Conan Exiles
" Expansive online multiplayer survival RPG with deep crafting and building but frequent bugs "
Conan Exiles Review
Conan Exiles is a survival sandbox game with a large and diverse player base, offering extensive gameplay mechanics including combat, base building, crafting, and exploration. Players enjoy its deep character creation system, especially with mods, and the game's immersive world featuring varied biomes and challenging enemies. The multiplayer aspect, including PvP, PvE, and roleplay communities, is a major draw, fostering social interaction and long-term engagement. The game features a steep learning curve but rewards experimentation and cooperation.
However, players frequently encounter bugs, glitches, and balance issues that affect combat, inventory management, and thrall AI. Some criticize the grind-heavy gameplay, limited coop without dedicated servers, and inconsistent updates. Despite these flaws, the game remains beloved for its rich content, replay value, and the freedom it offers to create and explore. Many recommend it especially with friends and mods, though solo and casual players may find it challenging or frustrating.
Highlights
Players praise the deep and flexible character creation, especially with popular mods enhancing customization.
The building system is highly regarded for its creativity and variety, allowing impressive constructions.
The combat, while sometimes clunky, is engaging and rewarding once mastered, with a huge map full of exploration and challenging enemies.
The multiplayer experience, including PvP, PvE, and roleplay servers, adds life and community to the game.
Graphics and art direction receive positive remarks, with immersive environments and varied biomes enhancing the atmosphere.
Criticisms
Common criticisms include persistent bugs and glitches affecting thralls, inventory management, and combat hit detection.
Some players find the grind and resource management tedious, especially for solo play without admin commands.
The PvP mechanics and hitboxes are often described as unbalanced or frustrating.
Limited offline and coop play without dedicated servers restricts exploration and enjoyment.
Updates and patches sometimes introduce issues or fail to fix longstanding problems, leading to player dissatisfaction.
Pros
- • Extensive and moddable character creation system allows unique player customization.
- • Robust building mechanics enable creative and impressive base constructions.
- • Large, varied map encourages exploration with diverse biomes and dungeons.
- • Engaging combat system with dodge rolls and weapon skills.
- • Strong multiplayer communities including PvP, PvE, and roleplay servers.
- • Immersive world with atmospheric graphics and sound design.
- • Deep crafting and resource gathering with logical progression.
Cons
- • Frequent bugs and glitches disrupt gameplay and immersion.
- • Inventory and item management can be frustrating and unintuitive.
- • PvP hitboxes and combat balance often criticized as unfair.
- • Grinding for resources is tedious, especially for solo players.
- • Limited coop without dedicated servers restricts gameplay options.
- • Some updates introduce new issues or fail to fix old ones.
- • Offline mode restrictions prevent access to purchased DLCs.
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About This Game
Conan Exiles is an online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Enter a vast, open-world sandbox and play together with friends and strangers as you build your own home or even a shared city. Survive freezing cold temperatures, explore loot-filled dungeons, develop your character from scavenging survivor to mighty barbarian and powerful sorcerer, and fight to dominate your enemies in epic siege wars.
Conan Exiles can be played in full single-player, co-op, or persistent online multiplayer.
After Conan himself saves your life by cutting you down from the corpse tree, you must quickly learn to survive. Weather scouring sandstorms, shield yourself from intense temperatures and hunt animals for food and resources. Explore a vast and seamless world, from the burning desert in the south to the snow-capped mountains of the north.
Forge the legacy of your clan as you fight to reclaim and dominate the Exiled Lands. Use the powerful building system to create anything from a small home to entire cities piece by piece. Wage war using swords, sorcery, bows, and siege weapons, even taking control of giant avatars of the gods to crush the homes of your enemies in epic battles.
SURVIVE IN A SAVAGE LAND
Dress well or light a campfire to stay warm and make sure to cool yourself down in the heat. Hunt, cook, eat, and drink to stay alive. Build a shelter to weather scouring sandstorms. Be careful when exploring darkened ruins or you might become corrupted by foul sorcery.
BUILD A HOME AND A KINGDOM
Harvest resources to craft tools and weapons, then build anything from a small home to entire cities piece by piece using a powerful building system. Place traps, elevators, and defenses, then deck out your creations with furniture, crafting stations, and more.
DOMINATE THE EXILED LANDS
Carve out your piece of the Exiled Lands, taking it from other players if you must! Build siege weapons and use explosives to break down the walls of your enemy’s city. Place traps, recruit thralls, and build defenses to keep your enemies from invading you.
CORRUPT YOURSELF TO WIELD DARK SORCERY
Discover insidious sorceries and corrupt your body to wield them. Special perks are awarded to those who give up a portion of their life force. Sacrifice thralls to summon demons and the undead and bend them to your will. Conjure darkness, soar the skies on winged monstrosities, and call down lightning to strike your foes.
AGES ARRIVE IN THE EXILES LANDS
Updates in Conan Exiles now come in Ages. Each Age has its own theme, free gameplay updates, and Battle Passes. This model allows us to add features and improvements for free, while providing an easy way for any player to support the game’s growth and receive exclusive themed cosmetics.
EXPLORE A VAST, OPEN WORLD
Journey through a massive and seamless open world, from the rolling sand dunes of the southern desert to the mysterious eastern swamp and the snow-capped mountains of the frozen north. Climb anywhere and experience full freedom of exploration.
BRUTAL, BLOODY COMBAT
Fight vicious monsters and other players using an action-oriented, combo-based combat system. Dodge, block, and learn to master the true art of combat to become the greatest fighter in the Exiled Lands. Slay using bows, daggers, swords, axes, and more.
ENSLAVE THRALLS TO DO YOUR BIDDING
Enslave the criminals of the Exiled Lands and make them join your cause and defend your territory. Put them through the grueling Wheel of Pain to break their will, then turn them into archers, fighters, crafters, entertainers, and more.
DISCOVER THE RUINS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
From the Black Keep in the north to the Dregs along the southern river, discover the ruins of ancient civilizations and solve their mysteries to gain access to their treasure. Uncover the history of the Exiled Lands you as you explore, uncover lore, and meet NPCs.
BECOME A TOWERING GOD
Alight yourself with one of four deities such as Derketo, the goddess of lust and death. Bring your sacrifices to the altar of your god then summon and take control of their huge, towering avatar. Crush enemies and entire buildings under your avatar’s feet.
PLAY TOGETHER OR ALONE
Play alone locally or fight for survival and dominance in persistent multiplayer on public servers. You can also host your own server and invite others to join you in a world where you have full control of the rules and settings. Want to play with just handful of friends? Try co-op mode!
CONTROL YOUR EXPERIENCE
When playing alone locally or on a server you are the administrator of your world, with access to a range of in-game tools. Change your progression speed, spawn monsters, turn yourself invisible, deactivate avatars, and much more. Be the dungeon master of your own server.
PLAY WITH MODS
Download Conan Exiles mods directly from the Steam workshop to customize your game experience. You can also download the custom Conan Exiles Unreal Editor and start creating your own. Countless mods await your discovery!
RECOMMENDED – Eurogamer
“Conan Exiles is brilliantly addictive.”
9/10 – GamingRespawn
“Survival fans must definitely check this out!”
82/100 – GameStar
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.