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  1. Apr 24, 2019
    8
    In it's current state on PS4 I will say that there's a lot to do, the crafting and basebuilding is pretty straightforward, I would like a little more depth added to the combat, as I'm finding myself mashing one combo and pretty much dominating fights against NPC bases. I will say I have no interest in the multiplayer as the game is unstable enough when I'm solo PVEing. I think many manyIn it's current state on PS4 I will say that there's a lot to do, the crafting and basebuilding is pretty straightforward, I would like a little more depth added to the combat, as I'm finding myself mashing one combo and pretty much dominating fights against NPC bases. I will say I have no interest in the multiplayer as the game is unstable enough when I'm solo PVEing. I think many many things can be expanded on (underwater creatures for example, enemies that can swim/attack while swimming, and even dangerous water creatures) Expand
  2. Jul 2, 2018
    8
    What a fresh breath of air after four years of Destiny! I nearly had forgotten that a world can be fun to explore! Thanks Funcom for making a game that brings the feel of Conan (the first film with Schwarzenegger) and Minecraft together. This really brings back the feel of the first few weeks on a Minecraft server when the world was young and new and you start building your home in theWhat a fresh breath of air after four years of Destiny! I nearly had forgotten that a world can be fun to explore! Thanks Funcom for making a game that brings the feel of Conan (the first film with Schwarzenegger) and Minecraft together. This really brings back the feel of the first few weeks on a Minecraft server when the world was young and new and you start building your home in the wild.
    Of course this world has much more to explore, but can't change the terrain as much, because most of tye world is fixed, like in reality.
    The PS4 controls are a bit quirky and I needed some time to get used to it, but since it's an PC port and they are still working on it with a relativly small team compared to mighty Bungie, I can wait for the interface to get better. The fights are very much like in Dark Souls. You can die easily, if your timing is off. This is not for button smashers. This is a game for people who enjoy the virtual brutallity of bloody fights and enslavement. (It's for you Trump! ;)
    The PS4 servers work fine and despite some lag sometimes and quirks it plays good so far. Sadly when people leave the server forever, their buildings evaporate, but their Thralls aka slaves are hanging in the air still doing their thing. So yeah, there is still work to do for Funcom.
    The whole canibalism thing is gross, but that's what bad guys do? They eat others for breakfest. I always get rid of those canibals and get rid of their disgusting body parts too.
    This game isn't for the faint of heart and I guess a MP game with friends will be the killer! Literally.
    All in all 30€ well spent. Compared to the last Destiny 2 DLC this game truly is a game and not just grind for weapons you don't need in the end. In Conans world, you grind to acomplishe a task that feels real aka CONQUER A WORLD!
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  3. May 20, 2018
    8
    Honestly I wanted to give this a 7.5, but since I can only rate in increments of 1...

    This game is actually quite a lot of fun. Really reminiscent of early Rust. I love the aesthetic, the combat isn't bad and it's definitely improved quite a bit since the EA release. Graphically it's pretty beautiful, there's lots of interesting locations to visit, enemies to encounter (though the AI
    Honestly I wanted to give this a 7.5, but since I can only rate in increments of 1...

    This game is actually quite a lot of fun. Really reminiscent of early Rust. I love the aesthetic, the combat isn't bad and it's definitely improved quite a bit since the EA release. Graphically it's pretty beautiful, there's lots of interesting locations to visit, enemies to encounter (though the AI Tends to fall on the dumb side) and critters to main. The dungeons are pretty cool to explore too. All in all, upon release the game is significantly better than I thought it would be from my initial EA impressions over a year ago. Solid survival game, one of the best releases in recent history as well. Give it a try!
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  4. Apr 4, 2019
    8
    I gave it a chance, it's in PS+ now, i'm suprised how much fun i have playing on pvp serwer. When You figure out mechanics, building and harsh rules of enviroment You will sink. If they only had better programmers... technically the lag suck a lot, if not this I could rate it at 9. Give it a chance, its much better then ark ( i prefer classic fantasy fight mechanics, dinosaurs and hi tech?I gave it a chance, it's in PS+ now, i'm suprised how much fun i have playing on pvp serwer. When You figure out mechanics, building and harsh rules of enviroment You will sink. If they only had better programmers... technically the lag suck a lot, if not this I could rate it at 9. Give it a chance, its much better then ark ( i prefer classic fantasy fight mechanics, dinosaurs and hi tech? WTF?!?!?) , bugs and lag is similliar. Expand
  5. Jul 14, 2019
    8
    It reminds me of Elex. Buggy, not the best graphics, rough around the edges, but addictive game play.
  6. Aug 4, 2019
    8
    It's a pretty fun survival game to play online with friends or fight against other players & it's also a fun survival game to play offline too, As it has a really interesting world to dive into, with many challenges, as well as adventures to be had

    I would personally give it a 8 because I had fun playing it, But I wouldn't consider it my favourite game or anywhere close to it, I
    It's a pretty fun survival game to play online with friends or fight against other players & it's also a fun survival game to play offline too, As it has a really interesting world to dive into, with many challenges, as well as adventures to be had

    I would personally give it a 8 because I had fun playing it, But I wouldn't consider it my favourite game or anywhere close to it, I honestly enjoy so many other survival games over this one :3
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  7. 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?
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  8. 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
  9. May 9, 2018
    6
    Conan Exiles
    A simple Mess
    Conan Exiles is finaly out of early access and onto consoles You start the game choosing your mode, you can play pvp, pve, or offline single player and co op.. you then creat your character, all wuth their unique race that gives them an advantage in game as well as a religion.. and youre rescued by your boy conan from your cross with a promise yall are gonna
    Conan Exiles
    A simple Mess
    Conan Exiles is finaly out of early access and onto consoles
    You start the game choosing your mode, you can play pvp, pve, or offline single player and co op.. you then creat your character, all wuth their unique race that gives them an advantage in game as well as a religion.. and youre rescued by your boy conan from your cross with a promise yall are gonna meet again.
    So you set off into this world to simply survive.
    This is a survival game, and one that I found to actually feel unique.
    The survival aspects of this game can be described by saying it’s a simple mess..
    this is all about recourse gathering and then combinging recourses to create new items…
    and I love how easy it is to find simple food like bugs and materials..
    your basic survival needs are extremely accessable and its up to you to take those basics and explore the lands, leveling up and working your way towards better items..
    You can choose to play this game like a mincearft where youre creating shelter and use it as a base, going out to gather items and come back…
    This is made easy thanks to this game not being some procedurally generated garbage…
    this is a beautifully hand crafted map with secrets caves, caverns, and bosses to encounter..
    reminding me a bit of skyrim at times..
    a survival based skyrim game.. sounds great doesn’t it?
    on paper yes..
    But again this game is just a mess..
    Theres just too much going on here under the hood, not enarly as much as a game like ark.. but I stil found it all to be overwhelming..
    I felt leveling up and earning points to dump into my stats and unlock new items to craft was frequent enough to keep the game feeling rewarding as id play
    but the crafting menus and recourses needed to craft certain items just felt like too much work to me..
    itsn ot like a Minecraft where things are as simple as knowing you need a certain material, go to a biodome on rare occasions where a certain material is found, farm a little until you get what you need and come back..
    m,aterials for tools weapons and gear beyonds the basic are too spread out
    theres just too much…
    too much in variety of things to collect.. and too much space between them all
    im a huge believer in less is more, andi just don’t have the capacity at this stage in my life to keep track of hundreds of different materials… on top of that if youre not playing offline and on easy mode, youre going to die way quick.. I feel like the game almost discourages advanced recourse gathing in that way…
    gathering food of any consequence is needlessly complicated as well.. it isn’t as simple as killing an animal and looting its body.. creating a fire and cooking it… you need tools to collect the meat after the kill.. its just not my thing
    and again needlessly complicated for how harsh the environment can be on higher difficulties
    I want to feel like I can at any moment decide to start a new camp somewhere and not that I have to take my things back to base
    and the way the game over complicates things like hunting, I just couldn’t do that here
    So the way I chose to play this game was going the more explorer route..
    living off of plants, I just wanted to battle the terrains and its inhabitents with the simplest items I could craft that didn’t feel like a math equation…
    and I had a decent amount of fun doing this…
    laying down a bed as I felt I made progress so I would respawn there if I would die.. and just keep the simplest materials on me at all times to be able to fend for myself if I ran into any hostiles..
    which this world is full of..
    from giant spiders to people..
    enemies are everywhere…
    I actually really loved the combat mechanics in this game, theyre very third person action witcher dark suls style of attacking blocking and dodging, I most of the time felt like If I took damage in a fight it was my fault..
    however not all of the time..
    this game definitely suffers from performance issues.. especially during battle..
    the game will lag a bit, frames will drop and youll be taking damage from seemingly nothing
    enemies can also spawn ontop of you out of nowhere..
    its makes for a nice scare.. but it also makes for some frustrating moments when your character instrantly dies from a giant spider spawning ontop of them and now that giant spider is guaring y our dead corpse with all of your materials on it.
    I also found it pretty annoying that after killing enemies you oculdnt take their weapons or gear..
    whats the point of righting them then?
    The combat system doesn’t feel risk reward.. it feels just there for survival which quickly brought down the enjoyment and excitement of exploring for me…
    Conan Exiles is a decent survival game..
    if things were simpler it would even be a good one…
    but they aren’t so it isn’t..
    this is a game though that i don’t think anyone that isn’t really into survival games would enjoy..
    I give Conan Exiles
    a 6/10
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  10. Jun 25, 2018
    8
    At first dabble on Conan Exiles the whole game looks so very similar to Ark, that I had to check if there’s any overlapping between developers, but apparently not. So if you’ve played The Ark, this should be easy to start. As only PS-player (mac-user for life) I’m not familiar with earlier Conan games by Funcom.

    After learning the puzzling menu system, it still feels like the game has
    At first dabble on Conan Exiles the whole game looks so very similar to Ark, that I had to check if there’s any overlapping between developers, but apparently not. So if you’ve played The Ark, this should be easy to start. As only PS-player (mac-user for life) I’m not familiar with earlier Conan games by Funcom.

    After learning the puzzling menu system, it still feels like the game has been ported straight from PC to console, without too much thought.
    But the meat of it, gameplay is decent enough, levelling fair, battle-mechanics simple but good.
    Scenery and settings look promising, so that you actually want to keep exploring further on.
    One flaw might be, that I’ve been experiencing some major lagging (will revisit this review in few days if it occurs more often).

    User rating average seem to be less than six, but decent price, I do recommend, 8/10!
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  11. May 10, 2018
    7
    Summary: Buy it on PC.
    I saw how Funcom went from creating a terrible mess to improving it where it's actually a fun game. Sure, there're bugs, on this age of day 1 patches, the launch was surprisingly smooth.
    It has all the basics of survival games, and the advantage of a handcrafted map, instead of a randomly generated one. You have bosses and dungeons and always something to be
    Summary: Buy it on PC.
    I saw how Funcom went from creating a terrible mess to improving it where it's actually a fun game. Sure, there're bugs, on this age of day 1 patches, the launch was surprisingly smooth.
    It has all the basics of survival games, and the advantage of a handcrafted map, instead of a randomly generated one. You have bosses and dungeons and always something to be working your way towards. For my taste, the resources are way too far apart, but I must confess these kind of games aren't really my cup of tea. Yet I cannot deny I'm having fun.
    I just regret buying it for PS4. The radial menu is a bad choice that leads to mistakes, and everything is twice as hard as doing it with a mouse + keyboard. I realize that's just a limitation of consoles, but there could be more improvements made for simple QoL tasks, like navigating the menus looking for something. I probably will play it for a while until I feel I got my money's worth, but that nagging feeling of playing on a subpar control scheme always returns whenever I have to do anything.

    There. You've been warned.
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  12. May 15, 2018
    2
    This review is for other casual players like myself who could have benefited from this perspective before buying. Maybe this isn't an issue for veteran games in this genre.

    The controls and access to your tools is incredibly cumbersome, unrewarding, and not well explained. You constantly have to go through menu after menu to find the crafting that makes up a lot of the gameplay (and if
    This review is for other casual players like myself who could have benefited from this perspective before buying. Maybe this isn't an issue for veteran games in this genre.

    The controls and access to your tools is incredibly cumbersome, unrewarding, and not well explained. You constantly have to go through menu after menu to find the crafting that makes up a lot of the gameplay (and if there is an easier way to do these things, I couldn't find it and was impeded by that). There is a lot of small text to read on a screen that might be better suited for a PC user interface but is tough on a TV screen. Framerate drops and gets choppy routinely both in-game and in cutscenes. (I thought this wouldn't bother me but it did.) And I can't tell if I "should" be playing on a solo server or on a PVE/PVP server (not sure where the richer experience is), but it doesn't seem like you can transfer your character between them and I'm not sure where I should invest my efforts.

    I feel like there's a fun world to explore here, but I just can't get to it.
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  13. May 14, 2018
    8
    22 hours in and im loving it so far. The building is great and much to explore. Could this be the game to pull me away from Ark? Only time will tell.
  14. May 10, 2018
    0
    DO NOT BUY THIS. BUYER BEWARE. GAME IS BROKEN ON PS4, SEVERAL FATAL BUGS. The framerate is terrible, if youre blessed enough to get it working. SONY WILL NOT ISSUE REFUNDS EVEN AFTER PROOF IS PROVIDED THE PRODUCT IS FAULTY, EVEN LIE CLAIMING THEY CANT REFUND YOU. (they can, but wont) Wait for at least 6 months or a year to buy. YOU WILL REGRET IT. Otherwise game would be fun, if it wasDO NOT BUY THIS. BUYER BEWARE. GAME IS BROKEN ON PS4, SEVERAL FATAL BUGS. The framerate is terrible, if youre blessed enough to get it working. SONY WILL NOT ISSUE REFUNDS EVEN AFTER PROOF IS PROVIDED THE PRODUCT IS FAULTY, EVEN LIE CLAIMING THEY CANT REFUND YOU. (they can, but wont) Wait for at least 6 months or a year to buy. YOU WILL REGRET IT. Otherwise game would be fun, if it was able to run. Expand
  15. May 9, 2018
    2
    This is not a retail game. It is so choppy and unplayable I'm getting sick. I'm not one to write reviews very often. but I created an account just to review this game. So disappointed. The optimization is awful. The game hitches non stop on the PS4. It's an utter mess. I can look past the blah graphics but when I'm feeling like I want to throw up due to the horrible framerateThis is not a retail game. It is so choppy and unplayable I'm getting sick. I'm not one to write reviews very often. but I created an account just to review this game. So disappointed. The optimization is awful. The game hitches non stop on the PS4. It's an utter mess. I can look past the blah graphics but when I'm feeling like I want to throw up due to the horrible framerate that's unacceptable. This game is absolute garbage. I can't believe Funcom launched this.

    Save your money. Do not buy this game. You will be disappointed.

    Buyer beware. You will regret your purchase. Do not buy this game.
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  16. May 18, 2018
    0
    bug, bad performance, server errors, lag, irregular animations. unfinished game at a very high price
  17. May 13, 2018
    5
    Would be good if it weren't so broken...The sound constantly comes and goes as it feels like, the graphics seem like there is a constant like haze all over the screen unless your in a menu and, good god is ALL of the hit detection all over the place. You have to dance around trees and rocks to farm them for materials, in combat your hits may or may not even land depending on how they feelWould be good if it weren't so broken...The sound constantly comes and goes as it feels like, the graphics seem like there is a constant like haze all over the screen unless your in a menu and, good god is ALL of the hit detection all over the place. You have to dance around trees and rocks to farm them for materials, in combat your hits may or may not even land depending on how they feel at that time......For it being a "full retail" release it sure does play like a game in the early stages of early access, clearly it wasn't anywhere close to being ready for console release.....7 days to Die an actual early access game that I bought for $20 bucks plays worlds better than Conan Exiles and its $50 price tag and half broken and unfinished gameplay.... Expand
  18. 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.
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  19. May 21, 2018
    7
    I might be "one of the few" in many aspects, which is I felt writing this review might be interesting for some people.

    First of all I m kind of new to survival games. I ve been looking into some in the past, but it didnt hook me up too much. This time around I ve been looking for something appealing on PS4 to try my luck again on this genre and quite luckily I nearly exactly matched
    I might be "one of the few" in many aspects, which is I felt writing this review might be interesting for some people.

    First of all I m kind of new to survival games. I ve been looking into some in the past, but it didnt hook me up too much. This time around I ve been looking for something appealing on PS4 to try my luck again on this genre and quite luckily I nearly exactly matched with the release of Conan Exiles which has been in BETA before.

    You start as male/female barbarian amidst the desert. Customization on the character is nice, religions dont tend to be a deal breaker. In some countries you also get full nudity options, for whom that counts, there you have it. You wake up broke and naked wandering around to start gathering food, water and stuff to build your very first tools. The game gives you some sort of a journey line which carries you through your personal development although the game explains not much at all. Theres no tutorial, theres no hand holding. In the first hour I was killed numerous times up until I learned my way.

    Once you get a grip the game is very rewarding. You learn to make leather armors, get better swords or pikes or bows. Where you gathered at first now stands your home and a fireplace. Tons of hours later you wander north to go for more vital resources, killing elephants, raiding tribes and exploring vast deserts, high mountains and precious forests. The graphics are very nice to me although the color palette could use more variety. Fighting is klunky at times but even with frame drops I got myself through most of it with only a few rages.

    When it comes to technicality we hit a critical spot here. The PS4 port is kind of nice but the controls are sometimes really klunky and sometimes more complex then they should be. Building houses is kind of neat then enraging because of clipping or placing issues you can just not prevent or get around.

    After putting in tens of hours into this game going full solo survival on standard mode server I still get going. I m getting surprised by hard hitting sandstorms, I go stealth killing at night, I wrestle naked with crocodiles and got myself a nice trip throughout all the continents of Conan Exiles.

    Is this game worth buying?:
    This game has heavy performance as well as controller issues on PS4 Pro. If this is something that easily bothers you then dont buy it at all. Maybe wait a bit for some fixes and go for a sale deal. If you seek out a well made atmospheric survival game that gives you the thrill through your very personal development on your own with a nice variety of weapons, enemies, buildings and well designed continents that will eat up hours of your life like nothing then I d say you should give it a try. And it is also quite satisfying when going on your own.

    Still in regards to bugs, klunkiness and performance I can only rate it at 5-7 although the fun factor is an easy 10 to me and I hope that Funcom will be able to polish it a bit more over time.
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  20. 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).
  21. 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
  22. Oct 1, 2018
    0
    The game is buggy and the costummer service of Funcom is simply a disaster.
  23. 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.
  24. 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).
  25. May 9, 2018
    10
    this has all the makings of a great game, decent pricing and should keep anyone entertained for a long time. has a few slight bugs / lag issues at present but considering its just out and the amount of server issues other games have had on launch i think its went amazingly well so far!

    just wish there was a wee tutorial to explain somethings in game or extra info on icons / tabs
  26. May 9, 2018
    1
    One of the worst survival rpg ever made with developers not giving a **** about year old bugs and players complains.
    Item wheel was a terrible decision compared to the hotbars.
    Combat system itself is terrible, it's very easy to abuse to win against any single mob, so all difficulty comes from being swarmed by mobs. Also npc archers are very annoying because they don't need to deal with
    One of the worst survival rpg ever made with developers not giving a **** about year old bugs and players complains.
    Item wheel was a terrible decision compared to the hotbars.
    Combat system itself is terrible, it's very easy to abuse to win against any single mob, so all difficulty comes from being swarmed by mobs. Also npc archers are very annoying because they don't need to deal with item wheel, so they can change weapon and start attacking instantly, dodged melee strike? Enjoy 2 arrows right away in your head.
    Mobs loot is totally random, so you usually pick 2h hammer from archers and arrows from dancers. And of course none of them drops clothes they wear
    Another butt bleeding thing about npc it's their respawn time. They respawn all together and not some time after you kill them like in any normal game, so you can be in middle of npc village when they all decided to respawn together, have fun.
    From dungeons only tested dregs and while itself it was pretty neat experience, I run in the many bugs that didn't saw on the pc early access. Like first door opening only once and after that if you left dungeon you can't get inside after first water area.
    Exp gains are ****ed, so killing spiders that die from one combo is faster than killing anyone else. Exiles don't give much exp at all, despite loving to swarm you.
    Progression itself is lacking too, of course you can do adventure log, but it's limited, crafting and gathering don't bring much exp. So only grinding remains, just like in the age of conan which failed for the same reason
    Multiplayer part has all problems of typical survival rpg with only difference is that developers didn't even bothered to do anything about it. Like players claiming all free land with columns, but there it also prevents mobs from spawning
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  27. May 17, 2018
    4
    Funcom...you have failed miserably. This game is an absolute piece of garbage. Horrible graphics, clunky combat, no end game, no quest line (I know it's a survival game but c'mon), buggy as hell. Not to mention you can't even see your own clan members on the map in a PVE server. Funcom, you nailed Age of Conan and totally crapped out rotten trash with Exiles. So disappointing. This game isFuncom...you have failed miserably. This game is an absolute piece of garbage. Horrible graphics, clunky combat, no end game, no quest line (I know it's a survival game but c'mon), buggy as hell. Not to mention you can't even see your own clan members on the map in a PVE server. Funcom, you nailed Age of Conan and totally crapped out rotten trash with Exiles. So disappointing. This game is essentially Minecraft with Conan lore. So unbelievably boring. Build your house, run around, gather more crap, build more stuff. That's about it. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS GAME!!! (By the way Funcom, I want my money back). Expand
  28. May 27, 2018
    0
    A buggy broken piece of **** As of this posting thralls are so bugged, they don't regen health, equip weapons or armor. Things fall through the ground. Sometimes you won't be able to build structures for no good reason. My game crashes three times before I can even get on a server. **** you Funcom. **** you in the throat.
  29. May 12, 2018
    4
    Performance on ps4 is horrible, even on the ps4 pro. It is not absolutly trash but the laggs are so huge.. then, all Servers are full. No Chance to join or to play - and if you come into one, you get kicked after a few minutes because of what ever error it is.
    EDIT: There're huge framedrop issues and freezes. Not really enjoyable right now.
    EDIT 2: I bought the pc version now. Ps4
    Performance on ps4 is horrible, even on the ps4 pro. It is not absolutly trash but the laggs are so huge.. then, all Servers are full. No Chance to join or to play - and if you come into one, you get kicked after a few minutes because of what ever error it is.
    EDIT: There're huge framedrop issues and freezes. Not really enjoyable right now.
    EDIT 2: I bought the pc version now. Ps4 version is unplayable.
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  30. May 10, 2018
    8
    A solid game all round. Only been playing on local offline single player mode as I learn the systems and strategies but good fun so far. Great character models, robust character creator and simple, but visually pretty world. Crafting is a little un-intuitive but serviceable and the building mode has incredible potential. Lots of options to design the game/server to customize the game-playA solid game all round. Only been playing on local offline single player mode as I learn the systems and strategies but good fun so far. Great character models, robust character creator and simple, but visually pretty world. Crafting is a little un-intuitive but serviceable and the building mode has incredible potential. Lots of options to design the game/server to customize the game-play experience to your own specific tastes. I'm having a good time - recommended. B+ Expand
Metascore
68

Mixed or average reviews - based on 32 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 32
  2. Negative: 1 out of 32
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. games(TM)
    Jun 15, 2018
    80
    A survival game that embraces adventure. [Issue#201, p.88]