Guns of Icarus Online

About

Guns of Icarus Online lets you crew a steampunk airship in chaotic multiplayer battles. You pick one of three roles, Captain, Gunner, or Engineer, and coordinate with teammates to maneuver a floating fortress through dogfights and base assaults. Captains steer and aim the ship’s main guns, Gunners man turrets, and Engineers repair hull damage while launching drones. Victory requires balancing offense, defense, and survival as you juggle controls and strategy in real time. The game’s asymmetrical design forces constant communication and role-specific mastery. The challenge is steep. 849 achievements sit behind a 1% average unlock rate, with the rarest, “A Perfect World - Assault 1”, unlocked by zero players worldwide. This isn’t a casual shooter. It demands precision, practice, and deep understanding of each position’s mechanics. Launched in 2012, it runs on PC, Mac, and Linux, supporting co-op play but no solo modes. Its niche appeal is clear: a small but dedicated community keeps the servers alive, drawn to the grind of mastering roles and the thrill of synchronized combat.

Storyline

Three hundred years have passed since the Great War consumed the planet. Three hundred years since the human race ate hungrily of mother earth, squandering resources that could have carried them forward for millennia. In the heat of the sun, there is an unsettling, inescapable truth: man has fallen from his throne. Humanity now lives among the ruins left by a century of conflict, but from the wrecked steel of the past they will forge their own future. Lighter-than-air technology has inspired intrepid pioneers to take to the skies in search of trade and resources to support their towns and families. Enterprising craftsmen fashion elaborate machines out of scavenged scraps. The desperate and ruthless take what they can by force. Despite all that was lost, a renewed passion for invention has emerged, along with a deep respect for the fragility of life. Explorers and philosophers travel in search of forgotten knowledge now scattered beneath the wastes. The survivors are inventors, pilots, captains, craftsmen, adventurers, fighters, privateers, merchants, engineers, farmers and scholars. They herald a new age for humanity: an age of rebirth.