Games Like ICARUS (2026)

Shared: Dedicated Server Support

Six years post-launch and still receiving free updates, this physics-driven engineering sandbox rewards the players who treat it like a second job - and quietly destroys weekends for everyone else.

Shared: Tech Tree Progression

Palworld drops you on a wild island where cute creature-collecting meets base-building, factory automation, and guns. Yes, guns.

Shared: Tech Tree Progression

If your idea of relaxing is spending four hours building a stone base only to log in and find smoldering rubble, Rust will either ruin your week or become your obsession. There is no middle ground.

Shared: tier:aaa

Four years in early access forged something genuinely worth your time: a co-op survival builder that starts punishing and ends with you proudly steering a multi-story floating fortress. Solo players, brace for a rough first two hours.

Shared: tier:aaa

Scrappy tycoon meets street-level hustle: Schedule I turns supply-chain management into something you'll lose sleep over, and it launched as a solo-dev Early Access title that outpaced GTA V on Steam charts.