Icarus is free to play this weekend with double experience enabled. All DLC is on sale, and a "Free Weekend Bundle" containing the base game and major expansions is available at an additional discount.

Over the past year, 52 free weekly updates were released. Major updates include:

• Mendel Update: Overhaul of creature husbandry with genetics, bloodlines, phenotypes, inheritable traits, new farm animals, expanded talent trees, and improved tame commands.
• Kepler Update: Tier 5 technology, new weapons, tools, building pieces, and quality-of-life improvements for all players (released alongside Dangerous Horizons).
• Copernicus Update: Introduced Legendary Weapons with unique abilities.
• Mounts and Tames Updates: New tameable creatures (Forest Wolves, Ubis, Boars, Gribblers), carts, saddles, and rideable Mammoths.
• Timber Extraction Unit: Legendary harvesting tool that gathers wood and doubles as a ranged weapon.
• Single Barrel Grenade Launcher: First weapon of the Launcher archetype.

The Inaris Flashlight is the first Workshop-purchasable light source, found in the Gadgets category. Compared to the planetary-crafted T4 Flashlight, it has a maximum range shorter by about 15 meters but a 15% larger battery lasting through the first two nights on Icarus.

Content in development for the Elysium map includes:

• A new branching narrative mission chain.
• A new world boss called "The Malformation."
• A new two-person hoverframe.
• New creatures, items, and more.

The Olympus Operations update continues with a revamp to the Livewire Operation. The mission will be adjusted to improve the experience, similar to other early Olympus Operations being updated.

• Double Experience Event Banner and XP enabled.

• Workshop Flashlight renamed to Inaris Flashlight.

• Increased health and damage of Irradiated Mutation (Wraith).

• Fixed Sandworm Lifecycle Poster display (was showing corkboard).

• Added giant roach zapper audio event.

• Item Popup Widget weight number now includes items within its own inventory.

• Fixed shadow artifacts from DF meshes on Simple Building Shadow settings.

• Beachhead improvements: Easy XP penalty reduced from 25% to 0%; new quest tip for crouch stealth/damage bonus; creature movement speed baseline reduced from -10% to -15%.

• Mission RAD_E second half of quest steps now playable.

• Radboss mission: boss no longer sits still after 3 attacks; added roar break at 10% health; fixed melee attack double damage.

• Livewire updates: fixed quest flow; reduced Terrenus spawns in final stage; added prepare weapon and optional armor subquest.

• Correctly tagged aluminium building pieces (were tagged as iron).

A free weekend is now live for ICARUS, accompanied by a Double XP event that lasts for the duration. The game and all DLC are on sale, with a special limited-time 'Free Weekend Bundle' containing major expansions.

• Free Weekend Bundle: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/81998/Icarus_Free_Weekend_Bundle/

The bundle includes:

• Icarus (80% off) – Base game with Olympus map, 69 missions, unique creatures, 5 Tech Levels, Oil, Exotics, and 241 free weekly content updates.
• Dangerous Horizons (25% off) – Second major expansion adding Elysium map, 17 missions, drivable vehicle, new mounts, 35+ creatures, Tundra and Geothermal Biomes, radiation gameplay, and more.
• New Frontiers (33% off) – First major expansion adding Prometheus map, 27 missions, new mounts, Swamp, Volcanic and Grassland Biomes, new creatures and resources.
• Styx (33% off) – Expansion with Styx map and 33 missions, more challenging survival experience with unique biomes and creatures.
• Great Hunt Campaigns (33% off) – Experimental expansion with three branching mission campaigns across Olympus, Styx, and Prometheus, multi-stage boss encounters, and legendary weapons.

Additional bundle: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/35727/Icarus_Complete_the_Set/

ICARUS store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1149460/ICARUS/