You get to the Icarus Offices raid from the Missions Terminal in your Shelter: since the “To the Sky” update on November 11, 2026, it is a raid of its own in Active Matter, listed under Saltriver City, the game’s American region. Gaijin’s update notes frame it as a portal the Agency has stabilized to the complex floating above Saltriver City, where you enter the “Vanilla” skyscraper and the offices of the Icarus corporation.
This guide covers how to queue for it, why it may not appear in your list, what is inside, and how to get up a tower where, by Gaijin’s own description, almost every route leads up. It reflects To the Sky on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, verified against the official update notes and the developer’s preview posts.
How to Queue for Icarus Offices
- Install the To the Sky update. It went live after scheduled maintenance on November 11 on every platform. Icarus Offices does not exist on older builds.
- Open the Missions Terminal in your Shelter. Every raid is picked here.
- Choose your raid type. Open Raids are PvPvE with other squads in the zone, and Isolated Raids are PvE only. Since update 0.4.0.208 the terminal remembers the type you used last, so check it before you search. Our PvE, PvP and price guide explains the difference.
- Find Icarus Offices. The notes list it as “Icarus Offices (Saltriver City).” Look for it in the raid list, or type its name into the terminal’s quick search, which arrived in the August update along with a full-size map.
- Check your loadout, ready up with your squad, and start the search.
Gaijin’s notes list Icarus Offices next to the other new raid, Powerplant in Anguka Anga, and say both “are already open.” They do not say which raid types Icarus Offices supports.
If Icarus Offices Is Not in Your List
A raid can be missing or greyed out in the terminal for a few reasons, and the terminal tells you most of them.
- The list is hiding it. Update 0.4.0.195 added a raid type filter (Open, Isolated, Hired Ops) with an option to hide unavailable raids. Switch that off to see every raid.
- It is out of the Open rotation. Open Raids run on a schedule. When one is closed, the terminal shows its opening time and suggests an Isolated Raid in the meantime. In September the developer said every Isolated Raid can be played anytime, so if Icarus Offices is offered as an Isolated Raid, that version is not tied to the clock.
- It has an access requirement. Since the December 2025 “Fire Walk” update every raid carries an Access Level, and some maps open through an Investigation (in February the developer gave Dam, opened through “Anomalous Waters,” as an example). Gaijin’s notes do not name a requirement for Icarus Offices. If your Monolith level turns out to be the problem, our guide to getting Monolith Tokens covers how to climb it.
What Is Inside the Vanilla Skyscraper
The November 5 preview explains the setting: the Vanilla tower is one of the colossal skyscrapers on the horizon of the Downtown raid, and the Agency suspects the district was the epicenter of the incident in another timeline. Icarus Offices takes you inside it.
- New Investigations. Gaijin says uncovering Icarus means taking on “peculiar new investigations,” and some “will push you all the way to the top floor.” Quest items for Agency tasks now come from the squad container, one per task zone you have not finished. You can hand them to teammates, but a lost item is not reissued. Items in your secure container or a robodog’s bag still count after extraction, even if you died.
- The Banshee. This new enemy is “encountered in the Icarus raid,” per the notes. The preview describes something in the dark corridors that “moves with unnatural speed,” whose last transmission before contact was lost “was a blood-chilling scream.” The notes’ performance section also groups Banshees with “other shadow-casting light sources.”
- The Wall-climber Mimic. Another new enemy in Saltriver City, it can attack from a distance by throwing clumps of matter.
- Office loot. On every raid map, loot now matches where it sits, so offices hold more documents and desks more stationery. On American maps, vending machines hold food and drinks and server cabinets hold computer parts. If you are hauling it home, our guide on how to sell items covers what refining pays.
How to Get Up the Tower
Height is the point of this raid, and the update brought tools for it.
- The BJ10 Jetpack. Gaijin’s November 9 preview calls it “especially handy in the new Icarus Offices raid, where almost every route leads up,” with 60 seconds of flight.
- The rope anchor. Attach it at a high spot, such as a ledge, then use the rope to climb up to it or drop to a lower level. While the rope is free, any player can use it, rivals included.
- Ledge grabs. If a jump falls short of a roof edge, hold the jump button to grab the ledge and pull yourself up.
Respect the drop. Update 0.4.0.208 set fall damage so that a fall from the roof of a three-story house is usually fatal and a jump from a third-floor balcony will likely break your legs. Plan your way back down before you climb.
Play it as a squad. The update’s new ping system lets you mark an enemy, a route or loot where you are looking, and enemy pings show in red on the map, compass and smartwatch. If someone goes down on the stairs, our guide on how to revive a teammate covers the steps. Our To the Sky news story has the rest of the update.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Icarus Offices part of the Downtown raid? No. The update notes list it as a new raid of its own in Saltriver City. Its towers are the ones you can see on the horizon in Downtown.
Can you play Icarus Offices in PvE? Gaijin has not said which raid types it supports. Isolated Raids are the PvE mode, so check whether the terminal offers Icarus Offices with the Isolated filter selected.
What is the Banshee in Icarus Offices? A new enemy the update notes place in the Icarus raid. Gaijin’s preview says it moves with unnatural speed and screams.
Do you need the jetpack for Icarus Offices? Gaijin calls it especially handy there, but the rope anchor and ledge grabs also help you climb, and the developer has not said any route requires it.
Which platforms have Icarus Offices? PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, all through the same To the Sky update.
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