Worst Survival Game Ever? - Conan Exiles 

It's an amazing game, I wish more people would give it a chance... Your stuff disappeared because if you are on a public server and stay logged off for 10 days it decays, it's kinda necessary or else they would be overbuilt like crazy.

Online servers remove bases after about 10 days inactive, it has to ensure the maps aren't covered in the obsolete bases of players who no longer play. You could play offline co-op, or log in at least once a week online to ensure your base doesn't decay.

A part of me died inside when they killed that named bowmaker.

It's actually a really good game, one of my favourite survival games. The building system is incredibly fun, the combat is engaging and there are some good gameplay loops. There's even an active modding community for all kinds of expanded content!

The world in Conan is incredible! Its one of the best sandboxes I've ever played. Starting from a village house to a fortress in the heart of the desert. Struggling to kill a monster with 1 skull to face after world bosses with your new crafted weapons and cool armor. And you don't really need to play on any server. Just enjoy the whole content of the game in a solo mode as I do. Its 10 of 10 game!

Caught me in the act, good thing none of you saw my naked mole-rat collection

I miss renting tapes from blockbuster, being clearly under 18(or well under even 13) and the cashier being like "eh... who cares, swords killing Schwarzenegger, maybe guns and an alien predator, or zombies and stuff, this kid can take it... plus I'm not paid enough to care" The good ol days

This is easily the best survival game out there right now, hands down and it makes me sad to see people still bothering with Rust and Ark instead. Between the FAR cleaner menu system and combat mechanics, I cannot see how anyone could even TOUCH the other survival games while this one exists.

This game's actually really good. You know it takes elements of like other survival games with the building aspect. You know that the food, water gathering resources, but the fact that you can like get thralls to work on your machines and stuff like that is really cool. But more importantly, it has this Skyrim element where it gives you something that all that building you've been doing has a payoff either with the purges coming to attack your building or with you going to dungeons to kill bosses

I love this game. My wife and I got into a feud with a couple other players further down noob river. It escalated to us building a trebuchet and blasting their sandstome home. Then a high level clan bombed us down to the ground, wiping a solid week's worth of work. Still tons of fun.

9:00 it's not an issue, it's a feature) your buildings has abandonment timer when you are offline, so on the timer ended your base will be abandoned and any player could destroy it and gain your thralls, chests, items etc. this mechanic works on online servers pve or pvp, if you wanna play with a long pauses you can play offline local game, so timer would never end, also u can play with your friend on local server and start to play on online servers when you will be ready) ps timer depends on how big your base, how many elements it has etc. the game is awesome, I'm a fan of it with more than 1.5k hours played) Ps the timer resets each time you log in to the game

Funcom is terrible at dealing with bugs, and in game issues. Prepared to be frustrated, but entertained by a great game.

This game stole 2 years of my life from me, playing on offical pvp servers when it first came out.

I play this game regularly with friend's, while I like the game, I have a number of issues with it. 1) Map is too small, yeah, for the time it was released, it was about as big as you can make a map in UE4 (which I also use regularly) but with UE5, you can make much larger maps. Also Conan does not make full use of the size of the map, plenty of areas are blocked off, and you cannot get to them. 2) The Purge, this includes the new system just release, is a mess. I like the core of idea of the purge, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. Fundamentally, the Purge was meant to be a threat that you had to constantly be aware, and guard yourself against. Which is a good idea, one that should be expanded on, now it is something you trigger on your own, and choose the time and place of the purge, however, the system does not understand how to attack a real structure, so you have to custom build a special base just for it, tweaking it until you have it set just the way you want it. Make it too big or complex, and it will fail to trigger the purge. What is needed is a far more complex system that includes the various factions within the game, and a reputation system, combined with a trade system, so that players can have more substantial relationships with the those factions which can fall apart and lead to war that expands across the whole map. Trade routs, would give players a need to build multiple bases, and various targets for the purge to attack, so it was not an all or nothing affair, and to support all this make Thralls more independent, and not just weak auto turrets. So Thralls could be your traders, and move resources from one location to another, additionally, each base, town etc, would have upkeep, so there would be a constant need for said resources. This leads me into PvP. 3) PvP. It has no purpose, other than to facilitate narcissism. We play on a PvP server, we play other PvP games, we like PvP, just not in Conan, because, the only reason at this point, to build a large base, is to keep thieves out. Thieves, who would be better off just farming resources on their own, because it is easier to farm and manufacture their own stuff, rather than to steal it. PvP is basically a check box feature, they have it, but have no real plan to make it worth it's while. There is nothing to win, no points awarded, no ranking system, all it does is ruin someone else's game when you wreck their base and steal their stuff. There is no advantage to it, there is no winning on the server, it is just a might makes right situation. On our server, we were the 2nd biggest clan, and we allied with the largest simply to keep base raiding down. Last week a 2man clan decided to hit everyone's smaller outposts, and were perplexed when we trashed their main base in response, and scattered all their assets to everyone else on the server. A week before that, a three man clan appeared on the server and tried to loot our base, but we were online, and just shot them over and over again as they tried to climb our walls, they promptly quit the server, having died at least 12 times each to us taking no losses. it was funny for us, but utterly pointless, the only good thing that came out of it, was that I was able to use the event to convince my friend's to put more effort into anti-climb. of course, that all means nothing if people just want to use explosives, or trebuchets, which is more expensive, but the safest way to attack, and again costs more than just farming resources. If PvP had purpose, such as doing things like attacking trade routs, easy resources, but not devastate your opponents in one go, allowing players to engage on the front without having to worry about being drawn into an all out war when they have to maintain a day job, then it would make sense, be fun for everyone, still have a cost benefit analysis, and still allow for factions to go to war with whole factions, and have some really epic stuff happening in the game.

This is the game i consider myself to have mastery over. Thousands of hours and i don't craft and play permadeath. The base game is a good survival experience. When you start capturing followers is when the game opens up to more than a survival game. You should at least capture thralls next time for the main selling point of the game!! good video!!

The thing I've liked about Conan, is that, not only does it take a lot of fun survival ideas and used them in most of the gameplay, but it also works well with both PvP AND PvE. I used to paly rust and other games but HATED always losing progress jsut because I had to eventually log off, or do real life things like school or work. I very much like being able to play a singleplayer/co-op or even just private friends' server while still having some challenging PvE fights and things to do/explore. All the better knowing that I can log off for any amount of time and come back to find my base and supplies in one piece.

Just knowing that there is a series was an instant subscription for me. Can't wait to see what comes next.

Funcom did not delete your base. It decayed. It has a two week timer, and you were gone for a month.

Conan Exiles is one of the best survival game ever for sure.

New subscriber from your Josh Stryfe Hayes crossover.

I've been a long time player of Conan Exiles I started playing the game back in 2018 or 2019. With over 700+ hours, I would probably recommend it. Just play on community servers, official is disgusting.

Conan has a decay system where you base will decay if you are not online for 14 days. If you were away for a month all your stuff decayed. Now, how you ended up in the black keep that is strange. There is a feature where if you dye in a dungeon you have an option to respawn at the start of the dungeon. However there is no way for some other player to drag you do that dungeon. I'm guessing somebody else playe your account and died in the black keep and then just quit.

I played this games yesterday with 3 friends. I spent 1 hour and a half trying to make a server and play the game. And when whe finally could play, one of my pals jumped from a gigantic pilar and the server just crashed. Everytime some of us dies the aerver crashed. It is full of bugs

Having sinked over 3000 hours of gameplay into this game I must say its one hell of a good game, but it can also be very frustrating one. I began when they released it, I still play at this private server a friend of mine is running ... I began playing at a private server when I started, I did not really like the official servers and this game is not a game for PvE guys on a PvP server !!! but there I was ! 🙂 I remember I played on this server where 2 bigger clans used to battle out, and both sides had some great players !!! I became friends eventually with one side and the other side usually did let me go atleast some of their better PvP'ers. But the core of this game is the clan fights !!! to build your forces, raid others on the map ... I did not like raiding because I was more a builder and I knew how much time spent in building a good castle only to have it blown up shortly after hehe. Also as I for the most was a solo player it could be hard trying to defend your castle from the random clan trying to get some easy stuff, I became pretty good hiding stuff eventually, even bases. I remember at one point I was raided twice a day, this server had a high XP so it did not take long to get back what you had lost, and I usually had double of everything so it was no problem. Today I play at Empire's PvE server and they are a great group that run a couple of modded servers, either you want PvP or PvE and you can even experience PvP at this PvE server as they can set up areas where it is pvp... and at their PvE server they don't wipe server unless something have to be so it can be years between, and you can keep your cool building there, their modded servers are fantastic so there are some really nice mods to the game now that improve it well too...

I’m a different conzo from the first and I also enjoy this video, amazing job Kai!

My man tried killing enemies with a pickaxe and a skinning knife. This aint fortnite fam. 😅 And funcom didn't delete your house. There are decay timers on builds to prevent severs being cluttered with people who play and quit. You were gone FOR A MONTH. Your stuff decayed my man.

I am downloading this games size 63 GB should i play online or solo

It's a really well-made game... but people rate it negatively for its trivial and peripheral aspects. It's a very stupid standard.

Ive been playing this since it came out on steam off and on. Defeated this game 3 times. Still playing because I like the building and collecting. Plus it fun to hop on and see the changes.

conan exiles is basically valheim but instead of boats you have uh... thralls. We'll call them thralls. It's a really really good game though. It's the one that got me into survival games and now that I'm revisiting it again after 4 years (and many other survival games later) I can say with confidence that conan exiles goes toe to toe against the very best. It's wild that more people don't know about it but as you noted w/ the player stats-- those who do know about it are still playing it years after release. So much fun.

I've watched countless "100 Players Simulate Civilization" videos, people doing it on minecraft, rust, ark and I'm so damn confused and a bit annoyed that there hasn't been a single one done for *Conan Exiles.* It would be 200x better than any other civilization simulation video ever made. It's a more realistic version of all them combined. Has mods for specific plugins, it has fist person or third-person, survival like ark and rust without the unrealistic guns. Tameable animals, customizable maps for scenarios, weather control and Huge playable area and Honestly I have no idea why no one has made a video on it yet. The game is usually on sale making it cost as much as rust or ark and mods are FREE.

"dreams of sword-swinging with a massive austrian man" ou yeah

I hate the word "Conan" honestly When I was a kid , I couldn't tell if it was an actor's name .... a show .... a movie , they spammed the word "CONAN" for literally everything And now we even have a game about it...

Conan exiles gave me one the best times I’ve ever had with a group of guys I met on the internet, I had so much fun and I always remember fondly all the crazy shenanigans we were up to.

Dude never went beyond lvl 10

Yeah, I started playing about four months ago. I can't seem to put it down and I feel like I still have barely scratched the surface of what this game has to offer. Also, that was not a glitch. Your structures have a Decay time. Pretty similar to Rust.

Did you just lift Josh Strife Hayes' intro and switch the genre? 😅 well, no matter if you bring the same quality as he does then i'll sub

Well...this video surprised me. Not a rant but a compliment to Conan Exiels! Good for you! This is the best game I have ever played! I have played many other survival games but this game has really spoiled me. I just can't put it down! It is even better when you play with your other gaming friends weather it be pvp or pve it is such a great game even with all it's faults but what game is truly perfect? Plus I am always on the look out for others to play and share in the great times! ;) Thank you for your video! LOL It was great!

"get your mind out of the gutter people" meanwhile the character has enough mammaries to make me lactose tolerant.

Love this video. I love conan exiles tbh- been doing a run through every few months just for kicks. Have you done life is fedual? now that one makes conan look like perfection.

Ha! You can't fool me! This is just Wiz sitting a little further away from the mic!! I jest. Fantastic video. 👌🌟

On a windy full moon night you can still hear wiz standing on stuff that should not be stood upon.

guy trying to kill the npc with a leather extraction tool: "the game sucks" good job mate

great game. lots of modded servers. always something new to find.

You supposedly only have to buy the battlepass once. Supposedly working through the challenges earns you more in-game coins that you use to activate the next season's battlepass. The items you earn from the battlepass aren't game-changing but do add a lot of flair. Also, if you're on the public server, logging off leaves your character in the world. You're at risk of being killed if it's a PVP or PVE-C server and your base gets removed after a week for inactivity. Options are private servers (I've hosted one for ages) or solo-play (which can be lonely but lets you at least experience the content at your own pace).

You waited 35 years? My bros and and I we're fighting for gold and glory in Conan's world back in the 80s. TTRPG FTW.

It's a great game, just takes some effort and if you're lazy or unwilling to push your limits, you won't make it past noob river.

Conan seems to be in such a nice world with so much potential. But how are we supposed to know how to get thick leather or that using a pickaxe on trees gives resin and bark like this isn't explained and mostly everything has to be googled or RU-vidd. Also why are ther 100 different workbenches? Just such a grind with little reward

It comes off as pretty damn funny to hear you praise the new player experience. If you had started a year ago, you'd be singing a very very different tune. That Journey system is a newer addition. Before that. You just got dropped in the waist lands with a general direction and a good luck kid. When I picked the game up. I found the new player experience to be easily the worst part of the the game. The addition of the Journey system was game changing for Exiles. Unfortunately it came likely a couple years too late to have any positive impact. They're not going to see a swell of new players any time soon. Conan Exiles is a weird, janky and confusing mess sometimes. It's had a few overhauls since it's launch. This means the Wiki's are a total mess from information going out of date. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why I wasn't getting thralls to work the way I'd read about. Only to find out they hadn't worked that way for a year. For some reason I've keep playing it though. I couldn't narrow down what the draw really is.

While we weren't happy about the battle pass, it's definitely better than on other games I played. you basically pay real life money once for the coins, unlock the battle pass and then make the money back if you play through the whole pass... And those coins you got back, fully pay the next pass. So if you don't let yourself be tempted to spend the coins on the other cosmetics, you pay once for one pass and then can get the stuff from every future pass for free. And playing through the pass is easy and perfectly doable in the time it lasts, cause single player and online go into the same EXP, so even if you are worried that you have like only a week left you can actually use admin console to spawn enemies and grind them for the challenges while invincible. You get challenge bonuses each day, I would recommend only doing the challenges that get have high exp and bonus and rerolling if they aren't high and then leaving the bonus of the like low challenges to stack up to use on high challenges the next day.

Imagine a connan game with the quality of Hellblade, in the silkroad, with horses and eagles, and steppes.

I just realized that Conan Exiles might actually have more players than Diablo 4 as of October 2023.

Thumbs up for the Blockbuster reference

Hail from Josh Strife Hayes. I'm glad to have found your channel.

The wizard wasnt lying this really was a good video

"Maybe one Day I'll come back to this..." NOPE, no you won't Brother.... I knew it since the first letter of "MaYbE" hahahaha

My uncle made some of the textures on this game

"expansive DLCs" xD

Lol my first death was from not being able to find something to eat

At least you made a character with dual flotation devices

A BATTLEPASS?!?!?! LMAOOO insane, also the building isn't too different to Ark! Good video tho dude!

I thin what messes it p is you have to be so specific to get loot, like getting T4 blacksmith thralls, doing specific dungeons, etc. If you don't do everything exactly right you are ''doing it wrong'' and you are gonna get stomped by someone who knows the ropes of the game. You have to wiki EVERYTHING you do in this game.

I have been playing CE off and on since early Access. I can say its it a good game that had great potential. Sadly it gets dragged down by poor management. The love/hate relationship CE players have with Funcom is abusive for both sides. After that you deal with the usual survival game players. That factor can make or break a player experience as well.

Nice video, but a single deducted point for not showing the best bound limit design. TBH i only watched the family friend cartoon, and i loved it.

Having played video games from several genres over the last 11 years, I can say with confidence that my best and longest-lasting memories, as well as my greatest online friendship experiences, have come from Conan exiles. The game has definitely fallen off a lot from what it once was, but I played it from pre-beta as one of the first 100 players of the game until about a year ago when I stopped playing video games altogether due to changes in life circumstances. The vast lore and PVE elements offer a lot to the single-player and PVE crowd, and at one time, the PVP element on dedicated PVP private servers was unbelievably fun and competitive. I never played official servers too much, as there was and likely still is an abundance of hacking and griefing, which does reflect negatively on the game as a whole and on the new player experience. But given time, friends, understanding, and a good server, this game has a certain magic that I never found anywhere else.

The last few months they been screwing up this great game with developers mistakes on the holidays with new features. These mistakes started before holidays and get fixed after them. In some cases making it completely messing up you 100 hours of work. I love the games ability. It could be super lovely if it didn't really kills your mood for playing on when the developers make a mistake that might prevent you for playing for a week when the decay kicks in. Instead of the decay of about 10 days. Everything is gone. After that if you start again their belief you are gone. They will delete things a day or two you try to rebuild. That kills a mood.

I personally love this game & recommend it wholeheartedly so...to each their own.

I love this game and am looking to come back BUT the official servers were SO TOXIC. Hopefully the god bubble going away changes this

Personally I prefer to play on single player so I can activate co-op for friends. Never been a fan of PvP on any sort of game like this, too many bawbags about

Fun(com) fact: While "Elden Ring" was praised to a level of complete stupidity, everyone overlocked that Conan Exiles did everything "Elden Ring" was praised for 5 years prior. Another Funcom fact: Back in 2006, when Funcon officially got the rights to the Robert E.Howard assets, they promised to go easy on the lizensing and not disgrace REHs stories. Their aim was not to control the characters of the Texan writer but to keep them alive. And they stood true to their words.

2018-2019 was peak conan exiles

Conan with all its issues is still the best survival game I’ve played to this day. PC Mods also play a huge part in this.

Yeahhh, I’m not a “gamer” per say, but Conan exiles is the first survival game that I would get lost in for hours without realizing

Killing a Bowmaster with a stone pick is like laughing into chuck norris' face. What a blasphemous act.

Great video brother couldn’t belive you had 2k subs and not 2mil lmao I thought I was tripping. Keep Up the grind and it will pay off brother trust me I see it already🔥🔥

Its the only survival game of its kind. Its doing something that no other survival game is doing well

Now wait until you discover the 2 Conan Exiles mods called Age of Calamitous and EEWA.

My dude, you didn’t scratch the surface, you barely even ran your fingers along it. I’ve put 200 hours into this game and I’ve barely scratched the surface. Servers state that your buildings will be demolished after some time, it’s not for no reason. The main criticisms people have with this game after playing some time are the lag, the unbalanced nature of raiding other players, the difficulty of getting star metal, and probably the issues with ranged as well as general issues with combat and using thralls effectively. Sorcery is a somewhat controversial thing as well because it can be very powerful but annoying to use and it’s not very Conan. This game deserved better. There is no other game that has a building system that is quite as good in terms of fun and beauty in the structures you can make.

killing it with the views bro

A really cool video!! Keep posting

This is so far the best survival game I’ve played personally. I’ve played many.

did you play the game? it’s one of the more fun survival games i’ve played. way more beginner friendly than rust and more exciting than dayz. i just got into it and i feel like i can actually grasp most of what the game has to offer where other survival games feel really unnatural and convoluted.

This game is quite fun with a group of friends, but it can also be a miserable experience for a solo player.

If you play online, be prepared to deal with bomb dupes and cheaters. It would be an amazing game if they could handle the bugs and glitches

The blockbuster nostalgia is real 😂

The journey systen is pretty cool, just avoid the soldier journey, that one has the habit of accidentally setting your level to 61 (60 is the max so wtf) and generally fucking up your progression

you should do star bound

I don’t like survival/crafting games, but I luv Exiles. Y’all picking up what I’m putting down?

Id get it if i had people to play with

There is a thing called Decay, if you do not log in for a week kinda you lose all your buildings. Also if you get killed offline somehow it respawns u in a dungeon yeah :)

A friend and I play the game since 2018 and we still enjoy it lol And we wish we could forget and start fresh and noob again, the first time is the hardest but also the most fun as well, finding Iron the first time was wild, we were so damn happy about the five or six Iron to collect, lil did we know there were places with so much more! xD

I saw title of this vid and was like "dude on crack? Conan is sweet" XD .

Thinking of getting the game for PS5. I like that it's a bit more magical and mysterious. The character creator is good too

Wonderful review but is it better than arc or comparable to ark?

Main *problem* is how they handle reports of *exploiters, hackers and harassers.* If your base blocks a single NPC spawn, then it can be reported for blocking resources. Even if it is a basic NPC spawn. Going into single player with the name of the player you want to frame. You can say racist stuff, screenshot, and claim it was them on the server you played on. They don't always check the chat logs. It's also a problem that some hackers proudly claim they have several alternate accounts that allows them to continue to play and hack/harass. There is also the issue of bugs reappearing, and giving advantages to those buying the DLCs. An issue of being owned by the big Ten-cent empire.

Everyone in this game is so friendly

I see everyone has already mentioned the 10 day decay on the servers but waking up in the hardest biom is probably the result of people trolling. They probably drug your body up there and left it for sh#*s and giggles lol

You only have about 150 hrs timer on your stuff. Depending on how big and the quality of you structure. Or someone could have blown your base up if you were on pvp. And you have played a very limited time to make a real judgment.

The skin texture on the vulture is top notch, though.

I love Conan. So glad you tried it. I play private modded pve servers. The modding community is amazing. And funcom is now working with them giving them the new dev kits before the big updates happen. Please I would love to see you play more of this game and maybe get into the games story and lore. My suggestions for games for you to try Heat, Subsistence, Outlaws of the Old West, Pixark, Icarus, Citadel forged with fire, Hold your Own, Myth of Empires, Craftopia, Ylands, and Novus Inceptio. Of course I own all of these 😅 some are ok some are 😢. And one that is truly close to my heart but was abandoned is Dark and Light. I go back to that game yearly and so desperately wish they would do anything with this game. The potential is huge. Thanks for the great content. Love your videos.