Icarus-X: Tides of Fire
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | $2.99 | NICOLAS SEVEZ | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
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
Replays
Leaderboards
Achievements
Original soundtrack
HOW TO PLAY
Move your ship by dragging it with your finger (relative touch).
Double tap to trigger your special power.
Campaign mode:
Collect the blue orbs released by enemies to fill your energy bar.
Once the energy bar is full you can trigger your special power.
Collect white, green, blue and orange loot released by enemies.
You can only equip new items between levels (and you should!).
Your overall campaign score is the addition of each chapter's highscore (regardless of tier).
Arcade mode:
Kill all enemies in a wave to increase your Chain.
Collect power-ups (blue items), bombs (orange items) and extra lives (white items) released by enemies.
Reviews
Frustrated
Newmanator18
This game has such promise, but it is awfully buggy. It crashes all the time. Pausing is useless because when you unpause your ship flies forward into oncoming enemies. Lasers get confused and randomly float around the screen in the second level. The backgrounds make it hard to tell where bullets are and make the experience more confusing, not more fun. The crashing is the death of this game for me. It does it all the time. It also randomly pauses and exits current runs. I don't understand. I will try again after stuff is fixed because I want to like this game.
