Conan Exiles

I like this game. It gets me through the day and keeps me from worrying about WW3, while simultaneously preparing me for living in the wilderness as a roving barbarian.

So, ive been torn on this because I genuinely enjoy the game. But. The lack of bug fixes, focus on monetization over generally improving or maintaining the experience. And most of all. The fact that the boss leashing mechanic functions like it was coded by a toddler. Has finally managed to turn me away from the game and give it a negative review. And I hate that, because the game has a really solid gameplay setup. But by Crom watching the way "fixing" the game has happened is like watching a follower of Derketo trying to figure out why noone in the church is naked and "worshiping" There is a complete and utter disconnect between what the game -actually- needs and what squeezes every last penny out of the IP. Its like watching Funcom try its hardest to mimic EA, and be even less shady about it. The disconnect is just too big. Making money is fine, thats the entire point of business. But Funcom has completely ignored providing a quality product by way of fixing the issues, and instead has focused utterly and entirely on sucking out every last penny. After the hundredth time of loosing Thralls and Pets to the broken Leashing system im done with it. Id understand it if I were trying to kite the enemies but I can remain in the exact same location and all of a sudden they just start rapidly regenerating, not breaking combat and walking off or off to some other point. Never breaking combat. If I hear things changed I might give it another try, if its better, ill change my review. But with Dune out now I doubt it. If you want a open world survival craft go play Ark, for all the awful it has done its still better than Conman.

It's like Skyrim and Minecraft had a love/ hate child with a vendetta for being exiled. Fantastic game and the DLC's keep getting better.

Game is epic fun !! Here is a few ressources to enjoy it even further : A map to find ressources : https://mapgenie.io/conan-exiles A a launcher and a mod updater for Conan Exiles, it even order your mods for you: https://github.com/RatajVaver/conay Enjoy !

This is a HARSH but beautiful game The Good: Excellent atmosphere, graphics look stylized and appealing, tons of stuff to do. The Bad: REALLY hard to find basic resources. My house despawned completely due to a bug. I want to love this game and part of me still does for the brutal combat, the variety of professions to explore and things to craft. the care and attention to the lore of Conan. But although I DO recommend it still you need patience. Sometimes a big boss will spawn and kill you constantly and there's no real way to fight it. Sometimes you need something and it's nowhere to be found. Sometimes it will glitch and leave you frustrated. But in those moments it works, when you can admire you shrines, your houses, your little operation it's worth the occasional hiccups. And that can be said of many games: so good you weather the bumps.

DONT PLAY THIS UNTILL CRASHES, LAG SPIKES, AND BUGS ARE FIXED. I like the game, but i cant recommend it to any one who wants to actually enjoy this game. I can run much more intensive games with no problem, with this game, all settings have to be on low. they have added many DLCs but not enough in the fixing the game aspects. so far i have come back to this game 3+ times after a long while to wait for updates. every time i leave the game because of long lag spikes, crashes, and NPCs being lost... a lot of progress lost from not being able to finish a quest. having to go admin mode to find where your lost NPCs/thralls went, is a huge loss to the emersion of the game...

I really enjoyed playing Exiles and Siptah, there is still lots of land left to explore outside of the achievements if I wanted to. Unfortunately, one of the easiest achievements to get (Placing a thrall crafter at a crafting station) is unattainable. Hopefully the team creates a fix for this at some point as it seems its been an issue for many years now. Otherwise, great game but missing out on getting 100% achievements because of that is incredibly frustrating.

Digusting .. cant believe this game ever been release like this .. Dayz level kind of bug .. keep loosing progression for no reason .. Official server always backup making you loose hours no matters what .. the mechanic of farming , attacking and all the animation are broken .. making you glitch out . like i said i cant believe this game have been release like this .. dev keep updating new season but never fix Basic ass mechanic issue ... this game have lot of potential but at the moment its just completely broken

They seriously need to fix this mechanic, the pvp is sore garbage, the hit box is so huge that you get hit from a far without even enemy being close to you. Overall not a bad game but this trashy pvp needs an immediate attention!

has achievements that arent obtainable anymore because they changed a game system but not the achievements.

Undisclosed kernel level anti-cheat (not on the steam page), and you can't play single player offline. I haven't even played the game yet, but I'm already thinking of returning it. I got it on sale though, so I guess I'll give it a shot.

its a great world building game with plenty of actions and id happily put this game on par with world of warcraft maybe even better in some areas

I played Age of Conan some years ago and hadn't thought about any of the new versions until I recently watched a stream on Conan Exiles and I knew it was time to get back into the game. Worth it, I've since purchased all thee DLCs and am learning many new skills to live the Rogue Barbarian life!

How have I not reviewed this yet?? This is a fun game packed with hours of things to keep you busy. Exploring, building, crafting, fighting, and even just sitting at a fire watching your slave.....err, thrall dancing around. Great game that I Keep going back to.

I have been playing this game for about 7 years. Loved it from the start. There are still things that I have yet to do. Not because I don't want to but because there is that much you can do. Only thing I wish for on here is there to be a platform that is cross connected so i didn't lose all the stuff i bought on PSN.

After loving dune awakening I decided to give this game another chance. One problem, it simply no longer works and I have a better PC now than i did when this game came out. No mods ever installed. Latest drivers installed, all other games work great from steam library. Nvidia settings set to lowest quality. Game launches, cinematic auto plays, when it ends game crashes every.. single.. time.

it is a very good open world survival game. But it also shows its age in 2025: in terms of graphics and animations. Would only recommend if its on sale

Surprising a great game to play. I've started playing a few years late after it's initial release but the gameplay, graphics, storyline etc was excellent. The player base is no longer there so if you're looking for others to play with I believe there's only 1 server with a group called Cthulu that have an active and fun group to play with but if you want to play i encourage single player play. also download the mods from the steam community forums and try Savage Lands a fan made DLC its brilliant.

TL;DR: I mostly had fun playing this and the environment is top notch. But it lacks polish, has a janky combat system and bad AI. Let me preface this review by telling you I only played this game in singleplayer. The Good: + The details of the environment and lighting is very good, it feels real and grounded + The armors and weapon are also very nice and detailed (Medium Harness looks awesome) + Have zero FPS problems, runs like a dream on the maximum quality settings + Lots of settings for both the server and client so you can customize it to your liking + Crafting system is good, though I wish a tooltip was shown when hovering unknown materials telling me what it is (example: Gruel, thought it meant any type of food but it is a specific recipe used for thralls) + Base building system is alright, there's other (newer) games that does it better but it's fine, I get it's 7 years old + Kidnapping thralls is hilarious The Bad: - BLOODY SCREEN!!! I wish you could turn it off. Same goes with out-of-stamina-SCREEN, annoying to look at - The enemy AI is very bad. If the enemy are following me and we're in combat the enemy reaches a point where it just turns back towards the spawn point and ignore anything the player does to it, also it resets the HP whenever that happens. Got bad guys following you? just climb up a rock and they can't reach you. - Crocs can't go into the water lol. And it seems like any other enemy also can't, so you're safe in the water - Animations could be improved, very stiff - Sound design could also be improved, deers walking 10m+ from me sounds like they next to me - Game is unpolished, they seem to have skipped the fundementals on this

Server hosting and PvE can be a bit cumbersome and challenging. The soul of the game is good, and id give the game a 4/5 stars. Transport options would be excellent additions to the game, as harvesting very specific reagents can be a very time consuming task. I hope they continue to expand and to improve upon the base game.

After 7 years, the game runs smooth, has a fun play through, and is well worth the cost.

Didn’t expect to enjoy it this much, but Conan Exiles surprised me. I spent hours just building a base, gathering resources, and surviving the harsh world. Combat felt a bit clunky at first, but once I got used to it, it was decent enough. Keeping track of hunger, thirst, and the weather actually made it feel immersive.

I like this game. It gets me through the day and keeps me from worrying about WW3, while simultaneously preparing me for living in the wilderness as a roving barbarian.

Such a rich and immersive game with so much to do, always lost interest before getting to the snow region but hopefully my next run will get me there. Incredible fun if you play with family/friends.

nice game, tho not very intuitive for new players, it took me quite a few hours to find out you have to consume the lotus in order to know what to do (gather lotus with E or sickle and put it on alchemist table), get high, and follow the visions

I may come back for the second time in the near future. I been looking for a new game to replace another game that made me sick from players being toxic, and threatened me where I had to change things with my provider. I need a comeback to a new game and experience it for the first time, so this is possible since I own this game, I just got to be patient and play it with someone so I don’t get bored.. This game looks cool, and I only launched it once awhile back when it first came out, and I rage quit the first few mins aha, but I do recommend this game to others since it does have a nice compelling story line, and quite a grind but fun game. I need peeps to get play this with to experience open world together.

+: open world, climb mechanic, evolution -: movement has some hicups., can't move with left (using A), when fighting, the caracter keeps move forwards up to now I'd give a 8.5/10

its fine but the base world feels empty and vastly lacking in character creation areas. You can build 15 different styles of buildings but maybe 7/8 faces hairstyles etc.

I enjoy the fighting, building finding new items specially weapons and discovering new places.

great game, if you seek crafting in a sandbox environment with bosses and tons of things to do this is for you

This can be fun solo but I highly recommend playing with friends. The gameplay can feel so slow when you have to gather the resources all alone to build and craft everything yourself.

This is a great game. It's settings of play is so versified it caters for all types for players,

Amazing game. Might be more fun to play with friends but it's also fun playing solo as the game has a cool thrall system. Environment and thrall designs are amazing, combat is simple and fast-paced enough to keep me engaged, basic building is simple like Ark but might get tedious once upgrade and base expansion is needed. My favorite feature in this game is the thrall capturing, it's fun to knock them out and drag them all the way back to base! I would say minimally players would be spending about 50-100 hours just trying to beat the game even without focusing too much on base design or crafting the best equipments as those I feel would take up the most time. And this is coming from someone who only has the base game. I believe there would be more things to do if were to get the DLCs. So I would say the game is definitely worth even on full price, highly recommend!

great game. it really satisfies the sword and sorcery niche

yes 100000% its great with friend can kill hours on it and not get bored adn pvp is not pay to win at all gotta have skilz to get it going lmao

My gaming group rented a private server to play this game co-op. We ran into some bugs but thankfully because we were the server admins we could always fix things or respwan items we lost. We got about 100 hours out of this game to do the main "story". It was fun, felt like our own personal MMO. For us it was worth it to get a private server and not worry about cheaters or people exploiting the game to de-spawn your buildings. I tried a few of the "public" servers but they were super full, if you can swing it, private server is the way to go.

I play with a buddy of mine and before that I barely logged about 4 hours until I said never again... Buddy of mine and I have already logged over 100hrs into this beautiful game and it truly is a masterpiece in its own right now, littered with bugs and a whole fk ton of issues though, but the devs have made it possible to unfk the system by making you an admin of the server and having you be able to respawn lost equipment, spawns, thralls, etc... Great game, the bugs do suck, but its a lot less aggravating when you have a friend to play with.

its interesting and can be fun, and a lot to do, but the game is not in the best state, and mostly abandoned by the developers, it is understandable for them as their only goal is to make money, not to make the game enjoyable, and if it wont bring any profits, there is no point for them to bother too much

Awesome survival game. Great world building mechanics, WoW style character development and bloody as hell!

Have been playing almost since release and it is one of the games I have most enjoyed. Although it does not have polished quest lines or the most updated graphics, it does what it claims to be: a sandbox survival with tonnes of fun mechanics. Co-op is fun at times but the best part is building and claiming pets, thralls, repelling raids etc.

Fully immersive world very accurate depiction of Robert E. Howard's original account of Conan the Barbarian. You get lost in it. It's very fun to play and addicting.

It took me years to finally play this game. The world is fun to explore, I had a blast playing SP and MP. The mod community is pretty big and you can find stuff from all styles in there. It's a great survival crafter game. I do have some problems, but they can be remedied by going to through the server settings. (Sorry for my broken english)

I only recommend the game because it's a great game but I am absolutely angry my save was a local file, switching pc's lead to many hours being robbed from me and having to start from scratch makes me want to never play again, I will likely start up the game several times over many months only to exit when this thought comes back when I don't see the continue button. It's one thing for me to start a new save on my own and another to be robbed many hours of grinding.

- Miserable single player experience. It's bad, just a template map where players are supposed to do the content. Feels like an old veteran boomer open world rpg, with bugs and cheeses, but has the disadvantages of expected online play. But it has its charm, it's a chill game. - The game passively force you to play as an admin in your own server, otherwise you spend literally hours making transports. With an empty inventory, farming mats for a few walls will fill it. You cant even begin clearing a dungeon because you have to stop looting or youre over encumbered. This game expects you as a solo player to spend literally hundreds of hours carrying only a few materials at a time if you want to make a base. - Good thing theres admin mode, i used admin commands but not to cheat, just to make myself those basic materials that are time skip, like getting rocks or wood that respawn in the same spot fast while away. Feels like it's been intended like this. And to increase inventory carry size, otherwise it's unenjoyable solo. - NPCs and crafting nodes respawn fast, like on an mmo. If you kill the guards at a cave entrance, reach cave end, then come back out, the guards are respawned. I had to make longer the enemy respawn timer and it's still ridiculous. - Crafting is bad, everything is just take this basic material and walk it through 5 stations. Most of them are useless, it's empty crafting. - Dedication is not existant, fast travel doesnt exist, theres a building that does it but too late and only from it to out in the world, not coming back. Travelling anywhere is awful, gathering resources anywhere far away from your base and you have to walk back in, build a few walls or place it in a chest, then go back out. Ignoring base building and crafting, you can travel the world just like that and fight enemies, explore the landscape. - Climbing is an awesome mechanic and makes exploration fun, but it's broken as enemies cant climb. You can cheese anything with enough arrows. In dungeons and some other few areas you cant climb so at least theres that. - Most of overland is empty with generic enemies, like a template mmo. A few points of interest, forced to be there and with no sense. Theres dungeons with some bosses that are interesting. - Sorcery is presented as a big deal and important, but falls bluntly flat when you get to it. Theres an interaction with something and thats it, youre a sorcerer now. And spells are bad and costly, require some items to cast and have little importance too. - I understand it's a sandbox open world, but no direction or indication makes you not know if theres something where you are or if youre supposed to do something there and what. - The game is fine if you go through the journey quests, mess around with some building in admin mode, and fantasy yourself some strong demigod in a savage land. Overall it's an interesting experience with some content like doing the journey quests and doing a few dungeons.

Love it. It has bugs true, but this game has great immersion and replay value.

Fun but a bit confusing at times at what to do. Plays like minecraft where you can gather and build, but in a sort of RPG way.

This is the unsung hero of FUNCOM. If they made every game like this I would buy it, full price. Please note it took them 7 years to this point. If it weren't for Conan Exiles I wouldve never even heard of FUNCOM, or cared.

At its core, Conan Exiles is a survival sandbox. You gather resources, build shelters, craft gear, hunt animals, manage thirst and hunger, and eventually grow from a barely clothed exile to a warlord commanding entire kingdoms and armies. The survival mechanics are well balanced and challenging but not overly punishing. You’ll need to manage your body temperature, craft clothing and armor to deal with the climate, and fight off deadly creatures and rival players (I am horrible at PVP, yet this game makes me happy). While the main story is minimal and mostly environmental, Conan Exiles shines in multiplayer. Whether you join a PVP server and raid enemy strongholds or stick to PVE and collaborate with friends, the game feels alive when shared. Clan systems and purges. Conan Exiles is a game of contrasts, beauty and brutality, creation and destruction, while also remaining a staple in the survival community. I cannot recommend this game enough.

I'm a single-player gamer, and this game truly makes me feel less alone. The NPCs can talk, share stories, and interact in meaningful ways, creating an immersive experience. The optimization is impressive too — even on my old PC, the game runs smoothly. There's so much to do: building houses, towns, even entire civilizations; farming, decorating, raising animals, exploring, adventuring, engaging in combat, uncovering lore — and more. You can shape your world in countless ways, and it never feels empty.

Very good survival game, also great in coop!