Flight of the Icarus

I’ll be honest, I didn’t even know Guns Of Icarus had a predecessor until I looked on the Wikipedia page earlier this month. This entry displays many characteristics of what I would assume to be inspirations (Laputa: Castle In The Sky, Mad Max, maybe even a little Star Wars or Fifth Element), and I feel that a lot of said inspiration was also lost during the development of the following entries. Then again, I haven’t played any of the Icarus games in over a decade, so maybe I’m just misremembering. The concept and gameplay loop are both solid, but in the end, it really does just feel like a low-budget Guns Of Icarus. It’s got a good soundtrack, although there’s only one song, and the campaign has a decent bit of “content”, but due to the way the campaign actually works, you need to do at least three full playthroughs in order to see it all. Each level is essentially timed survival, but depending on what path you take, you’ll get more/harder enemies and different loot upon level completion. There’s also a bit of lore on each destination in-between levels, which is accompanied by some decent art. The UI is a mess and it lacks basic options such as a sensitivity slider, plus there’s a really weird post-processing filter which makes the entire game look like ass.

It’s not bad, but even as a fan of singleplayer games, I don’t see a world in which I would ever choose to play this over either of the sequels. If you’re a fan of the Guns Of Icarus franchise, pick it up on sale for a dollar and see where the series got its roots. If you’ve never even heard of Guns Of Icarus up until this point, give it a pass.

game is pretty terrible just play the squeal

Games Fine, its feels like its 10 years older then it is though. Not worth $5 but if you can get it on sale I would pick it up.

Don't mind all the negative reviews, they're from misinformed gamers who only played Guns Of Icarus Online first and can't appreciate that this is a completely different gaming experience. It's like complaining that Pokemon Pinball is nothing like Pokemon Red & Blue.

Guns Of Icarus Online is a cooperative arena shooter where you and a crew face off against other crews in gladiatorial sky battles. Guns Of Icarus, or Flight Of The Icarus as it's now been renamed, is a roguelike arcade shooter. Nothing alike except that both pilot a steam airship.

There is no winning the game, there is no beating anything, it's you set adrift against an infinite hostile sky. All you can do is rage against the storm and take as many pirates with you in a blaze of glory.

Relive the epic tale of Icarus in a steampunk setting!

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After going through all my old games on Steam and categorizing the ones I completed, I clicked on this game for some nostalgia only to see the reviews. Mostly negative? Really? Did they even finish the game? I bought Guns of Icarus Online BECAUSE of this game, which was called "Guns of Icarus" at the time, not the other way around for some "skin". I anxiously awaited the release of Guns of Icarus Online for years.

Pros
- The game is still a challenge 12 years later! I just tried to focus only armor with no tesla/rockets and I got SWARMED. Had to try a different path
- The game has multiple paths so there's a lot of replayability
- The game has a survival mode called "Into the Breach" if the main campaign is too easy for you
- Enemies have a hit indicator
- The plot of the game is good, simple, and mysterious, which is what hooked me on looking forward to Guns of Icarus. You're a trader between cities, why are the people buying this game expecting some complex, hero's journey plot?
- The upgrade system is straightforward. Do terribly and you get nothing, do good and you get a gun, do great and you get an upgrade

Cons
- The last build or just modern graphics ruined the text. In the map, the names of each location is displayed 2-3 times and the tutorial text has improper margins
- The enemies can retreat behind an invisible wall that makes them invincible, and you end up wasting a few shots thinking you can hit them

In conclusion, I believe most of the negative reviews are people who were overly critical of this game, and did not play it until completion. Steampunk games like this and StormWinds 1.5 are a rarity nowadays, and I wish more developers would make games in this space, but if they see this many negative reviews, we aren't going to get more games in this genre.

tl;dr Stop being overly-critical of an overall good game.

When I was younger I tried to get Guns of Icarus and somehow got this. It was horrible and thought it was just the campaign for Guns of Icarus until I think I beat it or couldn't. Very borrowing from my memory and could not come back to it at all and have been very upset that to this day I still don't have Guns of Icarus.
P.S. I tried to get it refunded but steam said no... :(

1/10 - my first 1 of 10. The first level or 2 was okay then you realized you have 6 guns and one guy trying to shot down enemies all around you. this is a minigame to a real game at best. and a eye gouger at that.

for a game that came out in 2010, lets be honest, it looks like my toilet after I drop some "bombs" of my own.
HOWEVER, it's a pretty decent game, for real. If you're into defense games you may like this game, imo I think the panic when all your ship's gear is on fire is awesome. Some people may find it a bit awkward being only singleplayer (buy the 2nd game if you want that) but, since I'm a sadist after completing Dark Souls 1-3, I don't mind the challenge. I like how the game forces you into making these split second decisions e.g. do I repair the right engine to keep the speed up or jump on the cannons to thin out the attackers*?

Anywho, if you wanna chase that "dark souls boss battle victory satisfaction" dragon, this will keep you going until your next fix. It's by no means the pure uncut stuff, but it'll get the job done.

*victory for any given level is achieved only by getting from point A to point B alive and with your cargo intact. Enemies just keep coming until you reach the destination.

They made a game that requires multiple players working together to stand a chance but forgot to make it multiplayer. This is less of a standalone game and more a concept demo for Guns of Icarus Online. I wouldn't have given it a negative review if it weren't for the fact that they are still charging money for this.

I bought this game ages ago when i had more free time. Cranked it up tonight to see what it was about and yeah don't bother. Kill baddies efficiently to get upgrades to eventually death or glory into the sunset. The game play feels wooden and you're on rails. If you were looking for even remotely some control of the zep forget it.

I bought this game expecting a sort of singleplayer Guns Of Icarus.

Instead I got a boringly repetetive game, that tries to keep you busy by having to manage different tasks under pressure. And fails miserably at that. You can savely ignore two thirds of those tasks, which takes the pressure out of it completely. It becomes a mindnumbingly boring game of repeating the exact same routine over and over and over...

The "campaign" consists of several flights over featureless terrain. It lets you chose between several paths at the begining of each flight, which is pointless, as it really doesnt matter which one you take. As such the incentive to replay it, after you finished the whole game in less than an hour, is none whatsoever.

This game's marketing shows multiplayer, I cannot find any way of accessing it if it exists. What is here is an airship that you have to run across on your own repairing, where sometimes your repair progress resets randomly. When you aren't repairing the airship, you are expected to find one of the six turrets on the airship and use it to shoot down the enemies attacking it. Throughout the campaign you unlock weapons or armor based on your performance that you can take into later campaign levels. There are four weapons, each with an upgraded version, that you can unlock up to six instances of to place in the six turret slots on the airship. There is a gattling gun that does a lot of damage at close range, but little outside of that; a cannon that does significant damage, but is slow firing with a slow projectile; the tesla gun that charges to fire a beam at whatever you are aiming at, but has to reload after every shot and only does two cannon shells of damage; and rockets, which I never chose to unlock before I beat the game. While the game is amusing, it is too simple with some irritating bugs that lead to it not really being worth picking up, but it could be a decent diversion if it came free with something else as a look at what came before in Muse's development history.

I didn't enjoy it much, but it's not a bad game. If Muse ever remade this, I would 100% play. But as it is, it's real buggy, and going through the campaign you have two choices: Route so easy you don't need to man a gun even once, or so hard you're crying and pleading with the glitchy repair zones to please let you finish repairing so you can get back on the guns, only for your ship to get blown up because you couldn't run around the ship fast enough. You get a sick hat for Guns of Icarus Online/Alliance tho.

Please tho Muse remake this

This is a single player game in which you are on an airship being attacked by pirate planes. You have to man the guns, fend off the pirates, and carry out repairs as needed. In between missions you can change your ship's loadout. You can earn better guns based on how well you did on the previous mission.

You can sometimes choose which mission to take (some missions are identified as being more difficult than others), but overall the game is short. I beat every mission in about three hours.

Also, the game does not have a definite ending, it just thrusts you into a Survival mode at the end of the campaign where you try and live as long as possible against the pirates. I like my games to have a definite ending, so that was pretty disappointing.

I ran the game on Windows 7 64 bit and encountered no bugs. Graphics were probably good when the game first came out but by 2017's standards they're just passable. The music track was short but synced well with the idea of fighting across a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

This is not the best game ever, but it regularly goes on sale for 50 cents, and that's not bad for 3 hours worth of entertainment.

Ok, I'm gonna be brutally honest.

This game is bad. There I said it. I'm not gonna let my love of this game blind me to the point of obsession.

Why is it bad? Because it was obviously built by a team composing of 1-maybe 3 people using Unity, probably at a Game Jam development event. And for that, I give the person(s) behind this all the props in the world. It was built, it was put on Steam and it sold copies. That's more than a bum like me can ever hope for.

But I love this game. I love it for it's faults. Sure, there's some things in the campaign that I would have liked to have been different, but it is what it is, and I'll still play it.

I mean, this is a classic case of a developer putting out their first game.

Look through all of video game history. A lot of developers had TERRIBLE first games, but now they're AA or AAA companies!

Don't sell this game short because it doesn't hold up to AA or AAA standard.

We literally have the birth of the Guns of Icarus series. That cannot be ignored as a massive step. And now Muse Games have moved onto Guns of Icarus and CreaVures.

And sure, people will have bought this game after playing Guns of Icarus, which is probably a slap in the face if you compare the two, but if you go into this game with blank or open mind, then you'll enjoy it for what it is and it'll make you appreicate later games more thoroughly.

This rambled on a bit, but don't hate this game because it's bad. Love it because it's bad.

There's only a few levels (maybe 15), and no level has any variance. Which gives it poor replayability.


However, I really enjoyed this game. My brother even laughed at me because he said it looked really dumb. But I enjoy the process of predicting where the enemies will move and then firing with teh delay of an artillery cannon.

The game is very simple, but it's fun. You'll know within 5 minutes whether you like the game or not.

This game could be fun, but you get overwhelmed starting in the second mission. Also, there is no multiplayer which would've made the second mission fun and achievable. First there are 2 or 3 airplanes, and then all of the sudden there are 30-40 airplanes and you are all alone to die.

I loved Guns of Icarus Online but this game is no where near as good. I only bought it because I wanted to collect all the games in the series. However, this is expected as it was released in 2010 and was pretty much a little prototype to Guns of Icarus and I didn't expect it to be great. I bought it for less than a dollar so I can't really complain. That being said, I'm curious why the developers kept this on Steam as those who have never played Guns of Icarus Online might think that it is similar to Flight of the Icarus and shun Guns of Icarus Online when it is in fact an amazing game.

3/10
As much as I love this game's spiritual successor, Guns of Icarus, this game is just s**t. It's buggy to all hell, the gameplay is repetitive and boring, and there's no story. It's got the right idea but goes nowhere with it. I picked this up at $0.50, and even that felt like too much for this unpolished lump of coal. It needs a lot more story, mechanics and variety before it's worth anyone's time, and the team has given up on it, so strongly discourage you from buying it. I highly recommend the multiplayer sequel, however, so go play that.

EDIT: I edited the first sentence to clarify that Guns of Icarus was the successor to this game, not the other way around. The original wording was clear, but some people can't read.

If you buy this game you get an exclusive hat for Guns of Icarus. That's the only reason why I recommend this game. The hat is really fancy.

I have bought this title is on a -90% sale.

Incredible gameplay, great co-op with your friends, and not to mention setting the graphics to "Fantastic" will blow your mind. 9/10. This is a must buy.

Protect your zeppelin, upgrade or replace your on-board weapons and shoot down as many planes as you can before time runs out or before they destroy your cargo. It's a form of tower defense, but very basic and easy. After each level you have the opportunity to add new weapons or replace existing ones with unlocked or upgraded guns. The graphics look poor and there's practically no sound (the thunder and guns are the only sounds that come to mind actually). I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone.

[Rating: 65/100]