Guns of Icarus Online — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
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| Guns of Icarus is 75% off in the Spring Sale! | 2026-03-24 | Greetings Captains and Crews of the skies,We're taking part in the Steam Spring Sale, where you can grab Guns of Icarus Online for -75% off!Whether you’re a long-time captain from the Guns of Icarus past or a fan of our other titles, we’re also excited to share with you our newest title Stars of Icarus - a 90s anime inspired team-based PvP space combat game. If you like…Chaotic moments with friendsSlower, tactical matchesFlexible team roles (pilot, engineer, gunner)…then Stars of Icarus might be up your street, and any wishlists help us out massively! Check out the latest trailer below.You can follow us on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Bsky and |
| PvPFest sale + Reddit AMA! | 2026-02-09 | Hello Captains and Crew,We’re excited to share that Guns of Icarus is taking part in Steam’s PvP Fest!🚀⚔️Guns of Icarus is -75% until the 16th!To celebrate, we're excited to be hosting a Reddit AMA on r/games on Feb 10 @ 12pm PST / 3pm EST / 9pm CEST about our upcoming game, Stars of Icarus:So prepare your questions, join our Discord and follow us on socials, we’ll be discussing:All things Stars of Icarus and where it’s headedThe glory days of Guns of IcarusDiving into nerdy tech detailsAnd answering any questions whatsoever!Whether you’re a long-time captain from the Guns of Icarus past, or you’re discovering Stars of Icarus for the first t |
| Guns of Icarus 13th Birthday Event | 2025-10-22 | Greetings, airship captains and crew,We're celebrating Guns of Icarus' 13th birthday!For a limited time, you can get the Pumpkin Head mask, birthday hats, and dyes for free. All you have to do is complete a few missions. Hop in between Thursday October 23rd and Monday November 3rd to play a few matches and unlock these items.Fireworks and Ghost AI are both enabled for the duration of the event. See you in the skies!- Jennifer |
| Steam Autumn Sale: -75% off! | 2025-09-29 | Guns of Icarus and Guns of Icarus: Alliance are currently 75% off for the Steam Autumn Sale!Steampunk airships engage in PvP combat with a heavy focus on teamwork in the dusty skies of a destroyed world in Guns of Icarus: Alliance.We're also working on a new game: Stars of Icarus. You can check it out on the Steam Page here:Thanks for reading! See you in the skies. |
| The Stars of Icarus Alpha Playtest is now LIVE! | 2025-09-24 | Greetings, captains and crews of the skies! We’re finally ready to announce that our first public alpha playtest is now LIVE! If you’ve been accepted to the playtest, you should see Stars of Icarus Playtest in your Steam Library. Join our discord to coordinate with other players, discuss the playtest, and find some matches.Have questions about the playtest? Check out our FAQ here: We're very excited to see so many signups for our first public test! It's actually been a little overwhelming watching that signup count tick upwards, and we've had to limit access to about 2000 new players for this initial alpha to make sure our servers and backend |
| Stars of Icarus Playtest Announcement | 2025-09-12 | Greetings Captains and Crews of the Skies,Get your goggles secured, visors down and toolkits at the ready. We are happy to share that we will be launching our first public playtest in a few weeks and sign-ups are up on the Stars of Icarus Store page NOW! This will be the first public opportunity for you all to experience our new game and take your crew to the stars - this time in space. As this is our very first public alpha playtest we are limiting the numbers as we server test and check some other systems but we are holding slots for 2,000 of you. The playtest will be running for 2 weekends and we would recommend joining Discord to find cre |
| Stars of Icarus at PAX West | 2025-08-26 | Greetings Captains and Crews of the Skies,We’re so excited to say we’re going to bring back Icarus to events this year with our first pit stop being PAX West. This will be the very first time we’re publicly showcasing Stars of Icarus and would absolutely love to see you at our booth if you're in the area!We’ll be at Booth 339 so be sure to stop by, blow up a few ships (your own accidentally or others intentionally), give some feedback, reminisce about Guns of Icarus, and get a chance to get some items in-game.See you in the skies and at PAX,Jennifer |
| Get the Guns series on Sale! | 2025-06-26 | Greetings Captains and Crews of the Skies, The Steam Summer Sale is upon us and, with the announcement of Stars of Icarus now is the perfect time to jump back into the Guns series. Both Guns of Icarus: Online and Guns of Icarus: Alliance are on sale at 75% off during the Steam Summer Sale! We’re running a number of events over on our Discord server so be sure to join us, find new crew members and stay in the loop about Stars of Icarus! See you in the skies, - The Team at Muse Games |
| Balance Update 2025-06-26 | 2025-06-26 | Greetings Sky Captains and Crews!In response to community feedback, we've had a look at multiple ships, weapons, and ammos. These changes are live, so hop in and let us know what you think!CrusaderThe Crusader feels a little weak right now. We're increasing it's armor to give it a little bit more survivability.Armor: 530 -> 600ShrikeTop speed: 38.01 -> 40Turning speed: 13.01 -> 15Immortal Gaze Heavy Accelerator Mk. SThe response to the Immortal Gaze has been positive! However, the weapon takes way too long to shoot. We've reduced the Reload Time to speed it up, and added a bit of an AOE visual to the shot to make it more visible.Reload time: |
| Back to the Skies 2.0.21 | 2025-06-10 | Hello, Airship Captains and Crew!I know it's been awhile, but we're bringing you a Guns of Icarus update! The servers will be down for about 3 hours in order to facilitate this update.We managed to find some new decorations in the warehouse, and now we’re bringing them to you! There was also this gun sitting in a crate.. Wonder what it does? I’m sure you’ll put it to good use. We’ve also had an engineer tweak your Typhon Mk1 - It should shake a little less now. New Weapon in PvP: Immortal Gaze Heavy Accelerator Mk. SThe Immortal Gaze Heavy Accelerator excels at breaking enemy armor at extreme range. It has built-in safeties to prevent overcha |
| Introducing Stars of Icarus | 2025-06-08 | Greetings Captains and Crews of the Stars Without further ado, allow us to present… Stars of Icarus. https://youtu.be/wQSOF3HGQo4 Revealed at the PC Gaming Show, Stars of Icarus is a game we’ve been working on for some time now. We couldn’t be more proud and excited to present this spiritual follow-up to the Guns series to the world. Assemble your crew and take to the stars in, where team-based PvP dogfights are your key to conquering the cosmos. Hop into hand-crafted maps and engage in nail-biting team battles of 5 versus 5 players in three different game modes: Team Deathmatch, Bounty, and Capture the Flag. Dodge asteroids, navigate junkyar |
| The PC Gamer Showcase Discord Watch Party | 2025-05-29 | Greetings Captains and Crews of the Skies! On the heels of last week’s post, we’ve got some real news for you. We’ll be having a watch party on our Discord server on June 8th at 3pm EDT to watch the PC Gaming Showcase, and we’d love for you to join us. For us, it’s been a long road getting to this moment. We’ve been waiting quite some time to show you what's in our future. You’ll also be seeing some updates and cleanup to our Discord in the coming week in anticipation of the announcement. We’ll be archiving some of our lesser used channels and preparing some future additions in the background. Hope to see you then. If not, don’t worry. You ca |
| Things We Aren't Working On | 2025-05-20 | Greetings, sky captains and crews, We want to give you a brief update. We are nearing our big announcement, and we’ll have a bit more news for you next week. We've loved reading all of your ideas and speculation about our next project, and while we can't confirm what we are working on just yet, we do want to confirm a few things we are not working on: It won't have any submarines It's not a Guns of Icarus DLC It's not Hamsterdam 2 It isn't a gacha game! To Eugene’s dismay, we’re not creating fire-breathing dragons in the literal sense And whatever we do, there is still no boarding We’re so happy to see all of the activity here and in our Disc |
| Community Memories | 2025-05-12 | Greetings Captains and Crews of the Skies, The replies from my last post had been overwhelming, and we are deeply humbled and moved by so many of the memories you shared. Thank you so much again for sharing them with us. They brought us back, and reminded us why it was all worth it. As promised, we collected every reply, and posted them here on the Guns Discord. Here are also a few that we selected to share with everyone. Lady Elektra — A large amount of my online friends I met through this game and have kept very close with them all these years. I came into the game pretty early in PvP. My most memorable moments include streaming Crewcible m |
| Steam Wargaming Fest Ending Today | 2025-05-05 | Greetings Captains and Crews of the Skies! Just a quick note to let you all know that the Steam Wargaming Fest is coming to an end today at 10am PDT so if you’re looking to complete your Guns collection on Steam, now is the time. We had an amazing time playing with everyone on Thursday and Friday, so keep an eye out for more events like that in the future. If you haven’t already, head over to our Discord server as that’s where we tend to hang out and play some Guns! Until next time, - The Team at Muse Games |
| Guns Series on Sale + Dev Play Sessions | 2025-04-28 | Greetings Captains and Crews of the Skies! To commemorate Wargames Fest, we the devs are returning to the game. We’ll be in-game on Thursday, May 1st at 7:00 PM EDT and Friday, May 2nd at 3:00 PM EDT to play with everyone for a couple of hours. We’ll also bring back the old dev games tradition. If you play in a match with us, take a screenshot in the lobby, and you’ll get a code for an item of your choice. To hang out with us during the dev session, head over to our Discord where the event will take place. We’re looking forward to jumping back into the skies with old and new faces! Then, take a screenshot of the end-game screen which shows yo |
| Share Your Guns of Icarus Memories! | 2025-04-22 | Greetings Captains and Crews of the Skies! Seeing so many people across the years respond to our post, jumping back into the comments and the Guns Discord, with many little stories and moments shared, we felt really moved and nostalgic, so we wanted to gather some of these stories together for everyone. If you have a fond memory, a funny story, or met a group of people that have been a part of your life while playing our games, we would love to hear them! Drop them in the comments here or post them in the General chat in the Guns Discord. We'll collect them all and share them with everyone. Let me share mine first, one about how we started: R |
| An Update from the Muse Games Team | 2025-04-08 | Greetings, captains and crews of the skies, It’s been a long while since we’ve spoken to you here, and it’s about time we caught up. We, Muse Games, have grown up as a team. We’ve worked on and released multiple titles, and we are independent. So, what are we here to talk about? First of all, you. The Guns of Icarus community have been with us for over a decade now. That’s incredibly humbling, and heartwarming for the entire team. To see you all still out there, flying in the skies we first created in Flight of the Icarus back in 2010 is amazing. So, firstly, we wanted to say, thank you. Thank you for investing in our world, and thank you for |
| Guns of Icarus 10th Anniversary Celebration | 2022-10-30 | Hey there Engineers, Pilots, and Gunners! This year we're celebrating our 10th birthday! 10 years of airships, rams, explosions, and friends. A Note from Us Devs To all the privateers, captains, and crew that have ever braved the skies over the wastelands, we want to thank you from the bottom of our souls for supporting us over the last decade. A decade! Before we set out, we had a dream of making something that people hadn’t quite experienced before, but we certainly didn’t imagine that 10 years later, people would still be playing and supporting the game. Thank you for making our dream come true. When we started, we had just been digging ou |
| Server Maintenance Tonight! | 2021-08-16 | Game servers will be down from August 16th @10pm EDT until August 17th @10pm EDT. See you in the skies when the servers are back up! |