Conan Exiles

 PlayStation 4
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5.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 206 Ratings

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  3. Negative: 89 out of 206
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  1. Anthonzie
    Dec 27, 2022
    0
    Painfully bad game. The developers put zero effort into making it. The only reason why i installed it was because it was free with PS+ which is also the game that made me cancel my subscription.

    I start the game, i start walking into the desert and then i die... No proper explanation, no proper introduction, no proper tutorial, nothing. It just spat me out in the game environment like    Painfully bad game. The developers put zero effort into making it. The only reason why i installed it was because it was free with PS+ which is also the game that made me cancel my subscription.

    I start the game, i start walking into the desert and then i die... No proper explanation, no proper introduction, no proper tutorial, nothing. It just spat me out in the game environment like some unfinished demo version of it. I felt like a QA, testing the game for the company.

    Horrible. 0/10    … Expand
  2. rek2k
    Jul 18, 2022
    0
    Pay $150 for all the DLC, then they decide that isn't enough and start charging $200/year for the same amount of content as previously $40/year in DLCs, but wait there's more, now there's $40/year in FOMO battle passes as well.

    Almost $240/year to play a game that is riddled with bugs. Awesome
  3. Zodiakus
    Jun 12, 2021
    0
    So as you probably know, the game is in an horrendous state right now. There are just so many bugs that you have to worry about and adapt to its hard to focus on actually playing the game.
    It stars with ressources disappearing after the first strike with a pickaxe and reappearing after 1min (it also seems to help to take a look at the map [which takes about 15 sec because the menu takes    So as you probably know, the game is in an horrendous state right now. There are just so many bugs that you have to worry about and adapt to its hard to focus on actually playing the game.
    It stars with ressources disappearing after the first strike with a pickaxe and reappearing after 1min (it also seems to help to take a look at the map [which takes about 15 sec because the menu takes ages to load and makes the game freeze {which is dangerous}]) and it ends with enemies being invisible or seemingly walking against a wall just to kill you out of nowhere.
    Some more bugs you hopefully know about already:
    -Thralls are just one big bug. They hover the earth in T-pose, dont attack enemies, dont teleport to your location while on the other half of the map, additionally they get stuck freaking everywhere, still dropping under the mesh while fighting dragons/rhinos and once my thrall tried to return home from inside a vault (goblinoids) for 14 hours and it probably was the server restart that unbugged him.
    -Other players (!) and their thralls being invisible. Its like a cheat on PvP.
    -Bases and textures taking forever to load in. This is not just a cosmetical issue as it makes you unable to enter your own base.
    -Elephants spawning on my foundations.
    -Weapons/Tools cant be equipped. The character seems to hold something invisible in the hands but its unuseable until you can see it. Takes on average a minute to fix itself. Seems to be happening more often in vaults but is not limited to them. You probably see all the gamebreaking problems with this.
    -Huge fps drops in the maelstrom.
    -The notoriously long loading screens.
    -Dieying as you log into your server/appear on the map.
    -Inventories not loading up completely which makes you check everythings name (this is not quality of life as i imagine)
    -Textures not loading in so the world looks like Crom sliced it with a massive sword. (Clean cuts of every texture so it looks like you reached the end of the world and are about to fall off.)
    -I probably missed some more, i might edit them in as i remember. THERE ARE JUST TOO MANY.
    Most of these were non existent or atleast acceptable before the Siptah-Release. Since then your game is just a pile of sh… i mean your game is like a challenge for who can adapt to your gamebreaking bugs the best.
    And what is the worst part about all of this: we, your players, feel left out. There is no communication on your current state of fixing these. Not even a post saying you recognize all these bugs and are aware of the bad quality right now. Honestly i think its a disgrace how you trait your (PS-)community.
    Atleast communicate with us, give us updates on the status of your progress with resolving these bugs.
    Pretty please?
    Something?    … Expand
  4. Jajooka
    Apr 24, 2021
    4
    Cons: trash fighting system, painful body recovery after death
    Pros: beautiful places, and music, exciting adventure and exploration feeling.
    Verdict: the game is really enjoyable for a while, the adventuring, building, surviving part truly works, but if you have a standard for skill involved fighting and need for challenges, then you are going to be sick with the fighting system    Cons: trash fighting system, painful body recovery after death
    Pros: beautiful places, and music, exciting adventure and exploration feeling.
    Verdict: the game is really enjoyable for a while, the adventuring, building, surviving part truly works, but if you have a standard for skill involved fighting and need for challenges, then you are going to be sick with the fighting system eventually.

    Pros explained: the game has a nice atmosphere, exciting changing music, cool places to explore, and you can build our camp / bases almost anywhere, interesting crafting system (involves a fair bit of grinding materials though).

    Cons explained: for casual players it is probably gonna be fine, you go there with your big sword and armor, hit the bosses while they hitting you and you win eventually. YEAH! you ARE the man! But for those who ever played sg like Nioh or Dark Souls, the fighting system is going to be truly painful for sure. The skill level involved is pretty low, and the fights are mostly stat checks. The 'lock on' system is truly terrible. If you lock on someone, you basically loose all of your mobility, you start to move with really slow speed, and also you loose your lock if you start to dodge sideways too much. So you cant do sg like lock on a boss, circleling around them, with clever dodges, while slowly waring them down. Also hits are really inconsistent. Worst of all it is inconsistent if your hits land or not often even if you are literally in the face of a giant beast. I already talked about the **** lock on system but the other bad part is, that if you not lock the target, you miss your hits like 70%. All in all: the bosses and fights were designed in zerging online players or at least you and a strong thrall / pet who just tank all the hits, in mind, and sadly there is no room for compensate for the lack of thoose with skill and careful experimentation.    … Expand
  5. ProjekthorFDZ
    Mar 7, 2021
    3
    This game runs terrible on console, it stutters every 20 seconds for seconds, graphics are really weak even on ps5. It’s terrible and not playable. Don’t buy it!
  6. Hachafaill001
    Dec 12, 2020
    0
    si tienes curiosidad mirate una reseña y de como va el juego en ps4, pero dejame decirte desde ya que no malgaste tu tiempo aqui, realmente es un mal juego
  7. GabFire
    Aug 11, 2020
    2
    Jogo extremamente mal feito, parece que tiveram preguiça durante o desenvolvimento, muito vergonhoso lançar dessa forma, está praticamente tudo errado dentro do jogo, proposto é boa demais para essa porcaria.
  8. Eduarfin
    May 12, 2020
    0
    Não se consegue nem iniciar o jogo. Vergonhoso. Não dá pra entender nada.
  9. AlrenBrooks
    Apr 4, 2020
    0
    Would not recommend it. While it's a beautiful game, after a year of playing, it still has many bugs to be fixed, such as the flying carcasses once you kill them, and getting stuck in my base because of my follower. And for god's sake REMOVE THE PURGE!!! I deleted the game because of the purge, as I spent DAYS building a base only for it to be demolished by these purges. I have a full timeWould not recommend it. While it's a beautiful game, after a year of playing, it still has many bugs to be fixed, such as the flying carcasses once you kill them, and getting stuck in my base because of my follower. And for god's sake REMOVE THE PURGE!!! I deleted the game because of the purge, as I spent DAYS building a base only for it to be demolished by these purges. I have a full time job. I can't sit and rebuild my base every time a purge comes. Not to mention, I can ONLY have 20 thralls now. How am I supposed to defeat anything with 20 thralls, when 5 of them are working at different worktables. Lot's a places to discover and lots of things to do, but if my time and my progress is going to be wasted by these purges, this game is not worth it. I was looking for a game to enjoy, not to get slapped in the face by. Not to mention you loose all your stuff once you die. Also, it should have a better fast travel system, as this map is too big to travel all the time.… Expand
  10. iozay
    Jan 14, 2020
    0
    Horrible game company that tends to suspend their players at random and refuses to give players a reason (Except: Sorry, its extremely busy we can't answer)). I highly recommend to not deal with this company.

    Funcom games are also in general extremely buggy but every game does has its unique flavor. Its just that the company is too horrible that I can't recommend any of their games.    Horrible game company that tends to suspend their players at random and refuses to give players a reason (Except: Sorry, its extremely busy we can't answer)). I highly recommend to not deal with this company.

    Funcom games are also in general extremely buggy but every game does has its unique flavor. Its just that the company is too horrible that I can't recommend any of their games.

    Edit 14 january 2020: i wrote this review back in 2018, unfortunately Funcom wasn't able to properly address why they did suspend me.    … Expand
  11. WillProt
    Oct 8, 2019
    0
    Literally the worst game I've ever had the misfortune and displeasure to experience.

    First the developers don't care at all about their players. You can be a loyal player playing for months or years and the devs will make changes on the server with NO in game warning, or console message, that will delete ALL of you work, not some... everything you've been doing for over a year, period.    Literally the worst game I've ever had the misfortune and displeasure to experience.

    First the developers don't care at all about their players. You can be a loyal player playing for months or years and the devs will make changes on the server with NO in game warning, or console message, that will delete ALL of you work, not some... everything you've been doing for over a year, period.

    This has happen to me twice, because I was foolish enough to think they changed and give them another chance. Hours, days, months, years of work and time gone after an update, with no way to recover it at all. That is wholly unreasonable for ANY product.

    Then before that there are many bugs that make you lose hours to months of work anyway. The devs have added many unnecessary time sinks, and they are placed on top of things that may be bugged. For example in order to craft a certain item you need ONE and only ONE specific thrall. There may be only 1 or 2 thralls out of 50 that spawn every 16 minutes at 5 locations. So that's 6 chances every 16 minutes running to 5 different places minutes apart hoping the right ONE out of FIFTY will spawn. As the spawn is random and often repeating the same wrong ones this can take literally real world months running back and forth to all these locations and you may NEVER get that one thrall spawn.

    BUT WORSE... if it does finally spawn after however long it may disappear due to a bug wasting months of your life. If you want that item, then you need to do it all again unless you're smart enough to give up on this ludicrous game.

    All that is ignoring the fact that the DLC is exorbitantly priced AND even after you buy it you can not use it unless you put in hours more work because it's only high level items. They could have easily added low level items but chose not to, so of you are not some hard core player or if you simply don't have time, well you paid for nothing.

    I will literally never by another Funcom game ever again, I wish I could return this garbage. I don't care what game they may make in the future this company can not be supported. Any company that has this little concern about their players or care of the quality of their product shouldn't even be in business.    … Expand
  12. Lonit
    Sep 15, 2019
    3
    Just so much lagg and too many bugs, it could be a great game but it's clearly just another pc port
  13. Rexalard
    Jun 19, 2019
    2
    It's like **** Don't play, don't watch, don't buy. Just stay away from this.
  14. NVSRBreath
    Jun 6, 2019
    2
    At first this looked a lot like ark and has a very similar playstyle. What makes this game so bad for me is the massive amount of game breaking bugs. I just couldnt play properly and even when I could the game wasn't too interesting.
  15. tehgreg
    May 20, 2019
    0
    PS2 graphics, choppy animations, framerate is a joke, no tutorial, waste of 80GB (!) on your drive.
  16. Grandhatred
    May 11, 2019
    3
    worst purchase i ever make next to homefront revolution but atleast that one i can ressel because it physical but since this game seems doesnt have physical copy as far as i see i stuck with this game. then i realize why i play the game it not because i have fun with it. no it because i bought it and it feel like a waste if i didnt play it. the combat is total rubish for good sake justworst purchase i ever make next to homefront revolution but atleast that one i can ressel because it physical but since this game seems doesnt have physical copy as far as i see i stuck with this game. then i realize why i play the game it not because i have fun with it. no it because i bought it and it feel like a waste if i didnt play it. the combat is total rubish for good sake just make the combat simple like skyrim and allow first person melee combat because with the way combat work right now it not working. fix the combat and i might redownload the game. oh wait you already got my money so who care yes i bought the game for well around 25 buck include Aquilonian and i feel really ripped off i feel sorry for poor sod who buy this game full price.… Expand
  17. Chick
    Apr 29, 2019
    0
    Dont listen to these reviews they are out of date, the game was awesome but now its the worse game i owned, its is sooo laggy now, its crashes all the time. If you want to spend all day gathering stuff coz the fall rate is crap and you have to kill a hundred rock creatures to get to a little bit of iron, just finished making a awesome outfit, then the game crashes and your stuff getsDont listen to these reviews they are out of date, the game was awesome but now its the worse game i owned, its is sooo laggy now, its crashes all the time. If you want to spend all day gathering stuff coz the fall rate is crap and you have to kill a hundred rock creatures to get to a little bit of iron, just finished making a awesome outfit, then the game crashes and your stuff gets looted go ahead. They don't look like they are gonna fix it, looks like they want to make it more laggy by adding more.… Expand
  18. Mseymour1
    Apr 21, 2019
    3
    At first I liked it until I spent 4 days upgrading my armor an sword at the blacksmiths table, I was a level 14 and was in area too high for my fighter and died 3 times all my med grade armor was gone and my sword gone. The developers need to change your hard earned inventory disappearing and it should be able to be collected at anytime. Do to this poor design I am quitting this game, itAt first I liked it until I spent 4 days upgrading my armor an sword at the blacksmiths table, I was a level 14 and was in area too high for my fighter and died 3 times all my med grade armor was gone and my sword gone. The developers need to change your hard earned inventory disappearing and it should be able to be collected at anytime. Do to this poor design I am quitting this game, it take too long to build up your equipment and then it is gone. I m going to play a game that I do not have to speed an hour to rebuild all the equipment I already spent time on. Poor design! If they fix it I may try to play again. There are too many other games you do not issue. The game was free on PS4 but my time is not free and I can spend my time on more fruitful RPGs.… Expand
  19. SrPepe
    Apr 13, 2019
    2
    Conan Exiles es un juego muy poco innovador y encima lleno de bugs con un combate horrible, lento y confuso. El menú es confuso y poco claro, y empezar es bastante complicado.
  20. xSPAZZx
    Apr 9, 2019
    1
    I wasn't expecting my character to stuck to a SEA of faceless 40 person (max) servers...I played the same character for 10 hours until I realized it....
    This game means you are stuck to a 40 person server, playing with the same people and good luck if it is full or not fun...You can't switch....
    Very unhappy. It's not quantity it's quality. Older MMORPG's had servers that your    I wasn't expecting my character to stuck to a SEA of faceless 40 person (max) servers...I played the same character for 10 hours until I realized it....
    This game means you are stuck to a 40 person server, playing with the same people and good luck if it is full or not fun...You can't switch....

    Very unhappy. It's not quantity it's quality. Older MMORPG's had servers that your character was tethered to as well, but only a handful like 10 or less and MORE space for players (which is WAY BETTER)....

    I can't believe the game didn't say anything...    … Expand
  21. ChumaGG
    Apr 9, 2019
    4
    Cuando inicias el juego por primera vez te encuentras con una cinematica mas o menos interesante para luego acceder a uno de los peores menus de personalizacion de personaje que he visto.
    despues llega la cinematica con CONAN que por un momento logra emocionarte un poco, esto sin embargo dura poco ya que al iniciar el juego te topas con una interfaz conpleja y anti intuitiva que no hace    Cuando inicias el juego por primera vez te encuentras con una cinematica mas o menos interesante para luego acceder a uno de los peores menus de personalizacion de personaje que he visto.
    despues llega la cinematica con CONAN que por un momento logra emocionarte un poco, esto sin embargo dura poco ya que al iniciar el juego te topas con una interfaz conpleja y anti intuitiva que no hace mas que entorpecer la jugabilidad de un juego que por su genero ya es bastante lenta.
    graficos y animaciones mediocres se encargan de sacarte de la poca inmersion restante que pudiste haber tenido.
    Lo unico rescatable seria el universo en el cual se desarrolla la historia (aunque no haya alguna) ya que si no fuese por los problemas anteriores estaria encantado de explorar y su banda sonora que esta bastante bien.
    EN RESUMEN mejor pierdan su vida en ARK que en esto.    … Expand
  22. Thomy_Laurenti
    Apr 6, 2019
    2
    El juego es muy malo, menos mal que el platino es nuy facil sino no me lo descargaba. (El juego esta gratis en el PlayStation Plus).
  23. nandika
    Apr 4, 2019
    3
    I got it for free with my PSN Plus, which is OK, because if I had to pay for this, I'd be really angry. Ugly graphics (think of 2007-2008 in terms of visual fidelty), no story whatsoever, clumsy controls, counter-intuitive gameplay. The only highlight is the music (think of the original Conan movie's soundtrack). After this and Fallout 76, I don't think I'll give any more shots to thisI got it for free with my PSN Plus, which is OK, because if I had to pay for this, I'd be really angry. Ugly graphics (think of 2007-2008 in terms of visual fidelty), no story whatsoever, clumsy controls, counter-intuitive gameplay. The only highlight is the music (think of the original Conan movie's soundtrack). After this and Fallout 76, I don't think I'll give any more shots to this open-world-survival-nonsense genre. I'm done. Oh, and it's buggy as well, so expect to lose your items once in a while!!… Expand
  24. elitegeek79
    Apr 3, 2019
    2
    I only played this because it is now a free PSplus game. I actually had no idea there were games this bad for the PS4! Wow. The graphics look like an early 2000s PC game, no tutorial, poor menu/on-line server design, horrible voice acting and character models, glitchy, and just plain boring.
  25. diamondskull200
    Mar 5, 2019
    2
    This game is broken. It doesn´t look like finished, it seems you are playing a beta. Animations are poor, combats are terrible boring, crafting is insanely complicated and reiterative. So many bugs and glitches make this adventure really annoying.
  26. MaxPayneIsGod
    Nov 6, 2018
    3
    Let's be honest, this game is trash, pretty much everything about it is "B Grade".
    It should be a free-to-play game but its not.
    It cost me about $NZ27.00 and I got my jollies for a few hours. Props to the developer for adding in the "Endowment" options, i genuinely wish more developers had the balls to do this. Otherwise, the combat is a joke, the game is a grind and is even more    Let's be honest, this game is trash, pretty much everything about it is "B Grade".
    It should be a free-to-play game but its not.
    It cost me about $NZ27.00 and I got my jollies for a few hours.
    Props to the developer for adding in the "Endowment" options, i genuinely wish more developers had the balls to do this.
    Otherwise, the combat is a joke, the game is a grind and is even more pointless without a story.
    I knew full-well what I was getting into buying this game and now I know it simply isn't worth my time.    … Expand
  27. ChrisTs
    Oct 1, 2018
    0
    The game is buggy and the costummer service of Funcom is simply a disaster.
  28. Linsy
    Jul 21, 2018
    0
    A medicore game by a horrible company that disrespects its costummers. I highly recommend to look for another company that actually cares about its costummers without randomly banning them (While refusing to give the reason).
  29. Jimmyt123
    Jul 3, 2018
    0
    Absolutely terrible what is the point in having an online survival game with servers if the servers go down every other day get it sorted and then it would be a good game.
  30. UilliamNebel
    Jun 9, 2018
    3
    I want to love this game. So much is right, continuing the great athstetics in the art and music that serve Age of Conan so amazingly, and do right by Robert E. Howard's writing.

    I can't though. As it stands now Conan Exiles is riddled with deep game design flaws. Bugs aside, which I hope are addressed with time, the actual game, as designed, is far to grindy to be much of a survival    I want to love this game. So much is right, continuing the great athstetics in the art and music that serve Age of Conan so amazingly, and do right by Robert E. Howard's writing.

    I can't though. As it stands now Conan Exiles is riddled with deep game design flaws. Bugs aside, which I hope are addressed with time, the actual game, as designed, is far to grindy to be much of a survival sandbox. Essential resources to craft even more essential items are far to rare in general, and where reliably found far too not worth the effort for the difficulty and risk under the default game to retrieve. Status effects dished out by NPCs stack, and they spam them. Not so much an issue, until it is taken into account that you need to craft items to counter these stacking effects. And the resources to craft those items will be so frustrating to gather, you'll feel so disincentivized as to not even wish to bother with it, as the rewards will be abysmally little.

    Combat, on PS4, I have found to be a mess with how laggy the game is. Also the stamina mechanic is little more than a frustration, another arbitrary limitator put in place, rather than being a mechanic that keeps the game interesting and challenging. This is especially noticeable with how the dodge mechanic is done, where dodging will leave you out of an attacks path, then unable to do anything as you are out of stamina and the attacking creatures heavybag many times on its follow ups. It really is a common pattern in the game, an interesting thing, made useless before it can be useful, just by the games need to be 'merciless', i.e., a punishing grind.

    I'd get to all the features I want to love (construction, certain grafting, religion/cult, cannibalism, enslavement of thalls, etc, etc ), but that is where Conan Exiles is its most disappointing. So many things done right, but all attached to a broken wreck of a spine in the core game, that it is too frustrating to try and enjoy the content in is indeed done well.

    Honestly, the game feels more like a demo, to show a hint of what is great in it, but everything locked away. In this case locked away behind poor game designs and mechanics.    … Expand
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 32
  3. Negative: 1 out of 32
  1. Impulsegamer
    Jan 11, 2019
    60
    Ultimately Conan Exiles is a slow paced game with no quick pay offs. It provides a sense of wonder with its locations and the things that populate them. There is danger in the persistent online world which adds to the need to log on often to keep an eye on things. If you are not prepared to put the hours in, this is a title that is better left alone.
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  2. Gaming Nexus
    Jul 2, 2018
    35
    Conan Exiles is one of the most disappointing games I have played this generation. I have not experienced another game on PlayStation 4 as broken as Exiles. It is hard to believe that a game could be released for purchase in such bad condition. In another genre, the bugs in Exiles might be fun or amusing. In a survival game, they are crippling. Gamers deserve, and should demand, better.
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  3. games(TM)
    Jun 15, 2018
    80
    A survival game that embraces adventure. [Issue#201, p.88]
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