This game is awesome... and yet utterly horrible. It has most of the things I like in Conan universum, both books and films. It has big and rich world, fantastic building system that allows you to make structures unseen in any other game. It has also wonderful Basil Poledouris- like score, good levelling system and several great and fresh ideas like thralls - slaves you beat unconcious, drag home with rope and force them to be in your precious crew. Sadly, at the same time Conan Exiles has absolutely unprecedented amount of bugs, that includes combat, graphic bugs like flying people and stuff or suddenly missing parts of your house/building/castle.

It has also some gameplay flaws. However I understand the thoughts behind the "purge", mostly cleansing the servers from long time unused stuff, I hate it and I mean with deep, internal, from-the-heart hate. Not because it is difficult or something - it is not. When you are online. Thing is that if you are not able to login for a FEW DAYS (and i mean like 4 days or so..), it doesn't really matter that you have your fortress filled with tens of armored fighter thralls in great armor - you simply log in after this period and find out, that all your craft tables, all your containers, all your treasures you collected, everything you worked your a** for, it is all gone. Forever.

True is that on the character level I am right now it wouldn't take days to build it again, probably 6-10 hours. But even though I really like this game and I wanted to carry on for some time, I just can't force myself to do that anymore. I died to many times because of bugs, I lost many things before because of bugs and now I just don't want to spend more hours in a game, where I can't be sure it won't be another waste of my time.

I am absolutely sure many gamers will enjoy this game on a massive scale. I did to, for almost 100 hours. That is the reason why I am thumbing it up - it is not a bad game by design. But I consider it a missed opportunity to be a true gem.

The developers seems to be trying, so maybe in future, with most of the bugs out and gameplay a bit tweaked I'll give it one more chance.

EDIT 2022:
I don't know when I will play the game again, so I keep it installed. What really pi** me off is that almost EVERY PATCH is a 50+ or 70+ GB download. What are the devs thinking these days? "Oh, nevermind guys, let's not even try to work this out, just let them download ALL F***ing game EVERY TIME we want to add anything"?

Either this is the worst programmed game ever because it's not possible to really patch anything, you have to change whole game... or the developers are lazy, because it really isn't common and 99% of games doesn't force you to do this.

This game is awesome... and yet utterly horrible. It has most of the things I like in Conan universum, both books and films. It has big and rich world, fantastic building system that allows you to make structures unseen in any other game. It has also wonderful Basil Poledouris- like score, good levelling system and several great and fresh ideas like thralls - slaves you beat unconcious, drag home with rope and force them to be in your precious crew. Sadly, at the same time Conan Exiles has absolutely unprecedented amount of bugs, that includes combat, graphic bugs like flying people and stuff or suddenly missing parts of your house/building/castle. It has also some gameplay flaws. However I understand the thoughts behind the "purge", mostly cleansing the servers from long time unused stuff, I hate it and I mean with deep, internal, from-the-heart hate. Not because it is difficult or something - it is not. When you are online. Thing is that if you are not able to login for a FEW DAYS (and i mean like 4 days or so..), it doesn't really matter that you have your fortress filled with tens of armored fighter thralls in great armor - you simply log in after this period and find out, that all your craft tables, all your containers, all your treasures you collected, everything you worked your a** for, it is all gone. Forever. True is that on the character level I am right now it wouldn't take days to build it again, probably 6-10 hours. But even though I really like this game and I wanted to carry on for some time, I just can't force myself to do that anymore. I died to many times because of bugs, I lost many things before because of bugs and now I just don't want to spend more hours in a game, where I can't be sure it won't be another waste of my time. I am absolutely sure many gamers will enjoy this game on a massive scale. I did to, for almost 100 hours. That is the reason why I am thumbing it up - it is not a bad game by design. But I consider it a missed opportunity to be a true gem. The developers seems to be trying, so maybe in future, with most of the bugs out and gameplay a bit tweaked I'll give it one more chance. EDIT 2022: I don't know when I will play the game again, so I keep it installed. What really pi** me off is that almost EVERY PATCH is a 50+ or 70+ GB download. What are the devs thinking these days? "Oh, nevermind guys, let's not even try to work this out, just let them download ALL F***ing game EVERY TIME we want to add anything"? Either this is the worst programmed game ever because it's not possible to really patch anything, you have to change whole game... or the developers are lazy, because it really isn't common and 99% of games doesn't force you to do this.