Robert E. Howard’s Conan universe was an unforgiving place filled with dangers around every corner. Conan Exiles lives up to that reputation. It’s not just the other players and NPCs in the world that make this survival game rough; it’s the wolves and giants and other terrors stalking the deserts and forests around you. And even if you manage to survive all that, a sandstorm or the brutal northern cold might lay you low. It just came out of early access yesterday with a load of new content, but here’s what I’m thinking about it so far.
Conan Exiles captures the tone of Howard’s hard world right from the start, casting you as a criminal who’s crucified and left to die naked along a highway that last saw better days a century ago. Unlike Funcom’s other Conan game, the MMORPG Age of Conan, though, it focuses more on mood rather than elaborate storylines. Conan himself makes only a brief cameo at the start, cutting you down from your death tree after you’ve created your character. After that, you’re set loose in the Exiled Lands to carve your own tales of high adventure.
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