Steam gross sales are at all times an awesome alternative to select up some bargains, and the latest Steam Winter Sale, which ran from December 18, 2025 till January 5, 2026, was no exception. Whereas many video games usually see a spike in gross sales and gamers throughout these intervals, one multiplayer sport noticed a very large surge in gross sales following an unlimited low cost.
Icarus, a PvE survival sport from New Zealand studio RocketWerkz that was first launched in December 2021, was decreased from its typical $35 value to a mere $3.50 in the course of the Steam Winter Sale – an unlimited 90% saving.
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Now, RocketWerkz founder Dean Corridor has revealed simply what number of copies of Icarus had been bought in the course of the sale. In a submit on X, Corridor shared that that an unlimited 984,000 copies had been throughout this gross sales interval. On prime of that, the sport’s DLC, which incorporates two expansions and a “pets” bundle, moved an additional 243,000 items.
Over the steam winter sale, ICARUS bought slightly below one million new base sport items in the course of the sale (984k). We additionally did quarter of one million DLC items (243k).
— Dean Corridor (@rocket2guns) January 12, 2026
These gross sales additionally led to an enormous improve within the sport’s energetic participant base. In response to SteamDB, the sport loved an enormous spike in gamers throughout December 2025, with a peak concurrent participant depend of 44,120 (in comparison with 9076 in November). That is the best concurrent participant depend the sport has had since its launch month, December 2021.
Dean Corridor isn’t any stranger to vastly in style on-line video games – he was the developer of DayZ, a 2012 zombie survival sport that tasked gamers with surviving in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-filled world the place different gamers had been simply as harmful because the undead. The sport began life as a mod for Arma 2 earlier than finally receiving a standalone launch.
Steam has already introduced dates for the following few rounds of gross sales, by means of to Could 2026. Developing in January are the Detective Fest from January 12 -19 and the Board Game Fest from January 26 – February 2.