Conan Unconquered

Overall… it’s fun, but does get frustrating on the later levels… the fact you can’t save your game to try a configuration and then reload if it didn’t quite work simply adds to that frustration. At the current price tag I think it might be a little much… but there is a bit of value in the unlockable comic pages and the ability to play through as a couple of other characters is nice. Perhaps wait for a sale unless you happen to really like tower defense style gaming.

Conan Unconquered isn't the most polished RTS to be released this year, but it is filled with unique ideas, challenging enemies and fun emergent moments.

A scrappy and bloody brilliant strategy game that builds further upon the idea of survival strategy, Conan Unconquered doesn’t stray too far from its primary influence but it does offer plenty of unique substance that gives it its very own flavour. Now that, is what is best in life.

Conan will forever be engraved in our collective memory as the name of the greatest fictional barbarian that has ever lived, and with such a great legacy to live up to, the burden of pulling off a good game based on the Conan mythos is great. The people at Petroglyph, a gaming studio renown for their great RTS titles of the past, challenged themselves to accept this burden, and as far as I’m concerned, they pretty much pulled it off.

Losing to a devastating horde in Conan Unconquered makes victory later on that much sweeter. But it's difficult to know if this kind of challenge-based real-time strategy game can maintain a long-term appeal.

The core of the tower defense strategy mix is demanding and entertaining.

This is a hard game, so don’t expect any quarter from it, but defending your castle from endless waves of bloodthirsty enemies is good fun, further served by the coop mode. If only it wasn’t so monotonous.

Conan Unconquered could have been a great strategy game. Its epic and funny when you battle against hundreds of enemies, but a lack of content is its worst enemy.

Conan Unconquered’s core mechanics are fun and playing with a friend can be a blast. I just wish there was more content.

Conan Unconquered is a unique title in the strategy genre, but either due to limited budget or lack of time, the developers failed to reach the full potential of their ideas. Conan has the potential to become one of the best strategies in the market, and maybe developers can reach that potential through future updates, but at its current state, Conan Unconquered might not be the best option for the fans of the genre.

Challenging mix of base building, expanding and battle, that would benefit from more content as well as variety and the “certain something” that would seperate it from your common run-of-the-mill strategy.

Conan Unconquered is good fun at first but it soon shows its weakness, first in line being a real lack of content, poor AI and pathfinding. But its coop game mode is well done and offers a nice challenge.

A capable yet uncreative and unimpressive game that feels straight out of the early 2000s.

To appreciate Conan Unconquered it is necessary to close both eyes on its limits and bear the bizarre design choices, but if it is true that perseverance pays, it is also true that one can get tired much earlier.

There is potential here and some good ideas, but the games feels old-fashioned, lacks attention for detail given the source material and is technically questionable. A great opportunity that could have been way better.

Conan Unconquered’s slow-moving economy that always seems to lag behind the relentless waves of enemies is frustrating and the fact that there are only two playable heroes — a third is available behind a paywall at launch — and no story or campaign make the game feel like it’s incomplete or at the very least a meager package for the price. Coupled with the repetitious nature of the environments and matches, the uninspired voice work and shallow gameplay, Conan Unconquered is a disappointing hybrid of RTS and tower defense that squanders the Conan brand once again.

Conan Unconquered is an often fun and always brutal experience that will keep you returning for beatings time after time, if you can excuse the already questionable paywall content, economic issues, and lack of game mode variety.

Conan Unconquered has a nice foundation, and the first few hours aren’t bad, but after a while we find its shallow and repetitive nature.

Conan Unconquered is too empty and lifeless, not to mention unoriginal. It feels like a mod rather than a full-fledged game from an experienced studio.

Conan Unconqured is a survival RTS Tower defense set in the world of Conan the Barbarian. This spin-off certainly tries to appeal RTS lovers, but despite some smart and original ideas, the game lacks depth and becomes boring after a few hours, also due to the absence of competitive multiplayer both offline and online. Co-op multiplayer is good but definitely not enough to keep the game standing among giants of the RTS genre.

It's fun, but it clearly could have been more - and that's becoming a familiar rhetoric when it comes to Conan games.

Conan Unconquered falls short of any expectations with ugly graphics and simple tower defense mechanics with a touch of RTS elements. It would have been worthy as a free-to-play, but it's hard to recommend it to anyone with the 40€ price-tag.

Although the co-op can be very entertaining, Conan Unconquered is a brutal and unforgiving game that feels unfinished, unbalanced and very repetitive. It has a lot of potential, but doesn't live up to its promise.

There is and can be seen the touch of strategic veterans, but it is too little to save Conan Unconquered from mediocrity: a game that lacks content and is technically dated. A good opportunity lost.