Icarus-X: Tides of Fire
The Quadsphere · 2015 · Indie, Action, RPG, Shoot 'Em Up, Bullet Hell
PC
Mostly Positive73% · 11
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About 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.
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.
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
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Me nice music9 found this helpful
It's got a fine base bullet hell gameplay loop (although sometimes some bullets can be hard to see), and the creator has at least a better than average understanding of what makes a loot system interesting, at least in terms of managing to have some meaningful enchantments on occasion. However, there's just not enough content for a complete game: the enemy patterns and bosses are reused excessively between levels, in a game that already has you repeating levels for more treasure; and the loot system just plain doesn't have enough different item types to collect, so it loses its charm long before the campaign reaches its end.2 found this helpful
best childhood game, play it it's worth it
basic, simple, fun but wait for deep sale
3/10
I guess if you get 8 hours of play from a plain and simple 2D shooter it deserves a thumbs up. Contrary to some negative reviews, I like the presentation and the simple nature of the game. Some of the stats are a little confusing from the loot-drops but the progress system works fine overall and the leaderboard is fine and functional. It won't blow yer mind but is worth a blast in my opinion.
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