Guns of Icarus Online
Guns of Icarus Online is the original PvP steampunk airship combat game that laid the groundwork for the expanded Guns of Icarus experience, Guns of Icarus Alliance. Slip the surly bonds of earth and take to the skies as a bold Captain, fearless Gunner, or cunning Engineer. Raising the stakes on team-based PvP combat with an emphasis on strategic competition and team play, Guns of Icarus Online is all about teamwork, tactics, and fast-paced action. With a good ship and the right crew, you can conquer the skies!
- A vivid steampunk world Lumbering, heavily-armored airships bristling with guns patrol the skies above a land ravaged beyond repair by an out-of-control industrial revolution.
- Build your own airship Starting from a selection of basic hulls, players can mix and match hundreds of custom parts to create their own unique airship, then assemble a crew to fly it.
- Your ship is your life Your ship is your collective life bar – when the ship goes down, the crew goes down with it. Every member of the crew plays an integral role in not only maintaining the integrity – “life” – of the ship, but also weakening the integrity of enemy ships as they work cooperatively towards a shared victory.
- The ultimate multiplayer team experience You won’t be told to stay still and not die while a veteran preserves their Kill/Death ratio. In Guns of Icarus Online, you have to work together. It’s an entirely interdependent gameplay experience that cannot be won by a single crew member.
- Goggles, gears, and glory A wide range of costumes and cosmetic options to show off your style are available in the in-game store. These items are cosmetic only – there is no pay-to-win in Guns of Icarus Online.
- Pit crew against crew Form a party with up to 4 friends and crew a ship together to battle against other teams in massive airship battles with up to 32 players in a match with multiple game modes including Deathmatch, King of the Hill, Crazy King, Skyball, and VIP.
- Rise in the ranks Earn titles and cosmetic upgrades through your achievements. Balanced, competitive matches reward strategic, skillful play, not level grinding.
The Industrial Revolution never ended. Raging out of control, the new machines consumed the world, staining the sky, scouring the land and poisoning the water. Humanity came the brink of extinction, all but destroyed by their own unrestrained ingenuity. A few pockets of civilization survived, sheltering in the crevices of the world, and it is time for a comeback.
Divided by wide expanses of toxic wasteland, a handful of these remnants have developed airship technology. Cruising through the sky, safely away from the poisoned earth, trade and industry could finally begin anew. However, with resources so desperately limited, war was inevitable.We are Muse Games, an independent studio based out of New York City. Our debut game, Flight of the Icarus, was the seed that would later grow into our flagship title. After releasing the unique and eye-catching platform game CreaVures in 2011, we dedicated ourselves to re-engineering our debut title into a fully-featured cooperative online airship combat game.
We released Guns of Icarus Online in October 2012, right in the midst of Hurricane Sandy. Despite that challenging start, the game earned a loyal audience and built up a healthy community, passing the million player mark in January 2016. Since then, we have remained committed to supporting and expanding the Guns of Icarus experience. What was originally intended to be an expansion that would introduce AI opponents and player-vs-environment gameplay grew into a new standalone game – Guns of Icarus Alliance, the ultimate and definitive Guns of Icarus experience – which released in March 2017.
Steam User 29
This game is 100% worth picking up for the price it is at.
The player base has dropped a lot since release, but once you invest some time in this game and you actually decide to hang out in the discord with the devs and the community you actually notice how great the developers and the community still are.
Still worth playing in 2025.
Steam User 25
If this game re-released right now in 2025 it would be a huge hit. Just need to do a little advertisement or get a big content creator to play a few matches and this game could easily live again, especially for the price.
Steam User 19
Join the discord if you're interested in getting anything together, every weekend there is still a pvp crucible match. To anyone interested give it a chance or add it to wish-list for when its less than $2 bucks.
Steam User 16
Came back to this game in 2025 after a years-long pause. There is a handful of active veterans; they are very knowledgeable and happy to share tips and pointers with new and returning players. So far (fingers crossed) absolutely no one has been a jerk. There are still weekly Dev Games events where you can earn some digital freebies just for playing. This game may be "dead," but all the magic is still there once you get into a match.
Steam User 10
This game was so ahead of its time, and even today I would 100% play it but we would need some big streamer to make it popular for a weekend or something for people to see how good it was
Steam User 6
This game was amazing at release.
Many games released afterword seem to follow in the footsteps of Guns of Icarus. Games such as Sea of Thieves or Jump Space come to mind.
Steam User 6
I'm going through my game archive and giving some old games respect they deserve. Guns of Icarus is a dead game, so I don't actually recommend it - but it deserves the thumbs up for what it used to be.
Guns of Icarus flew so that Sea of Thieves could swim. It was the first in the genre of "a few players on a boat frantically shooting, repairing, and piloting the thing while taking out other crews" genre. It would go on to inspire Blackwake, which would in turn inspire Sea of Thieves.
Its some of the most fun I ever had gaming. Somehow it's achievements became super rare too, I don't know what that's about. If you can put together a private server for this game somehow, it's worth playing if you can get enough friends together.