Conan Exiles

I wish i knew about this game sooner. It has so many features and additions but the best part is it runs really smooth, even on servers which is always a pleasant experience. I think ive put more hours into this game in a couple weeks than i did in any of my other crafting games over a span of a month or two. It really pulled me in with the lore and story and i love the character design and movement. Overall the colors are beautiful and the visuals are absolutely stunning in 4k HDR. This game has been well optimized for all types of players. Highly recommend giving it a shot.

Conan Exiles is probably one of my all time favorite games. It hits just the right mix of enjoyable solo play or multiplay, having lots to build and explore, having MASSSSSIVE mod support and active mod community (that the devs encourage and support!), and some vanity things you can pick up to support the devs without feeling like you're held back for not having it.

I was mad at this game for a bit for all the bugs and them breaking things without communication but they improved that aspect as well and ultimately mad a more stable more enjoyable game.

The Good: :)
- Beautiful world with lots to explore and rich lore - with additional mods to expand the world or change it all together.
- Base charicter customization is good and mods add near unlimited options
- Weapons and buildings are varied and engaging
- Very strong mod support.

The Bad: :(
- Enemy AI is not great - things are either super tank-y and deadly or they're super easy. For me who enjoys a tough lethal battle on both sides it can feel a bit meh when you get to high levels.
- Once you start adding mods... especially hundreds like I do... it's near guaranteed your savegames will eventually become corrupted.
- Sometimes devs make changes without considering impacts to existing server communities or mods.
- No proper vehicle support (though mounts available) which means no boats, carriages, etc. in the base game; some mods add them but they behave a bit strangely as they're essentially work arounds for lack of vehicle support.

It's a beautiful and strong base game that offers exceptional mod support letting you make your own world almost how you like it.

---{Graphics}---
☑ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ Paint.exe

---{Gameplay}---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It‘s just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Starring at walls is better
☐ Just don‘t

---{Community}---
☐ Community?
☐ Ultra Friendly and Helpful
☑ About Average
☐ Full of Trolls and Kiddies
☐ Black Desert Online

---{Pacing}---
☐ Like putting together a 5000 piece puzzle
☐ Grind City
☑ Mostly Chill with some intense moments.
☐ Suspenseful!
☐ Call of Duty
☐ O crap o crap o crap running running running
☐ MASHH BOTTON FASTRRRR!!1111

---{Ambiance}---
☐ Warm and Fuzzy
☐ Generic and Sterile
☐ Like real-world, I guess.
☑ Awe Inspiring / Super cool
☐ Wasteland / Grungy
☐ Scurrrryyy D:>

---{Audience}---
☐ Lizards
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Human

---{PC Requirements}---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boiiiiii
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{Difficulty}---
☐ Just press ‚A‘
☐ Easy
☐ Significant brain usage (mostly all the crafting recipies).
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Steep Learning Curve
☐ Sustained Difficulty
☐ Save Scum
☐ Dark Souls

---{Story}---
☐ Story?
☑ Text or Audio floating around
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It‘ll replace your life

---{Mods/DLC}---
☐ Base Game Only
☐ Official DLCs only
☐ Some underground mods.
☐ Some 3rd party mod site.
☐ Chinese Modder Community
☐ Moddum plenty-plenty!
☑ Arma3 / Conan Exiles / XCOM

---{Game Time before it ends or gets boring}---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{Controls}---
☑ Intuitive
☐ I got the hang of it
☐ If you can fly a plane
☐ Wat?
☐ OMFG rly?

---{Price}---
☐ It’s free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended / wait for sale.
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{Bugs}---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs - notably the zombies T-pose and get stuck sometimes when you hit them.
☑ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{Customization}---
☑ Transcend! (with mods)
☐ The Sims 4
☑ Highly customizable! (without mods)
☐ There's a few options
☐ Cosmetic skins only
☐ I can't be a girl/boy/lizard?
☐ Different colored stick figures
☐ Doom

Play Salty Zombies server its the best great admin team fun mods challenging quests...

Conan Exiles is a great game and Funcom made such a nice gesture to supply us with a free dedicated server via Steam.

I've really enjoyed Conan Exiles. It's a very immersive game with great graphics, satisfying combat and so much items to win. There is also nudity, but nothing over the top.

All in all - a very good roleplaying experience.

The greatest disadvantage one can find is that the game is grindy.

In the end, I found myself caring for the main protagonist and her thralls.

Recommended!

before you buy this, search about its Bazaar (Fear of Missing Out) system. It'll ruin your game if you can't handle it very well for some reason. This game was very good at the beginning, but knowing you can't use many buildable options of the game if not waiting patiently for a luck-based store rotation system will make you actually lose patience and stop playing.

I'll be honest when I make this review, this game has three different communities together, the combat offical server players that are all there for the pvp and combat, and fighting other players. I would say they are similar to the rust community without most of the sh*t talking. The second group is the modders and builders who like to push not only the building system, but the charater creation system to its limit, (There is a mod used by most off the community for charater creation that is one of the most in depth I have ever seen.) They love to make cool sh*t and I dig it.

Then there is the roleplay community, I'll be frank with this group, they are everything you would not expect. Fair warning, or not I do not care, but they tend to be a bit smutty... ok you will see deviant sh*t that could only be made in a gooners basement with absinth and a blood sacrifice to your god of the week... but its some of the best text roleplay I've had in a long while. The demographic of players is most always older people, at least above 18 but most sit at around 28 to 34, but I've seen players as old as 75 playing this game. A larger then amount of stay at home moms also play this game, along with pentioners... and cronicly horny people as well, huge BDSM side to the community... also the slavery kinks but we don't talk about that...but at least most all servers have their own Consent sheets that people have to fill out before playing... somthing other games should have hopped onto doing because dear god.... Oh yeah the charater creation engine is the best in the roleplay communities I have ever seen, and im not talking about the vanilla one, that ones is ok, but the TOT modded one is the one everyone uses. I've seen driders, centaurs, demons, angels, a sentient ham sandwhich, you name it, you could probably model into the game engine WITHOUT MAKING A MOD, all of this is through the TOT charater creation mod.. also yes, there is a d**k slider, but with tot, there is a whole pannel dedicated to just that with over thirty sliders... they knew what they were doing when they made that mod...
Where was I going with this, oh yeah, this sh*t is fire, the things I've seen people make, the charater stories I've followed, the wild sh*t I've seen done. The friends I've play this game with... the people I lost and the memories that still stay there that I cant stop but look back at... To be honest, I don't know why I'm writing this, I mean I've poured a lot of time into this game, I'm not inherently good at the game, I'm not nessesarally a great roleplayer, and I am complete ass at the combat, I would die in seconds with another player.
What I'm getting to is... sometimes people need an escape, and this game does a d*mn good job at making an escape, now enough of my Skizo rant, go out there exile, fight a dragon, explore some ruins, get into a text roleplay fight with a cat girl futa that is a 36 year old man that works at hobby lobby over them barfing a hairball on your couch, Go f**kin wild and never tell your parents about this game, or the'll take you to see a doctor thinkin your insane and this is a cry for help. Anyway, good luck exile, and I'll see you out there, and watch out for yimr... you'll know what I mean when you fight him...

Don't bother with this game if you want to play it Co-op without a dedicated server.
Players have to stay within a very limited area from the host making personal exploration impossible.

Also tried Co-op with a selfhosted dedicated server but one of our players ran into a bug causing him to instantly become level 61 (1 above cap). This bug also made it impossible to unlock any new crafting skills/knowledge's. After this we stopped playing and will likely never try again.

Despite its issues and flaunts, Its meaty combat, huge map and nicely paced objectives made the game morish.
It's a good survival game.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3484797285

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3486422712

I want to like it... but I can only ever seem to play for 30 mins to an hour at a time. I try to get into it and always get really bored after exploring around and killing the same lizards and random tribes near my home structure. Honestly the only factor driving me to stick around and keep playing a bit is the tedious task of collecting materials and building more to my home base as well as crafting something new. Collecting stone, wood and lizard meat also gets extremely monotonous however, especially when I only collect small amounts at a time and get weighed down, requiring me to make soul-destroying trips back and forth for 45 mins to my home chests just to finally create a third tier to my house. I do feel a slight amount of dopamine release whenever I actually begin building or crafting once I have enough resources, but it is quickly gone when I realize I now have the option of repeating this mind-numbing process again to build more, or i could meander around and explore until I find something impossible to kill or other things really easy to kill and feel no progression has been made either way. Sorry but unless the game offers more progression options with an interesting risk/reward system, I will have to leave it on the shelf and not recommend it to anyone who relates with my idea of what makes a game fun or dull. I do understand that playing with other people brings an entire new element to the experience, and would perhaps solve some of my issues with the lackluster void I find myself in most of the time while playing. Sadly, I have no friends irl or on steam that would ever want to play this with me. Who am I kidding, I have no friends period :( Anyways, just would be cool to be able to enjoy a solo experience. I mean the game is called "Conan Exiles"... Conan being a fictional fantasy character who is known for roughing it out in the wilds of the ancient world wilderness much of his life. On the bright side, I did enjoy writing this unnecessarily long winded review, giving a game a thumbs down when I have absolutely no clue about any of its mid or end game content. Ahhhh, feels great to just pee and poop on something that likely doesn't even deserve it. On the other hand, maybe it does deserve it, but that does not matter to me because either way I will feel relieved. ;)

Buggy mess
Thralls(your minions) are always disappearing or getting stuck inside of walls, if they get knocked -> die.
I use shift click to equip a set on the thrall -> game crashes lol

Running simulator for sure, on top of that there is stamina to run.. so have fun waiting for stamina to regenerate.

Games inventory management is horrendous + weight limitations weren't really thought through. It's not fun to transfer items to a mount every time you loot one chest?

This game is a laughingstock compared to other survival/crafting games!

Conan Exiles is the perfect game if you’ve ever wanted to punch a crocodile, build a castle, and survive wearing nothing but a loincloth and your worst life choices. The crafting is deep, the world is brutal, and the first time you die to a spider the size of a small car, you’ll know you’re home—especially if you're from Australia. 10/10 — would get mauled by hyenas again.

definetly one of my favorite survival games, a little rough for new players but youtube exists for a reason

The building in this game is amazing...seeing what types of bases/ camps/houses people build is crazy!

I don't think this means what you think it means. I was expecting a survival game based entirely within the world of Conan the Barbarian (the books, comics, etc). Sadly, that's not what's here and it delivers more closely to Minecraft, blegh.

Yeah look... I'm over 1000 hours at this point so I figured I should probably review this game.

Clearly many, many hours of content. If you like survival games this is the one.
Build a base, team up with mates, and enslave NPC's to do your bidding.
Also titties so that's something....

Been playing randomly for a while, eventually the game decided that, for no reason at all mind you, it will remove my Nudity options from the GAMEPLAY settings list fully and no solution can be found for it.

Honestly, what the heck..?
This is so bad its unreal... Game making changes to my files and my settings and removing options on its own as well as removing files is unheard of...
Not even a list of changes, it just disappears fully. Poof.

Great game , still viable and very fun even years later , looking forward to Dune is this is an example

Good game aged well still play it and spice it up with mods here and there.

Although i expected nothing at first, being crucified for defiling a virgin,

This land holds many secrets and treasures,
Friends and foes, challenges to overcome

And mods make it fun too.

For an MMO, this game is amazing and overtime keeps getting better, cant wait for dune. Funcom knows how to build worlds!! Crafting and exploring is the best Ive ever experienced in an online game... 8/10

I know this is not a new game, but I was getting bored with all my other games and decided to give it a try. I don't regret it. I will most likely add more packs after I have explored this one.

The game itself has a lot of good things going for it at the beginning. Like Skyrim and other sandbox-type games, this game relies on your curiosity and willingness to learn intended mechanics. It has an interesting world you hope to explore, and a setup with hinting lore you expect to learn more about. Unfortunately, I find the game incredibly lacking in meaningful gameplay and basically becomes 3D Minecraft within the first few hours of introduction.

The beginning of the game sets you in a desert, which at first you will feel is atmospheric in the fact you're an exile who was brought here essentially to die. It makes sense for the premise that you would therefore be nailed to a cross in a remote and almost barren terrain. And then you'll walk for 15 minutes just spamming the E button to interact with anything before it pseudo tutorials you into the games crafting system. It's at this 2-6 hour mark I bet you're enjoying yourself for the most part.

But then you'll start to challenge yourself and thus the game itself. Maybe that bridge or clearly man-made structure seems interesting, you climb or reach it only to be met with nothing rewarding along the way. Often, I kept saying, "Oh, it's just a dumb ____", when I was expecting a something to collect or find as it seems like a point of interest the designers wanted you to notice. You also get a single bed early on that functions as a save point, however you also can't place that bed in any 'specialized' zones, only the wilderness spots. The problem is, building something is pretty lackluster anyways and isn't worthwhile to set a base of location in the first few zones. So you'll try to use the base mechanic, maybe build something basic, then get killed by something either stronger than you or more jank deaths. Now you have to go get your stuff which is probably very far away, with no gear or interesting methods of travel besides running and using the terribly slow climbing mechanics.

Worst of all, you'll eventually learn every creature has a drooling pattern that basically results in Hit-and-Run tactics for your character. They'll swing wildly as you dodge one time, then get tired and you get to whomp them for 3-4 hits or something, then they'll repeat that. And maybe that's okay for mobs that go down easy for resources. But this happens for mid-bosses, and seemingly main-bosses where I managed to kill them by just purely repeating the same dodging patterns until they died from 300 hits. I killed a massive Elephant, Spider, and Scorpion the exact same way, just whittling down a barely moving HP bar with dodging and 1-2 hits between their attack patterns.

BUT THEN, you'll get caught sometimes by something jank like getting pinned down by a character's hitbox. I tried to fight some golem stone creature, which would have died in 1/4 of the hits as the other bosses. But instead, as I went to hit it, I could no longer escape underneath the creature as dodging/rolling and running just made me move in place and eventually I got hit and died. There's no interesting engagement I had, no exploitable weaknesses, a different method to engage, just plain hit bags that could be blobs that sometimes do a slightly bigger attack than it's normal melee spam.

Overall, this is not a game I can recommend. It has all right adventuring and a sense of exploring, but the points of interest are usually just MORE bad enemies. Crafting and progression is pretty fun, so I can see why you may get engrossed on building up your base of operations if you've experienced games like Terraria, Minecraft, Corekeeper, and etc. The very, very few times you get to meet friendly NPC's, they're essentially immersive dialogue boxes that get to emote more lore to you. Which, is admittedly not terribly voice acted, but they don't seem very involved. You can just take note of them and then leave, not expecting to return to them ever again. Essentially, Conan Exile doesn't give me any 'WOW' factor beyond the more brutal setting of maiming other humans and doing taboo actions within the game. It feels like it's a game where you're suppose to do anything and everything, with the ability to choose evil and good actions. But none of that is here, or at least doesn't feel like it before I get bored of its poor fighting mechanics and meager exploration options.

6/10, not worth refunding but not better than other sandboxes.

Gameplay-
☐ Very good
✅ Good
☐ Nothing special
☐ Okay
☐ Bad

Graphics-
☐ Masterpiece
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Will do
✅ Bad
☐ Awful

Audio
☐ Amazing
☐ Very good
✅ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad

Audience
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☐ Adults
✅ Everyone

Story-
☐ Lovely
☐ Good
✅ Average
☐ Not great
☐ None

Difficult-
☐ Just press a bunch of buttons
☐ Easy
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
✅ Not so easy
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

Grind-
☐ Nothing
☐ Only if you care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isnt necessary to progress
✅ A bit grindy sometimes
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ Insanity

Game Time-
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
✅ Depends on you
☐ Endless

Price
☐ Just buy it
☐ Worth the price
✅ Wait for sale
☐ Maybe if you have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended

Don't buy if you're going to play co-op.
Nào comprem se forem jogar co-op.
No lo compres si vas a jugar en modo cooperativo.
N'achetez pas si vous comptez jouer en coopération.
Non acquistarlo se intendi giocare in modalità cooperativa.

combat is absolutely terrible. Animations are completely ridiculous and the feel and weight just isnt there. For a conan game that feels like a massive oversight

Add in a UI that sends u to the store page and is just all around bad.

trying this out makes me not hyped at all for the new dune game. do not even play for one minute.

CURRENTLY ACHIEVEMENTS ARE BOTH FOR BASE GAME AND DLC, ATLEAST ONE REQUIRES MULTIPLE PEOPLE AND AS OF WRITING THIS REVIEW ONE IS BROKEN.

I completed the game, and I do not know where to being.

I played it back when it first released in early access and had fond memories of it. This time I went back for the achievements in singleplayer. I chose to play on medium since that was the intended experience.

I started out in the desert looking at the map for a cool spot. I found a nice flat large spot in the desert and planned to build a large city with massive fortified walls. The building system has a lot of flexibility and you have a lot of options for how your buildings look and tons of decorative objects to really make it look nice. Despite my lofty goal, I'm not much of a builder and I ended up not doing much with it. I mostly built a few small houses, a tavern, a dinning hall and a monument to the god I followed. Thralls will move around and interact with stuff you place so it feels populated.

Most of the exploration gameplay is a lot of the same. You go around and explore, find a cave, fight some enemies, kill the boss, get loot, rinse and repeat until you have done everything on the map. I did that a lot and the map is expansive, but still feels walkable. Mounts exist, but don't increase your speed much, so my trusty steed was left in my city most of the time. The gameplay feels a lot like Skyrim, if the combat was designed by a 5 year old.

The combat in this game is horrible. It's unbalanced and feels janky. Everything can stunlock you if you are fighting more than a couple of enemies at once. Either things oneshot you or deal more or less no damage, there is very little in between. Every combat animation is long and locks you from doing anything else. You can stunlock some enemies, but which ones is very inconsistent. Humans? Stunlockable! Skeletons? Not always stunlockable! Frost giants? Stunlockable! Wild animals? Not always stunlockable! The list goes on and on, the only way to know if you can stunlock them is to trying and fight and see what happens and with how much fighting you'll be doing of it, you're gonna have a bad time. The only way to fight is to hit 2-3 times, dodge roll, run away because you are out of stamina, get hit a few times, chuck a healing potion (hope it doesn't bug out and not activate which happens very often) and repeat the cycle till you or the enemy is dead.

After getting decent gear I was able to somewhat enjoy combat for a little bit as death wasn't something I had to worry about 24/7, until I reached a new area where it felt like the whole "you get 1-2shot by anything you see" part over and over again. It should be noted that the best way to get high level materials, namely star metal, is not to go out and gather it. No no no, you go to a camp, fight enemeis for their weapons and go home to disassemble them. Because star metal is gathered from meteors that fall from the sky and require and explosive to even be able to start gathering it. It should also be noted that in the 50ish hours of playing, I saw 0 meteors fall to ground.

I continued to fight bosses, get achievements and get stuff needed to get to the end of the game. Most areas are fine, the snowy biome is a bit annoying because it's cold, but nothing too bad.

The final(ish) area has to be the worst part of them all. The volcano. It's hot so you need environmental protection, that's fine. I put my best gear on and head out for the final boss. Right outside the entrance to the dungeon are regular enemies doing much more damage and having the sameish HP as the boss from the previous area. Except there's like 8 chasing you. I died and I lose my gear and I cannot get back since it's hot and enemies oneshot me. This is the only time I used the admin panel to spawn in my stuff because my body which was just about in reach, had I just been able to spend 10 more minutes attempting to get it back. Yet right as I got to where It was supposed to be 5 minutes after I died with it. It just despawned. So I spawned my stuff back in and went back to the dungeon a little more annoyed than before.

The dungeon itself was mega buggy. The only dungeon to be so tbh. The enemies didn't bother aggroing half the time and the final boss itself decided to not spawn in. His dialogue didn't mind playing 5 times overlapping with itself though. After running away and him respawning (instantly as everything seems to), it was the worst boss fight in the game.

After defeating the final boss, I collected all the artifacts from all my adventures to complete the game. You're in the exiled lands and can't leave because of the cursed bracelet, but if you collect all the 6 artifacts of the creations that enslaved the humans in the land, you can break free of the curse and leave the exiled lands.

And when you do... Your character gets deleted, you get a terrible cutscene with no dialogue and you get put back in character creation. And yet... this is by far the best part of the game, because now I have no reason to continue playing. I really felt the irony of my character being stuck in the exiled lands and trying to find a way to escape and in the end with my character leaving the lands finally being free of the clutches of the cursed bracelets. I too have been freed from the clutches of the terrible combat of the game.

10/10 - would delete my character again.

this game could have been so much more. but was put on the back burner. instead of adding to the map they just make a totally new map instead. another stupid idea. make a new map no one plays...

Finally, a game that allows me to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and hear the lamentations of their women. Good times.

A melee-focused survival game with rich early to mid game PvE content, not much in the endgame. Fortunately, many mods take care of this, such as EEWA and AoC. The game is pretty old at this point, but still has a lot of life left in it. I only play PvE so that is what I'm reviewing.
Pros:
- Beautiful human characters you can create (your character) and enlist to your clan (thrall NPCs)
- Ok looking world, though there are better ones from the same rough release year
- Interesting crafting system with bonuses from thralls
- Good building system with many different tiers, enriched by mods and DLCs for stunning architecture
- Lots of high quality mods including completely new maps
- many different types of melee weapons
- limited number of ranged weapons
- Works nicely on Proton
- Single player and Co-op possible

Cons:
- Crashes occasionally
- Many longstanding bugs. However, these are slowly getting fixed with an effort in the past year. Nothing gamebreaking.
- PvP can be toxic, go for unofficial friendly PvP or PvE servers with active admins for a nice experience

Great game, clearly a great add. Personally had a hacker destroying hours of hard work through time exploit/hacks. A common problem from what I here. Still, very solid game and would like to seem the expand on the AI in the future.

Conan is a great game! solid game mechanics and they keep adding more content. its ok solo but THE BEST to play multiplayer on a dedicated server.

Recomendadisimo, tiene algunos bugs pero la jugabilidad, las armas, el mundo abierto, realmente recomendado. El mejor juego de supervivencia que he jugado

Amazing game that I keep coming back to. Survival. PVP or PVE. great Conan Lore. Music, Graphics, Building Mechanics. Overall Love this game.

1,797.8 hrs on record, about half that was after I switched from Windows to Linux.
I enjoyed the game, bought the expansions,.. Then they started up the season pass, it worked for the first season, and partly through the second season when they decided they would actively block Linux users via the unnecessary anti-cheat kernel that is embedded in windows.
So yeah, do I recommend this? If you have Windows, it "was" enjoyable til the season passes.
I personally do not recommend this game, or any game that cuts off an audience that paid for content.
I'd hoped there would have been support, but Yeah... Its been years.

Conan Exiles is a survival game set in a tough open world full of danger and cool ancient stuff to explore.
It’s got a pretty solid open-world and crafting system, and the combat feels great.
But honestly, the game’s super buggy some parts are barely playable. Every update just makes it worse, with long downloads and barely any real improvements.
The Standard Edition doesn’t really give you much, but with the DLCs, the experience gets way better.
Still, if you’re playing with friends on a private server, it can be a lot of fun.
Just be ready to deal with the bugs and annoying updates.
5.5/10

Bought it on steam sale for close to nothing and I am enjoying every second (280 hrs in). The game has its flaws and bugs but as a fan of the comics and the grown up style of the game I am more than happy. Playing Single Player so many awkward things I can fix via console.

I know I am a bit late to Conan but I'll give my two cents anyway. This is by far my favorite sandbox survival crafting experience. The immersion in this game is really unlike anything in the genre so far. I am a solo player and mostly enjoy taking things slowly while exploring different biomes. I like to explore, mark something on the map, and then come back later. There is a modding community for this game as well that helps to add to the player experience. I feel the game offers a lot (especially with mods) that you don't really need to buy most of the cosmetic dlc's, unless you wanted to support the game further (which i did, i purchased one of the packs.)

Building is fun (i played with a mod that unrestricted building rules so idk about base game), but it gets really grindy for anything past sandstone in terms of material gathering. Overall its a great experience that i plan to sink more hours into. Im even considering the Isle of Siptah DLC.

---Negatives You Should Know About---

- Ive had some minor issues with glitches and crashes but it hasnt been as bad as ive read in some of the other reviews. Since putting 64 hours in to the game i crashed about 4 times in total and 3 of those times were from all the mods i had at one point. When I removed what i believed to be the problem and started a new game, everything worked. I then had one crash for a random reason way later down the line but hast crashed since. Also, i never lost any progress or inventory or something to these crashes. The game is constantly saving.

- Ive had issues with thralls disappearing after being knocked out. They sort of fade out of existence when your not looking at them.

- Most times a follower will easily be able to keep up with you. But sometimes a follower might get stuck in a wall or...under the floor? But this happened only once for me and they teleport to the last place you had them stand guard which was my base

---Useful Info---

-Its REALLY grindy when it comes to materials.

-be prepared to spend A LOT of time walking. The map is huge.

-The load time to open the game and your game session takes a bit long

-There is a lot of cosmetic DLC

-The menus (knowledge tree) can be a little disorienting at first, especially since it shows options for the DLC you don't have

I enjoyed to play the game at my own pace and explore on my own.
I'm not sure if fast traveling is a thing yet, I have not progress to portals, if there are. But traveling by foot back to base, SUCKS..
Other than that, I have been enjoying the game, thank you devs :thumsUp: !

Conan Exiles has long been under rated as a solid game, rich in features, complete with good PvEPvP and incredible detail in base building and mechanics. It does lack somewhat in end game mechanics, unless you play with a group of people in role play environments or other such servers, however, it can be and continues to be 1600+ hours in as a strong game that keeps me entertained and focused. Now, having said all that, stay away from the servers with the power gamers and PvP kids who get only joy out of ruining others game experience, unless that is also your thing. Otherwise, it is worthy of playing even this many years into the format. I am sad that Funcom has determined not to update it right now, but I am hopeful they will see the value in perhaps re-doing the game using much of the enhancements they are putting in to Dune Awakening. A true chance to blend both games and create the game to finally reduce WoW and Elder Scrolls to memory.

The game is very captivating and immersive. I have managed to pt the real world aside and enjoy this game for hours at a time. Love the building mechanics and the illustrations are just breath taking.

I'll never make it through this clipping and glitching nightmare, now that my best thralls just vanished. GONE! POOF!

Don't buy. Don't play. Don't practice these dark arts.

The Game is nearly unplayable. The most basic functions break constantly. Sorting your inventory breaks your inventory, making equipping anything, dropping anything, or even just moving an item from one spot to another is a painstaking process. Falling through the map is a constant fear as well. Losing your entire inventory since your body is unreachable. The official servers are so completely lagged out you cant even fight anything or anyone correctly. single player works the best, since you will have to use the admin commands or mods to fix things while you constantly get screwed over. Creative Mode seems to be the only reason to play, and its a pvp game, so theres not much to do besides build a base. screenshot it, then uninstall. Theres no quest or story to speak of, just a large empty map to build in. I got this game for $3.50. Still seems like too much for how insanely broken it is.

I enjoy this game. I only find it annoying that in co-op that your friends cant explore on their own without being pulled toward me as host. Other than that everything else its fun and interesting.

It's REALLY bad. Bugs and collision detection make it not only frustrating but nearly unplayable.

If it were available for free I would still say buyer beware.

Embark on Your own adventure in this beautiful hardcore survival rpg.
A vast world to explore, both in singleplayer and multiplayer on a beautiful map with tons of lore, secrets and stuff to explore in general.
Tired of adventure? Settle up yourself and build a home or a castle of your design, your own creativity(and game limitations) is the limit. Assemble yourself an army of thralls to follow You in battle and larp over your domain
DLC’s mostly are cosmetic, Siptah is a new map with adventures of its own. Recommended to wait for sales
On the flip side, we have certain bugs and performance issues that hunt the game since its early days(im looking at you, memory leaks) with hope they will get fixed
Overall the game is fun and definitely worth a try, with current developer support and mods from the community
What will You do Exile, when there is nothing left, but to live or die.

Game has good combat, lots of place and lore to explore, and the animation is good too. Would definitely recommend if it isn't a bug ridden mess. Most of the bugs has been there over a year. You can see all those posts on the official forum discussing how those bugs affect gameplay. Even some so-call "feature" will cause problems, like that living settlement update would cause your thralls to randomly died and disappeared with with no reason at all. And there is no way you can save them and the gears because it happens to the thrall guarding your base when you're not there. When you learned their death via the server log it's already too late. The only work around is to disable the said feature via admin control. As of right now, 7 months since that update, the problem is still there. They can't even make that feature option off by default before that can fix it. The game has lots of progress hindering like this. Such a shame. Because it has solid contents.

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ / 10 meat shields

Hours played: 4,000+ (and I'm still naked in the desert half the time)

When I first launched Conan Exiles, I thought, "Cool, a survival game with swords and loincloths." 4,000 hours later, I’m still here, wondering how many more thralls I need to kidnap before I feel fulfilled.

The base game? Pretty solid. PvP is a glorious chaos simulator where you can spend hours building a fortress only to have Chad the Barbarian nuke it at 3am while you're asleep. 10/10 emotional damage.

But the real magic? Roleplay servers with mods. Oh man. I went from Conan the Destroyer to Conan the Flirtatious Tavern Owner with a suspiciously large basement. Thanks to the modding community, I’ve experienced everything from intense political drama to spontaneous orgies in bathhouses built with architectural precision. Peak storytelling.

Pros:

You can punch trees AND gods.

Mods turn the game into Skyrim with fewer dragons and more questionable choices.

RP servers taught me more about diplomacy than my political science degree.

Cons:

Occasional bugs, like flying crocodiles or invisible walls. But honestly, it just adds to the lore.

Base PvE is fine, but once you taste modded RP, there’s no going back.

Final Verdict:
Come for the survival, stay for the immersive, chaotic, slightly-too-horny roleplay.
And yes, I still forget to bring a waterskin.

30 min of gameplay for 2 hours of troubleshooting...
After newest update connecting to selfhosted dedicated server is not possible anymore. Game Client and Server are running different versions although both are up to date.

Unfortunately im over 2h so a refund is out of sight now...
To bad I paid 3€ for this

I adore this game. As wonky, janky and buggy as this game is. It is nevertheless fun as hell. The art style fits Howard's universe to a t. Get some friends or play solo, and have a damn good time!

Great game as long as the server owners are not corrupt