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.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