STEAM

All Games > Action Games > Icarus-X: Tides of Fire

Community Hub

Icarus-X: Tides of Fire

Blast your way through waves of enemies and bullets and defeat massive boss ships in this fast-paced vertical Shoot'em Up with a traditional Arcade Mode and an experimental Campaign Mode that borrows from the mechanics of ARPGs such as Diablo and Borderlands.

All Reviews:

9 user reviews - Need more user reviews to generate a score

Release Date:

Jun 24, 2015

Developer:

The Quadsphere

Publisher:

The Quadsphere

Tags

Popular user-defined tags for this product:

+

Sign in to add this item to your wishlist, follow it, or mark it as ignored

Is this game relevant to you?

Sign in to see reasons why you may or may not like this based on your games, friends, and curators you follow.

Sign In or Open in Steam

Features

Steam Achievements

Steam Trading Cards

Steam Leaderboards

Languages:

	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	✔	✔
French	✔
German	✔
Spanish - Spain	✔

Includes 47 Steam Achievements

Shmup Academy

Playtime is over

Well-equipped

View
all 47

Title: Icarus-X: Tides of Fire
Genre: Action, Indie, RPG

Developer: The Quadsphere

Publisher: The Quadsphere

Release Date: Jun 24, 2015

Visit the website

View update history Read related news View discussions Find Community Groups

Share Embed

Buy Icarus-X: Tides of Fire

$4.99

Add to Cart

About This Game

Blast your way through waves of enemies and bullets and defeat massive boss ships in this fast-paced vertical Shoot'em Up with a traditional Arcade Mode and an experimental Campaign Mode that borrows from the mechanics of ARPGs such as Diablo and Borderlands.

CAMPAIGN MODE

Choose from 3 ship classes, gain experience up to level 30, loot randomly generated weapons, shields and mods from your enemies and carefully spend points in non-resetable skill trees.

Make your own challenge: overwhelm lower level enemies with devastating firepower, min-max your ship's stats to farm a specific chapter for rare loot, or bite all that you can chew and risk losing it all in hardcore mode.

Randomly generated enemy waves
3 sub-modes: Casual (no death penalty), Normal and Hardcore (perma-death)
3 ship classes: Fighter, Cruiser and Destroyer
30 levels of ship experience
15+ stats to min-max, such as Critical Damage, Armor, Shield Regeneration, Hitbox Size and more
3 skill trees (Attack, Defense and Technology)
Evolutive special powers
Billions of randomly generated items with 4 quality tiers and according rarity
4 tiers of difficulty
World ranking

ARCADE MODE

1 bullet death: no life bars or shield shenanigans
Chain scoring: combos increase your score multiplier
1CC scoring: you can continue when out of lives but your score and chain will reset
In-game power-ups

COMMON FEATURES

Gamepad support
Vertical screen support
Replays
Leaderboards
Achievements
Original soundtrack

System Requirements

Minimum:

OS *: Windows 8/7/Vista/XP SP3
Processor: 1.7 GHz Processor or better
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 compatible dedicated graphic card with 512MB memory
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 300 MB available space

* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

See all

More like this

What Curators Say

5 Curators have reviewed this product. Click here to see them.