By Indie Report in Icarus — 13 Feb 2026

Icarus New Release - Free Content Update

Date: February 13, 2026

ICARUS, the solo or multiplayer PvE survival game set in a savage wilderness after a failed terraforming project, receives a major content push. Players can now explore, build, craft, hunt, and complete narrative quests in both Open World operations and Individual Missions while prospecting for exotic matter.

Key Highlights

New Workshop Sickles added to the Orbital Workshop, bringing specialised harvesting effects previously exclusive to Super‑Cooled Ice, Miasma and Obsidian tools on the Prometheus map.
Upcoming free Mendel Update - every tamed animal and mount will gain a unique genotype, phenotype, lineage, and sex, plus the ability to breed farm animals and select mounts.
Quality‑of‑life improvements:
- On‑screen delete (X) button for the food‑modifiers widget, exposing the hidden right‑click cancel option.
- Updated character‑riding animations (correct position, orientation and scale).
- Loot‑retrieval button in the escape menu now works on mount corpses.

New Features

Workshop Sickles (research cost: 250 stabilised exotics; craft cost: 100 stabilised exotics + 200 ren):

Inaris “Icy” Sickle - 33‑35 melee damage, 50 frost damage; inflicts Freeze for 10 s; harvested plants have a 30 % chance to gain the Chilled alteration (lasting 100 % longer).
Inaris “Scorch” Sickle - 33‑35 melee damage, 50 fire damage; inflicts Burning for 10 s; harvested crops have a 25 % chance to be instantly cooked.
Inaris “Thorn” Sickle - 42‑45 melee damage, 50 poison damage; inflicts Miasma for 10 s; harvested plants gain the Thorned alteration (lasting 50 % longer).

Additional UI/Gameplay improvements:

Food‑modifier UI now shows an X‑button for quick removal; right‑click removal remains functional.
Character riding animations refreshed for proper alignment.
Stat check added to the FocusItemInfo widget to display secondary‑attack input information.
AI/Controller changes: OnPerceivedX events moved to IcarusNPCController; SpitAttack can specify tags for noise events; drones stop firing after their target dies.
New crafting recipe: Fur Stack - combine 200 Fur (2 stacks) into a single consumable item that can later be extracted back into 200 Fur.

Environment & NPC Enhancements

Hazmat suit now usable in radioactive zones (Eden).
NPC highlightable system re‑implemented with tag‑based logic.
Biome‑override volume added around Mission 3 lab (Elysium) and related biome rows updated.
Quest marker added to Olympus for the Farm NPC spawn; a pre‑built NPC Farm introduced for a new side‑quest (Flesh‑sac floater bestiary).
New NPC dialogue, prospect images, and missions for the Norex NPC across multiple maps (Olympus, Styx, Prometheus, Eden).

Turret & Weapon Updates

Range visualiser and recoil animation added (DH gated).
Crit stats and DPS balance applied to work‑in‑progress turrets.
Muzzle‑flash VFX updated to version 2.
Shotgun turret spread increased; muzzle/VFX locations fixed on Flamethrower turret.
Recoil animation and visualiser added for all turret types.

Bug Fixes

The following issues have been addressed:

Added X button for food‑modifier removal.
Corrected riding animation positioning.
Stat check for secondary‑attack info now visible.
AI event handling refined; drones and soldiers now behave correctly after target death.
Various asset fixes (collision, LODs, DF assets).
Loot retrieval works on nearby mount corpses.
Fixed mining‑laser achievement award, duplicate achievement number, and related Steam achievement issues.
Audio fixes for armor removal and corrosive damage.
Queen sandworm now dives underground on death, preventing environment blockage.
Lighting leaks, mesh culling, and turret muzzle‑flash location corrected.
Numerous duplicate and missing file fixes that previously blocked NPC invitations to Eden and the Elysium Farmer quest.