgency

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Guns of Icarus Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Take to the streets for intense close quarters combat, where a team's survival depends upon securing crucial strongholds and destroying enemy supply in this multiplayer and cooperative Source Engine based experience.

    2014ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Microsoft Allegiance

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Ranked #8 for Guns of Icarus Online fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Allegiance is a team-based multiplayer space combat sim that seamlessly combines first-person space combat with a top-down-view perspective, real time strategy, and real time tactics. Team commanders build bases, research technology, and coordinate players to execute a wide range of strategies.

    2017ActionStrategySimulationFreeSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Guns of Icarus Online

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Airships: Conquer the Skies

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Reviewers of Guns of Icarus Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Construct mighty steampunk airships and fly them into battle, waging war and conquering the skies!

    2018ActionStrategyIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Windforge

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Guns of Icarus Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Guns of Icarus Online.

    WindForge is a side-scrolling block-building game where you explore hostile skies in an ever-changing Steampunk world. Everything you see can be created or destroyed, creating an RPG without barriers that rewards creative problem solving and improvisation.

    2014ActionIndieRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Airmen

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of Guns of Icarus Online cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Airmen is a first person ship building and battling game featuring airships, landships and watercraft. Crew your ship solo or alongside friends on dangerous expeditions into the archipelago to complete contracts, collect resources, and upgrade your ships.

    2017ActionStrategyIndie14.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Guns of Icarus Online at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Guns of Icarus Online on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Guns of Icarus Online on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guns of Icarus Online.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Guns of Icarus Online on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guns of Icarus Online.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Guns of Icarus Online on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Guns of Icarus Online.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Guns of Icarus Online on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Guns of Icarus Online.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Guns of Icarus Online on Steam right now. Shares Action with Guns of Icarus Online.

    You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.

    2009Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Guns of Icarus Online on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Guns of Icarus Online.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Guns of Icarus Online on Steam right now. Shares Action with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.

    2009Action2.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Guns of Icarus Online.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Guns of Icarus Online.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Cube Escape: Paradox

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guns of Icarus Online.

    The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.

    2018IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Muse Games

Other recommendable Steam games by Muse Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Wildmender

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Muse Games, the studio behind Guns of Icarus Online. Shares Indie and Adventure with Guns of Icarus Online.

    A desert gardening survival game. Start from a tiny spring and cultivate a blooming garden. Explore a vast world amid the sands and uncover its mysteries. Can you defend against the relentless forces of nature and mysterious wraith corruption, to bring life to a dying world?

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Embr

    WHY THIS

    Shares a funny mood with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Another title from Muse Games, the studio behind Guns of Icarus Online. Shares Action and Indie with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Fight fires for fun and profit in this unpredictable and frantic multiplayer game. Team up with friends, take on daily challenges and climb to the top of the corporate firefighting ladder. More than one way to become a hero!

    2021ActionStrategyIndie2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Guns of Icarus Alliance

    WHY THIS

    Shares crew coordination and an intense mood with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Another title from Muse Games, the studio behind Guns of Icarus Online. Shares Action and Indie with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Own the skies in steam-powered airships! Guns of Icarus Alliance is a team-based online game that pits co-op crews against both rival teams and an AI that learns your tactics. Players become part of the story as each battle shapes history in an ever-changing steampunk world.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Flight of the Icarus

    WHY THIS

    Shares a nostalgic mood with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Another title from Muse Games, the studio behind Guns of Icarus Online. Shares Action and Indie with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Flight of the Icarus is a game where you play as a privateer who owns an airship that helps ferry goods from town to town in a post-apocalyptic world where the skies are dominated by pirates and danger. Shoot down enemy aeroplanes with a variety of deadly weaponry. Keep the ship from falling out the sky.

    2010ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. CreaVures

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Muse Games, the studio behind Guns of Icarus Online. Shares Indie with Guns of Icarus Online.

    Take control of five cute, mystical creatures of miniature proportions called CreaVures. CreaVures always travel in pairs, and they must use their special abilities to help each other solve interesting platforming puzzles.

    2011Indie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Hamsterdam

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Muse Games, the studio behind Guns of Icarus Online. Shares Action and Indie with Guns of Icarus Online.

    An arcade brawler where you become the Hamster-fu master to save the town of Hamsterdam. Will you be the hero your town needs? Will you defeat the whisker twister in chief, the vile Chinchilla Marlo? You bet your bushy tail!

    2019ActionIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Stars of Icarus

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Muse Games, the studio behind Guns of Icarus Online. Shares Action and Indie with Guns of Icarus Online.

    The ultimate space battle PvP experience. Captain frigates, pilot fighters, and man the guns. In the forgotten arenas of space, communication with your crew is key. Victory or death, together.

    2026ActionIndieSimulationSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Guns of Icarus Online

Does Guns of Icarus Online run on Steam Deck?
Guns of Icarus Online is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Guns of Icarus Online cost?
Guns of Icarus Online is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Guns of Icarus Online have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Guns of Icarus Online supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
What games are most similar to Guns of Icarus Online?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Guns of Icarus Online are Guns of Icarus Alliance, Stars of Icarus, Comanche.
Who developed Guns of Icarus Online?
Guns of Icarus Online was developed by Muse Games.

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